Johnny D Boggs Books In Order

Hannah and the Horseman

The thrilling story of Hannah and her horseman continues in the sequel, The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman, now available from AVALON.

The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman

The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman is the sequel to Hannah and the Horseman, which is also available from AVALON.

Riding with Hannah and the Horseman

This is the third installment in the Hannah and the Horseman Western Series. Hannah and the Horseman and The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman are also available from AVALON.

Hannah and the Horseman On the Western Trail

Hannah and the Horseman On the Western Trail is Johnny’s fifth book in the popular Hannah and the Horseman series. He is also the author of This Man Colter and The Curse of Dunbar’s Gold.

The Odyssey of Hannah and the Horseman

In their sixth adventure, Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari travel to Marfa so that orphan Cynthia can go to a ‘real’ dentist and if Pete has his way, he and Hannah can have a nice spin and maybe share a kiss at the fall dance. But nothing ever goes according to plan for these reluctant heroes. Cynthia is kidnapped by an escaped Apache prisoner He Who Chops Off The Heads Of His Enemies, ‘Hector’ for short and Hannah and the horseman join a motley posse in hot pursuit. This odyssey takes Pete and Hannah across Texas and high into the mountains of western New Mexico, where Pete is left for dead and Hannah is captured by Hector as he seeks to join a fleeing band of Apaches.

A Job for Hannah and the Horseman

Pity Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari. Just when things should be settling down for our young heroes, along comes befuddled dime novelist L. Merryweather Handal with a job proposition too good to be true. So Hannah and Pete, along with sharpshooting Buddy Pecos, hire on to show Handal’s group of European visitors the Wild West. And things certainly get wild because no one in this troupe is whom he or she appears to be and soon tempers are flaring, fists are swinging, bullets are flying, and Pete is charged with murder. Of course, fans of this fanciful comedy western series know that when things get rotten, when bad guys look to be winning, and when all appears hopeless…
this is A Job for Hannah and the Horseman.

The Hart Brand

Caleb Hart was looking forward to a grand adventure on his uncle’s ranch, 1200 miles from home and well beyond the eyes of his watchful parents. He knew nothing about the life of a cowboy, but reckoned he’d learn quick enough. And he did by keeping one motto close to his heart: You ride for the brand. It was the one thing he could count on through rustling and kidnapping and hardcases after his hide. But what happens when the brand turns against him?

Killstraight

In this Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Short Novel, young Daniel Killstraight returns to the reservation after spending seven years back east, forced to travel the white man’s road by learning their ways at the Carlisle Industrial School in Pennsylvania. After watching a childhood friend, Jimmy Comes Last, hang on the Fort Smith gallows for a grisly double murder, Daniel is asked by his old friend’s mother to prove that her dead son was innocent of the crime. Yet Daniel has his own problems, trying to learn who he really is after being so far from his people for so long. Reluctantly, he joins the tribal Indian Police, and slowly begins to believe that Jimmy’s mother was right, that her son wasn’t guilty, and as he digs into the crime getting help from a Cherokee policeman and a deputy U.S. marshal he starts to uncover something much bigger than murder. Set during the turmoil of the reservation years when Senator Henry L. Dawes was trying to bring an end to the reservation system, and its corruption, Killstraight is not only a murder mystery, but a story of a young Indian’s journey to discover himself while disproving the stereotypical Western portrayals of Comanche Indians as soulless, bloodthirsty savages.

This Man Colter

Boggs’ first novel, Hannah and the Horseman and its sequel, The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman, are also published by AVALON.

The Curse of Dunbar’s Gold

The Curse of Dunbar’s Gold is Johnny D. Boggs’ sixth book for AVALON. He is also author of This Man Colter and the popular Hannah and the Horseman series.

Foundation of the Law

They are unlikely partners, Jack McKinnon, an even tempered drifter and part time gunsmith, and Tenedore Keogh, a consumptive dentist turned gunman looking for a quicker way to die. Recruited by the Texas Rangers because of their prowess with guns, McKinnon and Keogh become national celebrities through the novels of Robin K. Hunter the woman both men love. Fame has its price, however, as the two men attract bitter enemies across the West. Despite their differences, Ten and Ranger Jack stick together until a range war forces them to take a stand against each other. Johnny D. Boggs weaves a powerful, realistic tale full of unforgettable characters, chilling gunfights, and authentic detail in this gripping story that examines friendships and legends how they are forged, and why they endure.

