Thirteen books, published through Luna Mesa Ranch Press and available on Amazon. Grouped into four series that run in parallel — American sovereignty and economic history, working-rancher practice, and the providence of the covenant life — plus a standalone history of the Dexter breed.
American Sovereignty Trilogy
Outside the Gates: The City of London and the American Republic
The war did not begin in 1776. It began in Venice — six hundred and fifty years of financial empire that migrated from Venice to Amsterdam to London, built the Bank of England, and built the Federal Reserve. Hamilton understood it. Lincoln understood it. McKinley understood it. Each was removed at the moment of maximum threat.
The American System: Covenant Economics and the Soul of the American Republic
The American System did not begin with Hamilton. It began in the act of creation itself — in the nature of a God who works, who made man in His image to work, and who wired into human nature a directive toward productive sovereignty that no government, no financial architecture, and no extraction system has ever been able to permanently suppress. The book traces that directive from Genesis through Augustine, the Reformation, and Plymouth to Hamilton’s three great Reports — and then to the men who defended the System at the highest levels of American power. Clay. Lincoln. Garfield. McKinley. Four defenders. Four men shot.
The Donroe Doctrine: A Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
He rises before light. He has always risen before light. His father rose before light, and his father’s father, back through the generations to men who had no word for this habit because it was not a habit — it was the shape of a life ordered around the land and the work the land required. The son cannot afford the land. That gap — between honest labor and the inheritance it should secure — is not personal misfortune. It is not a market outcome. It is the product of a financial architecture that has intermediated between American strength and American benefit for more than a century.
American System Series
The Republic’s New Deal: The American System Reasserted
The doctrinal documentation of an American economic restoration now underway, framed through the American System tradition — Hamilton in the Treasury Reports, Clay across the antebellum decades, Lincoln through the Civil War legislation, McKinley at the close of the tariff century. The book traces the architecture of extraction the republic spent the long twentieth century operating under, then identifies the four pillars through which the restoration is being executed: the tariff, sovereign credit, internal improvements, and the producing class on the producing land. It is addressed to the producing class — the farmers, ranchers, machinists, and builders whose work the restoration exists to defend.
Headgate: Water and the Battle for the American Republic
In the arid West, the federal government spent a century delivering water to make land productive. In the humid East, it spent the same century removing water for the same reason. Headgate reads twelve regimes of American water management — from Hoover Dam and the Ogallala to the Mississippi levees and the Everglades reversal — as one continuous project, and argues for reform on its own terms rather than dismantling what was built for a reason that still holds.
The Republic’s System: A Primer — An Introduction to the American School of Political Economy
The Republic’s System is a pedagogical primer teaching the American System tradition — the political economy of the producing class — from Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures (1791) through Trump’s second term (2025–present). It teaches the four pillars (protective tariff, sovereign public credit, internal improvements, and the producing class itself), the operators who built and defended it, and the Venetian–Dutch–City of London extraction architecture the tradition exists to defeat. Intended reader: the citizen the doctrine belongs to and has been kept from. Front-door volume of the catalog.
The Long Drought: Ranching West of the 100th Meridian
Four droughts on one place — the 1930s, the 1950s, the 2000s, and the drought being written into now — read as one continuous condition the country has been teaching whoever would stay to learn. Historian’s care in a rancher’s cadence, from a seat on the west edge of the Southern High Plains.
Luna Mesa Providence Series
My Father Is Always Working And So Am I: A Rancher’s Faith and the Working Life
My Father has been working until now, and I have been working. Built as a single working day — dawn on the porch to dark in the pasture — My Father Is Always Working And So Am I is a rancher’s plain account of what the Gospel of John has to say to a man with a bucket in his hand. Not faith argued from a desk, but faith worked out at the gate, the trough, the fence line where the coyotes test the wire, and the vine pruned back to a stump that bears anyway.
The Blessing Way: A Rancher’s Life of Favor
God does not design His sons for lack. Somewhere between the preacher who promises you a private jet and the one who tells you God wants you poor, the truth got lost. The Blessing Way goes looking for it — not in a seminar or a formula, but on forty acres of the Southern High Plains, where a rancher works out what Scripture actually says about favor. Not luck, not karma, not a lever you pull to make heaven pay out — but the personal blessing of a sovereign Person, held with an open hand.
Held Ground: A Rancher’s Providence
When the bells rang on November 11, 1918, Samuel Thomas Calloway was nine days old. Eleven days later, the wire came: his father had fallen at the Argonne three weeks before the armistice. The boy was raised by a silent grandfather, a praying grandmother, and a widowed mother on a paid-for ranch on the Southern High Plains — and the question his whole life was set to answer was the one his grandmother read at the lamp the night his father’s telegram came, and believed anyway: that all things work together for good to them that love God. For readers of Elmer Kelton’s The Time It Never Rained — the same country, the same dry years, the opposite doctrine. Charlie Flagg answered the drought with self-reliance. Sam Calloway answered it with the open hand and the held ground.
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