Standalone Novels In Publication Order
- The Branded Man (1936)
- The Feud at Single Shot (1936)
- The Man on the Blue (1936)
- Marauders’ Moon (1937)
- Brand of Empire (1937)
- King Colt (1937)
- Hard Money (1938)
- Bold Rider (1938)
- Raiders Of The Rimrock (1938)
- Savage Range (1938)
- War on the Cimarron (1939)
- Bounty Guns (1939)
- Dead Freight for Piute (1939)
- Bought with a Gun (1940)
- Raw Land (1940)
- Barren Land Showdown (1940)
- Hardcase (1941)
- Blood on the Moon (1941)
- Gunman’s Chance (1941)
- Ride The Man Down (1942)
- Sunset Graze (1942)
- And the Wind Blows Free (1943)
- Ramrod (1943)
- Coroner Creek (1945)
- Fiddlefoot (1946)
- Station West (1946)
- High Vermilion (1947)
- Ambush (1948)
- Vengeance Valley (1949)
- The Gold Rustlers (1949)
- Play a Lone Hand (1950)
- Saddle by Starlight (1952)
- Silver Rock (1953)
- Rimrock (1955)
- Colt’s Law (1957)
- Summer of the Smoke (1958)
- The Whip (1958)
- First Claim (1960)
- Western Freight (1960)
- Desert Crossing (1961)
- Weary Range. (1961)
- Last Hunt (1962)
- The Some-Day Country (1963)
- Paper Sheriff (1965)
- First Campaign (1965)
- Trigger Country (1965)
- The Primrose Try (1966)
- Debt of Honor (1967)
- Donovan’s Gun (1968)
- The Guns Of Hanging Lake (1968)
- Hurricane Range (1968)
- The Deserters (1969)
- Three for the Money (1970)
- Man from the Desert (1971)
- The Outrider (1972)
- The Stalkers (1973)
- The Man From Two Rivers (1974)
- Trouble Country (1976)
- A Man Could Get Killed (1980)
- The Marshal of Vengeance (1985)
Collections In Publication Order
- Luke Short’s Best of the West (1983)
Anthologies In Publication Order
- Gunfight! (1996)
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Bold Rider
Getting the gold was easy as easy as riding his horse up that mountain. But getting down again was another story. Set up by his partner, ambushed by his ally, left for dead in an avalanche, Poco St. Vrain had a long trail ahead. He had to recover the gold and clear his name. To do that meant tracking down not one gang of desperadoes but two. It would take a good horse, a fast gun, and the steady nerve of a…
Bold Rider!
Savage Range
Down on his luck, Jim Wade takes a job as foreman of the deadliest bunch of cowboys he has ever seen. Then he discovers that he has been set up to take the blame for a bloody massacre the crew commits and is forced to turn fugitive with a lynch mob at his heels.
Blood on the Moon
A tale of big Texas, of cattle, ranges and saloons; of punchers, cowboys and Ute Indians; and where the possibilities of fulfillment are as endless as the desert, and just as unpredictable. Jim Garry is a hard, embittered cowboy, who believes there is no hope left for his soul. But the headstrong and impulsive Amy Lufton proves him wrong!His erstwhile friend Tate Riling, prodded by greed, invades Sun Dust with the perfect rip off scheme involving extortion, bribery, coercion and deceit. The target is wealthy cattle owner John Lufton, whose beautiful daughter Carol is his for the taking and using. Both men come to Sun Dust seeking fortune; both women have stayed waiting for love. In the end, will they find redemption?
Gunman’s Chance
A tale of big Texas, of cattle, ranges and saloons; of punchers, cowboys and Ute Indians; and where the possibilities of fulfillment are as endless as the desert, and just as unpredictable. Jim Garry is a hard, embittered cowboy, who believes there is no hope left for his soul. But the headstrong and impulsive Amy Lufton proves him wrong!His erstwhile friend Tate Riling, prodded by greed, invades Sun Dust with the perfect rip off scheme involving extortion, bribery, coercion and deceit. The target is wealthy cattle owner John Lufton, whose beautiful daughter Carol is his for the taking and using. Both men come to Sun Dust seeking fortune; both women have stayed waiting for love. In the end, will they find redemption?
First Campaign
They were electing the state’s first governor and it was no tea party. The mine companies put up a bought man. The cattle men ran Hal Halsey, a big man with a past. The companies waged a campaign of smear, fear and murder. Truth was the underdog until Hlasey’s two sons, one legitamate the other a bast*ard, campaigned for justice their way…
by strapping on their guns.
A Man Could Get Killed
The last great novel by the King of the Western!
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