Lonely Trumpet

Historical novel that recreates the life of Henry O. Flipper, the Georgia born slave who became the first black graduate of West Point, only to be court martialed in a racially charged proceeding in Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881.

The Despoilers

Briskly paced, well researched novel detailing the violence and anarchy of the South Carolina back country during the American Revolution. Author Johnny D. Boggs is a South Carolina native who grew up in the old stamping grounds of Francis Marion, the Patriots’ ‘Swamp Fox.’

The Big Fifty

The reality of frontier life in Kansas in 1872 becomes brutally clear to twelve year old Coady McIlvain when his father is scalped by hostile Indians and Coady is taken prisoner. Coady is determined to escape and does so, falling in with a buffalo sharpshooter named Dylan Griffith, whom he sees as the embodiment of his hero, Buffalo Bill Cody, a role in which the circumspect Griffith feels himself totally inadequate. The two face real adventure surviving the unforgiving terrain with Coady’s former captors on their trail and with outlaw Comancheros up ahead. In The Big Fifty another name for the famous Sharps rifle Johnny D. Boggs has created a gripping Western story balancing the myths and legends created by Eastern storytellers with the actual, often brutal realities of frontier life.

Spark On the Prairie

A Guns and Gavel Novel

A Spur Award winning Author
Winner of the Western Heritage Award for Best Western Novel of 2003

The citizens of Jack County, Texas, live in fear. Kiowa and Comanche warriors who refuse to adapt to reservation life are slaughtering settlers in brutal raids. Instead of unleashing the Army against the tribes, General William Tecumseh Sherman makes a monumental decision to bring Kiowa chiefs Satanta and Big Tree to trial for the murder of seven cowboys.

Purgatoire

In his younger days Ben Cameron had been a Texas Ranger and then a town-taming lawman. Riding into the dying mining town of Purgatoire, Cameron stops by The Texas House for a drink, but these days he always ends up blurry-eyed drunk. Amie Courtland works at The Texas House and is very interested in Cameron because she’s heard that he was the last person to see her brother alive. When a series of murders begins in Purgatoire, many of the townspeople begin to look upon Cameron as a potential protector.

In addition to writing Western novels, Johnny D. Boggs has covered all aspects of the American West for newspapers and magazines on topics ranging from travel to book and movie reviews, to celebrity and historical profiles, to the apparel industry and environmental issues. He was born in South Carolina and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Lisa Smith, and son, Jack.

Law of the Land

From his first jailbreak in Silver City to his days riding with the infamous Regulators, Billy the Kid has made himself famous for his crimes, and now before judge, jury, and the entire country it is time for him to answer. Billy, however, has other plans…

Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens

A Spur Award winning Author

The side wheel steamboat Mittie Stephens was lost on a dark night in February 1869 on Caddo Lake near the Texas Louisiana border. Of the 107 people on board, sixty one perished. Unbeknownst to almost all of them, the Mittie Stephens had been selected by the army to secretly transport a payroll in gold. In pursuit of its cargo, a group of ex Confederates worked out an elaborate strategy to seize the boat.

East of the Border

A well researched comedic novel, based on actual events, that follows the 1873 74 theatrical tour across the East and Midwest starring a trio of unlikely thespians: Wild West frontiersmen Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok and Texas Jack Omohundro. The three plainsmen, living legends at the time, played themselves in Western stage melodramas that often baffled theater critics but always drew sellout crowds. In ‘East of the Border,’ award winning writer Johnny D. Boggs divides his novel into three ‘acts,’ allowing Omohundro, Hickok and Cody to tell his own story about that exciting and sometimes exasperating time. This is a unique novel, full of rollicking humor and meticulous detail, told by a master of the Western genre. And a lot of it is true!

Camp Ford

Two-time Spur Award-winning Author Western Heritage Award-winning Author

In his new novel, Johnny D. Boggs Boggs manages to deftly combine three American icons: the Old West, the Civil War, and baseball when it was only beginning to be the great American pastime. During the 1946 World Series, ninety-nine-year-old Win MacNaughton recalls the greatest baseball game of his entire life between a ragtag collection of Union prisoners of war against a squad of Confederate prison guards.

Johnny D. Boggs has written more than twenty short stories published in magazines and anthologies, including Louis L’Amour Western Magazine. He won the Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for his novel Spark on the Prairie 2003.

