Blood to Rubies is the scorching saga of injustice, love, and redemption in the western wilderness. A young frontier photographer goes West to escape the Civil War draft and settles in the Bitterroot Mountains, ancestral home of the Nez Perce Indians. There he becomes obsessed with a young Irish pioneer woman he spies swimming nude in a mountain lake. He comes to admire the Nez Perce and photographs the young leader, Chief Joseph, and a Nez Perce...

"As a widower with three young boys, Duncan Hunter dreamed of a new life for his sons in the heart of Washington Territory. But the journey was doomed from the start. Before reaching Hell Gate, their wagon train was attacked by Blackfoot Indians. Most of the pioneers were viciously murdered. But Hunter's son Cody survived; taken in by Crow Indians and raised as one of their own. They called the boy Crazy Wolf. This is his story . . . From hunting...

"Brett Fasken came out of the cedar brakes and got his first look in six years at those dun and red bluffs stacked like double cardboard behind Packer's Crossing. So Brett returned home -- only to find himself pitted against his own sister in a blazing battle for control of a cattle empire. Josephine Fasken was no ordinary girl. She was tough, hard-talking, and universally feared. She was teamed up with a gun-slinging bully called Red and a foreman...

"Rogue Madden was a laughing man. He and his friends never seemed to take anything too seriously and could find laughter in most situations. After a wild poker party at his ranch house in Mexico, Rogue receives a telegram that a party of nine guests would be arriving that day and bringing the loveliest surprise. When the travelers arrive, there are plenty of surprises. First, they announce they have been robbed by bandits only a few miles from the...

"Red Clark had heard Juilos County was "bad, plumb bad," so he had come to nose around and get himself a job. Chock-jam-packed full of bad men, this border country was -- or so he had heard. He hadn't seen any that looked bad; plenty that needed haircuts or sobering up, including the potbellied, red-nosed sheriff himself. Disgusted with what he is seeing, he befriends Zee Hill, a journeymen printer who wants the chance to get out a real paper -- one...

"When the snow melted, tempers tightened in the Big Horn Basin. Men muttered of trouble coming - between small ranchers and big combines - between nesters and cattlemen. Big trouble, killing trouble. Over in Johnson County, they said, the war had already started. Hired gunmen, a small army of professional killers, were raiding and burning, slaughtering anyone who stood against them. Dave Ashmead was an honest, hard-working, small rancher who wanted...

"Shirley Benson was owner now of the beautiful Valle de los Reyes, mistress of the old Spanish ranch house and its faithful Mexican servants. On the night that her father was killed in a rustler's raid, she made the unpleasant discovery that the Box B ranch was heavily mortgaged and that most of her cattle had disappeared, stolen by the men who had murdered her father. With courage inherited from her pioneer forebears, she refuses to sign the quit-claim...

"A few hours after he had a violent argument with the railroad's lawyer, tough rancher Wyatt Kearsage was dead! Two days later, quick-drawing, smart-thinking Gregory Quist ran headlong into trouble when he started to investigate the murder of the man who had refused the railroad passage through his ranch. Heads were smashed and guns thundered as Quist tangled with the railroad's lawyer, beat up the belligerent saloon keeper, played cat-and-mouse with...

"Some men called Martin Joliffe the Cattle King, others called him the Sheep Slayer. But Mart was just a hardworking cattleman who believed in fair play and protecting his own. That's just what he did when he chased John Robineau's sheep off his spread. The Tincup Ranch was cow country and it was going to stay that way. Joliffe didn't think he would push Robineau to take his own life -- or make Robineau's daughter crazy enough to hire the territory's...