Lewis B Patten Books In Order

Gene Autry Books In Publication Order

  1. Gene Autry and the Ghost Riders (2009)
  2. Gene Autry and Arapaho War Drums (2011)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Snake Stomper (As: Joseph Wayne) (1951)
  2. Massacre at White River (1952)
  3. Gunmen’s Grass (As:Lewis Ford) (1954)
  4. Gunsmoke Empire (1955)
  5. White Warrior (1956)
  6. Rope Law (1956)
  7. Back Trail (1956)
  8. Showdown at Stony Crest (As: Joseph Wayne) (1957)
  9. Pursuit (1957)
  10. Home is the Outlaw (1957)
  11. Massacre at San Pablo (1957)
  12. Maverick Empire (As: Lewis Ford) (1957)
  13. Valley of Violent Men (1957)
  14. Gun Proud (1957)
  15. Showdown at War Cloud (1958)
  16. Five Rode West (1958)
  17. Tomahawk (With: Lee Leighton) (1958)
  18. The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1958)
  19. The Man Who Rode Alone (1959)
  20. Top Man with a Gun (1959)
  21. Fighting Rawhide / Sunblade (1959)
  22. The Ruthless Men (1959)
  23. Savage Star (1959)
  24. The Gun and the Man (As: Joseph Wayne) (1960)
  25. Range .45 (1960)
  26. Hangman’s Country (1960)
  27. Savage Town (1960)
  28. The Angry Horseme*n (As: Lewis Ford) (1961)
  29. Outlaw Canyon (1961)
  30. Law of the Gun (1961)
  31. Renegade Gun (1961)
  32. The Savage Country (1961)
  33. The Gold Magnet (1962)
  34. Savage Vengeance (1962)
  35. Flame in the West (1962)
  36. Tarnished Star (1963)
  37. The Guilty Guns (1963)
  38. Guns at Gray Butte (1963)
  39. The Ruthless Range (1963)
  40. The Tarnished Star (1963)
  41. The Scaffold at Hangman’s Creek (1963)
  42. Vengeance Rider (1963)
  43. The Killer from Yuma (1964)
  44. Giant on Horseback (1964)
  45. Wagons East! (1964)
  46. Proudly They Die (1964)
  47. Ride for Vengeance (1964)
  48. The Arrogant Guns (1965)
  49. The Odds Against Circle L (1966)
  50. No God in Saguaro (1966)
  51. Death Waited at Rialto Creek / The Trap (1966)
  52. Deputy from Furnace Creek (1966)
  53. Prodigal Gunfighter (1966)
  54. The Star and the Gun (1967)
  55. Bones of the Buffalo (1967)
  56. Ambush Creek (1967)
  57. Death of a Gunfighter (1968)
  58. The Red Sabbath (1968)
  59. Cheyenne Drums (1968)
  60. The Youngerman Guns (1969)
  61. The Meeker Massacre (With: Wayne D Overholser) (1969)
  62. Posse From Poison Creek (1969)
  63. A Death in Indian Wells (1970)
  64. Red Runs the River (1970)
  65. Apache Hostage (1970)
  66. Six Ways of Dying (1970)
  67. Showdown at Mesilla (1971)
  68. Massacre Ridge (1971)
  69. Ride the Hot Wind (1971)
  70. Guilt of a Killer Town (1971)
  71. The Hands of Geronimo (1971)
  72. Track of the Hunter (1971)
  73. The Trial of Judas Wiley (1972)
  74. The Cheyenne Pool (1972)
  75. A Killing in Kiowa (1972)
  76. The Feud at Chimney Rock (1972)
  77. The Homesteader (1972)
  78. The Tired Gun (1973)
  79. The Hide Hunters (1973)
  80. Redskin (1973)
  81. The Gun of Jesse Hand (1973)
  82. The Ordeal of Jason Ord (1973)
  83. Lynching at Broken Butte (1974)
  84. Bounty Man (1974)
  85. The Angry Town of Pawnee Bluffs (1974)
  86. Two for Vengeance (1974)
  87. Death Stalks Yellowhorse (1974)
  88. The Gallows at Graneros (1975)
  89. The Orphans of Coyote Creek (1975)
  90. Vow of Vengeance (1975)
  91. Ride a Crooked Trail (1976)
  92. Ambush at Soda Creek (1976)
  93. The Lawless Breed (1976)
  94. Man Outgunned (1976)
  95. Villa’s Rifles (1977)
  96. The Trial at Apache Junction (1977)
  97. The Killings at Coyote Springs (1977)
  98. Hunt The Man Down (1977)
  99. Death Rides a Black Horse (1978)
  100. Cheyenne Captives (1978)
  101. The Law in Cottonwood (1978)
  102. Rifles of Revenge (1979)
  103. The Trail of the Apache Kid (1979)
  104. Ride a Tall Horse (1980)
  105. Redskin Time (1982)
  106. Tincup in the Storm Country (1996)
  107. Trail to Vicksburg (1997)
  108. Death Rides the Denver Stage (1999)
  109. The Woman at Ox-Yoke (2000)
  110. The Gun and the Law (As: Joseph Wayne) (2001)
  111. Blood on the Grass (2002)
  112. Red is the Valley (As: Joseph Wayne) (2002)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Best Western Stories of Lewis B. Patten (1987)

