TO THE MOUNTAINS
This is a novel about Elis and other Owenbys of the Welsh Owenby clan in America and their expansion into the Colorado Territory during the 1800 days of Mountain Men. The Owenby Clan was forced to flee Wales to escape the penalty of death for killing a tax collector. The clan had a heritage of whiskey making dating back generations which they continued with their westward expansion. Elis was the son of Caleb & Catrin Owenby and had four brothers and two sisters. Aeron had been killed in the Revolution as had his ma and pa. Bryn, Carwyn and Delwyn were still living to the best of his knowledge. His sister Adain had married Daniel Boone and his other sister Braith had married twice. She and his brothers plus lots of cousins were living in their Yellow Banks settlement on the Ohio River. Elis ventured to the far west with two mountain men, Jacques Beneville and ‘Grizzly’ Hugh Glass. Elis left his settlement of Yellow Banks on the Ohio River during the early 1800s with a quest to see the towering Rocky Mountains and experience the life of a mountain-man. His kin from Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and other colonies also continue to spread westward into Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and the Arizona Territory while some move south to Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. Wherever they are if a clan member needs help they come running. This novel focuses on the days of the mountain men and what it takes to be known as one. The first book To The Mountains followed the clan as they settle the new frontiers in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. High Lonesome Mountains is the next in a series of Owenby clan members as they seek their fortunes and adventures while they help settle the west.
HIGH LONESOME MOUNTAINS
This is a novel about Elis and other Owenbys of the Welsh Owenby clan in America and expansion into the Colorado Territory in the 1800s days of Mountain Men. The Owenby Clan was forced to flee Wales to escape the penalty of death for killing a tax collector. The clan had a heritage of whiskey making dating back generations which they continued with their westward expansion.
Elis was the son of Caleb & Catrin Owenby and had four brothers and two sisters. Aeron had been killed in the Revolution as had his ma and pa. Bryn, Carwyn and Delwyn were still living to the best of his knowledge. His sister Adain had married Daniel Boone and his other sister, Braith had married twice. She and his brothers plus lots of cousins were living in their Yellow Banks settlement on the Ohio River.
Elis ventured to the far west with two mountain men, Jacques Beneville and ‘Grizzly’ Hugh Glass. Elis left his settlement of Yellow Banks on the Ohio River during the early 1800s with a quest to see the towering Rocky Mountains and experience the life of a mountain man.His kin from Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and other colonies also continue to spread westward into Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and the Arizona Territory while some move south to Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. Wherever they are if a clan member needs help they come running.
This novel focuses on the days of the mountain men and what it takes to be known as one. The first book To The Mountains followed the clan as they settle the new frontiers in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. High Lonesome Mountains is the next in a series of Owenby clan members as they seek their fortunes and adventures while they help settle the west.
COCHISE COUNTY JUSTICE
The Owenby clan settled in Virginia and then moved on out into the wilderness of Kentucky to settle Owensboro. Brian’s grandpa and two brothers were killed in the war between the states. When his uncle decided to come west to Texas after the war, his mother and father gathered up the two remaining kids and their few possessions to come along. They made it as far as Northeast Texas where his folks settled in while his uncle pressed on for San Antonio. Brian was born in the spring of 1868 and his daddy died the next year.
Some neighbors found him the next day and sent him off with a wagon train of settlers headed through San Antonio who promised to help him find his uncle. They did, and he lived for the next seven years with his aunt and uncle on a small ranch north of the town in rolling hill country.
Brian grew up fast in Texas and killed a Deputy Marshall in San Antonio in a shootout that killed his uncle. He fled west and finally landed in the Arizona Territory where he worked his way into the Arizona Rangers.
This novel includes some famous western names but it is fiction and the time periods don’t necessarily fit those of when the famous men lived. It is my intent to provide the reader some glimpses of the old west as it grew up after the Civil War. Other Owenby clan novels will cover various life adventures of individual members from the 1700s through the early 1900s.
Each saga will be based around a central character but will involve various Owenbys as they lend a hand to help out their kin. All of them are men with the bark still on and individuals those in the west learned to step easy around.
OWENBY PRIDE
This is a novel about Refyd and Garman Owenby of the Welsh Owenby clan. Both men are sons of Texas ranchers. Their fathers, Martyn and Glyn Owenby both came from a proud line of Kentucky Owenbys. They fought in the War of Northern Aggression for the south and served in the Texas 8th Cavalry under Colonel Benjamin Franklin Terry. Known as Terry’s Texas Rangers the rangers fought in 275 battles in 7 states including Gettysburg.
The boys grew up with very little except dreams. It was a time of gunfighters and cowboys. They wanted nothing more than to be both. They carried their Owenby pride on their sleeves and didn’t step back for anyone.
Follow their adventures as the go from cowboys to oil tycoons and meet historical figures along the way – Howard Hughes, Teddy Roosevelt, Pancho Villa, the King of England and many more. Wherever they were and whatever they were doing if an Owenby needed help they came running.
OWENBY GUNS
This is a novel about Gavyn and other Owenbys of the Welsh Owenby clan. Gavyn is the son of Jacob “Buffalo Runner” Owenby a mountain man from the Colorado Territory. Gavyn just happened to be born at a time when fast draw gunfighters were being romanticized in dime novels. He learned gun play from his pa and cousin Killian Owenby. Both were U.S. Marshals and successful business men. Gavyn didn’t start out to be a fast gun but his wanderlust sent him down that trail.
In the first Owenby Clan novel To The Mountains the clan was forced to flee Wales to escape the penalty of death for killing a tax collector. They settled in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
In the second of the series, High Lonesome Mountains, some of the clan went west to the Rocky Mountains and lived the life of mountain-men.
The third Owenby novel, Cochise County Justice, followed the feats of Brian Owenby. Brian was an Arizona Territory Ranger and rode with Texas John Slaughter as well as General George Crook.
This fourth novel focuses on the wild-west days of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Outlaws and gunfighters were in their prime and often justice was dealt out with bullets. Gavyn’s parents Jacob and Sally Owenby helped settle Denver bring in the telegraph, a railroad, a bank, a hotel and other enterprises. His grandparents Bryn and Virginia Owenby fought in the French Indian War and settled Kentucky. His great grandparents, Caleb & Catrin Owenby, brought the clan to America from Wales.