Lewis B. Patten

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  • Bibliography:
    99 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    August 2015
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Book List in Order: 99 titles

  • The Red Sabbath

    The Red Sabbath is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Custer and/or the Indian Wars, and, of course, for fans of Lewis Patten's work. This book was the winner of the Spur Award for best western historical novel in 1968....

  • Law of the Gun

    Written by Lewis B Patten. For five years Owen Scobey had successfully hidden his past from young Matt. And during that troubled time he had grown to love the boy as he would have loved his own son. But with that love was fear - fear of the moment wh...

  • Red Runs the River

  • A Killing in Kiowa

  • A Death in Indian Wells

    When Sheriff Pete Handy and his half Indian son are bringing in a prisoner, they find a badly wounded Indian in chains on display in the window of the hardware store. Set in the West in 1872....

  • Showdown at Mesilla

  • The Redskin

    Charlie, the young grandson of a prominent rancher, had been taken hostage by a band of vicious Cheyennes after they hadslaughtered his parents. The search party forced Charlie to act as their scout but Charlie had other ideas....

  • The Hide Hunters

    THE WOMAN WAS BOUND TO BRING TROUBLE... Jess Burdett was just a solitary buffalo hunter, en route to join a group of others in the Indian country south of the Arkansas. The killing of the buffalo was prohibited by treaty, and that meant danger eno...

  • The Cheyenne Pool



  • Angry Town of Pawnee

  • Man Outgunned

  • Ride a Crooked Trail

    A Spur Award-winning Author

    They were discharged Union soldiers, and they were destined to change Jason Willard's entire life. The one with the strange eyes, the big man with the black beard, and the youth with a bloody bandage. They left Jason's ...

  • Tarnished Star

    The Big Four ruled a cattle empire. They were men who had fought and killed to win the land from the Comanches and now they weren't going to turn it over to government squatters...not even if the law demanded it. Violence and murder explode on the pl...

  • Apache Hostage

    For years Canavan had lived in peace with th e Apache. But that time had come to a brutal end. The fierce renegades had swept down from the mountains, his neighbours were massacred and Edith, his fiancee, was taken captive. '...

  • The Posse from Poison Creek

    The minute Sheriff Webb Dolan led the posse out of town he knew he was in serious trouble. The three murdering outlaws were already hours into the deadly Ute Indian country... and some of Dolan's recruits were unfit to go after them. Worse yet, Dolan...

  • Gallows at Graneros

  • Hunt the Man Down

    TWO FULL NOVELS. Hunt the Man Down by Lewis B. Patten: It began with a raging snowstorm and a woman's terrified scream. And suddenly Mike Logan found himself forced to flee for his life, accused of a crime he never committed- hunted by a powerful ra...

  • Ambush at Soda Creek

  • Cheyenne Captives



  • The Law in Cottonwood

  • Ride a Tall Horse

  • The Star and the Gun

  • Pursuit

  • The Angry Horsemen

  • Trail of the Apache

    Frank Healy, and Indian scout, had made plen ty of enemies. But no one hated him more than the vicious Ap ache Kid. When the Kid escaped from prison and kidnapped Hea ly''s wife, Healy knew he was the intended victim. '...

  • Two for Vengeance

  • Outlaw Canyon

  • The Tired Gun

  • Vengeance Rider



  • Guns at Gray Butte

  • The Gun of Jesse Hand

  • Villa's Rifles

  • Six Ways of Dying

  • Ride the Hot Wind

    Arroyo Blanco County was a powder keg of bottled-up resentment and potential murder. The scorching sun and deadly drought were felling the cattle like flies and, very soon now, Adam Guthrie was going to foreclose on the bedeviled ranchers. One man st...

  • The Best Western Stories of Lewis B. Patten

    Patten’s characters are real people whose lives are shattered by the violence of a gunshot, who suffer from the brutality of misplaced hatred, and who sometimes succeed in living off the rugged land of the We...

  • Sharpshod

  • They Called Him a Killer

  • Wild Waymire

  • Rifles of Revenge



  • Gun Proud

  • The Prodigal Gunfighter

    Slade Teplin was said to have killed sixteen men, and he was not yet thirty. Today Teplin was returning home. The little town of Cottonwood Springs wasn't preparing a friendly reception. They waited and wondered -- why was Slade coming back after all...

