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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1997
  • Latest Book:
    October 2016
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Full Series List in Order

A Corrigan Brothers Western

1 - Ride Away (Jan-2016)
2 - Kill Town (Oct-2016)

Texas Ranger

The Thirteenth Bullet (Jan-2004)

Book List in Order: 20 titles



  • Published for the first time in paperback, a classic western follows Tyrel Bannon, a naive farm boy, who becomes a Triple C Rider on the perilous cattle drive from Texas to Dodge and encounters savage Kiowa warriors, raging rivers, storms, and danger...



  • After the end of the Civil War, Rule Cordell seeks refuge in Texas and joins a band of guerillas led by the wild and charismatic Johnny Cat Carlson, thinking that he is fighting to bring freedom back to Texas, but he soon finds that Johnny Cat and hi...



  • Following the Civil War, hard-working Ethan Kerry must drive a herd of cattle from Texas to Kansas in order to keep his ranch, but the situation is complicated after he is blinded by a kick from an untamed horse, and his only hope is his outlaw broth...



  • When his brutal half-brother Star McCallister goes on a murderous spree of vengeance after he escapes from jail, killing two of John's friends and kidnapping his sister's children, former Texas Ranger John Checker travels into the heart of the wilder...



  • When he was a boy, Vin Lockhart was adopted by a band of Oglala Sioux after they found him wandering alone, the only survivor of a cholera attack that took his family. They raised him as one of their own, and taught him the ways of a warrior. But Vin...



  • Preacher Rule Cordell has been trying very hard to put his days as a pistol-fighter behind him. When his friends and neighbors are threatened with losing their family spreads to a cunning carpetbagger, Rule realizes it's time for his preacher's colla...



  • Celtic Revenge Young Irishman Time Carlow couldn't be more proud to be a Texas Ranger, riding with his uncle Kileen, a former bare-knuckle boxer. After Kileen, Carlow, and his best friend break up a vicious Texas gang, they bring their captives to...



  • Rustling is an ugly business. Just the suspicion of it can get somebody hurt--or killed. And there's a whole lot of suspicion over on the Bar 6, the largest spread in the region. Old Titus Branson is missing a hundred head of Bar 6 cattle, and he's m...



  • What started as a simple trip for supplies has turned into a race against time and a fight to survive. Cole Kerry almost single-handedly broke up a raid on the town by a gang of outlaws. But one of them grabbed Cole's wife as they rode off, and Cole ...






  • Time Carlow is a Texas Ranger with a mighty dangerous job to do. A half-crazy killer named Silver Mallow has escaped from the jail in Bennett, Texas, and it's up to young Carlow to bring him back. All by himself. The killer has a three-day lead on hi...



  • Former Texas Ranger John Checker is ready to go home to Dodge City. He and his friends have survived--barely--a bloody battle with Checker's half-brother, Star McCallister, and his gang. But heading home and getting there alive are two different thin...



  • No doubt about it, Bass Tillman is getting old. It's been years since he killed a man in a gunfight. He's respectable now. A lawyer, not a gunfighter. He should be taking it easy, enjoying life with his family. But he has only one thing on his mind--...



  • In the booming town of Denver, saloon owner Vin Lockhart is known as a savvy businessman with a quick gun. But he will never forget that he was raised an Oglala Sioux. So when Vin's Oglala friends needed help dealing with untruthful, encroaching whit...



  • Tanneman Rose was a Texas Ranger turned bad. When he and his gang robbed a bank, he brought shame to the badge. A jury found him guilty, a judge sentenced him, but Rose swore he wouldn't die in prison. Instead he died while trying to escape. Time Car...



  • Times are getting hard in Texas. Lady Holt, a powerful rancher who moved there from England, has set her sights on taking over the whole state, and she doesn't much care about the law...or folks' lives. The next step in her plan is to get rid of the ...



  • Cotton Smith delivers a well-honed psychological edge to western history. His novels depict the exciting nature of the human spirit making its way through life-changing trials, driving through physical and emotional barriers, and resurrecting itself ...



  • Ethan Kerry, blinded by a wild horse, continues to run his growing Texas ranch--with the help of his two brothers, Cole and Luther, and his strong wife, Claire. Notorious outlaw Glory Van Camp, posing as a fake Uvalde minister, and his brother, appea...



  • Union Captain, Ring McCollum travels home after seeing more blood on the battlefield that he could imagine. As he crosses the country back through Missouri, he encounters men who are still fighting the Civil War. He picks up a companion on his travel...



  • From acclaimed Western author Cotton Smith comes a trailblazing new series about three Texas brothers risking their lives to stake their claim in the great American dream… RIDE AWAY Deed Corrigan earned his reputation as a gunfighter -- the...






  • Acclaimed Western author Cotton Smith tells the epic story of the Corrigan brothers, who will risk their lives to tame the American west . . . KILL TOWN Agon Bordner is dead, and the ranch he cheated for has been handed over to Deed Corrigan ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cotton Smith has published 20 books.

Cotton Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kill Town, was published in October 2016.

The first book by Cotton Smith, Dark Trail to Dodge, was published in May 1997.

Yes. Cotton Smith has 2 series.