Db Jackson: 8 books

An old cowboy, Clayton Todd, and a teenage boy, Bobby Earl Lee, take a ride out into the West Texas desert. Bobby, known as Early, assumes it will be a relaxing day with an old friend. What Early doesn’t know is Clayton does not plan to return. It’s a poignant and heartwarming story of an old...

When a young kid signs on with a cattle drive, the ragtag cow outfit driving the herd turns out to be more than he bargained for. By the time he realizes the hole he has dug for himself, it’s too late to turn back.

When Eustace Robertson signs onto a buffalo hunt to earn money for his destitute family, he experiences freedom and paid work for the first time in his life. Just before the sun comes up, he finds himself caught up in a buffalo stampede, riding for his life.

The Oxbow Wolves is a story of the struggle between a small wilderness family and a pack of displaced wolves, both looking to survive in a hard environment where there is only room for one or the other. The final conflict comes down to a standoff between the mother of two small children and the matriarch...

Calvin Bonner and his wife lose a newborn child the same year they lose their cattle to a great freeze-up. Destitute and out of options, he turns to robbery. At first, just wayward travelers on a lonely highway— and then he graduates to trains, and finally a bank. The bank job provides him with...

Levi Jennings, a fifteen-year old preacher’s son, is kidnapped by two escaped convicts who execute his parents and take him hostage. The events that ensue threaten to be the undoing of both the boy and his captors.

Ten-year old Matthew Stanford is kidnapped by three Civil War deserters who quit a losing cause and head west . In the wake of a killing spree they leave ex-Army tracker JD Elder for dead. When Elder is nursed back to health by Matthew's mother and learns that her son was kidnapped by the men who...

Franklin T. Stilwell, 15, and Brady McCall, 10, are thrown together in St. Joseph, Missouri where their families will join an ill-fated wagontrain heading west in the spring. They quickly become inseparable friends, finagle paying jobs for the winter, and trade their pay for two Indian ponies that...