  • Death Rides a Black Horse

    Frank Halliday was only a boy when his father died, but with his life in deadly danger, he became a man fast. Rafe Joslin, his father's longtime foreman, would inherit the vast Halliday ranch if anything happened to Frank. And Joslin seemed bent ...

  • Lynching at Broken Butte

    In Lynching at Broken Butte, an attempt on his life makes U.S. Marshal August Cragg suspicious about the local townsfolk, and in Sunblade, a land-hungry range owner is targeted by his worst enemy--his son. Original....

  • Home is the Outlaw

  • Tincup in the Storm Country

    Mart Joliffe and his pa owned the Tincup cattle ranch high in the Colorado storm country, up near the Utah border. When sheep rancher John Robineau moved his sheep herd onto Tincup graze land, trouble wasn't far behind. Available now....

  • No God in Saguaro

  • Death Stalks Yellowhorse

  • Trail to Vicksburg

    In "The Golden Magnet," Cole Estes escourts Norah Forrest to Denver, only to learn that her father, Cole's boss, has been murdered, and in the title work, Jeff Hueston drives his family's cattle to New Orleans, but finds the city is occupied by Union...

  • The Feud at Chimney Rock



  • The Orphans of Coyote Creek

  • Ambush Creek

    The appearance of a riderless horse in Unionville was the first sign of trouble. Sheriff Condon recognized it instantly as the stage guard's horse, and when he noticed the bloodstained saddle he began to fear the worst. Condon's fiancee, Lucy, was on...

  • The Ruthless Range

    Jason Mellor wanted to escape the reputation that had been tightening around his neck like a noose for years. So he took a job at the Grandee Ranch, hoping to hide out under an alias and spend the rest of his days in peace. But in just a matter of da...

  • The Track of the Hunter

    They shipped Frank Latham home in a coffin with a bullet in his back and said no one was to blame. They said Frank was a murderer and deserved what he got. Nobody mourned Frank except for his wife, Bess and his two half-Apache sons. One woman and two...

  • Sunblade

  • The Trail of the Apache Kid

    When the Apache Kid, a notoriously vicious killer, escapes from jail, he seeks revenge on Frank Healey, the professional Indian scout who captured him, by using Healey's young wife to lure him into a deadly confrontation...

  • The Scaffold at Hangman's Creek

  • The Youngerman Guns

    It was seven years since Dan Youngerman had ridden with his brother Sam in the infamous Youngerman gang. Dan Youngerman was on the other side of the fence now, as lawman in a peaceful Kansas town. But that peace was ending. The Youngerman gang was r...

  • Death Rides the Denver Stage

  • The Arrogant Guns

  • Bones of the Buffalo

  • Bounty Man

  • Cheyenne Drums

  • The Woman at Ox-Yoke

    Two gripping short novels in one volume capture the excitement of the Old West and include "The Guns in Greasewood Valley," in which two brothers become immersed in a war when one brother uses violence to defend his wife's honor. Original....

  • Ride the Red Trail

    Three exciting short novels by the master of frontier fiction capture the wild spirit of the Old West and include Summer Kill, in which two sons seek revenge against the man who brutally murdered their father during a nighttime trail ride. Re...

  • Gun This Man Down!

    Young Ernie Waymire inherits his father's bitterness toward the Hunnicutts when his fiancee, Irene Hunnicutt, betrays him; Matt Hurst seeks justice when a sheriff's posse kills his father and brothers...

  • Blood on the Grass

    One of the recurring themes of Lewis B. Patten's work has long been justice in the Old West. In "Blood on the Grass," Barton Pruitt returns to Arapahoe, intent on ranching on what had been his father's spread. But that doesn't sit well with the giant...

  • Guns of Vengeance

    When rancher Nick Kenyon, during a devastating drought, diverts the remaining water to his ranch, Walt Rand, the owner of the Double R ranch who is tired of Nick's troublemaking and greed, decides to take him down in a hail of bullets. Reprint....