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Gene Autry and the Ghost Riders

Gene Autry meets the Ghost Riders in this 1955 in this young adult novel, originally published in 1955. Facsimile Reprint Edition

The Snake Stomper (As: Joseph Wayne)

WesternLarge Print EditionWhen Kim Logan is hired by Peg Cody to be her snake stomper, he means to keep her out of harms way including Hank Dunning, who wants to force her ranch into forfeiture so he can grab it for a song. But Kim winds up in jail for a murder he didnt commit, while Peg and Dunning are planning to become partners for life. Now, this is not the kind of situation a snake stomper like Kim Logan takes very kindly to…

The Man Who Rode Alone

A Spur Award winning Author The trail Lew Stark had followed ended at the edge of the badlands. The killer was hidden beyond, waiting for Lew to make one mistake. The bullet that was meant for him would pound from an unseen gun. Death would come riding hard on unseen hoofs. But Lew couldn’t turn back now. The search had been too long, too hard. The showdown was here and now the fierce duel that would make him big man of a cattle empire or a dead man! Available only in Western 14.

Law of the Gun

Written by Lewis B Patten. For five years Owen Scobey had successfully hidden his past from young Matt. And during that troubled time he had grown to love the boy as he would have loved his own son. But with that love was fear fear of the moment when Matt would find him out, when the boy’s respect and love would turn to hate. Now a man from the past had appeared who threatened to expose Scobey if he would not head a cattle drive through Indian infested country. There was little choice but to agree…

Tarnished Star

The Big Four ruled a cattle empire. They were men who had fought and killed to win the land from the Comanches and now they weren’t going to turn it over to government squatters…
not even if the law demanded it. Violence and murder explode on the plains of New Mexico when Martin Kelso returns home after a two year absence. Cattlemen are ruthlessly driving squatters from their rightful homesteads, and the sheriff, Martin’s father, has become a useless, bottle hugging drunk. The law is dead in Rio de Oro…
until the sheriff’s son decides to take it into his own hands, to fight them all, to bring back honor to the sheriff’s star!

The Ruthless Range

Jase wanted only one thing to escape the t ag of ”gunfighter”. When he took a job, hoping to find peace and obscurity, it didn”t work, for in a matter of days ever y gunman in Colorado knew he was around. ‘

The Tarnished Star

The Big Four ruled a cattle empire. They were men who had fought and killed to win the land from the Comanches and now they weren’t going to turn it over to government squatters…
not even if the law demanded it. Violence and murder explode on the plains of New Mexico when Martin Kelso returns home after a two year absence. Cattlemen are ruthlessly driving squatters from their rightful homesteads, and the sheriff, Martin’s father, has become a useless, bottle hugging drunk. The law is dead in Rio de Oro…
until the sheriff’s son decides to take it into his own hands, to fight them all, to bring back honor to the sheriff’s star!

Vengeance Rider

A Spur Award winning Author They’d branded him ‘wife killer,’ and hunted him like a varmint. After fifteen years in the hoosegow for the murder of his wife, Ross Logan was back at Horseshoe Ranch. Somehow, he had to find the real killer and get to the truth…
and not all the lead in Vail was going to stop him. Available only in Western 8 & 14.

The Killer from Yuma

The day Donna Tate returned to her ranch and found her father slain, she knew Dan Radek and his sons had committed the crime. The law, however, ruled otherwise. Donna was determined to try another way to gain revenge she would pay for Max Varra’s escape from prison. Varra was a man betrayed by the Radeks long before, and sent to prison for twenty years. Those years had turned a merely inhuman man into a savage beast…
Would freeing Varra from Yuma Prison prove the perfect way to vengeance or only trigger a senseless bloodbath?

Wagons East!

The Texan was a man with a mission to get the wagon train across the mountains and deliver cargo into the hands of the Confederacy. Contraband gold was hidden beneath false floors. No one guessed that the wagon master was a Rebel officer.

