[1][2] The books have been written by a number of authors, and all feature John Slocum as the protagonist.
He is a mostly decent man who will do whatever it takes to survive life in the Western Frontier.
A Confederate soldier who lost his ancestral home to carpetbaggers after the Civil War, Slocum left the South, never to return.
He has been a soldier, slave, stagecoach driver, shotgun guard, bank robber, lawman, pioneer, cowboy, shepherd, poor man, rich man, gambler, and drifter.
The books are claimed to be adult oriented, due to the presence of three explicitly described sex scenes in each of the numerous books; they were first published by Playboy Press.