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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Arizona Territory

1 - Guns of Apache Springs (Oct-1988)
2 - Arizona Coffin (Mar-1989)
3 - Trouble in Tall Pine (Jun-1990)
4 - High Country Showdown (Apr-1991)
5 - Apache Coffin (Aug-1991)
6 - Guns of Arizona (May-1992)

Buckskin

1 - Buckskins and Blood (Aug-1994)
2 - Buckskin Vengeance (Feb-1996)

Colorado Territory

1 - Buckskin County War (Dec-2020)
2 - Pike's Vengeance (Feb-2021)
3 - Colorado Renegade (Jul-2021)
4 - Coward of Sand Creek (Oct-2021)
5 - Cheyenne Lance (1980)
6 - Hard Land (Nov-2022)

Forts of Freedom

1 - War at Bent's Fort (Mar-1994)
2 - Treaty at Fort Laramie (Jul-1994)
3 - Siege At Fort Defiance (Nov-1994)
4 - Blood at Fort Bridger (Mar-1995)

Mountain Country

1 - Southwest Thunder (Jul-1993)
2 - Winter Thunder (Feb-1994)
3 - Mountain Thunder (Jul-1994)

Mountain Times

1 - Winter Rage (Oct-1991)
2 - Blackfoot Dawn (Feb-1993)
3 - Mountain Rage (Aug-2018)

Rocky Mountain Lawmen

1 - Sheriff's Blood (Jan-1994)
2 - Blood in the Snow (Apr-1993)
3 - Shoshoni Vengeance (Oct-1993)
4 - Vigilante Coffin (Jul-1993)
5 - Hard Justice (Dec-2016)

Savage Land

1 - To Face a Savage Land (Sep-2007)
2 - To Face A Savage Winter (Jan-2023)
3 - To Face a Savage Mountain (Nov-2023)
4 - To Face a Savage Time (Feb-2024)

Book List in Order: 47 titles



  • A MOUNTAIN MAN, A WARRIOR, A LEGEND. . .Zack Dobson left St. Louis as a camp helper with a trapping brigade. The boy soon became a trapper-and a man-in the harsh, unforgiving Rocky Mountains. But he became a legend when he sought vengeance against th...








  • John Legg has had more than 50 Westerns published, including a number of series novels, and one book of Western nonfiction. He has also done a number of articles on Western history for national magazines. He has been a newspaper copy editor for more ...












  • Mountain man Nathaniel Squire faces the toughest battle of his life when his wife and son are kidnapped by Blackfoot Indians, and he must journey into the heart of Indian territory to retrieve them. Original....



  • Trouble forces Civil War veteran Travis Rhodes to flee Iowa, but he finds more of the same on the Oregon Trail and decides to take matters into his own hands by becoming the marshal of a Colorado town. Original....





  • Buck Morgan, a U.S. deputy marshal, searches for the murderous Del Murdock and his gang of desperadoes, and they engage in a deadly shootout that leaves Buck wounded but thirsting for revenge. Original....



  • After capturing train robbers Mack Ellsworth and his gang, Sheriff Jonas Culpepper must contend with yet another unsavory character when U.S. Deputy Marshal Ned Coakley demands a share of the reward money. Original....



  • Just hours away from the marriage altar and a settled life with the lovely Maria Bouchard, Lucien Chardonnais turns his back on civilized life to come to the aid of his fur trapper buddies, who are threatened by betrayal...







  • WITHSTANDING NATURE'S SAVAGERY...FACING THEIR MOST FEROCIOUS FOES...THEY WILL RISK ANYTHING FOR THE SAKE OF HONOR -- AND REVENGE Fearless free trappers, daring survivors, Abe Rawlins, Ezra Early, and Lucien Chardonnais work the rugged high country...



  • In 1851, when rival tribes of Plains Indians convene a peace conference, Henri LaPointe, an interpreter, struggles to keep the conference and the fort from being ruined by his enemy, a brutal Crow leader...



  • A THIRST FOR JUSTICE Alexander Campbell thought he'd left lawmen behind when he left Scotland yet already the law was on his trail. As an apprentice, he had killed the man who had threatened his family. Escaping across the ocean. he arrives in Ame...



  • Vowing to follow the rules to the letter when he leaves for Fort Defiance in the New Mexico Territory, First Lieutenant Edward Artbruster discovers how little room there is for regulations on the brawling frontier. Original....



  • DESERT JUSTICE Linus Hudson just wants to be left alone to drive his herd of mustangs to Bent's Fort and sell them. But the army is there, preparing for war with Mexico, and Hudson is the only man who has a chance to rescue three soldiers captured...



  • One-eyed Pete Riley, a former mountain man who blacksmiths at an important pioneer stop at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, is unwilling to overlook the murders of innocent Shoshoni villagers after an attack on the fort. Original....



  • Deserting his army fort to pursue his lust for battle, misfit soldier Miles Barclay is rescued from the wild frontier by a Sioux tribe that teaches him to temper his untamed spirit before returning to the white man's world. Original....



