Dave Lloyd has 12 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators. The most-rated is War Cry.
Outlaw
Summary
Lloyd's novel begins in Stoneville, eastern Montana. Young Bill McCarthy and his friend Boots Axelbee, with the other C Bar cowboys, are attacked by Belle Fourche Sheriff O'Hara's posse. In the shoot-out, Bill kills the sheriff and another deputy. The C Bar crew flees the scene and split up. Bill and Boots team up and head west. Action continues as they run into stock thieves after their horses, then end up in lawless Virginia City, seeking their fortune. Boots splits the team up and Bill ends up as a bounty hunter in the Montana frontier, while wanted himself for the Stoneville killings. Later, the Nez Perce flight from their home in Idaho intersects the Montana buffalo country and Bill finds himself embroiled in an Indian war.
©2012 David C. Lloyd (P)2017 Dave Lloyd
Winchester '76
Summary
Times are desperate and the buffalo are nearly hunted out when Cil'mi discovers the gems hidden in Piper Harris's old coat. While they head to California to sell them, Sloan's team takes on a band of hard-fighting bank robbers hiding in the high mountains of Colorado. Shooting erupts as both groups - law and lawless - meet their destiny on the western frontier. (This is a sequel to Outlaw.)
©2018 David C. Lloyd (P)2019 David C. Lloyd
Fort Sarpy
Summary
Fort Sarpy tells the story of the American Fur Company's most dangerous post. The fort was built on the Yellowstone River in 1850 for the trade with the Crow. At this time, the tribe was located in a triangle between the Tongue and the Bighorn River, with its northern boundary the Musselshell River. In 1850, the Crow were a small tribe, at one time combined with the Gros Ventre before they split off in the 1700s. They'd been hit hard by the smallpox epidemic in the 1830s. Because of strong and numerous enemies - the Sioux, the Cheyenne, and the Arapahoe - the Crow had not had general access to the white man's trade goods unless they traveled out of their country, always a dangerous situation. Therefore, piercing this ring of foes and establishing a post for them was a precarious enterprise. Riverboats were an ideal means of hauling white man's goods to trade for the Crow furs from the plentiful Montana wildlife. The job of establishing a post in Indian territory was undertaken by Robert Meldrum, a man who lived with and knew the Crows like no other white man. Caleb Shaw, the young man who goes with him to erect the post, becomes his able assistant and a full-fledged mountain man. This audiobook is about Fort Sarpy, the American Fur Company men who dared to build it in the wilderness, and the Crow tribe, who owe their existence to its creation. This can be listened to as a stand-alone novel or enjoyed as the second in the series about the riverboats traveling the rivers of the Old West and the daring men who made the trips into the wilderness.
©2005 David C. Lloyd (P)2018 David C. Lloyd
The Hunters
Summary
Ben and his followers trek into the Paiute and Navajo country in an attempt to find a little boy. The youngster is a lost survivor of the Mountain Meadow Massacre, sold into slavery to the Navajos. Together, the Sharpshooters take on Brigham Young's Mormon Militia again, and Young seeks his revenge. It takes all Ben's skills and that of his friends to stay alive while they battle the Danites, savage tribes, and the murderous scalpers along the way.
©2010 David C. Lloyd (P)2018 David C. Lloyd
Sharpshooter
Summary
Ben Hite, veteran of the recent Civil War, former member of Berdan's sniper Regiment, ventures west to the Montana gold fields searching for prosperity and a new life. While working his claim, he becomes embroiled in the looming struggle against the organized lawless element which is preying upon the miners. He also becomes responsible for a group of orphaned children, who desperately cling to the man who rescued them from death in the fierce Montana winter. Somehow, he must keep himself and his new family alive as he battles outlaws, Indians, and the raw elements of the Montana frontier. To do that, he relies on his war experiences and his prowess with his knife, his Colt revolver, and 1859 Sharps rifle.
©2009 David C. Lloyd (P)2021 David C. Lloyd
Home Ranch
Summary
The last novel in the series Home Ranch continues the family saga into the 1950s where Toby's son, Matthew, struggles to build a ranch, pursuing his father's dream. He passes on his love of the land, courage, and strong will to survive to his son, Gable, who endures the horrors of the Korean War to find his own destiny. Gable survives the bloody battles of the Korean War, only to come home to unexpected danger on his own land. Home Ranch can be listened to as a stand-alone novel or enjoyed as book four of the Montana Saga.
©2002 David C. Lloyd (P)2020 David C. Lloyd
Legacy
Summary
After Ben's death at the hands of the Danites, his family and old partners are bent on revenge, and with the help of their Crows, they follow the trail of the murderers into the Mormon stronghold. There, the old Mormon assassin Porter Rockwell and his henchmen are brought to bay, and frontier justice is served out. Then the family goes their own way, with Freddy becoming a Wells Fargo detective, Betty struggling with raising her family, Kills Twice going back to his tribe, and Katy continuing to work toward her dream of becoming a doctor. But the Mormon tyrant Brigham Young has his own vendetta against the family, and Katy, to escape his enmity, embarks on a mission to China to use her medical skills. There, she finds herself fighting for her life with Chinese bandits. Each of Ben's adopted family members find his teachings stand them in good stead in their own fight for survival.
©2011 David C. Lloyd (P)2019 David C. Lloyd
T. S. Grounds
Summary
Book three of Lloyd's Montana Saga finds Toby Grounds accompanying Teddy Roosevelt and The Rough Riders to Cuba into the bloody maelstrom of the Spanish-American War. After coming home, a bitter love affair then causes Toby to answer Roosevelt's request for help with the plight of American missionaries in China, and they become engulfed in the Boxer Rebellion. Never forgetting his dream of owning a horse ranch, Grounds afterward returns home to Eastern Montana. He ekes out a sparse existence for himself and his family by becoming a bounty hunter - an occupation as deadly as his battles in the various wars America fights during T. S. Grounds' gripping story. With Europe in crisis, the Montanan is pulled into World War I, where it’s “gas masks for men and horses” and still no rest for Grounds. While a work of fiction, Lloyd's novel is as historically accurate as extensive research can make it. The characters, enmeshed in the barbed wire of a world in turmoil, live and die by the use of the firearms of the day, the Sharps rifles, the Winchesters, Colt pistols, etc., which are portrayed with the author's extensive knowledge of guns and weapons of the late 1800s through the World War I era.
©2000 David C. Lloyd (P)2020 David C. Lloyd
The Rebels
Summary
Two confederates meet on the battlefield and become friends during the Civil War. After the conflict is over, the men go west to make a new start. War-weary and restless, they find it hard to settle down. Their journey takes them to Texas where they find work as rangers, then to Kansas, hunting buffalo, and finally to Montana, to see and experience the gold camps there. This novel contains black and white photos; some are from the Library of Congress and other sources.
©2013 David C. Lloyd (P)2019 David C. Lloyd
Buffalo Ranch
Summary
Bill McClane and Limpy Jim SMith struggle to find a justifiable use for their newfound wealth, finally buying a huge ranch in eastern Montana Territory on which to raise that which they had almost shot to extinction: Buffalo. The big place come with problems of its own. Meanwhile, Lynn Sloan is busy helping Wells Fargo track down the outlaws preying on its gold shipments. This novel is a continuation of Lloyd's Buffalo Series, but can be listened as a stand-alone novel.
©2019 David C. Lloyd (P)2021 David C. Lloyd
Pardners
Summary
The early 1880s finds Frank and Matthew, with their adopted son, Toby, working to make a stake hunting buffalo on the Montana Plains. They run afoul of Stringer Jack's band of horse thieves as they attempt to start a horse ranch on the Yellowstone River, hoping to sell mounts to Fort Keogh's cavalry. Lloyd's novel contains historical facts as accurately portrayed as possible, while still a work of fiction full of interesting characters and the use of vintage firearms such as the old Sharps rifles, Henry rifles, and the colt pistol. Gun enthusiasts will be delighted to discover the Montana saga.
©2014 David C. Lloyd (P)2019 David C. Lloyd
War Cry
Summary
Lord James Hamilton, a cashiered British Army officer, flees his home country after a series of duels threatens to end his life. He becomes James Palmer, a fur trader in one of the little trading posts far up in the American wilderness among the warring tribes. There, he finds himself fighting for his own survival.
This book can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel, but is a prequel to Lloyd's Riverboat trilogy.
©2017 David C. Lloyd (P)2018 David C. Lloyd