R. William Rogers

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2002
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Toward A New Beginning

    Although Sam Bartlett enjoyed a successful horse-supplying business in Independence, Missouri, he was nonetheless envious of the hoards of folks who passed through on their way west. Unable to stand it any longer, he convinces his wife, Judith, to pu...

  • Uncertain Times

    With their harrowing journey across the Great Plains now successfully behind them, Sam and Jay begin building and defending The Bartlett in the savage Comanche lands of what is now, southeastern Colorado. Their rewards are all they had hoped for as t...

  • Shattered Dreams

    With Tom and Sue now married, much of their focus in on building a loving relationship. The ranch continues to flourish while the railroad draws ever closer to becoming a reality. However, not all is well, as the local banker, Arthur Rhodes, has a de...

  • Birdsong of the Penateka

    BIRDSONG OF THE PENATEKA is an unlikely love story between two members of opposing Comanche tribes. It is a must read for fans of the award-winning: Book 1 of The Arkansas Valley Series, titled: TOWARD A NEW BEGINNING. It continues the exploits of th...

  • Mustang Justice

    After Tom's untimely and mysterious death, Sue continues the legacy of The Bartlett. It isn't until nearly a year later following the arrival to the valley of a troubled gunfighter, Clint Blackman, that strides are made to clear up the mystery and br...

  • Shiloh Ranch

    Along with the deaths of Arthur Rhodes and his henchmen, comes a time of security and well-being to the Arkansas Valley in general and The Bartlett Ranch in particular, that has now been renamed Shiloh. As Clint and Sue embark on a rewarding and frui...

  • Kindled Faith

    In this, the final book in The Arkansas Valley Series, Chad, his sister, Becky, and their long-time friend, Nate, are taken from their families by a trio of vengeful heathens who are intent on holding them for ransom.During the course of their harrow...

  • Rails Along The Valley

    The AT&SF Railroad finally comes to the Arkansas Valley. But its construction is not without peril, bigotry and outright hatred. Right along with the arrival of the railroad comes the need for compassion and understanding as the Chinese workmen are s...

  • Minor League Misfits

    Even though Stacy Milner has a much different goal in mind, she doesn't expect nor even want any special treatment. She just wants a chance to show the other ballplayers what she's brought to camp. With the rest of the team caring more about getting ...



  • Ordeal On Elkhorn Peak

    Duane Applegate and Alex Stapleton are life-long friends, who, during their annual elk-hunting trip into the rugged Colorado Rockies, find themselves being stalked by a misguided, deranged, local resident. After Duane is forced to take the man’s l...

  • Timeout For Baseball

    The Walker City Silver Sox are not even close to being a team. They are in fact a collection of talented individuals, each of whom has a common goal in mind...to make it to the show.With that in mind, lace up those spikes, (if they still fit), dust o...

  • She Wore It Tied-Down

    When pretty Dolly Randolph, barely seventeen, naive, and helpless to prevent it, is viciously assaulted and her beloved father is killed, it sets in motion a driving hatred that can only be appeased by the killing of the unscrupulous man and his two ...

  • Trooper Hansel

    Set around the battlefields of Lexington, Missouri, this is the mostly-true story of Willard ‘Bud’ Hansel and Zeke ‘Junebug’ Jamison. It depicts the grim realities of the downright hatred and vengeance that shaped the lives of those who fough...

  • Cripple's Golden Pioneers

    With small amounts of gold now having begun showing up around Fremont, it was just a matter of time before the unsavory types began showing up as well. What with the town being without a lawmen of its own, Pastor Chad Blackman agrees to fill the empt...

  • Poverty Gulch

    The Cripple Creek Mining District Series is a fact-based accounting of the discovery and early development of the gold fields in and around Cripple Creek, Colorado. Poverty Gulch tells the true story of how that gold was first discovered.History tell...

  • Trail To Washoe

    With Bud and Junebug now safely out of the war, they embark on a harrowing trip that stretches from Independence, Missouri, to Washoe City, Nevada.Their intent is to drive a herd of about sixty head of horses and mules to the lumber camps at the foot...

  • From The Shadows of Mount Pisgah

    With the gold now showing up just about anywhere a fella takes a notion to stomp the business end of a shovel into a pile of dirt, comes an influx of hopeful prospectors and their families.The new arrivals are followed closely by untold numbers of op...

  • Stanton: Journeys of The Heart Collection

    After the loss of his dearly-loved wife of six years to an ailment the doc said was ‘consumption’, James Stanton finds himself torn between the memory of her and the guilt-ridden turmoil inside him that prevents him from committing to another wom...

  • Gideon Hartman

    Sheriff Gideon Hartman is not only fast on the draw, but quick to pull the trigger as well, especially when a favorable result involves reward money...that being, reward money that is sorely needed to sustain the town’s church and thereby satisfy t...



  • A Dream Fulfilled

    Life on the eastern Kansas plains in the 1850’s was tenuous at best. Add to that, marauding bands of thieving Comanches, and a fella would start having notions of moving his clan the heck out of there.With the biggest part of his cattle having been...

  • Divine Discovery

    Along with the settling of the South Park Basin, comes the need to build the necessary structures on each of the individual homesteads. But when Becky falls deathly ill, things look bleak for her and her intended, Seth Clarkson.Life in the South Park...

  • Turmoil

    With Sam now well on the road to recovery, things get back to a semblance of normalcy in the South Park Basin. The Circle C continues to flourish to the point where another trip to the stockyards in Georgetown becomes necessary. It is during that jou...

