The Spanish, French, Indians, Mexicans, and Americans fought for supremacy of the Southwest of North America over a period of four centuries. No section of America was discovered, rediscovered or fought over with such bloodshed, frustration and betrayal; the march of famous and infamous men, actions and deeds through its history is staggering. Massacres, raids, forays and six-shooter battles marked its course from cutlasses and arrows at Chichilticalli to nuclear fission at Los Alamos. Here, with Mr. Wellman's ability to make it live, is the history, violent, sometimes heroic, and sometimes shameful, of the American Southwest and the five peoples who struggled within its borders for gold, God and glory.

Only a few wanderers like Louis Juchereau de St. Denis had ever ridden the red earth from the San Pedro to the Red River. This Chevalier de St. Denis is portrayed in Wellman's new novel not so much as a soldier of fortune but rather as fortune's fool. Ten years in the service of the aging Louis XIV have won him little more than the buckskins he is wearing when he emerges from the bush outside Mobile at the start of this story. Within a week, as luck would have it, he is back in the bush, exiled to the farthest outpost of the Louisiana Territory. Chance and mischance lure him all the way to Mexico City where, in the Audience of Torments of the Spanish Inquisition, it looks as if the game is surely over. Women pursue Louis as relentlessly as he does fortune, and unavoidable duels with intolerant husbands result in his sad pilgrimage from Madrid to Mobile. In Mobile his attraction for a certain La Demoiselle results in a very early departure.

Many readers have claimed this is their favorite book of all time. This is a magical, compelling story about the wife of the emperor Justinian, the empress Theodora. ''The Female'' by Paul I. Wellman is one of those rare novels that manages to blend riveting historical storytelling with unforgettable character work. Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous and vividly rendered frontier, the book captures the raw, often brutal forces that shaped early America - and places a fiercely compelling woman at the centre of it all. What makes this novel exceptional is not just its fearless exploration of female power in a world built for men, but the way it unflinchingly portrays the moral complexity of survival, ambition, and seduction. Wellman's grasp of historical detail is extraordinary - never dry, always immersive. Every page drips with grit, sensuality, and a kind of dangerous glamour. Even if you've read countless historical novels, ''The Female'' stands in a category of its own. It's seductive, brutal, and uncomfortably honest. And more than a few times, readers have claimed that it's possibly the greatest book they've ever read.

A panoramic super-adventure western tale of the early west, 1885, with Jubal Troop as the focus, one of those indefatigable hard-loving and hard fighting men, not without a certain raw power. North Dakota, Montana, Texas-cattlehand, rancher, rawhider, miner, trader-and finally, after another interval as rancher, success when oil is discovered on his ranch in Oklahoma. Then the down-grade, and a succession of misadventures. Through it all, the romance with Naoma, with whom he is finally reunited. Picaresque adventure, with a certain lusty hard-hitting verve. It was described in HOOF & HORNS magazine as "Paul Wellman's masterpiece...All the drama of the West has been crammed into these (560) pages--all the dreams & strivings, most of the lusts and brutalities. A vigorous, robust, truly great story...epic in scope and sweep...TERRIFIC!" --a good meaty story and a keepsake...Perhaps if we ran our country and our towns as they did then, the world would be a better, safer place?? Happy Trails!

Paul I. Wellman has penned a powerful novel about the long friendship and secret adventures of Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston-two titans of America's most colorful era. This is a novel of "Old Hickory", of his Indian-fighting days (when he met Houston), his battle that won New Orleans after the War of 1812 was over, the deal that did him out of the Presidency when John Quincy Adams won the election, his ultimate victory in 1834-of the man whom Sam Houston revered. It is also of Houston, who came to Washington as a Congressman, and found himself (as well as having a troublesome affair with the vain, selfish Peggy Eaton) defending Jackson, helping him fight his many battles, and finally going south to Texas, where he won freedom for and and became the guiding star of the wild, rising state.

Jericho is a Kansas stockyard town. The "daughters" are various residents of the town, from the rich and cruel Mrs. Butford, to the aspiring social arbiter, Mrs. Mary Agnes Wedge, and to the young widow Grey Rutledge, who is having a love affair with Wistart Wedge, Mary Agnes' disdained husband who is a newspaper publisher. The story revolves around this love triangle. Wellman has a flare for telling a tale, including a subplot relating to a double murder - a nightclub striptease artist with a religious maniac for a husband, and a police officer.

Texas Ranger Tom Gatling arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros. This is the lusty story of love and gunslinging violence in the young republic of Texas. 

The Trampling Herd is a record of the US cattle industry. From Cortez and the first cattle, on through the days of the Mexican vaquero to the modern cowbody and dude wrangler, Paul Wellman traced the history and personalities of the Western cattle country. He showed the changing West, dating from the barbed wire fences and the sheepmen, the new laws regarding water rights and he brings his tale down to the last ignominy, the dude ranches. Cattle crossed the Rio Grande into what is now the United States as early as 1580, forty years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In this colorful and comprehensive history of the cattle industry in the American West, we reach back to the early sixteenth century, when the first cattle were brought from Spain to Mexico. We then learn about the great cattle drives that began after the Civil War when Texans desperately needed to expand their markets, and about the dramatic changes in the cattle industry that followed. Colorful true characters like the unforgettable Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, and Billy the Kid also all make prominent appearances in this fascinating history.