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  • Bibliography:
    63 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Walt Slade

1 - Texas Vengeance (Apr-2017)
2 - Rimrock Raiders (Jun-2012)
3 - The Avenger (Sep-2012)
5 - Powder Burn (Feb-2010)
6 - Curse of Texas Gold (Feb-2008)
9 - Gun Law (Feb-2010)
11 - Holster Law ()
13 - Texas Terror (Jun-2012)
14 - Gunsmoke over Texas (Jun-2012)
15 - The Pecos Trail ()
19 - Dead Man's Trail (Apr-2000)
25 - Valley of Hunted Men ()
28 - The Blaze of Guns ()
30 - Two-Gun Devil (Jan-2011)
33 - Skeleton Trail (Jun-2012)
34 - Rangers at Bay (Jan-1961)
35 - Rangeland Guns (Nov-2011)
51 - Outlaw Gold ()
55 - Doom Trail (1962)
65 - Gun Justice (Jul-2016)
75 - Guns for Hire (Sep-2011)
76 - Death's Corral (Jan-2017)
81 - Horseman of the Shadows (Jun-2012)
83 - Raiders of the Rio Grande ()
84 - Range Ghost ()
134 - Haunted Valley (Aug-2008)
137 - Outlaw Roundup ()
Border Daring (Jan-1973)
Sixguns in a Bloody Dawn (Nov-2010)

Book List in Order: 63 titles









  • TWO LEGENDARY TEXAS RANGERS IN ONE VOLUME They were the law in a lawless land, the peacekeepers in a time of violent chaos. The elite Texas Rangers were given the jobs no one else wanted. Now in paperback for the first time, you can read about two of...



  • Join bestselling author Bradford Scott's most famous Texas Rangers for two action-packed adventures, now presented in paperback for the first time. In "Drums of Doom" Walt Slade goes undercover to nab a ruthless band of cattle rustlers. But what awai...



  • Welcome to a Texas Boom Town -- Where outlaws ride roughshod and lawmen are laid low! Where a vicious gang, greed-crazed for gold, guns down anyone who stands in their path! Where Walt Slade, undercover ace of the Texas Rangers, is marked for ...







  • Cliff Hardy didn't know where he was going, and he didn't particularly care. He rode into Ragtown with his red sorrel, two Colt .45s, and forty dollars. He's leaving town with all that plus a six-horse team, a freight wagon, and an extra two hundred ...




  • Old John Webb reigned the range like a veritable overlord. But times were changing. And even he couldn't control the raging Cimarron. Getting the herd across the river wasn't his job, though. That task fell to his trail boss, Austin Brant, to figure ...





  • Huck Brannon took top honors when it came to hard riding and fast shooting. But his dream was to own a ranch. When a salty cowpoke named Old Tom showed him a faded scrap that was supposed to be a map to a lost mine full of treasure, Huck just couldn'...




  • Walt Slade saw the stab of red and heard the shriek of lead as twenty horses suddenly bulged from the canyon side in the moonlight. His knees clamped Shadow' and the black horse went into a shifting' weaving dance. Again a gun barked. Then...



  • DOUBLE DANGER for Walt Slade, undercover ace lieutenant of the Texas Rangers. He is the man most feared by the owlhoots and drygulchers of the old Texas Border. The sight of this tall lawman with the lightning-fast draw astride his great black horse,...










  • ''Elevate! In the name of the state of Texas!''The answer was a wild yell and the gleam of gun barrels in the moonlight. The Ranger’s hands flashed up and down. His first shot boomed before the outlaws could open fire. Then there was an explosion o...



  • ''Trouble in El Paso - clear it up!''That was Slade’s job - to find the man behind the rustling, the killings, the destruction that had both sides of the Rio Grande ready to explode.Slade opened the game by shooting two rustlers out of their saddle...



  • “What do you want?” they asked, the first time they shot at Walt Slade. “Fork your bronc, or die!” they warned, the second time they fired. The third time they said nothing. What do you say when you blast a Texas Ranger in the back. Outgunne...



  • “It’ll be a powerful big chore for one man to clean out that nest of cutthroat rattlesnakes!” But Jim McNelty, Captain of the Rangers, was sure that if any man could rid Texas of the vicious Rimrock Raiders, it was his ace lieutenant, Walt Slad...



  • Skeleton Trail was lined with the corpses of countless peons, ranchers, and lawmen who had died or vanished at the hands of Veck Sosna and his vicious Comancheros. Walt Slade found the trail and followed it into the dread Valley of Tears where Sosna ...



  • The air rocked to a crashing report …Slade drew his guns with a blur of motion and whirled sideways to face the outlaws. Their guns were out and they were shooting with both hands. Bullets stormed past The Hawk, but his big Colts boomed again and a...







  • In this first book in a debut thriller series, attorney-turned-fishing-guide Jake Trent's idyllic life is upended when he finds himself at the center of a series of grisly killings set around picturesque Jackson Hole. It's early summer in Jackson, Wy...



  • The fabulous oil fields were opening up -- and the open range was being closed off. Violence and whining bullets marked the struggle between the cattlemen and the new oil millionaires until Walt Slade rode in to bring peace to the warring factions. B...



  • A bloody gun feud between rival freight haulers threatened to rip apart the peace and quiet of Sanderson, Texas until Walt Slade -- the undercover Texas Ranger -- compelled law and order. But each side accused the other of murder as a brutal series o...



  • Ghosts range -- fearsome figures in gleaming armor, spirits of the conquistadores -- are striking terror into the herdsmen of Texas' Matagorda Bay country.... But maybe, a skeptical Slade told himself, they're not ghosts -- just smart owlhoots wrapp...



