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Book Links: Lawmen

Law gets spread pretty thin on the frontier -- and law officials aren't necessarily any less violent than the criminals they pursue. Discover the good, the bad, and the ugly of Western lawmen with these reads.

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  • In a place when men live and die by the law of the gun, lawyer Louis Jensen must stop a range war by ending a heated dispute between two riled-up ranchers while defending his sister's boyfriend, who has been accused of murdering a con-man.
    BookNew York : Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp., 2022. — PB W Johnstone JB05
  • Blood on the Trail

    a Jeremiah Halstead Western

    McCauley, Terrence,
    Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead arrives in the town of Silver Cloud where he, while escorting notorious outlaw John Hudson across the territory, goes up against Hudson's gang and a man who wants Hudson dead and will kill anyone who…
    BookNew York : Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing, 2022. — W PB MCC
  • Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch haven't seen much trouble of late. Fact is, burgeoning Appaloosa and the territory had been without incident for months. But with recent reports of village raids, coupled with the arrival of a young…
    BookG.P. Putnam's Sons,
  • After the state seizes through eminent domain the home near Den Mine that she and her brother, Samuel, inherited, she is packing up her things when a tragedy rocks the town - and the lives of those she loves.
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — FIC HUL
  • A collection of twelve tales of the Old West chronicles the exploits of the legendary Texas Rangers, in an anthology featuring such authors as Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, and Ed Gorman.
    BookNew York : Pocket Books, [2020] — PB R
  • Kate Fox is living the dream. She’s married to Grand County Sheriff Ted Conner, the heir to her beloved Nebraska Sandhills cattle ranch, where they live with Kate’s orphaned teenage niece, Carly. With the support of the well-connected Fox…
    BookNew York : Forge, 2016. — FIC BAKER
  • In Once More with a Vengeance, Sheriff Ben Stillman has to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence. But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada, and the sheriff busts his prisoner out…
    BookFarmington Hills, Mich : Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2018] — WES BRANDVOLD BS#11
  • When Sam Bass and his colorful associates orchestrate a series of stage and train robberies in 1877, bounty hunter Briscoe Cane pursues the gang before finding himself in an ultimate showdown with Pinkerton agent Beau Longstreet.
    BookWaterville, Maine : Five Star, [2015] — W F Colt G01
  • When Virgil Cruz and his gang kidnap the woman he loves and threaten to kill her if he interferes with their plans, Cotton Burke, the sheriff of Catron County in the New Mexico territory, turns to Memphis Jack Stump, the only man he trusts…
    BookNew York : Berkley Books, 2011. — WES DUN COT #1
  • Investigating the suspicious suicide of a Wyoming shepherd, sheriff Walt Longmire uncovers disturbing connections to a violent family before the case is further complicated by the appearance of a giant wolf.
    Book[New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019] — FIC JOH #15 LONGMIRE
  • Inheriting a Western saloon, former Texas Ranger Ben Savage and the saloon's lovely manager go up against a rival saloon owner who wants them out of the way so he can control all the vice in town.
    BookNew York, NY : Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2020. — WES JOH BEN #1
  • Texas Standoff

    a Novel of the Texas Rangers

    Kelton, Elmer
    When Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts, two prominent cattlemen are prime suspects. But the rise of a gang of masked vigilantes and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman…
    BookNew York : Forge, 2010. — FIC KEL
  • A campaign for sheriff in Appaloosa is thrown into turmoil by a nearby gold strike and a dangerous snowstorm, pitting marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch against rival mining factions and a vicious serial killer.
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2019] — FIC PAR #10 VIRGIL
  • In 1863, a teenaged boy fled his home in Atherton, Missouri, to escape the power-hungry men who murdered his father and stole his family’s land. He joined the Confederacy under an assumed name and led guerilla raids in the Civil War. Then…
    BookNew York, NY : Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2019] — W LYN
  • Stumbling upon a bloody massacre, a cache of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash during a hunting trip, Llewelyn Moss removes the money, a decision that draws him and his young wife into the middle of a violent confrontation.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. — FIC MCCARTHY
  • When greed takes over the booming town of Dover Station, Sheriff Mackey, after running down a pair of saloon rats, is pitted against a bloodthirsty psychopath who wants to make him pay for killing his buddies.
    BookNew York, NY : Pinnacle Books, [2018] — W PB MC
  • When a new gold strike occurs on Banjo Creek, sheriff Mark Girard struggles to keep the peace in Angel's Landing as he contends with the lawlessness and chaos that accompany a gold rush.
    Large PrintWaterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2012. — LARGE PRINT OVE
  • Sheriff Lucas Monk is startled when his quiet town of Peaceful Valley, Montana spirals into an unexpected crime wave after a wooden cigar store Indian is stolen, a teenager goes missing and a housekeeper is poisoned.
    BookNew York : Forge, 2019. — WES PRO
  • Helping maintain an uneasy peace in The Blinds, a rural Texas community of criminal misfits who were given a chance at a new life after having their memories altered, sheriff Calvin Cooper struggles with personal secrets in the wake of a…
    BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — FICTION STERNBERGH Adam
  • U.S. Marshal Nelson Lane chases a fleeing murder suspect from the frontier of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming all the way to the big city of El Reno in Oklahoma—out of his element in both places and nearly everywhere in…
    BookWaterville, Maine : Five Star publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2018] — MYS WEN NLF1