Mexican War, 1847. American army lands at Vera Cruz and marches inland and captures Mexico City. Cavillin, Texas Ranger and Chilton, Dragoon, lead their men in the battle. Chilton wanting money for his dead and wounded men, leads a band of Dragoons robbing Mexican towns of their gold and silver. Cavillin is ordered to catch the thieving Dragoons.

Winter Woman is the sweeping epic tale of gold seekers, the Mormon Migration, savage Indian battles set in the wilderness of the Greet Plains and the Rocky Mountains. Here men and women become warriors, enemies, and lovers — and only the brave and strong survive.

With an awesome list of stirring Westerns novels, F. M. Parker has won acclaim as a master story teller. In The Shadow Man, he has achieved a new high of bringing alive the high drama and true-grit realities of the Western past.The time is 1846 with the United States and Mexico poised for war over the American Southwest. The place is New Mexico, where Jacob Tamarron has come after years as a legendary mountain man. Jacob is weary of mountain loneliness and brutal struggle for survival against Indians and fur thieves and comes to Santa Fe and hoping to find a woman and have a family. He finds the new life he is looking for in Petra, the proud and fiery Mexican woman. He woes and marries her. Then with savage suddenness, his new life is ripped apart by two of the most vicious men ever to ravage the West. James Kirker, a professional Indian killer out to make a fortune in blood money, and Simon Caverhill, a Texas senator, who with a handpicked killing crew and a master forger,...

1869. A case of mistaken identity, a battle for gold on the Snake River, murder of 31 Chinamen, and the sale of a beautiful Chinese girl bring together young Tom Galaway, the Highbinder warrior, Pak Ho, and lovely Lian. Seeking vengeance for the deaths of their friends, they search for the murderers on San Francisco's back alleys and waterfront.

A man who has no woman sleeps with the wind. Wounded in a battle of the Civil War, Ben Hawkins becomes the ugliest horse thief in Texas. Only one woman remembers what he was like before the wound, and still loves him. However she is the sixth wife of a Mormon man. When she is kidnapped and taken into Mexico, one man will dare try to rescue her.

Levi Coffin kills scores of enemies in battle. Sickened of death, he flees from the killing fields. Errin Scanlan, an English highwayman, escapes from prison in Australia and comes to San Francisco. The two join Celeste Beremendes, owner of vast land holdings, to fight Brol Mattoon, the ruthless ruler of the waterfront who plots to destroy them.

The story setting is England and Australia in the mid-1860's. Patrick Scanlan, an orphan of seven, is sold into slavery at a weaving mill in London. Half starved, and often whipped for refusing to work, he manages to escape from the weaving mill and onto the dangerous London streets with their whores, thugs and thieves. He survives his childhood years by stealing.He chances upon Thief Takers, bounty hunters, lying in wait to kill Claude Duvall, a famous highwayman. Warned by Patrick, Duvall fights his way out of the trap. Patrick joins Duvall in his robberies and becomes one of the elite class of thieves, a Two Pops And A Galloper, a mounted highwayman with two pistols, who robs the rich travelers on the highways.Thief Takers try to arrest Duvall and Patrick. Patrick shoots the Thief Takers. He is captured and given a sentence of life at hard labor in the penal colony on Van Diemen's Land, an island off the south coast of Australia.Patrick is often flogged with the...

Beautiful fourteen year old Alice, immigrates to New York from London. Her mother is murdered and Alice must survive on the streets by her wits and courage. Arrested for stealing food, she is released and sent to Minnesota. She kills to save her life. Frightened, and pursued by a sadistic rapist, she flees into the snowy wilderness toward Canada.

1859 England, Caroline joins a Mormon missionary and other converts. In the Rockies, Sam is robbed by the DeBreen. Texas, Nathan joins four men to find wives. On the Great Plains, the women, pulling their belongings in carts, are prey for DeBreen, the Texans, Sam hunting DeBreen, a band of Mormons from Utah with orders to bring every woman there.

With a long list of stirring novels, F. M. Parker has won acclaim as a spellbinder. Soldiers Of Conquest has received high praise from Booklist and Publisher's Weekly.American-Mexican War 1846 -1848.President Polk, desiring to expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean, orders General Zachary Taylor with his army to the Rio Grande on the Mexican border. Mexico controlled much of the western land, including California. Among the men is Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant. Taylor invades Mexico and defeats the Mexican Army in three hard fought battles. When the Mexicans won't sign a treaty with the US, President Polk orders General Winfield Scott to invade Mexico at Veracruz and march inland and capture Mexico City.General Scott arrives at Veracruz with 100 ships crowded with 9,000 soldiers and the holds crammed with cannons, muskets and cavalry mounts. Among the soldiers were Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant and Captain Robert E. Lee.Grant was 24 years old, a smallish fellow...

Russ, only a boy, kills two lawmen he thought were outlaws. He flees. Crazy Caloon escapes from Yuma prison. He tries to kill Russ. They join a gang of bandits. Beautiful Samantha and her father have a ranch on the edge of bandit land. Russ becomes her secret protector. In a battle to save Samantha, Caloon and Russ fight the band of outlaws.

It is 1847 and the place is turbulent New Orleans as American forces prepare for the invasion of Mexico. Timothy Wollfolk traveling to New Orleans to claim a huge inheritance, is shot and thought dead. Lew Fannin, ex-Texas Ranger slays the man's murderers and assumes his identity. Two violent strands of dramatic conflict are set into motion.