Matt Braun Books In Order

Ash Tallman Books In Publication Order

  1. The Wages of Sin (1984)
  2. The Highbinders (1984)
  3. Crossfire (1984)

The Brannocks Books In Publication Order

  1. The Brannocks (1986)
  2. Windward West (1986)
  3. Rio Hondo (1987)
  4. A Distant Land (1988)

Gunfighter Chronicles Books In Publication Order

  1. Noble Outlaw (1977)
  2. One Last Town (1997)
  3. The Gamblers (1997)
  4. Doc Holliday (2002)

Luke Starbuck Books In Publication Order

  1. Jury of Six (1980)
  2. The Spoilers (1981)
  3. Manhunter (1981)
  4. Deadwood (1981)
  5. Hangman’s Creek (1982)
  6. Tombstone (1982)
  7. The Judas Tree (1982)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Black Fox (1972)
  2. Bloody Hand (1975)
  3. The Savage Land (1975)
  4. Cimarron Jordan (1975)
  5. The Kincaids (1976)
  6. The Second Coming of Lucas Brokaw (1977)
  7. Mattie Silks (1978)
  8. Lords of the Land (1979)
  9. Buck Colter (1979)
  10. The Stuart Women (1980)
  11. Bloodstorm (1985)
  12. Indian Territory (1985)
  13. El Paso (1989)
  14. Tenbow (1991)
  15. Wyatt Earp (1994)
  16. Outlaw Kingdom (1996)
  17. Texas Empire (1996)
  18. The Last Stand (1998)
  19. Rio Grande (1998)
  20. You Know My Name (1999)
  21. Gentleman Rogue (1999)
  22. Bloodsport (1999)
  23. Shadow Killers (2000)
  24. Kinch Riley (2000)
  25. Death Walk (2000)
  26. Hickok and Cody (2001)
  27. The Wild Ones (2002)
  28. The Overlords (2003)
  29. The Warlords (2003)
  30. Black Gold (2004)
  31. Dakota (2005)
  32. Westward of the Law (2006)
  33. Dodge City (2006)
  34. WesternLore (2013)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Save-Your-Life Defense Handbook (1977)
  2. Matt Braun’s Western Cooking (1988)
  3. How to Write Western Novels (1988)

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Matt Braun Books Overview

The Wages of Sin

With outlaws wrecking havoc left and right, a cow town in Texas is on the brink of becoming a ghost town. That’s when it’s time to call in Chicago based Pinkerton agent Ash Tallman and his partner Vivian Valentine. Going undercover as a handsome, charming drifter, Ash is always ready with his gun and popular with the ladies. And the lovely, vivacious Viv plays the role of a fervent evangelist, offering salvation with the promise of a sweeter reward to any sinner who can give her clues to the whereabouts of the man so bent on revenge he gladly kills anyone who crosses his path. But this outlaw has never before encountered the likes of Ash Tallman…

The Highbinders

In California, The Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in gold. While some men got in on the action, and some got out of the way, one group of settlers was making a stand and holding up the railway. Turning to Alan Pinkerton’s Chicago detective agency, the railroad robber barons hired the perfect agent to penetrate the settler’s organization, a man who had learned a spy’s trade in the Civil War. Tall, debonair, and pleasure loving Ash Tallman can fight when he has to, lie when he needs to, and make love when he wants the right kind of woman on his side. But as Tallman enters the lush San Joaquin Valley in the company of a risk taking beauty, he finds a fight with no clear battle lines, no sure enemies, and only one way out by hunting the killers who are hunting him…

Crossfire

They’d killed five men already, and stole a quarter of a million dollars in silver and gold. Now, a band of vicious thieves has drawn the best man that Wells Fargo can send: the rangy, mysterious Chicago based Pinkerton agent named Ash Tallman. An operator who works with a pleasure loving beauty who goes by many names and does her best work in the least amount of clothes, Tallman is heading to Red Rock, Arizona territory. In the shadow of the towering Ricon mountain range, hardcase highwaymen are plotting their next hold up and will hurt as many people as they can along the way. Ash and his lady, both going deep undercover, quickly find their way inside the strange, vicious outlaw band, but that’s only the beginning. For while the killing goes down in Red Rock, the planning takes place in Tucson. And that’s where two outgunned Pinkertons must face an evil all its own…