Walk Proud, Stand Tall

Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, traipsed around ghost towns, and spent hours poring over microfilm in library archives all in the name of finding a good story. He’s also one of the few Western writers to have won both the Spur Award from Western Writers of America for his short story, A Piano at Dead Man s Crossing , in 2002 and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for his novel, Spark on the Prairie: The Trial of the Kiowa Chiefs, in 2004. Another novel, Ten and Me, was a Spur finalist in 2000. A native of South Carolina, Boggs spent almost fifteen years in Texas as a journalist at the Dallas Times Herald and Fort Worth Star Telegram before moving to New Mexico in 1998 to concentrate full time on his novels. Author of twentyseven published short stories, he has also written for more than fifty newspapers and magazines, and is a frequent contributor to Boys Life, New Mexico Magazine, Persimmon Hill, and True West. His Western novels cover a wide range. The Lonesome Chisholm Trail Five Star Westerns, 2000 is an authentic cattle drive story, while Lonely Trumpet Five Star Westerns, 2002 is an historical novel about the first black graduate of West Point. The Despoilers Five Star Westerns, 2002 and Ghost Legion Five Star Westerns, 2005 are set in the Carolina backcountry during the Revolutionary War. The Big Fifty Five Star Westerns, 2003 chronicles the slaughter of buffalo on the southern plains in the 1870s, while East of the Border Five Star Westerns, 2004 is a comedy about the theatrical offerings of Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, and Texas Jack Omohundro, and Camp Ford Five Star Westerns, 2005 tells about a Civil War baseball game between Union prisoners of war and Confederate guards. Boggs s narrative voice captures the old fashioned style of the past, Publishers Weekly said, and Booklist called him among the best Western writers at work today. Boggs lives with his wife Lisa and son Jack in Santa Fe. His website is www. johnnydboggs. com. His next Five Star Western will be The Hart.

Doubtful Canon

Three twelve year olds, two notorious gunfighters, a half crazed albino, and a grieving woman vie for $30,000 in gold coin, buried twenty years ago in treacherous Doubtful Ca on.

Soldier’s Farewell

Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, traipsed around ghost towns, and spent hours poring over microfilm in library archives all in the name of finding a good story. He’s also one of the few Western writers to have won both the Spur Award from Western Writers of America for his short story, A Piano at Dead Man s Crossing , in 2002 and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for his novel, Spark on the Prairie: The Trial of the Kiowa Chiefs, in 2004. Another novel, Ten and Me, was a Spur finalist in 2000. A native of South Carolina, Boggs spent almost fifteen years in Texas as a journalist at the Dallas Times Herald and Fort Worth Star Telegram before moving to New Mexico in 1998 to concentrate full time on his novels. Author of twentyseven published short stories, he has also written for more than fifty newspapers and magazines, and is a frequent contributor to Boys Life, New Mexico Magazine, Persimmon Hill, and True West. His Western novels cover a wide range. The Lonesome Chisholm Trail Five Star Westerns, 2000 is an authentic cattle drive story, while Lonely Trumpet Five Star Westerns, 2002 is an historical novel about the first black graduate of West Point. The Despoilers Five Star Westerns, 2002 and Ghost Legion Five Star Westerns, 2005 are set in the Carolina backcountry during the Revolutionary War. The Big Fifty Five Star Westerns, 2003 chronicles the slaughter of buffalo on the southern plains in the 1870s, while East of the Border Five Star Westerns, 2004 is a comedy about the theatrical offerings of Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, and Texas Jack Omohundro, and Camp Ford Five Star Westerns, 2005 tells about a Civil War baseball game between Union prisoners of war and Confederate guards. Boggs s narrative voice captures the old fashioned style of the past, Publishers Weekly said, and Booklist called him among the best Western writers at work today. Boggs lives with his wife Lisa and son Jack in Santa Fe. His website is www. johnnydboggs. com. His next Five Star Western will be The Hart.

Rio Chama

Jeremiah Cole has been sentenced to hang for lynching a priest. But Father Virgilio is convinced that he will escape execution and has raised a reward for anyone who will transport the prisoner to Chama.

