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Simon Steele and his friend, Buell Mace, leave home at nineteen, Simon because there's no reason to stay and Buell because there's every reason to run. At a roadhouse outside Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory, where there are few rules and even fewer consequences if you break one, Simon finds work as the house's supply man and Buell as an enforcer. Hanging tenaciously to the morals of his parents, and to the memory of the woman who rejected him,
...Surviving on a dirt-poor farm in 1850s Nebraska tests Paul Steele's confidence in himself. His deceitful younger brother lives on the fertile and thriving family farm while Paul struggles to raise a family in a sod hut. Paul and his wife, Ana, meet adversity head-on and teach their children the value of honesty, loyalty and dedication. Their eldest son, Simon, learns from the hardships and triumphs, but his best friend, Buell, is very different.
...5) Pine Marten
Pine Marten tells of two people dealing with a soul-shattering tragedy in the Missouri wilderness of 1855. Woodcutter Salem Greene leaves his family alone for two days, then returns to find his wife and nine-year-old daughter brutally raped and murdered. His son is missing, presumed dead. Greene finds the perpetrators, but the horrific way he exacts retribution makes him feel unfit to live with others. He goes into exile and tries desperately to
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