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A tale of Moving West...
Clay Perkins, a young man in his twenties, realized that this sleepy midwest town was too small to support his undertakers' venture. With less than ten burials in the past year he was going to be out of business soon. His family all agrees, relocating back to Texas might be the smartest course of action.
Upon reaching Dallas, his sister Dolly tells him she has made plans to go west with a wagon train accompanied by her new love interest, a former deputy marshal. Clay, his father and brother all decide to also go along and begin a new life homesteading in the Montana territories.
Harsh plains weather, Indian encounters and even interpersonal strife among the pioneers, make the journey difficult and highly eventful. Upon reaching Montana more challenges arise, keeping the family struggling just to survive in a wild and untamed wilderness.
W.R. Benton westerns keep you reading way too late into the night—old-school frontier stories with action that pulls no punches."
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One man's tale of love, war and recovery.
The year is 1971 and with the war raging in Vietnam a young high school graduate, Luke Barnes, figures with a draft number of 11 he may as well join up and get his choice of service—the Air Force. His selected MOS of 'Combat Controller' looks daring and exciting, little does he know it would be a fateful choice.
In the month before Basic training he idyllically passes the time with his steady high school sweetheart. Both are full of life, and at the same time a bit melancholy about what the future holds for them both during Luke's very likely deployment to Southeast Asia.
It Does Mean Something...A novel of Love during the Vietnam War, an Empty Homecoming, and recovery was written by a veteran of this era from his personal experiences to weave a moving and true-to-life story of the Vietnam experience at the very end of the conflict and the chaotic final pull out."
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From the Authors of 'The Fur Seekers' and 'Root Hog or Die'
The frontier ain't a place for folks troubled by any weaknesses, not with hostile tribes and wide open spaces aplenty between you and another friendly face. God-fearing mountain man Deacon knows any day trapping can end in a disaster that will test a man's faith—as well as his sorry hide. So when Deacon narrowly escapes death, he feels God has spared him for a reason. His old pal Able becomes the lord's messenger when he asks for Deacon's help with a special task...to guide a group of freed slaves and their families to a new life on the western frontier, taking a dangerous and harsh trail from St Louis to Butterfield's Trading Post.
As the story of the greenhorns unfolds Deacon knows he's found his new calling. But Deacon couldn't predict the changing tides and obstacles in this trip or that the good Lord would soon present to him his greatest adventure of all, an act that would forever change Butterfield's Trading Post on a very special Christmas, in the shining mountains."
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A Manhunt like no other...
Raised a sheltered and spoiled child, Ben Carson was a real no-good...lazy and without drive or ambition in his life. A murderous chance encounter with a saloon bully sets him on the path of crime and vicious torture. Robbery, murder and arson became his passions.
His crime spree gets noticed and the notorious Hangin' Judge assigns Federal Marshal Jeremiah Cash to hunt down this scourge to society...and he takes that job seriously. Despite the drawbacks of being a black lawman in the late 1800's, the Marshal is known as a no-nonsense lawman that gets the job done. But Ben Carson is both evil and slippery; his ability to deceive and disappear again is legendary. The battle of wits between these two men creates the biggest challenge of Marshal Cash's career. Will his quarry be captured alive and face the Hangin’ judge or will he be brought back in a pine box?
Exciting western action—a gut-punch of harsh violence and western justice by author W.R. Benton."
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The year is 1968—the place is the A Shau Valley, Vietnam. U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Bill Jennings is just doing his job the best he knows how. Watching over his men, trying his best to keep them supplied and safe, pushing them when he has to, and listening to their gripes /troubles when they come to him. He is a man focused on getting the job done and hopefully, going home in one piece at the end of his tour.
When one of his men comes seeking advice about getting help kicking a heroin problem, he assures him he will get him into a rehab program with the medical unit. But when he mysteriously O.D.'s the next night he suspects someone with something to hide spiked his dope. Jennings vows to track down the culprits and make sure they pay.
In a parallel life path, young Quang Hoang was only 14-years old when the South Vietnamese soldiers swept through his village. All he knew in life was growing rice in his rural farm...but now war was here. Many guns and Viet Cong supplies were found hidden in his neighbor’s huts, but he knew nothing about them. The soldiers arrested several men and women, and the rest of them were marched away to live somewhere under the eye of the military while their village and homes were burned to the ground. Quang's parents were killed and now he would have to fend for himself...his entire world has been turned upside down.
A new Teen/Young Adult adventure novel from renowned writer W.R. Benton, Western author & Vietnam U.S. Air Force veteran."
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Railroads & Indian wars
Blamed for a botched Army attack on an Indian village, Scout-Interpreter Wilmont Seth finds his services are no longer needed by the General in charge. Unsure of his future, he heads for Omaha hoping to find work with the railroad companies.
Seth doesn't know it but he’s about to cross paths with 'Dull Knife', a young Sioux warrior. Dull Knife seeks glory in battle against the white men seizing tribal lands, as they build an iron trail over the Plains. Now a scout for the railroads, Seth is tricked into helping a deadly plot to steal the lands from the fierce Sioux tribes. When he realizes his mistake, he goes after the ring leaders to settle the score...his way.
An exciting tale of frontier life and raw savagery. It’s all out war in this trailblazing, adventure packed Western from author W.R. Benton."
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From authors W.R. Benton & Grady Clark
Young’un Augustus Nash, is a good boy. At just 14 he already knows his family needs every pair of hands working hard from sun up to bed just to stay ahead. But when Gus witnesses a brutal murder he fears that what he knows will endanger his beloved family. Seeing no other option he runs away with a few meager possessions and his father's old gun. Befriended by an unlikely stranger he meets on a train, Gus set out for a new life in Montana with high hopes for his future.
