Bøker av Manning Jason Manning

For one American hero, war brings the ends of innocence... In 1814 the U.S. Army is not much more than a ragtag collection of brave men and boys bound by blood, duty, and more than a little luck. The army's commander, Andrew Jackson, has turned his attention from the waning British threat to a conflict closer to home. "Old Hickory" hopes to capture and punish the Red Stick Creek Indians responsible for murdering American long hunters caught on their home soil. Lieutenant Timothy Barlow has just graduated from West Point, full of fine ideals, long on knowledge, but woefully short of experience. In Indian country, this combination could prove fatal. Barlow performs heroically at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, but when he is ordered to pillage a peaceful Indian camp, his conscience gets the better of him. Then his troops take matters into their own hands and Barlow has to find a way to preserve his honor, justify Andy Jackson's faith in him, and survive what will be known as the First Seminole War. THE FIRST IN A THRILLING NEW TRILOGY OF THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER THAT INCLUDES THE FIRE-EATERS AND THE WAR LOVERS, BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FLINTLOCK AND HIGH COUNTRY.

With the Civil War raging in the East, the Confederacy is in desperate need for Union gold coming overland from California through Fort Yuma in the Arizona Territory. With the help of Southern spies and sympathizers, Alkali Jim Sullivan and his gang of bushwhackers are robbing the Wells Fargo gold shipments. Only one man has the gumption to stand against the killers. His name is John Clayton Lonaker, a man known for raw courage and a fast gun. Lonaker signs on to ride shotgun with the newest gold shipment along the Oxbow Route to Yuma, being transported in a iron-plated war wagon. Of course, Sullivan and his cutthroats want that gold, and the attempted robbery becomes a running battle across the worst stretch of desert in the territory. Lonaker is facing impossible odds. But that's never stopped him. He's dead-set on ending the Rebel threat in a epic showdown at Seven Springs. YET ANOTHER CLASSIC WESTERN PENNED BY THE AUTHOR OF TRAIL TOWN, GUN JUSTICE AND REVENGE IN LITTLE TEXAS!

Sometimes a man has to risk all he cherishes for God and country. He had fought and bled for his country. He had been a war hero and a congressman. He had battled the southern Nullifiers to keep the young United States from splintering. He was the right-hand man of President Andrew Jackson. But now Timothy Barlow has put aside his uniform to lead an easier life on a sprawling Georgia plantation, married to a beautiful Southern belle. With his public service behind him, Barlow intends to spoil the woman he loves, raise a family, and live in peace and prosperity. But yet another war is brewing. Mexico, Britain and France have eyes on the fledgling Republic of Texas and U.S. President Polk will have none of that. The country needs its heroes once again, and Barlow reluctantly dusts off his uniform for one last hurrah. A ROUSING HISTORICAL NOVEL, THE FINAL ENTRY IN THE POPULAR BARLOW TRILOGY WHICH INCLUDES THE LONG HUNTERS AND WAR LOVERS.

1846. The territory of New Mexico has fallen to United States forces. Hugh Falconer-tracker, trapper, explorer, mountain man-rides to Taos to rendezvous with old friends at the wilderness outpost of Turley's Mill. On the way he picks up a job shepherding Delgado McKinn, a young man with more courage than common sense, back to his wealthy father. Falconer doesn't know it but he's heading into a deadly trap. Mexicans and Indians have united against the new American lords of the land. The Taos Revolt throws the capital of Santa Fe into turmoil. Governor Charley Bent and others are murdered. And Turley's Mill is slated to become a tomb for the mountain men gathered there.Falconer finds himself among the handful of trappers and traders, his friend Delgado among them, surrounded by an angry mob bent on spilling their blood. Nine men standing against hundreds.Maybe they would die, but not like rats in a trap. They would die like men-mountain men.THE THIRD EPIC ADVENTURE IN THE HUGH FALCONER SERIES, FOLLOWING FALCONER'S LAW AND PROMISED LAND, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED HIGH COUNTRY FRONTIER NOVELS.

A young man in a virgin land, a sweeping saga alive with the courage, challenge, danger and adventure that was the American frontier.In 1825 the distant Rockies offered all the adventure and wealth a young man could want. The mad demand for beaver pelts spawned a booming fur trade that sent men to battle against the fury of nature, hostile Indian tribes, and even each other in an ordeal that only the strongest could survive.Zach Hannah was a mere youth when he left the Tennessee hill country to seek his fortune in the West. He faced many challenges-to learn the way of the wild and those who lived in it, to discover that the white man's treachery could be as deadly as Blackfoot hostility. And to find passionate love with a beautiful Indian woman-and fight to the death to protect her.THE GRIPPING FIRST BOOK IN A BESTSELLING TRILOGY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER THAT INCLUDES GREEN RIVER RENDEZVOUS AND BATTLE OF THE TETON BASIN.