The Brannocks

Earl Brannock was a gambling man who fled the fired of the Civil War and found a boomtown called Denver in a land being built on dreams, luck, and gold. Virgil Brannock joined him next, fresh from Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, determined to rise to the top of the frontier’s rough and treacherous business world. Finally, Clint came riding a trail of revenge: a fiery young Brannock who dared a wear a badge…

The three brothers were reunited once again. And on a frontier brim*ming with opportunity and exploding with danger, vicious enemies would test their courage and three beautiful women would claim their love…

Windward West

The Brannock brothers couldn’t be more different, but they have one thing in common: the drive to make their dreams come true in the wild and wide open southwest territory. Virgil Brannock’s got plans big plans: From Washington D.C. to the most desolate reaches of the territory, he’ll build a railroad empire with sheer guts, raw ambition, and hot lead…
Clint Brannock is a solitary man by nature, but that doesn’t stop him from joining up with the Cavalry in a violent charge that will darken the desert sands with blood…
Earl Brannock lives by no law but his own until he finds a new code of honor with the Comanches. But will his brotherhood with that fierce, proud tribe put him at odds with his blood kin?

Now, on a harsh frontier where weakness equals death, three brothers will cross paths once more and three men’s conflicts will come to a head as a new page in history is written amidst greed, gunfire, and the quest for glory…

Rio Hondo

In a land of long red sunsets, Clint and Virgil Brannock had carved out a sweeping cattle spread along the lush banks of the Rio Hondo. But now Clint has been called away to fight in the Apache wars, and Virgil, driven by his ambition, is corralling mustangs on the Llando Estscado. With their family ranch in New Mexico territory threatened by men of greed and power, men who send murderers to do their dirty work, the Brannocks can only turn to one another to hold onto an empire they have built with their sweat and blood.

A Distant Land

They were family, Clint Brannock, manhunter and man killer. Elizabeth Brannock, passionate idealist and courageous freedom fighter. Lon Brannock, icy gambler and lightning gunman, proud of the Indian strain in his blood. Jennifer Brannock, determined to win respect as a doctor, yet wondering if she could find happiness as a woman. Hank Brannock, a teenager at the crossroads between the law and the lawless.

Ties of blood bound them together but in a New Mexico territory aflame with violence…
where two kinds of people, and two ways of life, moved toward savage showdown…
unbending Brannock pride and iron Brannock will threatened to rip them apart.

Noble Outlaw

Son of a Preacher. Master of the gun. A deadly enemy. John Wesley Hardin’s powderkeg temper earned him twelve bodies by age twenty, and a place at the top of the Texas most wanted list. But now he’s a husband and a father, and thinks his fighting days are done until he’s ambushed by an angry loser in a local poker game. Soon the law is on Wes’ trail again, but this time he’s got too much at stake. Hardin only wants peace but he’s willing to wage a one man war to stay free.

One Last Town

Bill Tilghman was the real thing, a lawman who wore his badge for one reason alone: to bring criminals to justice. Master novelist Matt Braun captures the final days of this extraordinary manhunter when he faces a heroic fight on the bloody corrupt streets of Cromwell, Oklahoma. The saga of a man who would not back down and the woman who loved him to the end, One Last Town tells the story of a land swiftly vanishing into a new era: the legendary American frontier.

Doc Holliday

He came from the American South, a gentleman by breeding, a dentist by training, a gambler by vocation. But as Dr. John H. Holliday, a man fleeing his tragic past, drifted across the West, living among some of the roughest men on the frontier, word spread quickly he never walked away from a fight, and he never drew too late.

