Dana Fuller Ross Books in Order

This later Wagons West novel revisits Texas from the Alamo onward, following wagon master Paul Franklin and his descendants as they lead a so called freedom wagon train. Bandit leader Frank Hardin and conflicted heiress Fancy Darrow force them to fight for both survival and principle.

In the second Wagons West Empire novel, the Holt family’s hunt for land grabbers widens as war with Britain looms. Clay and Jefferson Holt confront old enemies and new betrayals while trying to protect their scattered kin and keep a fragile young nation from tearing itself apart.

The Empire trilogy concludes with the Holts closing in on the masterminds behind a vast frontier conspiracy. As battles flare on land and sea, they must decide how far they will go to expose corruption in Washington and secure a future for their family and country.

In 1811, a Holt family reunion in Ohio is cut short when frontiersman Clay Holt receives mysterious news about Meriwether Lewis and a promised land grant. A summons to Washington draws Clay and his brother Jefferson into a dangerous investigation of fraud in the western territories.

As the twentieth century arrives, sixteen year old Sally Holt heads to New York to make a glittering society debut, while her friend India is pushed into unwanted celebrity. Both young women discover how quickly status, love, and security can disappear in a rapidly changing America.

During the Spanish American War, reporter Tim Holt insists on covering the fighting in Cuba firsthand, even as Frank Blake chases gold in the Yukon and Henry Blake undertakes a covert mission. Their intersecting paths show how the Holt dynasty is pulled into America’s first overseas empire.

With the century drawing to a close, intelligence agent Henry Blake watches the United States sink into a brutal conflict in the Philippines. Estranged from his father, Frank Blake rides west toward New Mexico, searching for a fresh start and a place beyond the reach of old grudges.

Clay Holt rides north into Canada to bring a longtime foe to justice, even as Jefferson Holt is stalked by a relentless killer in North Carolina. Separated by distance but united by loyalty, the scattered family must defend everything the Holts have begun to build in the new West.

Clay Holt and his Sioux wife Shining Moon lead a perilous expedition up the Yellowstone River through unmapped country. Fierce storms, hidden enemies, and political schemes threaten the party, while Jefferson Holt, cousin Ned, and Melissa Merrivale Holt face their own trials far from the frontier.

In 1869, gold fever sends Frank Blake toward the Yukon on a rickety steamer, trailed by a deadly enemy with a score to settle. Far away, Dr. Janessa Holt Lawrence shocks polite society with radical medical work and her fight for women’s rights, while Toby Holt wrestles with looming war abroad.

Forced to flee a vicious feud in the Ohio Valley, brothers Clay and Jefferson Holt strike out toward new territories. As they cross a raw frontier, they must outmaneuver a shadowy killer and decide whether vengeance or a clean start matters more.

After a furious clash with his parents, seventeen year old Frank Blake heads west alone and stumbles into high country danger and unexpected opportunity. Back in the city, his cousin Tim Holt tangles with a determined suffragette whose cause and courage challenge his assumptions about power and gender.

This volume carries the Holt and Blake families to the Hawaiian islands, where sugar fortunes and political maneuvering are reshaping the kingdom. Amid lush scenery and rising tension, younger Holts must decide where they stand as outside interests tighten their grip on a fragile paradise.

In booming San Francisco, newspaper owner Tim Holt is determined to print the truth, no matter whom it offends. His investigations into corruption and greed draw powerful enemies dangerously close to the Holt clan and threaten both the family’s reputation and its future prosperity.

Journalist Tim Holt rides into Indian Territory hoping to chronicle the West as he sees it. As settlers surge toward the promised land runs, he confronts crooked speculators, government injustice, and his own complicity in a story that may ruin the people he came to defend.

In 1891, Dr. Janessa Holt Lawrence travels from bustling New York to the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina to fight a deadly epidemic and ugly prejudice. At the same time, plots reaching as far as Hawaii threaten both her life and the wider Holt and Blake family.

Ten years after the centennial, a savage winter batters the West while Toby Holt struggles to save his Oregon ranch. His headstrong son Tim catches silver fever, and Janessa and Alexandra Holt must confront prejudice and betrayal as the family’s hard won future hangs in the balance.

Farmers and ranchers pour into the harsh lands of Oklahoma, only to find tick fever killing their cattle and crooked land dealers stealing their dreams. Toby Holt rides in to stop a brewing range war, knowing that one misstep could cost his friends their homes and lives.

As America prepares to celebrate the July 4, 1876 centennial, tensions simmer beneath the patriotic parades. From coast to coast, enemies of the new order see a chance to strike, and Toby Holt faces a final test to keep a national festival from turning into a day of terror.

In the 1870s New Mexico Territory, a one handed outlaw and his comanchero band raid settlements and sell captured women. A frontiersman businessman goes undercover inside the gang, risking his life to free the prisoners and bring a measure of justice to a violent borderland.

In the brutal deserts west of Yuma, law has little hold and renegades rule by fear. Cavalry officer Reed Kerr, new husband to Cindy Holt, fights to bring order, while back east a deadly plot against Alexandra Woodling threatens the Holt family from another direction.

Vast northern forests draw hard drinking lumberjacks and ruthless timber barons to Wisconsin. Toby Holt tries to carve out a new logging empire while fighting powerful rivals, and young Henry Blake’s reckless desires threaten both Cindy Holt’s heart and the fragile future of the family business.