  • Swearing vengeance on the men who killed his trapping partners and stole their possessions, Alex Campbell pursues a cold trail in the dangerous high plains and finds help from legendary mountain man Kit Carson. Original....



  • Happy with his Native American wife but unable to forget the woman he truly loves, Jim Blackwood prepares for the spring hunt of 1835, until his camp is attacked by Blackfeet, a situation that sends Blackwood on a quest for vengeance. Original....






  • Jacques Maxwell, the illegitimate son of a slave owner and one of his slaves, runs away, ends up fighting in the war of 1812, and then signs on with the Missouri Fur Company, a decision that leads to many more adventures on the western frontier. Orig...



  • Hawley Cooper is alone. No food. No weapons. Middle of winter in the Rocky Mountains. Left to die by a crusty old mountain man named Josiah Weeks, an odious man whom Cooper had thought so long ago was his benefactor. Now Weeks has knocked Cooper unco...



  • Lije Paterson, a longtime mountain man, finds a young man wandering the mountains after Indians killed the trappers who hired him as camp helper. Paterson takes on Dougal McKagan for the same position and begins teaching him the ways of the mountains...



  • A bounty hunter with no direction is given a chance to help others… and to find a killer. After recovering from being shot in the back and left for dead, bounty hunter Harlan Bloodworth takes a job in Dodge City riding shotgun. He soon has another ...



  • Boothenay Irons possesses a mysterious power that allows her to go back in time and experience the history held within an antique gun. This time it's a 1911 Colt .45 Automatic and it has a mysterious power of its own. When Boothenay's fiance, Caleb, ...



  • When the fur trade ends, Finn Hazelwood finds himself restless and rootless. As the years pass, his life takes him into some strange things - horse "gathering" in California with some former mountain men, farming in Oregon Country, marshaling in Nebr...



  • He was known only as Shadowwalker, a name bestowed on him by Lochern, master smith in Swallow's Roost. Despite his humble beginnings, he has an aura about him, something that presages an extraordinary destiny. Anyone can see that, except himself. In ...



  • Judge Isaac Parker's deputy marshals have their hands full hunting outlaws in Indian Territory. So when he wants the notorious McPeek gang brought to justice - dead or alive - he turns to bounty hunter Quill Callaghan. But running down such a bloodth...



  • Having had enough of leading a fairly large brigade of trappers, giant mountain men Nathaniel Squire heads to the Rockies with just a few of his young friends. The small group is having a fine season, pulling in plenty of plews. But another group ...



  • BRODIE PIKE IS ONE AGAINST MANY - THE ODDS ARE NOT IN HIS FAVOR. Brodie Pike knew he shouldn't get involved. It would somehow turn out bad, as seemed to happen too often to him, but he couldn't watch four gunmen bully a small-time rancher. The next d...






  • HIS RAGE HAS NO LIMITS AFTER AN ATTACK ON A PEACEFUL UTE VILLAGE. Bounty hunter Brodie Pike cannot see all the good he has done, only the infrequent mistakes. So he decides to get away from people. Little does he know when he finds a beautiful valley...



  • HONOR FORCES BOUNTY HUNTER ELIAS PROSPER TO TRACK DOWN A RENEGADE UTE, NO MATTER THE COST. Bounty hunter Elias Prosper is as tough a man as the West has produced. But as hard as he is, he has a soft spot for children and women. When a Ute named Paint...



  • Chase tanner is a peaceful man - until enemies target his woman and friends. They soon learn how tough a peace-loving man can be.Branded a coward and Indian lover for trying to stop some of the slaughter of peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos at Sand Cre...



  • FOR SOME MEN, TROUBLE IS A CONSTANT COMPANION . . .No matter how much he tries to avoid it, bounty hunter BrodiePike can't just look away when trouble stares him in the face like a determined desert rattler. In his business, friends are hard to find,...



  • THE PREVIOUS TWO WINTERS HAD BEEN HELLACIOUS . . . THIS ONE WOULD BE SAVAGEThe third winter in the Rocky Mountains was not the charm for mountain man Hawley Cooper. What started out as a prime beaver trapping season turned forbidding as another winte...



  • A CHILD'S ABDUCTION SETS OFF A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN TWO TOUGH BOUNTY HUNTERS!Jace Coppersmith, a marshal in a Colorado Territory town, makes the tough decision to hand in his badge and leave his fiancée to help a friend, Travis Van Horn, in Kansas. ...



  • IN THE UNFORGIVING DEPTHS OF A MOUNTAIN WINTER, ONE MAN FACES AN UNYIELDING CHALLENGE FROM THE BLACKFEET TRIBE.Following numerous battles, Hawley Cooper has grown weary of his confrontations with the Blackfeet. But with seemingly dozens of them swarm...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Legg has published 47 books.

John Legg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, To Face a Savage Time, was published in February 2024.

The first book by John Legg, Cheyenne Lance, was published in January 1980.

Yes. John Legg has 8 series.