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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2000
  • Latest Book:
    December 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Gunsmoke

1 - Blood, Bullets, and Buckskin (Feb-2005)
2 - The Last Dog Soldier (May-2005)
3 - Blizzard of Lead (Sep-2005)
4 - The Reckless Gun (May-2006)
5 - Dodge the Devil (Oct-2006)
6 - The Day of the Gunfighter (Jan-2007)

Johnny Blue

Me and Johnny Blue (May-2000)
Johnny Blue and the Hanging Judge (Jun-2001)
Johnny Blue and the Texas Rangers (Jun-2003)

Multi-Author Series List

Gunsmoke

Blood, Bullets, and Buckskin (Feb-2005)
The Last Dog Soldier (May-2005)
Blizzard of Lead (Sep-2005)
The Reckless Gun (May-2006)
Dodge the Devil (Oct-2006)
The Day of the Gunfighter (Jan-2007)

A Ralph Compton Novel

Showdown at Two-Bit Creek (Jun-2003)
Doomsday Rider (Dec-2003)
Vengeance Rider (Jun-2004)
Donovan's Dove (Jul-2004)
Blood and Gold (Aug-2004)
Guns of the Canyonlands (Feb-2006)
The Tenderfoot Trail (Jul-2006)
The Bloody Trail (Aug-2007)
West of the Law (Oct-2007)
Shadow of the Gun (Feb-2008)
Blood on the Gallows (Aug-2008)
The Convict Trail (Dec-2008)
Rawhide Flat (Feb-2009)
The Man From Nowhere (Jul-2009)
Bounty Hunter (Oct-2009)
Stryker's Revenge (Feb-2010)
Death of a Hangman (Apr-2010)
The Burning Range (Dec-2010)
The Last Manhunt (Mar-2011)
The Stranger from Abilene (Aug-2011)
The Ghost of Apache Creek (Nov-2011)
Slaughter Canyon (Jan-2012)
Down on Gila River (Dec-2012)

Book List in Order: 35 titles




  • Johnny Blue and his faithful sidekick are up to their ears in trouble when the vicious Tube Wilson accuses them of all kinds of crimes and they find themselves defending their lives in the most infamous court in the West....



  • The bones of the first Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered have been unearthed in Montana’s dusty cattle country, circa 1908. But Chinese American detective Chester Wong has another body to worry about -- that of the paleontologist who discovered the...




  • BLOODY HOMECOMING Buck Fletcher headed for Montana’s Two-Bit Creek in order to pay his respects at the graves of his parents. But what awaits him there may land him six feet under as well. First he comes across an unconscious lady bleeding from a ...



  • To win his freedom, a man must save a wayward woman in this Ralph Compton western.Buck Fletcher is facing a twenty-year sentence for a murder he didn’t commit. But he just might have one chance at freedom. Senator Falcon Stark needs a man of Buckâ€...



  • A RACE AGAINST TIME Buck Fletcher plans to ride his horse for a $10,000 prize, money he needs to send his sick daughter to a faraway clinic. Then some outlaws steal his steed--and with it, his sick daughter's last hope. Though it's been ten years ...




  • ALL THAT GLITTERS An inexperienced cowpuncher with a solid work ethic, Dusty Hannah has earned the respect of his boss. Entrusted with S30,000 of the cattle rancher's gold, he must take the fortune across Texas's Red River by way of Indian territo...






  • In this new series from a "writer of extraordinary originality" (Robert Olen Butler), Marshal Matt Dillon keeps Dodge City safe from rustlers, gamblers, and desperados-and rejoins Doc Adams, Kitty Russell, and all the cherished characters from the cl...



  • When the body of Andy Reid, an old prospector and ranch owner, is found in a shallow grave, Marshal Matt Dillon, suspecting foul play, attempts to bring in the McKenna family in for murder, while trying to stop Reid's son, the last of the Dog Soldier...



  • Recovering from a shoot-out on the trail, which left him with a broken leg, Marshal Matt Dillon must go up against a gang of bank robbers, who, during a bad blizzard, take several townspeople hostage, forcing Matt to take some serious action. Origina...



  • A KNOWN MAN Chance Tyree never looks for trouble. But with his reputation as a lethal gunfighter, trouble has a habit of finding him. In the Utah canyonlands, Chance ends up at the wrong end of a rope after he's accused of being a hired killer -- a...



  • U.S. Marshal John Kilcoyn and his friend, county sheriff Bat Materson, battle against renegade Indians, relentless bushwackers, and a former frontier lawman bent on revenge to rescue a local doctor and his daughter. Original....