  • Back Trail

    Spur Award-winning Author

    Alex Longmire very early earned a reputation for being fast with a gun. He never hired out his ability, but his reputation served to isolate him from everyone. When an attack against Alex by Rod Zellman ends with Zellman'...

  • Odds Against Circle L

    This book is written by Lewis B Patten. Tag Landry's brother meant to kill him, and in a drunken frenzy might just as easily shoot the old man too. Tag realised that he was outnumbered as he returned at last to Landry, Wyoming. There were too many on...

  • Sundown

    A Spur Award-winning Author
    A Golden Saddleman Award-winning Author

    Two of Lewis B. Patten's finest short novels appear now in book form for the first time. Thomas Cady in "Texas Maverick" returns to his home range in southern Texas following ...

  • Shadow of the Gun

    The Killing opens with Rudy Coulter dead, shot by Arch Dorrance in a jealous rage when Arch had come home to find his wife in Rudy s arms. Dorrance s act is considered justified and he is acquitted. The Coulter family objects to the verdict, and when...

  • Guilt of a Killer Town

    A Spur Award-winning Author

    The minute he rode into his old hometown, Medicine Arrow, Frank Kailey knew something was wrong. Behind the blank stares of his former friends lurked a terrible secret . . . a secret that directly involved him. What it ...

  • Massacre at San Pablo

  • Top Man With A Gun

  • The Killer from Yuma

  • Montana Gunfighter

    In the title story, Roan Childress has a small ranch in Montana. An incursion by rustlers has left him without the where-with-all to make his next mortgage payment to the bank. For this reason he lent an ear to Colonel Simon Houston, a big rancher in...

  • The Ruthless Men

  • The Trial at Apache Junction

  • Gene Autry and the Ghost Riders

  • Savage Desert

  • Hang Him High

    Here are two short novels by Lewis B. Patten, written at the height of his powers, collected now for the first time in book form. Dance-Hall Gal is the story of young Tom Otis. Since he was old enough to ride herd, he worked on his father s Anchor ...

  • Canon Creek

  • The Odds Against Circle

  • Lawless Town

    "Death of a Gunfighter" finds Walt Street on a stagecoach bound for Escalante, Colorado, where he hopes to reunite with his wife after two years of living without violence at her request. When fellow passenger Ben Rawlins recognizes him as a man with...

  • Lone Rider

    Presents two short novels, in one of which, there appears to be a conspiracy against two brothers with a profitable ranch, when one brother appears to be ambused by his brother after an argument, but the other brother is in jail accused of murder and...

  • Giant on Horseback

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    Ruthlessly, Clint Morgan had built up the giant Sombrero Ranch until it was the biggest and the best in all the New Mexico Territory. But a shadow fell over the range land when Clint's bastard son, Morgan Lamb, arrived from the East, bringing with hi...

  • The Guilty Guns

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  • Gunsmoke Empire

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  • Hangman's Country

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  • The Homesteader

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    A Spur Award-winning Author

    Jed Holley had staked a claim on Shavano Creek. There were only a few homesteaders there, but that was a few too many for men like the Custis brothers. And they were mean enough and tough enough to do something about it...

  • The Killings at Coyote Springs

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    Double the value, double the excitement--two classic Westerns for one low price. When a band of Indians is slaughtered in retaliation for the massacre at Little Bighorn, a U.S. marshal's investigation threatens to start another war in The Killings at...

  • The Man Who Rode Alone

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  • Massacre at White River

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  • Massacre Ridge

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    A Spur Award-winning Author

    Jess Paddock was the only man in Fort Kearny who knew what was going on. As a former major in the Confederate Army he'd fought with the best of them, and his knowledge of Indian warfare was second to none. There was no ...

  • The Ordeal of Jason Ord

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  • Rope Law

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  • The Savage Country

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  • Showdown at War Cloud

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  • Vow Of Vengeance

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Award-Winning Books by Lewis B. Patten

A Killing in Kiowa
1972 SPUR Award -- Western Novel
The Red Sabbath
1968 SPUR Award -- Historical Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lewis B. Patten has published 99 books.

Lewis B. Patten does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lone Rider, was published in August 2015.

The first book by Lewis B. Patten, The Red Sabbath, was published in January 1968.

No. Lewis B. Patten does not write books in series.
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