The Bee Adkins Collection

Spanning five decades of the tumultuous 20th century, the Bee Adkins series is the epic biographical saga of a man born of the fading American frontier—a master tracker, a legendary hunter, and a reluctant gunhand whose skills were forged in the wild, but whose heart belonged to his family.

The journey begins with Bee’s harsh upbringing in Texas...

To help his family, he had to become a legend. But legends in the Old West are paid for in blood.

In the unforgiving backcountry of the early 1900s, young Bee Adkins learns survival is a lesson taught with a hard hand. Raised under a pious, temperamental father, Bee’s skill with a rifle isn’t a hobby—it’s the only thing keeping his family from...

For a man haunted by his past, peace is the most dangerous frontier of all.

In the vast, unforgiving landscape of the early 20th-century American West, Bee Adkins is a man trying to outrun his own legend. A peerless hunter and tracker haunted by a violent past, he seeks a peaceful, quiet life. He finds a fragile hope for this new beginning in...

For some men, the frontier is not a place on a map, but a way of life.

For Bee Adkins, a master hunter and family man living in the mid-1900s, the old ways are the only ways he knows. As the American West rapidly modernizes around him, Bee relies on his legendary tracking skills to provide for his wife and children. From hunting mountain lions...

SHELTER

He was sent to hunt a killer. Now, he’s trapped with it.

Fourteen-year-old Bee Adkins is already a legend in the making. Hired to track a mountain lion preying on livestock in the rugged landscape of 1900s New Mexico, he’s armed with his wits, his dogs, and a Winchester rifle. But in the unforgiving desert, nature is the true predator

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Bee Adkins goes out each morning the way most men go to work: practical, precise, and with the little rituals that keep a dangerous life from seeping into the rest of it. Hired to stop a mountain lion that’s been killing calves on the Briggs place, Bee expects a routine trap, a clean kill, and a payday that will keep shoes on his girls’ feet....