When his father is killed and his sister kidnapped following a confrontation with a powerful rancher; it falls to fourteen-year-old Zachariah Hogan to set matters straight. That this would entail his riding with a band of Sioux warriors was something that the boy could not, in his wildest dreams, ever have imagined. So it is that a youngster who has not yet begun to shave becomes embroiled in the last action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

When fifteen-year-old Jack Taylor is offered a job with the newly formed Pony Express Company, it looks as though he will be able to rescue his family from the financial problems which are troubling them. However, he injures his ankle, and it is likely his job will fall through. His twin sister, Beth, decides to ride in his place; this is the story of the only girl to ever ride for the Pony Express.

Ben Saddler, sometime soldier of the Confederate Army, has had many jobs: scout, gambler, barkeep, deputy sheriff, road agent, cowboy and now whiskey runner, and is trying to scrape a living in the Indian Territories. His life takes an unexpected turn when he suddenly finds himself with responsibility for a little girl. Somehow he must escort her to safety through the territories; evade capture by the law, outgun those who would kill him, and negotiate his way through an Indian uprising. Will he succeed and unite the child with her family?

Marshal Jeremiah Hammond's young daughter goes off the rails and takes part in a robbery, and he knows it is his duty is to bring her to justice. But the puritanical, God-fearing marshal soon finds that doing one's duty is more complicated that he first thought. But when his daughter commits murder, the marshal finds himself fighting with all his strength to protect his family and, putting all his principles aside, must help his precious daughter evade the law...

Mark Brown is hoping to become a minister of the church, but for now he is teaching the elementary school in the little town of Barker's Crossing in Wyoming. When a local landowner begins to terrorize the homesteaders around Barker's Crossing, Brown realizes that it is time to act. He has not always been a teacher; in fact he was a lawman for over ten years. Now, before he can fulfil his ambition of becoming a minister, he must take up his gun one last time and fight to defend the helpless.