Books by LaVerne Shaw

Ex-reb soldier Brent Hollister comes across a farm family being massacred by Indians. He is able to save the daughter Lotty, and finally, the younger sister Milly is found hiding in the henhouse. Headed for the gold fields in California, what can he do with two destitute females?A long trek later, they are able to join a wagon train headed for Fort Valera in Southwestern New Mexico. Settled at last, he finds himself longing to marry Lotty, but he has no money, nothing to offer a wife. Against her pleas, he leaves to find a grubstake, leaving her with a surprise souvenir. Will she wait for him? Will he find that dream of gold? Can he come home and find what he has been searching for all along?