Texas Lawmen won’t go.The U.S. Cavalry can’t go.2 Civil War vets wade the Rio Bravo to find a stolen girl!In a Union POW camp, Jeb &amp; Zach dreamed of finding California Gold. The road West leads near Jeb’s sister in Texas. He finds her dead and his niece missing. A border war rages on the Rio with cattle rustled and ranches burned.Innocents are killed or kidnapped. Jeb’s niece is missing. The Cavalry officer said, "Cortina has an adobe-walled fort. My company couldn’t take it without artillery. What chance do 2 men have?"Jeb and Zach will do what the U.S. Army can't. They wade across the Rio to bring his niece, Becky, home - or die trying!Jeb plans to take a case of dynamite to the bandit’s fort, sneak his niece away, and blow-up their fort. What could go wrong?An old west adventure as current as today’s headlines!

California Bound (The Jeb & Zach Western Series)

Literature & Fiction

Woods, John O'Melveny

Kelso, Frank

Genre Fiction

Intellect Publishing, LLC

A teen boy is left to die on the prairie. Can he find the grit to survive and exact his revenge?
His easy childhood crumbled when a painted arrow plunked into his father’s chest. Thirteen-year-old Nigel Blackthorn, the spoiled son of a Protestant preacher, escapes the martyr’s death that claimed his missionary family, but the preacher’s kid finds himself alone and struggling to survive the wild frontier. Coming-of-Age in 1853 West Texas.
Will plump, lazy, and spoiled Nigel learn to survive on the prairie? 
Will the passing mule-train become a rescue or become bondage? 
Is the defrocked priest, Pascal, benevolent, or a benevolent dictator? 
Nigel enters an unwelcome new world–work or starve. 
Two hundred miles later, when the mule train reaches the first settlement, Pascal gives Nigel a choice: enter an orphanage or enter apprenticeship on the mule train for a piddling wage. 
Years later, Nigel wonders if the orphanage would have been easier. 
The Apprenticeship of Nigel Blackthorn is the 1st dramatic story in The Apprenticeship series of exciting western action. If you like rich descriptions, multidimensional characters, and tales bringing history to life, then you’ll love Frank Kelso’s coming-of-age novel! Buy The Apprenticeship of Nigel Blackthorn to ride a mule-train across the real Wild West today!

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Romance

Western & Frontier

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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United States

Beachfront Press

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