Lawyer Harvey Thomas isn’t a man to cross and he isn’t going to let Gus get away with knowing secrets he shouldn’t. The Lawyer quickly dispatches two trained killers to track the boy down and make sure he is silenced forever. With a $500 dollar bounty on his head, Gus is in for big trouble.
But Gus isn’t as completely alone in the world as he feared. For his loving father is dead set on bringing his boy home safe and he's not a man that leaves a job, any job, half done.
Action and adventure abounds in this new frontier story from W.R. Benton and Grady Clark."
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From the Author of 'War Paint'
After the Civil War...
Having survived four long bloody years of slaughter and horrors, Ex-Confederate Colonel James McKay stakes his hopes on finding a new beginning in the west, but instead finds violence and death. Desperate for a new livelihood, he accepts a scout position for the U.S. Army who aim to capture gunrunners selling surplus Civil War repeating rifles to the marauding Sioux.
By accident, McKay stumbles onto a more dangerous plot involving stolen Gatling guns and renegade tribes. The thrilling search is on for a slippery gunrunner by the name of Wild Bill. McKay is hot on his trail, joining forces with Ezekiel, an old but ornery mountain man with a score to settle.
Saddle up, W.R. Benton gives us another fast-paced, and action-packed tale of the old west.
“James McKay, US Army Scout, is a book about honor. James McKay out Virginians the Virginian with his actions.”
—James Drury, “The Virginian”"
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A story of love, hope and honor during Wartime.
Tom is a typical American high school senior in 1943. With graduation just months away, his future is uncertain. He has applied to college, but war looms over his options. Will he get into a school and help the war effort from home? Or will he join many of his fellow seniors, the ones being drafted. Either way Tom understands the war will pay a major role in his future.
As the last heady days of youth come to a close, Tom’s longtime girlfriend Anita makes a startling announcement, she wants a commitment. And assured of her own feelings and of Tom’s she wants to go all the way, even before taking their marriage vows. It’s not something they’ve talked about before, but with loss and loneliness tugging at the hearts of everyone in the young couples lives, it seems like a natural expression of their love in a turbulent world.
For a short time, life is great for Tom. He cherishes these moments of joy while the nation slowly sinks deeper into the sorrows of a world war. When his college plans go awry, Tom decides to enlist, it’s the only way he can exercise some control over his future. After excelling in Basic training, Tom grabs at the chance to go to Jump School. From there it is on to England in preparation for the big Invasion. While Tom gets ready for months of battle to come, Anita is home, alone and pregnant with their first child.
Tom knows his story isn’t unusual, one just like his and Anita’s is being played out in tens of thousands of small town and big cities all over America. Yet for Tom it is everything! It is the very fabric of solider he already is, and the husband and father he is becoming. It is the same struggle and sacrifice shared by countless men, women and children, and it will forge them into...The Greatest Generation.
*** NOTE - This book is auto-narrated."
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The Coin series continues
It all started with a coin, but not just any coin....
For those struggling in the harsh frontier landscape a silver dollar can mean the difference between life, and death.
The Coin series follows the epic journey of a single dollar as it passes from hand to hand changing lives. Some the coin will break, others it will enrich, at least for a time, but in every case the coin always moves on, because the coin was never meant for keeping.
In Book Two we pick up the coin in the dusty streets of Omaha where it’s been keeping company with a lady of evening. Later the coin will travel west in the pocket of a cowhand, and onward to the village of a plains tribe, and finding its way into the hands of a Sioux warrior. Who the coin encounters and how they inevitably pass the coin along is all part of this unique tale. Fortunes will be won, lost and plundered, as the coin continues on its seemingly random path.
The Silver Dollar, Book 2 is an exciting new episode in the tale of a coin and its owners throughout the wild west of the 1800's. It is unique, heartbreaking and packed with the historical details you have come to expect from best selling author, WR Benton."
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An intriguing new series following the trails of the Wild West
It all starts with a coin, but not just any coin....
In 1835 a dollar can mean life, or the slow death by starvation for a young New Orleans street urchin. When the lad spots the silver dollar in the debris littering his path, he feels it's the luckiest day of his young life. But this coin has a history, and a future that doesn't include the boy. For a while the urchin and the coin's paths will intersect, and the union will spark an adventure the size and scope of which the young man could never have dreamed. But a coin is not meant for keeping.
As the silver dollar leaves one set of hands for another owner, the journey continues. From far-flung western frontiers, to the Great Plains, this one coin will touch many lives, a mountain man, a soiled dove, and it will witness unspeakable violence, and events of touching humanity. For many the coin will become their savor, a single silver drop in their empty well of hope. For others the coin is their last earthy possession, a token of good luck passed on to others for new guardianship. Yet, at each new pocket or purse, the scope and breath of the coin's path will astound you.
The Silver Dollar is an epic new western action tale like nothing you've ever read before, unique, heartbreaking and packed with the historical details you have come to expect from best selling author, WR Benton."
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With winter closing in, Texas cowboy Buck Tanner is fired for the season. When he confronts his no account boss for the last of his pay, a disagreement breaks out between the two men with deadly results. Leaving town seems like Buck's best choice course of action and he sets out with his pal Luke to find a new opportunity. Unknowingly, they pair are being stalked by hired killers anxious to make sure Buck and Luke don't find out about the cattle rustling that has been plaguing the surrounding ranches.
Not to far away, Ira, a hand at the Circle JNB ranch has found something he doesn't like the look of...a burnt cinch ring and a discolored barb wire strand left near a campfire. It means only one thing, someone has been changing brands to cover up their rustling. But who is responsible? Ira aims to find out and there will be hell to pay when he gets his hands on the vermin.
Will the rustlers escape or be cornered in a lonely dry gully in the Texas scrub country? Find out in this action-packed western, another new western by author WR Benton."
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