2015 Will Rogers Bronze Medallion Award Will Braddock doesn't want to be forced into an unwanted blacksmith apprenticeship. The newly orphaned fourteen-year-old embarks upon a quest to determine his own destiny. He heads west to seek work on the first transcontinental railroad. Will learns to rely upon himself to achieve his goal. He constantly battles a young Irish thug who is determined to kill him. A mixed-blood Cheyenne youth, whom he saves from quicksand, gives Will two eagle talons from his amulet in thanks. The talons save Will's life, and though not magical, he's convinced they are lucky. When a feisty young lady he has befriended is kidnapped by the Indians, and the Army refuses to send troops, Will decides to risk his own future to free her from captivity.

Eagle Talons (The Iron Horse Chronicles: Book One)

Literature & Fiction

Murphy, Robert Lee

Literary

Wheeler Publishing Large Print

Winner of the 2016 Silver Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for Younger Readers. In Bear Claws, The Iron Horse Chronicles--Book 2, fifteen-year-old Will Braddock continues as a hunter for his uncle's survey team as the transcontinental railroad crosses Wyoming in 1868. But Paddy O'Hannigan's vendetta grows more sinister,and Will is forced to use all his skills to save Ulysses S. Grant when Paddy attempts to blow up the presidential candidate's train.

Bear Claws (The Iron Horse Chronicles)

United States

2015 Will Rogers Bronze Medallion Award Will Braddock doesn't want to be forced into an unwanted blacksmith apprenticeship. The newly orphaned fourteen-year-old embarks upon a quest to determine his own destiny. He heads west to seek work on the first transcontinental railroad. Will learns to rely upon himself to achieve his goal. He constantly battles a young Irish thug who is determined to kill him. A mixed-blood Cheyenne youth‚ whom he saves from quicksand‚ gives Will two eagle talons from his amulet in thanks. The talons save Will's life‚ and though not magical‚ he's convinced they are lucky. When a feisty young lady he has befriended is kidnapped by the Indians‚ and the Army refuses to send troops‚ Will decides to risk his own future to free her from captivity.

Five Star

The driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit in Utah on May 10, 1869, almost didn’t happen. None of the history books mention this crucial event. Only five people were aware of the incident. Will Braddock knew. He was one of those five. It all started when Paddy O’Hannigan attacked Will; his uncle, Sean Corcoran; and Homer Garcon, in Echo City, Utah, four months earlier. When Will chases after Paddy, the Irish thug traps Will into a bigger mess. Fortunately, Jenny McNabb is around to help Will recover. Paddy, desperate for money, creates more trouble by kidnaping Jenny. Will coerces Mort Kavanagh, Paddy’s godfather, into providing the ransom money. Jenny tries to escape, but Paddy throws her shoes away and forces her to walk shoeless to the ransom rendezvous point. After getting his hands on the money, Paddy unwittingly brags that he is rich. Kavanagh forces Paddy to return the funds, and Paddy is broke again. Jenny accepts employment as a chef for the Central Pacific Railroad’s president, Leland Stanford, who is bringing the Golden Spike to the ceremony in Utah that will commemorate the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Paddy sneaks aboard Stanford’s train, stabs Homer, grabs the Golden Spike, steals Will’s horse, and races away. Will must pursue Paddy again and regain the spike before the railroad officials discover it’s missing. If he fails, Jenny, Homer, and Will stand to be accused of being the thieves.

Golden Spike (The Iron Horse Chronicles)

Five Star Publishing

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR 
A TALE OF THE FETTERMAN MASSACRE\nAs expected, Robert Lee Murphy combines his deep historical research and strong storytelling to deliver a fresh perspective on one of the key events of the post-Civil War Western frontier.-Johnny D. Boggs, Nine-times Spur Award winner on BOZEMAN PAYMASTER\nReminiscent of the Taliban prevailing in Afghanistan, Bozeman Paymaster is the story of how in the nation's drive to advance Manifest Destiny it blundered into one of its most distressing reverses. Fighting to defend their favorite buffalo hunting grounds following the Civil War, Lakota Chief Red Cloud's coalition of Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, and Arapahos drove the military forces out of the Powder River country of modern-day Wyoming. On a bone-chilling day in December 1866, Captain William Fetterman led eighty men into the army's worst defeat at the hands of the Indians until Custer's Last Stand a decade later. Despite the turmoil of virtually constant Indian attacks at Fort Phil Kearny, a youthful paymaster clerk and a beautiful young schoolteacher fall in love. Their future is torn asunder when in the aftermath of the Fetterman Massacre the United States abandons the forts protecting the Bozeman Trail, closing the shortest route used by immigrants to reach Montana's goldfields. Red Cloud's War was the only war the American Indians won fighting the U.S. Army.

Bozeman Paymaster: A Tale of the Fetterman Massacre (Five Star Western Series)

Genre Fiction

Bozeman Paymaster: A Tale of the Fetterman Massacre

Thorndike Press Large Print

Eagle Talons: The Iron Horse Chronicles: Book One

Independently published

Bear Claws: The Iron Horse Chronicles: Book Two

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Eagle Talons (The Iron Horse Chronicles: Book One)

Bear Claws (The Iron Horse Chronicles)

Eagle Talons (The Iron Horse Chronicles: Book One)

Bear Claws (The Iron Horse Chronicles)

Golden Spike (The Iron Horse Chronicles)

Golden Spike (The Iron Horse Chronicles)

Bozeman Paymaster: A Tale of the Fetterman Massacre (Five Star Western Series)

Bozeman Paymaster: A Tale of the Fetterman Massacre

Eagle Talons: The Iron Horse Chronicles: Book One

Bear Claws: The Iron Horse Chronicles: Book Two