Now, from Dodge City to Denver and Cheyenne, from boomtown to sinkholes, ‘Doc’ Holliday was driven by the demons of his past, a skilled gambler and a seasoned mankiller his name was known and feared long before the O.K. Corral. The story of a man who spoke softly and carried a lightning gun, this is Matt Braun’s extraordinary chronicle of the West’s most complex and legendary figure.

Jury of Six

In Europe, Men Fought A War To End All Wars. In Galveston, They Fought To Survive…
In Europe, the guns had gone silent. But in Texas, the spirit of the Wild West still lived and the town of Galveston belonged lock, stock, and barrel to a handful of criminal overlords. Kingpins of vice, gambling, liquor, and big time show business, the overlords didn’t count on a stubborn, Hollywood stuntman who inherited his uncle’s bank and a grudge. Nor could they predict that one Texas Ranger and a beautiful woman were daring enough to take on an undercover assignment and try to shut down America’s paradise of gambling. Now, a dangerous brew of mobsters, flappers, traitors, lovers and lawmen is about to explode in a sin city by the sea. And the only question left is who will still be standing when the last man goes down…

The Spoilers

A rare breed of bullbog and bloodhound, private detective Luke Starbuck’s has been hired to ferret out the Judas working for the Central Pacific a mastermind behind a string of train robberies. The target: gold shipments from the Frisco mint. All Starbuck has to do is pass himself off as an outlaw and infiltrate the pack. But chumming up to a gang leader like Denny O’Brien means following him into the vice pits of the notorious Barbary Coast. Getting inside this hellhole of crime is dangerously easy if you make the right moves. Make the wrong ones, and getting out could be murder.

Deadwood

Five thousand dollars. That was what a slick Denver lawyer representing a mysterious client offered to pay the legendary manhunter Luke Starbuck. The job: find a way into Wyoming’s infamous Hole in the Wall outlaw stronghold and shoot a bad man dead. Starbuck knew there was something wrong with the deal. And by the time he reached the foothills of the Big Horns he had a good idea what it was he’d been set up to be killed. Now, making his way among lawmen, gunmen, and free spirits riding on both sides of the law, Starbuck is traveling to Salt Lake City and all the way back to Denver to find the mystery man who wants him dead. But with key players dying every step of the way, Starbuck must find his answers within his own violent past and in a Badlands town called Deadwood, where secrets are sealed in blood…

Tombstone

In 1878, a struggling prospector found silver in the jagged mountains of Arizona. Within a year the town of Tombstone was filling up with merchants, tradesmen, gamblers, who*res, and gunslingers. And then the Earp family came to Tombstone five brothers with their women and their wives. Along with Doc Holliday and a band of thieves, Wyatt Earp treated the Arizona territory as his personal stomping grounds until Wells Fargo decided to put an end to a string of savage stage robberies. With the legend of the OK Corral shootout fanning out across the frontier, private detective Luke Starbuck was sent to Tombstone to find the truth. And when he got there, Starbuck’s mission turned into one burning, personal obsession: to kill Wyatt Earp…
AUTHORBIO: MATT BRAUN is a fourth generation Westerner, steeped in the tradition and lore of the frontier era. His books reflect a heritage rich with the truths of that bygone time. Raised among the Cherokee and Osage tribes, Braun learned their traditions and culture, and their philosophy became the foundation of his own beliefs. Like his ancestors, he has spent most of his life wandering the mountains and plains of the West. His heritage and his contribution to Western literature resulted in his appointment by the Governor of Oklahoma as a Territorial Marshal. Braun is the author of forty three novels and four nonfiction works, including BLACK FOX, which was made into a CBS miniseries. Western Writers of America awarded Braun the prestigious Spur Award for his novel THE KINCAIDS.