The Odds Against Circle L

This book is written by Lewis B Patten. Tag Landry’s brother meant to kill him, and in a drunken frenzy might just as easily shoot the old man too. Tag realised that he was outnumbered as he returned at last to Landry, Wyoming. There were too many on the old home who saw only the price tag on his head. But he’s already stuck his neck out, and too many lives and too much land depended on Tag staying alive. So with his hands ready for action, and his guns loose in their holsters, Tag came back into the Circle L, facing the memory of the first man he’d ever killed the man whose ghost threatened his life today.

Posse From Poison Creek

The minute Sheriff Webb Dolan led the posse out of town he knew he was in serious trouble. The three murdering outlaws were already hours into the deadly Ute Indian country…
and some of Dolan’s recruits were unfit to go after them. Worse yet, Dolan realized, his fellow lawman Floyd Aragon had no intention of actually capturing the badmen. He might cut them all down like dogs and grab the stolen money for himself. And what would he do to the beautiful woman who had joined their band? In the middle of the sun baked desert there was bound to be a blood drenched showdown!

A Death in Indian Wells

The towns people had chained a wounded Cheyenne brave there, and were watching him bleed to death. It was too late to save the young Indian. All Sheriff Pete could do was try to save the settlers from a bloodbath. After one wrong move he would die.

Massacre Ridge

A Spur Award winning Author Jess Paddock was the only man in Fort Kearny who knew what was going on. As a former major in the Confederate Army he’d fought with the best of them, and his knowledge of Indian warfare was second to none. There was no doubt in Paddock’s mind that out in the frozen Wyoming Hills the Sioux had laid a diabolical trap. Yet a trio of hot headed officers out for glory insisted on snatching the bait. Available only in Western 8.

Guilt of a Killer Town

A Spur Award winning Author

The minute he rode into his old hometown, Medicine Arrow, Frank Kailey knew something was wrong. Behind the blank stares of his former friends lurked a terrible secret…
a secret that directly involved him. What it was, Kailey didn’t know. But one thing was perfectly clear. Because of it, the whole town was ready and eager to kill and Kailey was their number one target!

Available only in Western 8 & 14.

The Homesteader

A Spur Award-winning Author

Jed Holley had staked a claim on Shavano Creek. There were only a few homesteaders there, but that was a few too many for men like the Custis brothers. And they were mean enough and tough enough to do something about it. Suddenly Jed was dead. So when Carl Holley came into town to track down his brother’s killer the word spread like wildfire. Would they dare to kill him too?

Redskin

Charlie, the young grandson of a prominent rancher, had been taken hostage by a band of vicious Cheyennes after they hadslaughtered his parents. The search party forced Charlie to act as their scout but Charlie had other ideas.

Tincup in the Storm Country

The Tincup cattle ranch, owned by Raoul Joliffe and his son Mart, is in the high ranges of the Colorado storm country near the Utah border. Trouble starts when Utah sheep rancher John Robineau moves his sheep herd onto Tincup’s graze. In the end Robineau’s sheep were killed but no human blood was shed. Mart Joliffe feels badly about the slaughter, even if Tincup was in the right, and feels a sense of guilt over what happened. Yet this is only the first of several ordeals for Mart. Mart also appears to be unlucky in love, for Rose, the girl he asks to marry him, rejects him and disappears. And Rose’s father hates him enough to send a gunfighter after him. Mart is wounded and is nursed back to health by a pretty newcomer, Lucille Roberts. Mart is soon attracted to her and they marry. But the day after they wed, Mart realizes he has entered into a cold, empty union with a woman who has good reason to hate him. The answers to the burning questions that plague Mart Why did his first love flee? Why did her father hate him so? Why did Lucille conspire to enter into a loveless marriage? become clear as the Tincup range enters the storm season.

Trail to Vicksburg

WesternTwo classic stories from the tree time Golden Spur Award winning author. Denver City in the early days of gold discoveries is the setting for The Golden Magnet. Cole Estes is on his way there to work for the mail and stagecoach franchise. But murder and sabotage leave the line without operating capital…
until Cole comes up with a daring plan. In Trail to Vicksburg, young Jeff Hueston yearns to join his brothers in the Confederate army, but instead must drive his familys cattle to New Orleans for sale to the Confederate quartermaster. The way is fraught with danger, but none so daunting as the news that New Orleans has been occupied by Union troops. First Edition Western

The Woman at Ox-Yoke

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The Gun and the Law (As: Joseph Wayne)

This work is written by Joseph Wayne. The lawman and the killers…
Lawman Deputy Sheriff Brady Royal, all alone and with one purpose in life, to avenge the death of his brother, his friend the Sheriff, and the innocent people murdered by the killers. The killers roamed the empty land one was as sly and dangerous as a wolf, the other a madman with the cunning of a rattler. They roamed the empty land and the gun of only one man could stop them. They knew that their only chance to stay alive was to kill Brady Royal…

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