Sometimes the only path to sanity is through madness. San Francisco, 1859. Joshua Norton, desperate to survive, sees madness overtaking America. He has lost his fortune and believes the country is losing its mind. In a flash of insight, he finds the answer to both problems. He will become Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. He will issue proclamations to make things right.Now imagine young Marina. She wants only to sing. Because she allows Joshua into her theater she allows him into her life. Soon she is caught up into the madness of Civil War, a conflict making no sense. In a world turned upside down, the insanity of Emperor Norton becomes her only anchor to Reason. And in defiance of death, there is new life.Read the book and travel to a time past, which haunts us yet today.

The Imaginary Emperor: A Tale of Old San Francisco

Bartholomew, Steve

History

Dark Gopher Books

In the winter of 1888, Dana Reynolds has no reason to believe in anything, until he runs afoul of Wovoka. Dana doesn't believe in Truth. Telling the truth was what lost him his job back at the Chronicle in San Francisco. Well, that and drinking a little too much. In Nevada he's learning that Indian agents can be as crooked as politicians. Just asking a few too many questions around here earned him a beating and a cracked rib. Now he was supposed to report on that so-called Paiute prophet, Wovoka, the Woodcutter. The only nice thing about Greenfield, Nevada was Charlene, the telegraph operator. Seems like even she's gullible enough to fall for the Woodcutter's line. He's obviously another fake, as much a fake as Dana himself. Or is he?

The Woodcutter

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Joaquin Murietta is the most notorious bandit in gold rush California. Rangers are hunting him in hopes of reward. Friends protect him as a romantic hero. Ira Beard, a bounty hunter from New York, decides to pursue Joaquin. He brings only two men in his posse, but encounters a Spanish lady who will save his life three times. Who will get to Joaquin first, and whose head is that in a bottle?

Finding Joaquin, a tale of Old California (Ira Beard)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

When Black Bart left prison he figured he'd had enough of crime and Wells Fargo. After all, he'd got time off for good behavior, and only had to do time for robbing one stage coach out of the twenty-eight he had held up. Bart thought he would try his hand at mining once again, and maybe settle down later by running a pharmacy. He also had plans for the woman he loved, Magdalena Ramos. Those were his plans. What he didn't figure on was the man who had put him in San Quentin to begin with, Detective James Hume. Nor did he plan on meeting his old nemesis, Jason Sutliffe who had started Bart on his life of crime. A month after leaving prison, Bart was determined to vanish from the Earth and from history. The official records say he did. This book is a tale of where he might have gone, and what he might have done. It is not history. It is a story.

Black Bart Reborn

World Castle Publishing, LLC

Here are books one, two, and three of the Ira Beard saga.Ira goes west because he's had enough of the New York Police. He hopes to find San Francisco a more peaceful town. Instead, he's chasing after Joaquin Murietta, the worst bandit in California. Or so most people say. He is lucky to meet Octavia de LaLuz, who will save his life three times. But the closer he gets to Murietta, the more of a mystery the bandit becomes.Then the Civil War reaches California. Ira, who has found peace, now finds war. Once again he's involved himself in a manhunt, this time after rebel bushwhackers. They claim to be seizing California gold to help finance the Confederacy. Ira sees them as glorified thieves. Octavia enters the fray without telling him. This time it's Ira's turn to save Octavia, providing he can in time.In our third tale, Ira is recruited to investigate a new silver mine, a bonanza in the desert. It turns out to be a deadly trap beyond his power to avoid. Then again, sometimes doing things wrong can turn out right.Now read the book and travel to a time past, which haunts us yet today.

Ira Beard, a Trilogy

Independently published

Nathaniel had his reasons for making the journey to Rhyolite. With a population of ten thousand and growing fast, Rhyolite was the greatest boom town in the west. And he hoped to find what had been taken from him-taken by the snallygaster. Some believed it was simply an old legend from the back hills of Maryland, this four legged flying snake that could snatch away whatever you most valued when your back was turned. Nathanial knew better. It had taken away Annabelle, the love of his life. At least, that was the way he felt. Now he was here in Rhyolite, to make his fortune, to find Annabelle-and to find the man he had murdered back in Baltimore.

Journey to Rhyolite

Norlightspress.Com

Black Bart disappeared. At least he meant to, after leaving prison. He wasn't counting on the man who put him there, Detective Hume. Nor on his old enemy Sutliffe, from Montana days. And there was Magdalena, who insisted on coming along, just because she loved him.Black Bart really did disappear, that's history. He only did time for robbing one stage coach out of the twenty-eight to his credit. He'd had enough of prison and decided to go straight, but there was one more thing he had to do. This story is a fantasy about where he might have gone and what he might have done. There's a thin line between fiction and history. Read the tale for yourself, you decide.

Finding Silver (IRA Beard)

Literary

Steve Bartholomew

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The Imaginary Emperor: A Tale of Old San Francisco

The Woodcutter

Finding Joaquin, a tale of Old California (Ira Beard)

Black Bart Reborn

Ira Beard, a Trilogy

Journey to Rhyolite

Black Bart Reborn

Finding Silver (IRA Beard)