The Judas Tree

Some men were digging for gold. Some men were digging graves. And someone was getting away with murder…
You went through a rugged paradise to reach Virginia City, Montana. Then you came to hell: a ramshackle town where fifty six men have been killed, dozens of stagecoaches have been robbed, and a fanatical vigilante leader is threatening to blow the town sky high. In Denver, Luke Starbuck was hired to stop the epidemic. But when he gets to Virginia City, he finds a tough sheriff already hanging outlaws as fast as he can, a mystery swirling around a young woman’s murder, and a whole lot of people with blood on their hands. Working undercover with the help of a beautiful stage star, Starbuck soon discovers that the chaos of Virginia City is really a well oiled and murderous crime machine. To take it apart, the West’s most legendary detective has to find the Judas lurking behind every violent crime and then he has to kill him…

Black Fox

Based on a true story. North of the Brazos, south of Indian territory, they matched courage against courage, in a battle to save their home. For decades the Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land from ancient Indian hunting grounds and the U.S. Army turned the tide of battle. Now the Civil War has begun, and the Army is pulling out of Fort Belknap giving the Comanches a new chance for victory and revenge. Led by the remarkable warrior, Little Buffalo, the Comanche and Kiowa are united in a campaign to wipe out the settlers forever. But in their way stand two remarkable men…
Allan Johnson is a former plantation owner. Britt Johnson was once his family slave, now a freed man facing a new kind of hatred on the frontier. Together, with a rag tag volunteer army, they’ll stand up for their hopes and dreams in a journey of courage and conscience that will lead to victory…
or death.

The Kincaids

The classic, Golden Spur Award winning novel of a man, a family, and a nation. He came off the frontier: a buffalo hunter, a gambler, a loner. In Abilene he won a saloon at cards, and earned the fear of a lawless town. From then on, Jake Kincaid would not be stopped. He began a rampage of ambition and deal making that forever changed a land called Kansas and the Indian Territories. But along the way the deeds and misdeeds of Jake Kincaid affected more than the frontier they shaped the lives of his two sons. One who became a lawman. One who became an outlaw. Both destined to come face to face behind blazing guns…
From Wild Bill Hickok to the Dolan outlaw gang to Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, The Kincaids tells the classic saga of America at its most adventurous through the eyes of three generations who made laws, broke laws, and became legends in their time.

Lords of the Land

Hank Laird had never laid claim to sainthood. Truth is, his enemies would be quick to swear that the man was the devil himself a reputation Laird earned as one of the most hardscrabble men ever to grace the soil of South Texas. With grit, gold and gunpowder, he forged an empire out of chaos in the wake of the Civil War. But now the vultures are coming home to roost and it’s up to Laird whether Santa Guerra ranchlands will be heaven or hell.

El Paso

It is 1881. El Paso, the wildest border town in an untamed Texas, is at a crossroads. A booming sin city crawling with corrupt politicians and gunslick outlaws, the town now faces its greatest challenge: the savagery of the notorious Banning Brothers. Dallas Stoudenmire is the marshal El Paso has hired to bring a quick end to the Bannings’ reign of terror. Bloodshed erupts as the Bannings hire an assassin to send Stoudenmire to an early grave. Now the former Texas ranger will rely on nerves and a quick gun to save his own life and bring swift justice to a desperate town…

Tenbow

At the foot of the Wind River Mountains and just east of the continental divide was Tenbow Valley, eighty miles of rich, watered graze on the way to Oregon territory. From Cheyenne, Jack Stillman has come to Tenbow to solve a string of murders. Each victim was a landowner in the valley, and each killing was carried out with a deadly, long range rifle. Taking on the guise of a gambler, Stillman is quick to line up his suspects and start prying open their secrets. But while greed is the likeliest reason for the murders, the killer keeps striking even when Stillman has his eye on the suspects. Suddenly, in a land of wild honeysuckle, snowy mountain peaks, and the spirits of native warriors, the veteran lawman realizes he’s made a fatal mistake and missed a motive as old as time itself Now it may be too late because an expert at murder has Stillman in the crosshairs of his gun

Wyatt Earp

Before the legend, there was the man…
and a powerful destiny to fulfill. On October 26, 1881, three outlaws lay dead in a dusty vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona. Standing over them Colts smoking were Wyatt Earp, his two brothers Morgan and Virgil, and a gun slinging gambler named Doc Holliday. The shootout at the O.K. Corral was over but for Earp, the fight had just begun. Wyatt Earp was a man who craved fame, power and prominence. He came to Tombstone with a plan to get elected sheriff, and a dream of building the biggest business empire the booming mining town had ever seen. But by Christmas, both his brothers had been struck down, and their assassins were coming after him and Doc Holliday. For Earp, a man of ambition and pride, it would mean putting aside his dream for one last fight…
not for glory, but revenge.

