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Within Reach by Duane R. Keeling

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She became a nurse to help. The Army made her something more.

Series

Path of the Peacemaker (Bee Adkins Book 1)
Trail of Shadows (Bee Adkins Book 2)
Road to Redemption (Bee Adkins Book 3)

The Bee Adkins Series

In the unforgiving landscape of the early 1900s, where the Old West gives way to a new world, a young man’s legend is forged in grit and gunpowder. Bee Adkins, raised under the stern hand of his preacher father on a remote Texas farm, is forced by drought and tragedy to...

Tohua!
The Stone Vigil
The Memory Keepers
The Last Report

The Ridge Watcher

In the volcanic peaks of Sonora and the hidden canyons of Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains, one man becomes the memory the Iron World tried to erase.

Born into the Yaqui rancheria near Hermosillo at the turn of the twentieth century, Antonio Montiel learns to read the earth...

The Bee Adkins Collection

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Praise

Trail of Shadows - The second book in the Bee Adkins trilogy (grittier and more heartbreaking) continues Bee's story of hardship and the struggle to live a moral life. Duane Keeling has masterfully blended fact and fiction into a well-written, fascinating story. Enjoyed this book and looking forward to the last book.

– CN Wood

Shelter - Interesting Story And Well Written
The author used detailed descriptions for the timeline and area of the story setting. He keeps the reader focused on the story. I am looking forward to reading his next book.

– Bonnie Robinson

Shelter - Loved it! Excellent story and well written. Bee was someone I would have liked to have known. Looking forward to the Bee Adkins series.

– CN Wood

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A Stone's Throw is Available Now! I am excited to announce that we were

I am excited to announce that we were able to beat our planned launch date and get book one of the Legacy's Child series released early! This means if you finish the prequel you...

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The prequel to the Legacy's Child series, "Within Reach" is out. Get it

They were expecting the girl that went to war. They got back someone else.

Get Helen Calloway's gripping backstory in the prequel to the Legacy's Child series.

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Geronimo Surrendered in 1886. Not Every Apache Did. In September 1886 the

In September 1886 the United States exiled every Chiricahua Apache it could find, including the scouts who had served the Army against Geronimo. It could not find all of them.

Geronimo Surrendered in 1886. Not Every Apache Did.

The removal was meant to be total, and on paper it was.

Everyone, Including the Scouts

Geronimo came in at Skeleton Canyon in early September 1886 with a few dozen people. What followed applied to a whole nation. Between April and November of that year, 515 Chiricahua were...

The Centralia Massacre of 1864: The Bait at the Depot and the Trap at

On 27 September 1864, eighty guerrillas took Centralia, Missouri, and left twenty-six dead men arranged on the depot platform — bait for the three hundred waiting at Young's Creek.

Centralia was a railroad town of a few hundred people in northern Boone County, and holding it for six hours accomplished nothing military. That was not what the morning was for. What happened on the depot platform was staged, and it was staged for a Federal column that had not arrived yet.

Sterling Price had crossed...

The Remount Rush: How the Great War Emptied the West's Horse Ranches

Between 1914 and 1918 Britain bought 672,303 horses and mules from the United States, and one animal that met the army's specification could be worth a season of any other work.

In 1918 a horse was not livestock. It was ordnance, and there were several armies bidding.

What a Remount Was

A remount was a replacement — for an animal killed, crippled, or worked to death at the front — and it was a category before it was a horse. The armies graded by the job. Lighter animals went to the cavalry,...

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