Matt Braun

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  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    June 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Brannocks

1 - The Brannocks (May-1986)
2 - Windward West (Feb-1987)
4 - A Distant Land (Mar-1988)

A Luke Starbuck Novel

Hangman's Creek (Jun-1979)
The Manhunter (Aug-1981)
The Judas Tree (Jun-1992)
The Last Stand (Jun-1998)
The Spoilers (Sep-2002)
Tombstone (Sep-2002)
The Overlords (Jan-2003)
Deadwood (Aug-2003)

Pinkerton Detective Agency

The Highbinders (Jun-2004)
Crossfire (Aug-2004)
The Wages of Sin (Nov-2004)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • The Kincaids

    The classic, Golden Spur Award-winning novel of a man, a family, and a nation.He came off the frontier: a buffalo hunter, a gambler, a loner. In Abilene he won a saloon at cards, and earned the fear of a lawless town. From then on, Jake Kincaid would...

  • Hangman's Creek

    A Luke Starbuck Novel

    "MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer KeltonIn a place called No Man's LandTexas rancher Ben Langham hired Luke Starbuck for his loyalty and toughness gained by riding with Rip Ford's Texas volunteers. But when Langham sent...

  • Jury of Six

    LONE GUN ON THE VENGEANCE TRAIL Ben Langham was dead, his body riddled with bullets, buzzards picking at his bones. And Luke Starbuck, who loved Langham like a father, knew who did it. A savage, fast-as-lightning killer named William Bonney, a.k.a. ...

  • The Manhunter

    A Luke Starbuck Novel

    In a lawless landWhen Luke Starbuck takes on a wealthy banker as a client, the only thing more compelling than the paycheck is his prey. The James-Younger gang has confounded countless detectives, including the men of the Pinkerton Agency. Now it'...

  • El Paso

    The Old West comes vividly to life in two novels from bestselling author Matt Braun -- America's authentic voice of the Western FrontierEL PASOIt is 1881. El Paso, Texas, is at a crossroads. A booming sin city crawling with corrupt politicians and gu...

  • Bloodstorm

  • Mattie Silks

  • Kinch

  • The Brannocks

    Brannocks - 1

    THE WEST WAS THEIRS FOR THE WINNING Three brothers, coming from a defeated South. heading west to build new lives in the boom town of Denver. Earl Brannock, who would gamble on anything, be it a turn of a card or a woman's smile. Virgil Brannock, ...



  • Windward West

    Brannocks - 2

    The Brannock brothers couldn't be more different, but they have one thing in common: the drive to make their dreams come true in the wild and wide-open southwest territory. Virgil Brannock's got plans-big plans: From Washington D.C. to the most desol...

  • A Distant Land

    Brannocks - 4

    THREE MEN CONQUERED THE FRONTIER... Three Brannock brothers once came west. Now, one of them survives, and Clint Brannock feels the weight of responsibility as he does his job as a U.S. deputy marshal. Hunting down an outlaw in the Indian territori...

  • Gambler's Gold

  • Tenbow

    At the foot of the Wind River Mountains and just east of the continental divide was Tenbow Valley, eighty miles of rich, watered graze on the way to Oregon territory. From Cheyenne, Jack Stillman has come to Tenbow to solve a string of murders. Each ...

  • The Judas Tree

    A Luke Starbuck Novel

    A STRANGER NAMED STARBUCK -- IN A TOWN THAT RESEMBLED HELL Luke Starbuck rode into Virginia City expecting trouble. The town was built on gold, and greed had turned it into a mother lode of murder. Starbuck didn't know who was worse -- the trigger...

  • Black Fox

    BASED ON A TRUE STORY NORTH OF THE BRAZOS, SOUTH OF INDIAN TERRITORY, THEY MATCHED COURAGE AGAINST COURAGE, IN A BATTLE TO SAVE THEIR HOME. For decades the Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land f...

  • Outlaw Kingdom

    In 1889, Bill Tilghman joined the historic land rush that transformed a raw frontier into Oklahoma Territory. A lawman by trade, he set aside his badge to make his fortune in the boomtowns. Yet Tilghman was called into service once more, on a bold, r...