Outlaw Kingdom

In 1889, Bill Tilghman joined the historic land rush that transformed a raw frontier into Oklahoma Territory. A lawman by trade, he set aside his badge to make his fortune in the boomtowns. Yet Tilghman was called into service once more, on a bold, relentless journey that would make his name a legend for all time in an epic confrontation with outlaw Bill Doolin. AUTHORBIO: MATT BRAUN is a fourth generation Westerner, steeped in the tradition and lore of the frontier era. His books reflect a heritage rich with the truths of that bygone time. Raised among the Cherokee and Osage tribes, Braun learned their traditions and culture, and their philosophy became the foundation of his own beliefs. Like his ancestors, he has spent most of his life wandering the mountains and plains of the West. His heritage and his contribution to Western literature resulted in his appointment by the Governor of Oklahoma as a Territorial Marshal. Braun is the author of thirty eight novels and four nonfiction works, including Black Fox, which was made into a CBS miniseries. Western Writers of America awarded Braun the prestigious Spur Award for his novel The Kincaids.

Texas Empire

He was an Indian fighter turned trailblazer and cattleman. Then he risked it all for a spread of Texas land in the uncharted Llano Estacado and for the adventure of a lifetime.

Jack Jordan was a legend before he turned thirty years old. But his greatest quest lay ahead. he came to a breathtaking canyon called Palo Duro with a herd of cattle, a courageous woman, and an iron will. Jordan had already made and lost fortunes. Now he would make and extraordinary stand with a fast gun and a vision that wouldn’t die.

The Last Stand

It is the land of Five Civilized Tribes, stolen fro its people by a Federal government determined to make Oklahoma the 46th state. Chitto Starr, a full blood Cherokee, will not go gently into the night. Instead, Chitto ignites an armed rebellion and brings an honest , determined lawman onto his trail. For Deputy U.S. Marshal Owen McLain, hunting down Starr and his rebels is the last job he wants and the one he has to do right, or die. Now, the two men are locked in a duel of cunning and violence on a tragic, history scarred land. And before one of them dies, they must each make a harrowing journey of honor, courage, and war.

You Know My Name

His career spanned the West itself, from the days of reckless cowboys and their long barrel colts to an age of mobsters, tommy guns, and cars. Now, the last days of his towering story are told.

Bill Tilghman was the real thing, a lawman who wore his badge for one reason alone: to bring criminals to justice. Master novelist Matt Braun captures the final days of this extraordinary manhunter when he faces a heroic fight on the bloody, corrupt streets of Cromwell, Oklahoma. The saga of a man who would not back down and the woman who loved him to the end, You Know My Name tells the story of a land swiftly vanishing into a new era: the legendary American frontier.

Gentleman Rogue

Old Texas would give way to new but not without a fight…
They called it Hell’s Half Acre: a violent sinkhole of dance halls and brothels, gaming dives and busthead saloons. To some citizens of Fort Worth, the only hope for Hell’s Half Acre was to reform it. To others, it was a gold mine. And for one man, a shootist and gambler named Luke Short, it was a place to make a stand. Short wants to run an honest game with straight odds and build a future in Fort Worth. But plenty of people want to see him stone cold dead. Now Short has no choice but to stake his claim, from behind the barrel of a loaded gun…

Bloodsport

Dan Stuart is a sporting man from Dallas with a scheme as big as Texas. He plans to stage the prizefight of the century and reap a million dollar gate. But Stuart finds the path to riches strewn with obstacles. Outraged politicians block him at every turn, and a gang of robbers led by a sharp shooting beauty have plans of their own the heist of the century. Stuart has two champion pugilists, give gunmen, Bat Masterson and Judge Roy Bean in his corner. Now, with the robbers set to score and the Texas Rangers hot on his trail, the West’s first boxing promoter is desperately searching for a place to hold his fight. And when he finds it, what a hell of a fight it will be!