Hard Winter

Johnny D. Boggs examines the disastrous winter of 1886 87 in this critically acclaimed novel of the West. Jim Hawkins hardly said a word to anybody, but that all changed in the spring of 1920 when Hawkins took his young grandson, Henry Lancaster, along on a scouting trip. Scouting for memories. The man who rarely talked tells his grandson how he came to Montana from Texas as a young teen ager with his pards Tommy O’Hallahan and John Henry Kenton, cowboys looking for country free of barbed wire, and how the winter of 1886 87 changed his life. This is a powerful character study, aimed for younger and older readers, richly detailed, with emotions as raw as the brutal winter winds.

The Killing Shot

Deputy U.S. Marshal Reilly McGilvern is hauling criminals to Yuma when his prison wagon is attacked, and McGilvern is left locked inside to die. When another outlaw gang comes upon the scene, Reilly McGilvern thinks he’s lived to see another day…
but his problems are just beginning. Bloody Jim Pardo wants to avenge the Civil War – and to steal the kind of weapons that will let him do it. Riding with his mother, his trusted killers and two hostages, Pardo thinks McGilvern is a fearsome criminal. Now, to stop Jim Pardo’s bloody madness, McGilvern needs to play his part perfectly. And when the time comes, make every shot a killing shot…

West Texas Kill

Between the Pecos River and Rio Grande a vast, harsh land was ruled by Texas Rangers Captain Hector Savage. Savage’s motive wasn’t duty, it was money; he’s turned this desolate place into a bloodied, terrorized kingdom. Now, a protege of Savage, Sergeant Dave Chance, has come with a prisoner a big talking murderer in his own right shackled at his side. A decent, honest Ranger, Chance cannot stand idly by while Savage runs roughshod over the territory. Now, to save a traumatized people, he must turn his prisoner loose and give him a gun. Only their combined firepower can penetrate Savage’s fortress and kill him. That is, if they don’t kill each other first…

Legacy of a Lawman

Bass Reeves was a man of color and a deputy United States marshal. For thirteen years he wassided by Dave Adams, also a deputy marshal, and a white man. Bennie Reeves was Bass Reeves sson and a barber, a good one, before he shot down his unarmed wife who had been cheating onhim and then disappeared. U.S. Marshal Leo E. Bennett, known as Doc because he had been aphysician before his appointment in federal law enforcement, had reservations about handingthe warrant to Bass Reeves to be served against Bennie. For Bass there was no reservation. Hisson had broken the law and was a fugitive. He was willing to find and capture Bennie, to bringhim back to face trial for his crime. Dave Adams would accompany Bass Reeves, as he had for solong. Bass thought he knew where to look for his son, and he found him and arrested him. Butthen Bennie was suddenly freed from custody by the notorious Cherokee Bob Dozier and his gangof renegades. Cherokee Bob had been a criminal at large for a long time. He had committed anumber of robberies, accompanied by murders, because Cherokee Bob did not believe in leavingbehind any witnesses. So when the pursuit of Bennie continued, it was now fraught with farmore danger. Even with Dave Adams to side him, Bass Reeves would be vastly outnumbered, andCherokee Bob knew where to hide.

That Terrible Texas Weather

True life stories of survival against insurmountable odds, especially in natural catastrophes, hold a certain fascination for us all. That Terrible Texas Weather puts the reader in the eye of the storm, at the crest of the flood, and in the heat of the drought through a collection of newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts of victims caught up in some of the most devastating weather Texas has ever produced.

From the hurricanes of Indianola to the tornado at Wichita Falls to the drought and heat wave of 1998, this is a sampler of Texas weather through the years the terrifying storms and other events of weather gone berserk. These are the stories of the people who perished and the people who endured and of their Texas sized courage and heroism.

Pampered Cowboy

The life of a cowboy in the late nineteenth century was far from romantic and glorious. Cowboys made about a dollar a day and worked from sunup to sundown in the broiling sun and biting cold. But that doesn t stop many of us from wanting to be a cowboy or cowgirl when we grow up. We really don t want to rough it for too long, though; we like to be pampered. In Texas you can be pampered: You can ride a horse up a mountainside or watch real cowboys hard at work, and enjoy a gourmet meal and sleep in a comfortable bed. Pampered Cowboy is a travel guide to the best bed and breakfasts, hotels, ranches, and resorts in Texas that reflect a Western theme in their history, location or decor. Also included are sections on cowboy shopping and cowboy eating, because cowboys like to dress the part and enjoy a good meal. You ll also find profiles on some of the best in the business who go out of their way to help you. That’s the cowboy way.

Great Murder Trials of the Old West

Recreate and analyze some of the wildest murder trials on the American frontier.