Free for a limited time!

A Stone's Throw by Duane R. Keeling

Book 1 of Legacy's Child is Free on Amazon until October 30th!

Her hands knew first. No chart had a line for it.

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

View

Praise

Seventeen and One - Outstanding! Great novel depicting the atrocities and savage side of the Civil War. The story follows the Confederate guerilla fighters as well as families from both sides intertwined in the conflict.

– Donna C.

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

Latest Updates

A Stone's Throw will be FREE on Amazon Kindle Get the first book in the

Get the first book in the Legacy's Child series for free from October 26th through October 30th! Book 3, the final chapter, is coming out in a few weeks this gives you a chance...

 Far Cry is available for pre-order A Far Cry is in the hands of the beta

A Far Cry is in the hands of the beta readers and is available for pre-order now!

In 2005, Lisa Castillo, an Army intelligence specialist comes down from a Chiricahua peak able...

Audio books may be on the horizon I finally found a product that does a

I finally found a product that does a decent job at AI voicing a muti-character story so audio versions of SOME books may be in the future. Currently, Apple Books carries the...

View All

Backstory

The 39th Missouri Infantry and the Hannibal Muster of 1864 The 39th

The 39th Missouri Infantry was raised at Hannibal in six weeks of late summer 1864, armed with infantry muskets, mounted on horses, and sent out after guerrilla cavalry.

A Regiment In Weeks

Most Union regiments took a season to build and asked their men for three years. The 39th Missouri Infantry asked for one year and took about six weeks. The National Park Service records it as organized at Hannibal, Missouri, between 18 August and 30 September 1864 - and before that organization was...

The Alton Military Prison and Sunflower Island in Illinois Illinois closed

Illinois closed its first state penitentiary at Alton in 1860 as unfit to hold anyone, and fourteen months later the Army reopened it and put 11,764 Confederates through it.

Alton is a prison that nobody can count. The number of men who died there is given three different ways by three institutions, two of them reading the same monument. The number buried on the island offshore is given four ways. What is not in dispute is the building, and the building is the part worth knowing, because the...

The Dependent Pension Act of 1890 and Civil War Mothers A Civil War mother

A Civil War mother could claim twelve dollars a month from the federal government, but first she had to prove in writing that no one else alive was able to support her.

A pension is usually imagined as something a soldier draws. For most of the Civil War generation the money went the other way, to the people the soldier had been supporting when he died. The hardest of those claims to prove belonged to mothers.

Two Kinds Of Claim

The system that grew out of the Civil War recognised two kinds of...

View All