Steve Bartholomew

When Black Bart left prison he figured he'd had enough of crime and Wells Fargo. After all, he'd got time off for good behavior, and only had to do time for robbing one stage coach out of the...

This is a collection of trunk tales. A trunk tale is a story which I dug out of my trunk. I wrote it years ago, it didn't get published, so I filed it away in my trunk and forgot about it. Recently I...

San Francisco, 1906. Broderick McRae is again being haunted.As the city struggles to recover from earthquake and fires, an unseen spirit begs McRae for help. This is no revenant but the essence of a...

Joaquin Murietta, the most notorious bandit in gold rush California. Rangers hunt him in hope of reward. Friends protect him as romantic hero. Ira Beard, bounty hunter from New York, decides to...

Ira Beard hunted Joaquin, the mountain bandit. In the Civil War he chased Confederate rebels. Now he's settled down with a family and business, hoping for some peace and quiet. He has seen San...

Ira Beard came west to escape war.War has found him. He'd hunted for JoaquinMurietta, the bandit. Now he's supposed totrack down Confederate rebels stealingCalifornia gold. He's become...

I must admit that of my published novels, Gold, a tale of the California gold rush, is in many ways my favorite story. This is in part because of personal, sentimental reasons. I greatly enjoyed...

Year 1901 Martino DiPaolo is hired as a Pinkerton bodyguard for Rounsevelle Wildman. Wildman, U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, wants to reach Washington D.C. in time for President McKinley's...

San Francisco, 1880: Driver, after a year at sea, returns to the city, only to be shot down and nearly killed. The main suspect? A mysterious Russian known only as The Scratch. It's up to Driver's...