  • Based on the TV series, this exciting Western adventure follows Marshal Matt Dillon, who, after his session with a fortune teller is interrupted by gunfire, finds himself caught in the middle of a war between a corrupt Colonel and men bent on revenge...



  • ONLY WAY OUT It's called the Whoop-Up Trail. It's a two-hundred-mile stretch of rough terrain between Montana and Canada littered with spiky brushwood, crawling with clawed and fanged critters of all shapes and sizes, and traversed by hostile Indian...



  • While keeping his eye on a prizefight between a rancher and a desperate man in need of money to purchase his sister's freedom, Marshal Matt Dillon deals with a maniacal preacher and his angry mob, as well as a serial killer known as the Moonlight Rip...



  • Marshal Matt Dillon is faced with a difficult choice when he comes to the aid of notorious killer Ed Flynn, a man who had once saved his life, when the vicious Feeney gang gives him an ultimatum--turn Flynn over to them or they will burn Dodge to the...



  • In this Ralph Compton western, a wagon train goes dangerously off course...

    Jeremiah Correy is leading his family in a wagon train to Oregon when his plans are waylaid by a group of bounty hunters led by Sam Madigan, who take a man from Correy...






  • Ordered to head west when a New York gangster puts a price on his head for killing his son, Detective Sergeant John McBride ends up in High Hopes, Colorado-a lawless boomtown where McBride quickly runs afoul of corrupt saloon owner Gamble Trask and h...



  • GHOST TOWN Tam Elliot founded Eden Creek to be a utopia of peace and prosperity. The town achieved neither, and in despair Elliot took his own life. His daughter, Allison, rechristened the town Suicide, blaming the residents for its failure. From he...



  • GUN TALK Former big-city detective John McBride is an easygoing man -- until people rub him the wrong way. So he's less than pleased when he sees three hanged men outside the town of Rest and Be Thankful, and the local lawman warns him to behave if ...



  • Transporting six cold-blooded convicts caged in a prison wagon across hard country, Deputy Marshal Logan Kane needs to watch his back and keep his Colt close at hand. There are rustlers, lynch mobs, and a New Orleans gang to contend with?not to menti...



  • Two men try to escape a town of terror in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.The bustling town of Rawhide Flat is bursting at the seams with hard men and their hard-earned cash from working the nearby Comstock Lode. So when ...



  • One man proves his worth in this Ralph Compton western... When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the "respectable" townsfolk began hanging those who weren't. Town drunk Eddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left ...



  • Bounty Hunter John Tone was good at his job. Some would say ruthless. But when a nefarious criminal from the Barbary Coast makes him an offer he can't refuse, Tone himself becomes the hunted one. As the bounty hunter steels himself for a showdown, he...



  • Lieutenant Steve Stryker has a score to settle with Rake Pierce, who's running guns to the Apaches. Pierce had left Stryker a scarred man and ruined his life. Now it's payback time....



  • Charlie Pike is fulfilling Judge Henry Dryden's dying wish by escorting him to Texas. But an outlaw out for revenge is on their trail, determined that they will never reach their destination....



  • DRILL OR BE DRILLED. The streets of Green Meadow, Oklahoma, are flowing red with blood. At the scene of every grisly murder is a threatening message: Get out! A mysterious villain known as the Fat Man wants the black gold hidden beneath the town, an...






  • Reporter Lester Booker joins legendary gunfighter Rance March on the trail of a dangerous outlaw to learn how the West was really won....



  • Rancher Cage Clayton has been hired to track down a man who years ago left a destructive path in his wake. Though he doesn't know what Lissome Terry looks like, Clayton knows his target is in Bighorn Point, so finding him shouldn't be too hard. But w...



  • HAUNTED Requiem, formerly known as Apache Creek, is a town that has seen better days. After a plague of cholera swept through the streets, the only folks left behind are ghosts, including Marshal Sam Pace. Even though he's still breathing, three yea...



  • The wonderfully weird work of Joseph A. West has graced the covers and interior pages of many a small-press magazine over the years, but until now it has never been collected in a single volume. Aim High exhibits the majority of Mr. West's poetry, pr...



  • Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles has to discover why Hatfield J. Warful is gathering every notorious gunslinger in the West at his home in Slaughter Canyon. And if his mission fails, it could result in a second Civil War....



  • ONE-MAN STAND At fifty, cattle driver Sam Sawyer thinks he can finally dust off and retire, maybe open an eating house. But after a pack of Apache ambushes him and leaves him to die in Gila River country, he barely makes it to a remote ranch. ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joseph A. West has published 35 books.

Joseph A. West does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Down on Gila River, was published in December 2012.

The first book by Joseph A. West, Me and Johnny Blue, was published in May 2000.

Yes. Joseph A. West has 2 series.