Hickok and Cody

THE WEST BELONGED TO TWO MEN. DAMN THE FOOL WHO DARED TO TAKE THEIR PLACE. In the wind swept campsite of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, along Red Willow Creek, Russia’s Grand Duke Alexis has arrived to experience the thrill of the buffalo hunt. His guides are: Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody two heroic deadshots with a natural flair for showmanship, a hunger for adventure, and the fervent desire to keep the myths of the Old West alive. But what approached from the East was a journey that crossed the line into dangerous territory. It would offer Alexis a front row seat to history, and would set Hickok and Cody on a path to glory. Otto Richter’s Orphan Train was nothing more than a traveling asylum for young urchins, stolen off the streets of New York’s Lower East Side. Across the country they would be sold to the highest bidder unless stopped in their tracks. It would take a pair like Hickok and Cody to do it. It would challenge the fearless boundaries of courage, and change forever the very Nebraska frontier that made two men legends. AUTHORBIO: MATT BRAUN is a fourth generation Westerner, steeped in the tradition and lore of the frontier era. His books reflect a heritage rich with the truths of that bygone time. Raised among the Cherokee and Osage tribes, Braun learned their traditions and culture, and their philosophy became the foundation of his own beliefs. Like his ancestors, he has spent most of his life wandering the mountains and plains of the West. His heritage and his contribution to Western literature resulted in his appointment by the Governor of Oklahoma as a Territorial Marshal. Braun is the author of thirty eight novels and four nonfiction works, including BLACK FOX, which was made into a CBS miniseries. Western Writers of America awarded Braun the prestigious Spur Award for his novel THE KINCAIDS.

The Wild Ones

In the 1870s the frontier was a battleground, where the U.S. Army fought plains warriors, outlaws terrorized the land, and lawmen took no prisoners. Into the West, came a family of New York City stage performers: a widowed father, his son, and a daughter whose beauty and singing voice could make the most hardened frontiersmen weep. The Fontaine family was not prepared for the life they found across the Mississippi. From Abilene to Dodge City, they crossed paths with some of the legendary figures on the frontier, from Jesse James to Bill Hickok and General George Custer. All the while, the Fontaines kept searching for a place to settle down until they set their sights on the boomtown called Denver. Awaiting Lillian Fontaine in Denver is fame and loss, fortune and betrayal. But between Dodge and her destiny are a thousand miles of unconquered country, an outlaw band, and one man who will force the young songstress to give the performance of her life…
. AUTHORBIO: MATT BRAUN is a fourth generation Westerner, steeped in the tradition and lore of the frontier era. His books reflect a heritage rich with the truths of that bygone time. Raised among the Cherokee and Osage tribes, Braun learned their traditions and culture, and their philosophy became the foundation of his own beliefs. Like his ancestors, he has spent most of his life wandering the mountains and plains of the West. His heritage and his contribution to Western literature resulted in his appointment by the Governor of Oklahoma as a Territorial Marshal. Braun is the author of thirty eight novels and four nonfiction works, including BLACK FOX, which was made into a CBS miniseries. Western Writers of America awarded Braun the prestigious Spur Award for his novel THE KINCAIDS.

