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“The Making of Jake McTavish”Paying the price for rape and murder Jake’s wife is raped and murdered. A lazy Mountie accuses Jake of the crimes. Angry, in shock and trying to erase the vision of his wife’s body, Jake runs into the mountains.But running away did not erase the vision. Hiding alone and the passage of time did not decrease – and may have increased – his anger. When two renegades try to kill him and steal his furs Jake realizes that he needs to face the vision from the past. To erase it he needs to hunt it down, find out who killed her and see they pay. Solving a murder after several years is no easy task, especially when it includes surprises he didn’t want to ...

People of the West: A short story timelineBy D.M. McGowanA collection of 9 short stories (along with some back-ground) and 14 poems available on several sites1793  Marker of Stone, 1867 Lucky, 1888 Into the Mountains, 1914 Stealing Janet’s Cattle, 1936 A Voice From Beyond,Just Feeling Good, The Reason for the Season, An Old Rancher’s Christmas           1940  Deacon,               Native Sons in World War I, Inclusion, Education1942  Invasion     The Road That Couldn’t Be Done, Hiking Mountain Ranges    1963&...

A collection of 9 short stories (along with some back-ground) and 14 poems available on several sites1793  Marker of Stone, 1867 Lucky, 1888 Into the Mountains, 1914 Stealing Janet’s Cattle, 1936 A Voice From Beyond,Just Feeling Good, The Reason for the Season, An Old Rancher’s Christmas           1940  Deacon,               Native Sons in World War I, Inclusion, Education1942  Invasion     The Road That Couldn’t Be Done, Hiking Mountain Ranges    1963  Sure, I can do that! , 1966 Blizzard!Knowing What M...

“Partners”Renegades and Wilderness! Survival?Tom Brash is educated, traveled, trained and for 1866 well agedFrank Clement is uncouth, unsophisticated, uneducated and young.Tom believes young Frank who has no idea where they are and is completely unaware of the dangers they face will not survive traveling alone.Frank thinks the “old man” will get himself killed with his fancy talk and fancy guns.Can they work together to fend off the renegades trying to kill them out on the plains in Canada’s Western Wilderness? Will their differences make it impossible to work together at all?Ride along with these men who find renegades, Blackfeet, the most feared people on the northern plains...

“Partners”Renegades and Wilderness! Survival?Tom Brash is educated, traveled, trained and for 1866 well agedFrank Clement is uncouth, unsophisticated, uneducated and young.Tom believes young Frank who has no idea where they are and is completely unaware of the dangers they face will not survive traveling alone.Frank thinks the “old man” will get himself killed with his fancy talk and fancy guns.Can they work together to fend off the renegades trying to kill them out on the plains in Canada’s Western Wilderness? Will their differences make it impossible to work together at all?Ride along with these men who find renegades, Blackfeet, the most feared people on the northern plains...

“Homesteader: Finding Sharon”Facing down a bullyHank James and riding partner Harry Gilmore ride the rails east to look for the woman Hank thought would be his mate for life. They unload their horses and gear at Canmore and immediately make an enemy.Riding on into Calgary they find Sharon but Hank is suddenly not sure if she is who he thought she was. He does decide to stay around long enough to see if she is.Or isn’t.If they are staying around for awhile anyway, Hank and Harry become homesteaders. When they met Portis Martin east of Canmore, he did not think they showed him proper respect but as homesteaders they became threatening enemies.Hank and Harry’s new enemy is manager of a ...

“Homesteader: Finding Sharon”Facing down a bullyHank James and riding partner Harry Gilmore ride the rails east to look for the woman Hank thought would be his mate for life. They unload their horses and gear at Canmore and immediately make an enemy.Riding on into Calgary they find Sharon but Hank is suddenly not sure if she is who he thought she was. He does decide to stay around long enough to see if she is.Or isn’t.If they are staying around for awhile anyway, Hank and Harry become homesteaders. When they met Portis Martin east of Canmore, he did not think they showed him proper respect but as homesteaders they became threatening enemies.Hank and Harry’s new enemy is manager of a ...

“The Great Liquor War”I’ll take care of my business. You take care of yours.https://books2read.com/DM-McGowan Hank James is trying to make his fortune panning gold but it isn’t exactly working that way. However, with the help of an “inside source” he does well betting on a prize fight.With his winnings Hank invests in a new business hauling freight to build the new railroad. With luck, hard work and good help he does well. Then his “inside source” from the days of the prize fight expects help when the BC Provincial Police face off against the North West Mounted Police.While the police forces fight each other who is watching the criminals? If Hank is identified as helping...

“The Great Liquor War”I’ll take care of my business. You take care of yours.https://books2read.com/DM-McGowan Hank James is trying to make his fortune panning gold but it isn’t exactly working that way. However, with the help of an “inside source” he does well betting on a prize fight.With his winnings Hank invests in a new business hauling freight to build the new railroad. With luck, hard work and good help he does well. Then his “inside source” from the days of the prize fight expects help when the BC Provincial Police face off against the North West Mounted Police.While the police forces fight each other who is watching the criminals? If Hank is identified as helping...

The country celebrates newfound prosperity and peace. Does Westchester Farm benefit?Western Pennsylvania, 1920. Henderson Westchester lords over his massive farm and family. The widower and father of seven children contemplates the unthinkable. The transfer of his family farm to his youngest child, a girl!Feisty, brilliant, outspoken, Olive Westchester remains at odds with her father after her favorite brother’s death.The nineteen-year-old who dreams of independence via a college education, not property ownership, succeeds in making her family’s life miserable as she awaits Henderson’s decision.Westchester Farm is the sequel to the multi-award-winning Becoming Olive W., and the prequel...

She’s beautiful and brilliant. But the world is not ready for her to shine….Western Pennsylvania, 1905. Olive Westchester dreams of being valued. Misunderstood, resented, and ignored by her large family after her mother's death, her only ally is an older brother who loves her unconditionally. And the hard-headed girl’s visions of making her mark are threatened by a close-minded society resentful of her superior intellect.Stunned after a jealous teacher expels her from the eighth grade, Olive's anger swells when her dismissive father does nothing to get her readmitted…instead pushing her to learn to be a wealthy man’s wife. But as tragedy strikes, she turns to a local laborer enamor...

Beautiful, brilliant, wealthy. The world should be Olive’s oyster. Does she want too much?For young women in the early 1900s, a string of pearls is sometimes the closest they can get to owning the world.Orphaned as a toddler, Olive, a bright, feisty child, struggles to establish her place in a wealthy farming family. Her sisters are jealous, her brothers feel threatened, and her father, inept as a parent, is dependent on her skills.Without a mother’s guidance, is it possible for this young woman to break social barriers on her own? Can she become the independent woman scholar that she has the potential to be?Set in the early 1900s in rural Pennsylvania, follow this spitfire through an em...