Barbarian born. Legion trained. He's a hostage, a symbol, a target. Matthi the Goth has spent six years inside a frontier military garrison, held hostage by the same Roman legion that saved him from an innocent boyhood mistake atnd the savage justice of the Angel of Death. He trains alongside highborn sons of the empire and sees his future within their ranks, but he is not a Roman citizen. He's called a savage-the teenage son of the only man who...

Life in early New Mexico was often perilous. Geographic isolation attracted outlaws and ruffians, and skirmishes often arose between the indigenous tribes and settlers. In response, the U.S. government set up military forts and outposts to protect its new citizens. These strongholds include Fort Craig, where logs were made to look like cannons to fool Confederate troops. Kit Carson, John Pershing and Billy the Kid all called Fort Stanton home, before...

Fort Selden was a small frontier fort built in 1865 with the mission of protecting the citizens of the Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico. This book tells the story of Fort Selden's beginning, its years of service, and its eventual abandonment. Throughout Fort Selden's history, its troopers conducted patrols, provided escort for wagon trains, and chased horse thieves, bandits, and Apaches through spring dust storms, drenching rains, winter cold,...

"The untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. In Frontier Rebels, historian Patrick Spero tells the story of the Black Boys, a band of rebels whose protests ignited the American Revolution. In 1765, as the Stamp Act riled eastern seaports, frontiersmen clashed with the British Empire over another issue: Indian relations. When British officials launched a risky diplomatic expedition...

"A life of adventure and military daring on violent frontiers across the American West, Africa, Mexico, and the Klondike"--Amazon.com.