The Overlords

In Europe, Men Fought A War To End All Wars. In Galveston, They Fought To Survive…
In Europe, the guns had gone silent. But in Texas, the spirit of the Wild West still lived and the town of Galveston belonged lock, stock, and barrel to a handful of criminal overlords. Kingpins of vice, gambling, liquor, and big time show business, The Overlords didn’t count on a stubborn, Hollywood stuntman who inherited his uncle’s bank and a grudge. Nor could they predict that one Texas Ranger and a beautiful woman were daring enough to take on an undercover assignment and try to shut down America’s paradise of gambling. Now, a dangerous brew of mobsters, flappers, traitors, lovers and lawmen is about to explode in a sin city by the sea. And the only question left is who will still be standing when the last man goes down…

The Warlords

The Invasion of Texas 1915!In Europe, men were dying in trenches. In Washington, sentiment was growing for war against the Kaiser. And in Mexico, an explosive plot was set in motion by a German agent, a deposed dictator, and an army of murderous rebels. Amidst the chaos of Pancho Villa’s revolution, a force of embittered Tejanos has crossed the Rio Grande, burning ranches, killing Texans, and gathering fighters in its wake. For the Germans, the goal was to paralyze America. For a daring Special Agent and a Texas Ranger, the mission was to go deep behind enemy lines and cut out the heart of an astounding conspiracy before the West was drawn into a bloody war of its own…
Based on actual historical events, The Warlords is an epic adventure from our finest chronicler of the American frontier.

Dakota

Teddy Roosevelt’s wife and mother died on the same night in his home in New York City. To outdistance his grief, he turned his back on a promising political career and fled to the badlands. Dakota deals with the restoration of his spirit during this little known time in his life in the midst of a thrilling adventure in the Wild West.

Westward of the Law

In the Texas Panhandle, Newt Bascom and Sam Jordan are stock detectives who have the brains to outwit most rustlers and the brawn to outfight the rest. Now, Bascom and Jordan are being dispatched on a once in a lifetime job. Someone has made off with a prized, imported English bull named Homer. The detectives have to bring Homer home…

From Palo Duro Canyon through the Staked Plains, Bascom and Jordan pick up the trail of the missing bull and the shadowy rustler who took him. And when Dodge City, run by an ornery Marshall named Earp, turns up empty, the detectives head into a wild land. Bluffing, bludgeoning and bragging their way into a smart, secretive and deadly criminal gang, Bascom and Jordan find their bull all right. But stealing back a critter who has love and leisure on his mind proves to be the easy part of the job. The hard part is getting back to Texas with Homer and their lives…

Dodge City

The cattle trail from Texas to Kansas was long, hot and dangerous. And by the time cowboys got there, they had the money and means to make a boomtown explode and make Dodge City a great place to be a defense attorney as long as you weren t looking for an innocent man.

Harry Gryden believes in the kind of justice that only happens in a courtroom. In Dodge, it’s his job to make sure that the accused get their fair trial. But Harry is a little too good at what he does. And with the Masterson brothers, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday laying down their own brand of law, being a courtroom legend is turning Harry into the rarest of Dodge City men: one who doesn t carry a gun, but is in a fight for his life

Matt Braun’s Western Cooking

Best selling novelist Matt Braun brings home the hearty flavors, traditions, and lore of Western cooking in this collection of more than 100 mouth watering recipes. From Braised Short Ribs, Chuck Wagon Beans, and Roast Quail to Venison Stew, Stuffed Acorn Squash, and Hotshot Barbecue Sauce, Braun cooks up an authentic Western treat on every page, Mexican and Indian cookery, important components of Western fare, are also represented here with recipes for such favorites as Tostadas de Frijoles, Enchiladas de Carne, Tamale Pie, Buffalo Meat, Jerky, Squaw Bread, and many more. Braun, a fourth generation Westerner, writes from experience and his years of researching the American West, interlacing his recipes with the colorful history of frontier fare. In Matt Braun’s Western Cooking you’ll explore the origins of spit roasting while learning how to do it in your own backyard. You’ll go back in time to chuck wagon cookery to savor the dishes that cowboys of the Old West did. You’ll even find instructions for preparing a traditional deep pit barbecue. These delicious and easy to make recipes cover all aspects of the Western meal, from cast iron cookery to jalapeno peppers. With these authentic recipes, you’re sure to be home on the range, indoors or out. Matt Braun is one of America’s best loved Western writers and the author of forty books.

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