Toby Holt races to Kentucky to stop a plot to assassinate President Grant. Along the way he protects a woman photographer whose accidental picture may expose the conspirators and finds himself drawn to a local beauty who complicates an already deadly assignment.

Sent on a dangerous mission into Tennessee, Toby Holt expects gunmen and ambushes and is ready for both. What he does not expect is a captivating woman tied to a ruthless renegade general, forcing him to choose between duty and desire.

Toby Holt travels to booming Chicago on his way to start a logging venture in Wisconsin. As he navigates politics, graft, and shifting alliances, he and those around him are swept up in the devastating citywide fire of 1871.

Along the rich lands of the Mississippi and in restless New Orleans, Toby Holt’s latest mission draws him toward the most powerful criminal mastermind in the West. As gentlemen and outlaws vie for control, he must walk a tight line between law, loyalty, and survival.

President Grant sends Toby Holt on a risky diplomatic journey to nineteenth century China, where foreign intrigue and rebellion threaten disaster. Back on the American frontier, his sister Cindy proves her own courage as she faces hardships that test the Holt legacy in a very different way.

Unhappily married to a Delaware plantation owner, Caroline Murtagh travels to London in 1739 and meets Lieutenant Jared Hale, a charming but dissolute cavalry officer. Their attraction pulls her into a world of scandal, danger, and hard choices on both sides of the Atlantic.

Majestic steamboats churn up the Missouri River, carrying pioneers, traders, gamblers, and thieves toward the West. Behind the glitter of riverboat salons lurk bandits and Sioux war parties waiting along the banks, and every journey becomes a gamble with wealth, freedom, and life at stake.

A new governor, Toby Holt, must be escorted across treacherous mountains into the untamed Idaho Territory. With cavalry troops at his back and enemies on every side, Toby and his allies struggle to impose law and build a safe homeland out of raw wilderness.

As rival transcontinental railroads race toward a linkup in Utah, Toby Holt and Rob Martin are caught in the middle. A sinister stranger threatens Clarissa Holt and Beth Martin with secrets from the past, turning a triumph of engineering into a stage for revenge.

In 1866, Toby Holt and his friend Rob Martin are ordered to survey Montana for a new railroad line. Sioux leader Thunder Cloud and the vicious Ma Hastings gang fight them at every turn, and the kidnapping of their young wives makes the mission desperately personal.

After the Civil War, Toby Holt rides into the Dakota Territory hoping to make peace with the Sioux. With two sworn enemies hunting him and an alluring Sioux woman offering risky help, he finds himself trapped between betrayal, desire, and the possibility of a lasting truce.

Young Jeremy Morgan is given a secret mission by Alexander Hamilton that may cost him his life. Sent first to Paris and then toward the Ottoman Empire, he must disappear from public view while carrying out a diplomatic gamble that could reshape the fledgling United States’ future.

At the end of the Civil War, wounded hero Toby Holt claims homestead land in Washington’s vast timber country. Ruthless profiteers scheme to seize the forests, and Toby is torn between a calculating courtesan who once trapped him in a loveless marriage and a spirited young woman promised to another man.

In booming Virginia City, General Lee Blake must move a fortune in silver from the Comstock Lode to Union forces in Missouri. With Confederate agents, foreign spies, and greedy opportunists all plotting to stop the shipment, Whip Holt, Toby, and their allies face a journey where any attack could be fatal.

The 1858 gold strike turns Denver and the surrounding mountains into a magnet for dreamers and swindlers. Wagon train veteran Chet Harris, mineral man Luke Brando, and young Cathy Blake all chase opportunity, while General Lee Blake works under presidential orders to secure Colorado’s loyalty as the nation edges toward civil war.

Gold fever sweeps California, flooding the territory with hopeful prospectors and hardened killers. In Sacramento Valley, former Texas Ranger Rick Miller struggles to keep order, Melissa Austen is driven into desperation, and wagon master Whip Holt fights to rescue her and protect the fragile new settlements.

In 1844, the young Republic of Texas struggles to survive. Volunteers from Oregon answer the call, and Captain Rick Miller leads a wagon train through hostile country toward the Texas frontier, where Mexican troops, raiders, and his forbidden love for another man’s woman threaten to destroy everything.

The first great wagon train finally nears the Pacific, only to find Oregon contested by American forces, British officers, and Russian agents. Wagon master Whip Holt is caught between his wife and Cathy van Ayl Blake, and the settlers must fight for both their land and their loyalties.

As the wagon train approaches the Rocky Mountains, Whip Holt must guide five hundred settlers through looming winter, hostile warriors, and plots hatched in far off courts. Two determined women, Cathy van Ayl and La ena, both claim his heart, turning the journey into a struggle of passion as well as survival.

The first wagon train rolls out of Independence, Missouri and onto the Nebraska plains. Quiet, iron willed Whip Holt takes command, while Cathy van Ayl leaves her family behind to follow the caravan. Sabotage, treachery, and brutal weather test their courage long before they glimpse the Rockies.

In 1837, President Andrew Jackson backs a daring plan to send a wagon train toward the unclaimed Oregon country. Mountain man Sam Brentwood, scout Whip Holt, and fiery widow Claudia Humphries lead a diverse band from New York to Independence, Missouri, forging fragile unity on a deadly road west.