Preston Lewis

Virgil Child returns his mother's coffin to White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, to bury her beside his dead father. Child can't find his father's grave and as he investigates, he discovers how his birthright was stolen by Ed Keller and his allies. He sets out to right a wrong and get what's his against all odds.

FAME AND FORTUNE IN THE WILD WEST ARE WHAT LOMAX SEEKS... BUT POOR DECISIONS AND A TOUCH OF BAD LUCK ALWAYS STAND IN THE WAY.Accused of cheating at cards on a Southern Pacific passenger train in far West Texas, H.H. Lomax is kicked off the train and finds himself at the mercy of the unpredictable justice of Judge Roy Bean, who calls himself "Law West of the Pecos." After being fined of all his money, married, and divorced by the judge in a matter of minutes, Lomax discovers an unlikely connection to him.Against a backdrop of a pending world heavyweight championship bout, Lomax heads to El Paso to interest someone in writing and publishing Bean's biography. He winds up in an El Paso boarding house across the hall from Texas killer John Wesley Hardin. They despise each other, but Hardin fears Lomax's straight-arrow Texas Ranger brother and treads lightly around Lomax. Because of Hardin's crooked connections in El Paso, Lomax gets caught between him and corrupt constable John Selman.El Paso is becoming the focal point of efforts to host a championship prizefight that everyone from the Presidents of the United States and Mexico to the governors of Texas, New Mexico Territory and Chihuahua have vowed to stop. Calling on his connections to his Ranger brother, Andy, El Paso officials and the promoter of the boxing match, Lomax uses his Judge Roy Bean friendship to pull off the oddest prizefight in heavyweight history.Outlaw West of the Pecos stands as an entertaining mix of historical and hysterical fiction.

Blanca Is My Name is the second in the Animal Legends Collection. The first book, They Call Me Old Blue, won the 2002 R. C. Crane Award for "best fiction book on West Texas." Both are based on true events.

WEALTH AND FAME IN THE WILD WEST ARE WHAT LOMAX SEEKS...HIS OWN BAD LUCK IS WHAT STANDS IN HIS WAY.Swindled out of a mining fortune in Colorado and blamed for an ensuing murder, H.H. Lomax must finally face up to his past two decades in Skagway, Alaska. Along the way, he encounters legendary madam Mattie Silks, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, novelist Jack London, and a talking dog.To survive his previous missteps and avoid a prison sentence for theft, Lomax must outshoot infamous Western conman Soapy Smith and outwit an unrelenting Wells Fargo investigator and Shotgun Jake Townsend, the greatest frontier assassin who never was. "Lewis does a tremendous job of leading us along the trail with humor, adventure and just a bit of cowboy heartache."

HISTORICALLY SOUND AND HILARIOUSLY FUNNY H.H. Lomax meets Wild Bill Hickok in Springfield, Missouri, and is responsible for Hickok's legendary gunfight with Davis Tutt. Fearing Hickok will hold a grudge, Lomax escapes Springfield and agrees to promote Joseph G. McCoy's dream of building Abilene into a cattle town, ultimately leading the first herd to Abilene from Texas. Along the way, he encounters Indians, rabid skunks, flash floods, a stampede and the animosities of some fellow cowboys trying to steal profits from the drive. Lomax is saved by the timely arrival of now U.S. Marshal Hickok, but Lomax uses counterfeit wanted posters to convince Hickok his assailants are wanted felons with rewards on their heads. Lomax and Wild Bill go their separate ways until they run into each other a decade later in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, where Hickok vows to kill Lomax for getting him fired. First Herd to Abilene stands as an entertaining mix of historical and hysterical fiction.

Unique among animals that ever trod across Texas, Uncle Sam was a camel born at sea. Arriving in Texas in 1856 as part of the U.S. Army's experimental Camel Corps, Uncle Sam must adapt to the challenges of a new land and the moods of his temperamental mule friend, Stormy. Together they explore Texas until their ambitions send them on different paths that ultimately converge in tragedy.Spur Award-winning author Preston Lewis adds Uncle Sam's "autobiography" to his Texas Animal Legends Collection. Just Call Me Uncle Sam brings to life the tumultuous times of a camel born at sea.

Events on the Little Bighorn might have turned out better for George Armstrong Custer had he listened to H.H. Lomax rather than trying to kill him. To save his own skin--and scalp, Lomax must outwit Custer and his troopers as well as face the horde of Sioux warriors swarming Last Stand Hill.At least that is how Lomax tells the story in his inimitable and humorous romp across Old West history. Lomax's latest misadventures take him from the Battle of Adobe Walls to Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. In between, he's a bouncer in a Waco whorehouse, a prospector in the Black Hills, a bartender in a Dakota Territory saloon and a combatant in the worst defeat in the history of the frontier Army.Told with Lomax's characteristic wit, Bluster's Last Stand puts a new spin on the Little Bighorn and its aftermath. Whether you believe him or not, you've got to admire Lomax's luck and pluck in both surviving one of the darkest days in Old West history and writing about the disaster in the latest volume of The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax.