Dirk Hessian specializes in gay male historical action/adventure novellas and novels. His works are set in a wide variety of time periods and event settings from the ancient times of the mystical past through medieval and American history up to modern times worldwide, and as far afield from his home setting of the United States as France, Scotland, the Black Sea, and China. His shorter works, previously available only in e-book form, are now being brought together in print collections. This is the third of that series and the second of Dirk's "America" series, and includes works covering the American Civil War and expansion west, Blue and Gray, Confederate Gold, Fire Down the Valley, and Ridden West. The first collection in the "America" series, Dirk's America's Founding Collection, included works covering the period of the American Revolution Colonel's Treasure, To the Hessian Hills, and Soldier, Spy. Blue and Gray is a personalized Romance of two men on different sides of the war between the states conflict. Confederate Gold fictionalizes one of the enduring mysteries coming out of the American Civil War: What happened to the Confederate government treasury? Fire Down the Valley, which deals with the painful and rarely acknowledged range wars between cattlemen and sheep men and farmers in the West, is the first of two novellas in this collection on America's expansion west toward the Pacific Ocean. Ridden West is a story of one young man following the Horace Greeley "Go West, young man" dream.