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The Civil War yielded many bloody battles and the Battle at Lone Jack was among the worst. Fought across a sixty-foot strip of dusty road, brothers fought brothers, neighbors fought neighbors, cousins fought cousins, and the blood of horses and men ran together in the street under the blistering August sun. The Green family tried to keep from being caught up in the war headed for their doorstep, but their efforts were lost--even before the Yankees came to town. In their youthful exuberance, sixteen and fifteen year old Hank and Jesse sneak into town to watch the battle--and find more ...

Enjoying the life of a college student, Adam Weber didn't think or care much about the Vietnam War. But when his wealthy parents force him to choose between their choices for his life and love, all that changes. Disinherited when he goes against his parents' wishes, he loses his "umbrella" of college, is drafted, and the war in Southeast Asia takes on new meaning. There he learns many valuable lessons about life and death, friendship and survival. Injured at Khe Sanh, he returns home and must learn to forgive the parents he blames for his being sent to Vietnam, while trying to rebuild his ...

On a hot August day in 1862, two armies met on the main street of the small town of Lone Jack, Missouri. In some of the fiercest fighting of the Civil War, more than the armies of blue and gray collided. Two men, once friends now bitter enemies, met in a battle of their own. One to exact revenge for past offenses. The other to merely survive.

In a time when raiders, bushwhackers, and Redlegs rode the Cass County, Missouri, countryside bringing fear and destruction with them, Elizabeth Miers and her family barely survived into the next day. When the enemy, in the form of Elizabeth's neighbors, comes a-calling more than once with mischief on their minds, Elizabeth fights back to keep her children safe against men she once called friends. On August 25, 1863, following the issuance of General Order No. 11 , thousands of women, children, and the elderly were forced to vacate their homes in the brutal summer heat within 15 days.

Emma and Jonathan Carter, aboard the steamboat Carter's Dream on her maiden voyage up the Big Muddy, head toward a new beginning in the wild, emerging town of Independence. From their newly opened store, Carter's Mercantile Too, they hope to make their fortune outfitting traders, trappers, and emigrants heading west into Indian Territory. The years in Independence, and later Westport, bring both joy and pain as Emma and Jonathan face would-be robbers, a "star shower," the fear brought by not one, but two outbreaks of Cholera, the devastation of the Great Flood of 1844, the joy of a new life...

In an era when most Americans struggled to keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies, those who could still afford it spent a week of indulgence aboard the Morro Castle, a luxury liner that sailed from New York Harbor to Havana, Cuba. Aboard ship the Depression and Prohibition were forgotten. Food and liquor flowed freely. And the ongoing party started the moment she set sail and didn’t end until seven days later when she docked back in the Harbor. That was until fire ravaged her and destroyed it all.

With the first shots fired across Charleston Harbor, Amy Ross knew her life would never be the same. When the War Between the States lands right on her family's doorstep that April 12th morning, they are forced to live with unprecedented hardships to survive. From the bombardment of their Charleston home and running the Union blockade, to stragglers from both sides taking what they no longer had to give, runaway slaves, murder, and the destruction of their plantation home by the Union Army, Amy and her family struggle to make it through every day alive. When everything she holds precious is...

Aboard the Steamboat Arabia, Josephine and Jessica Tate head up the Missouri River to meet their father in Parkville, where a mercantile will be built to aid settlers going into the interior. The border between Kansas Territory and Missouri is a smoldering powder keg. It needs only a spark to explode. Pro-slavers, free-staters, abolitionists, jayhawkers and border ruffians vie to decide how the Territory will join the Union—as a slave state or free. In the “Border War” that precedes the Civil War, Kansas earns the name “Bleeding Kansas” for the blood shed between it and Missouri. ...

May 14, 1863, Lou McCoy's life changed forever. That day, Lou's husband, a Rebel recruiter she hadn't seen in weeks, appeared at her door for an unannounced visit. He left with a kiss and a strong, "Don't tell anyone I was here." Later that night five Federal soldiers came to her home and demanded to know where her husband was hiding. She refused to tell and was arrested the next day. She left three children behind. After a week of house arrest in Saint Joseph, Lou signed the Oath of Allegiance to the Union and was released. She did not go home. Instead she stayed to work in the hospital. ...

From the Oregon Trail to the camps of the Lakota Sioux and throughout the Civil War, Ben and Sarah Walters learn to survive. Taken captive by the Sioux after her wagon train is attacked, Sarah learns to live and care again. Through Ben, experience the battles of Wilson's Creek, Lexington and Shiloh, feel the filth and privation of Libby Prison; share a friendship that grows between Sarah and a slave, and live through the destruction of a country torn apart by war. Journey back to one of the most explosive periods in our history in this story of survival, learning, determination, forgiveness...

