Louis had flourished. Even though the Frenchmen were soon to learn that the surrounding region had recently been ceded to Spain, it made little consequence. Their trading post would prove to be the start of a very French community on Spanish soil. It wasn’t but a matter of months before the settl...
said the tall, long-haired, bald-topped Jubilee Usher in his soft-edged yet cannonlike voice.Boothog Wiser longed to have the power to move men as Usher did, to wrap them up into his powerful presence and move them. Yet Wiser had to be content threatening this band of freebooters and cutthroats. ...
She had fled to safety in the hills with the others when news of the attack raced like wildfire through the villages. Now she joined those who warily returned to their camps. Twice before in her life soldiers had ridden down on her tribe’s camp circle. Once she had escaped. The last time she’d be...
As officers and enlisted climbed the knoll behind the three creaking wagons burdened with blanket-wrapped corpses, an eerie pall descended over them all. Torches flickered in the mournful wind that sighed through the bare hackberry and blackjack. Even the moon hid its pale face behind a death shr...