Martin Baron has come to Texas with dreams of building a cattle empire, despite savage floods and battle with the Apache.

Murder during a burglary? In fi nding out the truth about Sarah's death, Th e Baron (world renouned for his eff orts helping people, cities, and even countries) and the crew uncover a plot more sinister than a burglary. Government connections. privately funded and no government control. It's up to this group of extraordinary people to do what's necessary and put a stop to it, when the government and nations can't! As the bad guys move closer to their goal, so does Th e Baron and Th e Associates. Working in a gray area at the edge of law and order. Who will get there first?

On the eve of the Civil War, the Baron family faces formidable enemies that threaten their entire empire, all that they've accomplished. Martin, without realizing it, has put his stamp on much more than just his own realm. He and his son, Anson, are besieged on all sides, trying to hang on to more land than a man could walk in a lifetime. It's neighbor against neighbor, foreshadowing the terrible events to come, events that will change the nation forever. In this gripping saga, the three families are thrown into violent conflict; hearts are broken, lives are damaged and nothing will ever be the same again ...

Hello again to all of you Associates and you new Associates. I bid you welcome to another documented adventure of The Associates and The Baron. As before . . . I’ve added music in places where mere words will simply ‘not due!’ I’ve included a list at the end of these files once again, should you wish to gather and listen to the music while reviewing the files. So sit back and enjoy reading another adventure of . . . . “THE CHRONICLES OF THE BARON”

In an eerie preview to the Civil War, the Rio Grande Valley girds itself for battle as Martin Baron, head of the Baron family empire, struggles against greedy Matteo Aguilar, who threatens everything that Martin has built for himself. When Aguilar sends his vaqueros and assassins to take the Barons down, he starts a bloody war that won't stop until one of them is dead. As the treachery continues to escalate, the Barons find themselves in a life-or-death-struggle that will change an entire family and an entire region forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Fresh from a war with rival rancher Miguel Aguilar, and still licking family wounds, Martin Baron and his son, Anson, go their separate ways as Jory Sherman continues the epic saga of the Barons. Martin heeds the call of the Texas Rangers, hoping to restore honor to his native Texas as the storm of war quickly approaches. News from the east speaks of a long and drawn out conflict between the Union and the Confederacy. Though Martin never believed in slavery and holds no loyalty to the Confederacy, the Rangers seem like his best bet to defend his home, and perhaps give him the opportunity to bring Aguilar to justice. Unlike his father, whom he sees as abandoning the ranch in its time of greatest need, Anson stays behind to pick up the pieces after the war. He wishes to bring the Barons' ranch to new glory, but to do so, he'll need to capture the elusive white bull, El Blanco Diablo, to sire his herd. And of course there's Lorene Purvis, the beautiful woman who's pledged her love to Anson; she may be the key to a new start. The trail soon grows rocky for the Baron men. When Aguilar escapes after a bloody ambush, he has nothing but revenge against the Baron family festering in his head. Meanwhile, Anson's vaqueros have abandoned the Baron ranch, and a band of Apache have set their sights on making it their own the only way they know how . . . by killing the man who runs it. The Barons have always been respected, but as rough times roll in, they're forced to reevaluate where their friends' loyalties lie, while also questioning their own. One thing's for sure, they won't lay down without a fight, and they'll do anything to defend The Baron Honor.

Let history drop behind as we explore the sacred confines of a temple city built by a race that was here long before us; before our species was even a glimmer in the cosmic eye, and whose work is still evident, usable, and heuristic. Dominated by a mountain, sculpted as a pregnant women, with a lion at her feet and a rearing serpent behind, the site is still alive with eddies of spiritual energy. Between the colossal lady and lion is a saddle in the mountain beautified by mazes of stone, sparkling sand terraces, and the gardens of windswept splendor with the rock everywhere seeming to be incised with aesthetic, undecipherable hieroglyphics. The site is beautiful, bolstering, and enlivened; geometrically tuned to the cosmos, whose forces it appropriates to utilize in various ways. Join in as we uncover a few of the marvels of an authentically magical place with a psychedelic consciousness adapted to tuning into the ancient mysteries; giving a new dynamism to the on-going story if a truly sacred mountain.