From the Oregon Trail to the camps of the Lakota Sioux and throughout the Civil War, Ben and Sarah Walters learn to survive. Taken captive by the Sioux after her wagon train is attacked, Sarah learns to live and care again. Through Ben, experience the battles of Wilson's Creek, Lexington and Shiloh, feel the filth and privation of Libby Prison; share a friendship that grows between Sarah and a slave, and live through the destruction of a country torn apart by war. Journey back to one of the most explosive periods in our history in this story of survival, learning, determination, forgiveness...

War is hell, its aftermath just as devastating, as evidenced in western Missouri after the Civil War. Four years of taxes came due, and a new constitution was issued, excluding those who fought on the “wrong” side from voting, teaching, even preaching. Former bushwhacker Buck Jackson wants only to leave his past behind and marry the girl who saved him from himself. With taxes due, the Drake Constitution, and the long-lasting effects of General Orders Numbers 9 and 11, he has few legal choices to save the two families he loves. Nora Miers wants only to live out her childhood dream of ...

To feed her family in the final years of the Civil War, Martha Harrison works at the woolen mill of the Roswell Manufacturing Company. There "Roswell Gray" cloth is made for Confederate Uniforms. Each day Martha prays Sherman, in his vow to "Make Georgia Howl," doesn't go through Roswell on his way to Atlanta. But he does. Four hundred women and their children are arrested at the mill and sent to the Louisville Military Prison hundreds of miles away. There Elizabeth Temms teaches Martha how to survive their living hell--and what real heroes look like.

War is devastating. The Civil War in Cass County was hell on earth. On the shared border between Kansas and Missouri the sayings "brother against brother," "father against son" and "neighbor against neighbor" must have certainly originated here. It was not only spoken--it was lived.From the Border War, which began five years BEFORE the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, to the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, fear was an everyday companion to the people who lived in this rural Missouri county.This is the story of one family who met each new day with the fear of being robbed, beaten ...

Experience the joys and disappointments of four women through three decades of friendship. From college to menopause, share the bonds that develop through death, divorce and other adversities as they grow older. Together.

The Ghost Dance, a spiritual dance of the Lakota Sioux in the late 1800’s, becomes their hope—and their demise. Their ancestors were to rise from the dead, reclaim their lands and restore it to its natural state, as it was prior to the intrusion of the white man. But what actually happened was far from what Wovoka, their Messiah, preached. Ghost Dancers follows Lt. George Hawkins from the Battle of the Little Bighorn to the newly established Indian reservations to the massacre at Wounded Knee, a massacre precipitated by the Ghost Dance. Follow George on General George Crook’s “...

Half-blood Blue Fox hates the children in his white school. He hates his white parents, too. Thrown into the white world when his dying mother leaves him with Ben and Sarah so he will have a future, Blue must endure those who mock him, while wanting only to return to his native Lakota. As time passes, Blue learns to love his surrogate parents and his surroundings, until a cruel, racist, man drives him from them. Finding his Lakota relatives, he learns acceptance is not easily won—anywhere. When he does prove himself and becomes one of The People, Long Hair Custer, comes to the Little ...

Sam Whitmore and Tom Hansen, childhood friends who fought on opposite sides of the Civil War, reunite fifteen years later with a common goal—to save Sam's home from Northern bankers. Sam recruits Tom to do the only thing he can think of to save it. Find gold! Setting off for the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory, they find more than they bargained for in the form of Mother Nature, Lady Luck, would-be claim jumpers, and thieves. Can Sam and Tom find the gold they’re looking for and make it back in time to save his home? Or will it all be for naught?

Maggie Douglas was different than other girls her age. From the time she was 13 years old there were no dolls or frilly dresses for her. Instead Maggie could out ride, out rope, and out shoot her two brothers, father and hands on the Lazy D, her family's cattle ranch northwest of Kansas City, Missouri. But besting her brothers and father wasn't enough. As Maggie grew to adulthood she wanted to make a real difference in the expanding country around her. Striking out alone, going from Boston to Cheyenne to Deadwood, Maggie spoke for those who couldn't, or wouldn't, as a voice for the women's ...

Tom Whitmore’s only love was raising and racing horses—until Abby came along. Losing his heart to this filly, as wild and willful as either of his studs, he must tame her or lose himself. Yankee by birth and southern gentleman by residence and trade, Tom understands better than most the political chasm between the north and south long before the War Between the States becomes reality. Following his heart, he enlists in the Northern Cause with the 8th Ohio Volunteers and spends the next three years in a living Hell. Will his love survive? Will he?