  • The Redemption of Arnie Bradbury

    Arnie Bradbury had always been saddled with a bit of a rambunctious and troublesome nature about him. When Seth and Becky Clarkson come across him and a couple of unscrupulous outlaws changing brands on stock that belongs to the Circle C outfit, Arni...

  • An Unlikely Friendship

    Wesley Swanson had just a few months prior turned thirteen and was now well on his way to becoming an integral part of the Circle C cattle ranching outfit. But all that gets shoved aside after an encounter with a massive grizzly that changes everythi...

  • Wesley and Little Fawn

    The railroad has finally come to Como, bringing with it the promise of a whole new way of doing business for the Circle C spread.But even that has to take a back seat to Wesley’s attempts to tie up the loose ends that stand between him and Little F...

  • A Shared Wish

    After noticing one another on the stock/passenger train that was headed for the pens in Buena Vista, Emily “Sissy” Swanson and Ansel Cnningham are thrown together after the train is derailed.Smitten with one another right from the start, and left...

  • What The Lord Hath Provided

    Nearly thirty years after first claiming their homesteads in the South Park Basin of what is now central Colorado, the Clarkson and Swansons had used the formative years to wisely build a well-respected cattle ranching empire that over the years had ...

  • Second Thoughts

    All alone after the loss of her beloved mother and father, at the tender age of seventeen and with nothing left to her but the memories, Lois James answers an advertisement that promises a husband to care for her and a new life in Wichita.While on th...

  • Remembrance

    Tinsdale and Jennifer Carter had enjoyed a relatively trouble-free seven years of blissful marriage until one dreadful morning when, as a result of a tragic accident, all that became barely a memory for Tinsdale and an empty void for Jennifer.With Ti...



  • A Beau For Becky

    Having lost both her parents to a devastating tornado, fourteen-year-old Rebecca Ann Jordan is raised for the next few years by her only living relatives, an aunt and uncle in Salina, Kansas.Although she is treated well by them, she nonetheless event...

  • Springtime In Walker City

    The Walker City Silver Sox are not even close to being a cohesive baseball team. They are in fact a collection of talented individuals, all of whom have a common goal in mind...to make it to the show.With that in mind, lace up those spikes, (if they ...

  • Free To Choose

    Jake Pinkerton had started out alright enough, but after his mother had passed, he lost his way and reverted to running the streets of Albany with a bunch of losers who were barely managing to remain one step ahead of the law.After Jake's father, Tyl...

  • A Dream Fulfilled - Book One

    Life out on the windswept eastern Kansas plains in the 1850's was tenuous at best. Add to that, marauding bands of thieving Comanches, and a fella would start having notions of moving his clan the heck out of there.With the last of his cattle having ...

  • An Eye For An Eye

    With their temporary log-and-sod ranch house now complete, John and the rest of the Cuchara Valley homesteaders set their sights on obtaining a herd of longhorns to get their ranch off on the right foot. The ensuing journey to a cattle town gets comp...

  • Heaven's Outskirts

    Twenty-three-year-old John Wainwright was pretty much a loner. He was purely content to happen around the mountains, tending his traps and living the loner existance the Lord had steered him to.But all that was tossed by the wayside the day a couple ...

  • The Spoon

    This story is not necessarily one of the Civil War, or the gold-seekers that were darned near everywhere around the area, but rather one of the coming together and fighting for survival of a bunch of cattle ranchers that settled in and around the Cuc...

  • Stanton

    After the loss of his dearly-loved wife of six years to an ailment the doc said was 'consumption', James Stanton finds himself torn between the memory of her and the guilt-ridden turmoil inside him that prevents him from committing to another woman.W...

  • Starting Over

    After losing their parents in a tragic stagecoach accident, siblings Stella and Mark Crawford are faced with braving the unknown as they set out to complete their journey to Wichita to finish what their father had started and take over the mercantile...

  • A Time To Love

    Drake Slater hadn't been held in high esteem around town since shortly after his mother had been taken from him three years earlier as a result a terrible accident that had come about through no fault of her own.Although he wasn't all that happy with...



  • The Way Home

    Driving a herd of three-hundred head of ornery, opinionated cattle, from Dodge City, Kansas, to a fella's homestead in the Cuchara Valley of southeastern Colorado, isn't an easy matter by any man's measure. Then add to that the fact that three of the...

  • When Dreams Come True

    Rebecca had spent nearly her entire twenty-three years as a seemingly forsaken orphan in a Catholic-ran orphanage in Chicago. However, when one of the Sisters informs her of an advertisement for a wife and mother to replace the one who had been lost ...

  • Restless Gun

    When one of John Silverman's closest friends is murdered by the notorious gunman, Texas Willie Barnes, it sets in motion a consuming vengeance that ushers John into becoming a first-rate gunman before setting out to find Texas Willie. With nothing mu...

  • Payback

    After a devastating tragedy turns John Silverman's life upside down, he is consumed with tracking down and dealing with the pair of viscous, unscrupulous brothers who are responsible. Realizing that his sheriff's badge would only complicate matters, ...

Award-Winning Books by R. William Rogers

Toward A New Beginning
2003 Christy Award -- Western


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

R. William Rogers has published 43 books.

R. William Rogers does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Payback, was published in October 2022.

The first book by R. William Rogers, Toward A New Beginning, was published in January 2002.

No. R. William Rogers does not write books in series.
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