  • El Paso was ready for trouble, as Ranger undercover agent Walt Slade found when he rode in -- and was nearly gunned down by quick-triggered citizens, suspicious of any stranger. For a stranger might be one of the dreaded Starlight Riders, who raided ...



  • The terse command cracked through Texas Ranger headquarters like a rifle shot -- and no one had to be told that the most dangerous assignment ever handed out was custom-made for the coolest lawman of them all, Walt Slade! For a hot, bloody week Slade...



  • "Ghosts range -- fearsome figures in gleaming armor, spirits of the conquistadores -- are striking terror into the herdsmen of Texas' Matagorda Bay country.... But maybe, a skeptical Slade told himself, they're not ghosts -- just smart owlhoots wrapp...



  • Harlow's gaze dropped to Slade's cartridge belts...

    "Two-gun man, eh?" he said. "Reckon the Bowmans brought you in to do their fighting for them. Just want to tell you that'll be a hefty chore even for -- Walt Slade!"

    There was a stir at the ...



  • Walt Slade, ace lieutenant of the Texas Rangers, is the man most feared by the owlhoots and drygulchers of the old Texas Border. The sight of this tall lawman with the lightning-fast draw astride his great black horse, Shadow, symbolizes defense of t...



  • Corpus Christi is the most murderous, thieving, God-forsaken hole in the Lone Star State. When Walt Slade rides in, he knows he is setting himself up as a target. ...






  • A RACE WITH DEATH! The mighty bridge crossing the Rio Grande was to be the final step in the completion of the railroad and the taming of the West. But when Ranger Walt Slade saw the plans, he knew there was a sinister enemy at work -- for the bridge...



  • They called him Bajo el Sol -- “sundown” -- and his guns had blazed a trail of death across Texas. Now the sundown killer was dead -- or was he? Witnesses said yes -- but bullet-riddled dead men were mute testimony that Bajo el Sol still ...



  • Violence and rumored rebellion had turned the border country into a powder keg primed to explode at any second. The mysterious “Liberator" called for war -- and men who spoke against him died suddenly! Walt Slade, undercover ace of the Texas Rang...



  • The hooded Faceless Riders had spread a trail of terror and death along the Rio Grande. Striking where they were least expected, the outlaw band had thrown the whole territory into panic. And the toll from their guns was overflowing Boot Hill. As th...



  • To some, Walt Slade is a fearless Texas Ranger. Others know him by his undercover identity, EL HALCON - The Hawk - a lightning-fast gunhand who pursues justice for the oppressed. ...



  • One by one they faced him. One by one they died… Only four hours after Walt Slade landed in Los Angeles, he was locked in a desperate life-and-death struggle with the gang of killers he had trailed over a thousand miles. One by one they faced him...





  • The prairie surrounding Redmon, Texas is a cattlemen's empire, where the barons of the open range live in almost feudal splendour. But the railroad is fighting its way into the territory, attended by tumult, violence and death. There are plenty of pe...



  • Secrecy, armed guards - nothing stops the Night Riders. Nobody knows who they are or where they come from - only that no gold and no lives are safe while they ride. Walt Slade, undercover ace of the Texas Rangers, is the man most feared by the owlhoo...



  • Oil and bullets - Sanderson City has swallowed plenty of both. When Walt Slade arrives to put a lid on the violence, the town is set to blow sky-high in his face. A lit fuse, a shotgun blast in the dark...and the ace undercover Texas Ranger is plunge...






  • There was a range war brewing: cattlemen against farmers, a familiar kind of trouble. But when Slade rode into Oresta - and into a hail of bullets - he found things weren't that simple. He put a stop to the range war, all right; but then the outl...



  • Texas Ranger Walt Slade, a relentless and fearless lawman, takes on the brutal Campo Santo gang, desert killers who rode in a hail of gunfire into the bustling boomtown of Washout and left it littered with corpses.Alexander Leslie Scott (1893-1974), ...



  • Blazing Guns on the Texas RangeWalt Slade is a relentless Texas Ranger... the mere sight of this tall lawman, with his lightning-fast draw, astride his great black horse Shadow, is enough to send most outlaws running for their lives. Not this time. S...







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    More than a year ago, Walt Slade had followed the bandit leader Muerte Blanca across the Rio Grande and killed him in a gun battle. But now some enterprising owlhoot was trading on Muerte Blanca's sinister reputation and cashing in. As undercover ace...



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    Three hundred trigger-happy cowhands are on a march from Texas to the cattle market at Dodge City. Suddenly a herd owner and his range boss were found murdered. Suspicions flared. Trigger fingers began itching. Nearly every cowhand present was a Texa...



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    • / Historical
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    Slade and his men watched the smugglers' boat being poled across the Rio Grande. As the craft touched the bank, the contraband buyers swarmed to meet it - and five horsemen pounded into sight, shooting as they came! Slade sent his horse pounding down...



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    When Walt Slade rode into Benton, the town was in the grip of death. Two railroad companies were in a battle to bridge the raging Pecos River first and win the right to lay track all the way to El Paso. Fists flew. Trigger fingers itched. Hijackers a...



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    “A BELLY FULL OF LEAD for the man who opens the door!” Slade muttered as he looked through the cabin window and saw the shotgun lashed to the table -- rigged, to blast when the door was disturbed. “An old trick,” the Ranger thought -- ...



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    The Panhandle is poised for violence as one spread after another loses cattle to mysterious rustlers. Walt Slade, the hawk of the Texas Rangers, drifts quietly into Amarillo. That wild and woolly frontier town is more dangerous than a she-grizzly. Sl...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bradford Scott has published 63 books.

The next book by Bradford Scott, Hot Lead, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Bradford Scott, Silver City, was published in January 1953.

Yes. Bradford Scott has 1 series.