Harmon Bell
Texas Ranger
ISBN: 1608362876
Publishamerica.com
Harm had been working for the railroad from the time he was fifteen until he was laid off at the ripe age of twenty. Harm and a friend, he worked with on the railroad, decide to move west in Indian Territory of Oklahoma and take up homesteading. A simple move for him and his friends wagon ended up with a wagon train of folks moving with them. A man he helped in a time the man was hurt. Turned out to be an Ex Texas Ranger. Also the Ex Ranger had two friends that lived near him decided to go with Harm to the west. With a lot of problems along the way. The rescue of two women that had been taken by outlaws and the old Texas Rangers had rescued.
Harm made friends with a Comanche Indian, on the trail west, who has taken his family from the reservation at Fort Sill. Harm latter married one of the women from the stage holdup. Along the way Harm made friends with other Rangers and when Harms wife was killed, during a bank robbery, he took the trail to get vengeance. Some of his Ranger friends caught up with Harm and TA Noaks, swore the two men in as Rangers to up hold the law. Latter Harmon Bell and Tanner Oaks (Ta Noaks a full blood Comanche Indian) were sworn in to carry both the Texas Ranger Badge and The Deputy U.S. Marshals badge.
Harm and Ta Noaks followed the Wilson gang to the last man. He was asked to take the honor of being a member of the White Bear Clan by two of the oldest members of the clan, Lem Dew and John O’Leary.
Harm married an Irish girl and became one of the largest land holders in Texas at the time. He raised horses and let the Comanche Indians, which were called hold outs because the slipped off the reservations, live in peace on his land. Indians were starving, on the reservation, from either bad food or no food.
“White Bear Clan”
John O’Leary U.S. Marshal
ISBN:1-60441-163-5
After only receiving a small sum of the family inheritance, which in 1850 was a lot of money, the man went west to make his fortune. John O’Leary’s adventures while he was making his fortune as a trader of weapons. Helping, a friend out, he became a U.S. Marshal. Through the years, his tracking, arresting or having to kill outlaws. Marring a young girl whose brother-in-law was an outlaw and her short lived life in there marriage of one week. John swore to chase the men responsible for her murder.
After almost dieing and the brutal way his wife died. John O’Leary promised himself to ride to Hell and back in bringing the killers to justice. He tried to turn in his badge but the judge he worked for told him to bring the outlaws to justice his own way. John O’Leary, Crazy Bear and Lem Dew of the White Bear Clan, helped in track the outlaws across the Kansas and Indian Territory, which later became Oklahoma, John got the job done. He found all but one of the men but a Texas Ranger showed up to tell John the other man he was looking for was already dead.
The horse herd John had gathered over the years was stolen. With the help of friends, he pursued the stolen herd and made new friends along the way. He helps strangers whenever it might be needed. His almost brother-in-law, Lem Dew, took the horse herd from the outlaws. The outlaws stole the herd again and the uncle and tribe, of Lem Dew’s adopted Cheyenne Indian sons, attacked the outlaws and brought the horse herd home to Lem Dew.
John’s parts of helping others to build a settlement form three buildings to an enterprising large town. Taking in a small boy, whose parents were dead, John found out the boy was his dead wife nephew. Before John O’Leary died, he gave the wealth of his to Seth Mountain, his nephew, and Lotus Wang, an old friend’s daughter, as a wedding present.
John went to visit an old friend in 1906 and John was killed by the only man he had left alive which killed Glenda, John’s wife. The large funeral that was given to John O’Leary by his friends who were Governors, Judges, Texas Rangers, and U.S. Marshals and outlaws that respected him as an honest man.