  • Lords of the Land

    Hank Laird had never laid claim to sainthood.mtruth is, his enemies would be quick to swear that the man was the devil himself -- a reputation Laird earned as one of the most hardscrabble men ever to grace the soil of South Texas. With grit, gold ...

  • Bloody Hand

    Bloody HandMatt BraunHe found a people who needed his courage…Born a slave, Jim Beckwirth forged his own path to freedom as a mountain man. But when a wealthy trading company owner offered to pay him to live among the Crow Indians, Beckwirth accept...

  • Wyatt Earp


    Before the legend, there was the man...and a powerful destiny to fulfill.

    On October 26, 1881, three outlaws lay dead in a dusty vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona. Standing over them-- Colts smoking-- were Wyatt Earp, his two brothers Morga...



  • Cimarron Jordan

    Cimarron JordanMatt BraunOn the western plains, they forged a friendship in courage...and ended it in blood.From Abilene to the Smoky Hill country, they fought and hunted side by side. And when they went their separate ways, each knew they would meet...

  • Noble Outlaw

    SON OF A PREACHER. MASTER OF THE GUN. A DEADLY ENEMY. John Wesley Hardin's powderkeg temper earned him twelve bodies by age twenty, and a place at the top of the Texas MOST WANTED list. But now he's a husband and a father, and thinks his...

  • Texas Empire

    TEXAS EMPIREMATT BRAUN Jack Jordan, an Indian fighter turned trailblazer and cattleman, is willing to risk it all for a spread of Texas land in the uncharted Llano Estacado -- and for the adventure of a lifetime.Already a legend before turning thirty...

  • The Savage Land

    Print Oliver gave his blood and his soul for the Confederacy. Then he came home to find his family ranch under siege from Union carpetbaggers and his neighbors turned against him. For the Texan there was no choice but to blaze a trail toward power, r...

  • Rio Hondo

    In a land of long red sunsets, Clint and Vi Gil Brannock had carved out a sweeping homestead along the lush banks,of the Rio Hondo. But now Clint has been called North to fight the Apache wars, and Virgil, driven by his ambition, is corralling mustan...

  • The Gamblers

    They towered over the frontier: men like Hickok, Custer, Cody, and Earp. From Tombstone to Abilene, on a sprawling, rugged frontier, they forged a life by their cunning and courage. And between these gambling men--some who lost and some who won--was ...

  • Doc Holliday: The Gunfighter

    A MAN OF DIGNITY AND PRIDE, HE TOLERATED NO INSULT FROM OUTLAWS, CARDSHARPS OR SAVAGE KILLERS. He came from the American South, a gentleman by breeding, a dentist by training, a gambler by vocation. But as Dr. John H. Holliday, a man fleeing his tra...

  • One Last Town


    Bill Tilghman was the real thing, a lawman who wore his badge for one reason alone: to bring criminals to justice. Master novelist Matt Braun captures the final days of this extraordinary manhunter--when he faces a heroic fight on the bloody corr...

  • The Last Stand

    A Luke Starbuck Novel

    It is the land of Five Civilized Tribes, stolen from its people by a Federal government determined to make Oklahoma the 46th state. Chitto Starr, a full-blood Cherokee, will not go gently into the night. Instead, Chitto ignites an armed rebellion-and...

  • Rio Grande

    Tom Stuart takes risks-- in war, in love, and in card games, from St. Louis to Mexico. And the hard-drinking, fast-talking steamboat captain-- who knows every shoal and eddy of the Rio Grande from the Big Bend to Brownsville-- has a dream of building...



  • Gentleman Rogue

    Old Texas would give way to new-- but not without a fight...They called it Hell's Half Acre: a violent sinkhole of dance halls and brothels, gaming dives and busthead saloons. To some citizens of Fort Worth, the only hope for Hell's Half Acre was to ...

  • Indian Territory

    The railroad’s drive to close the great distances of the wild American West was treacherous. One man was hired to troubleshoot -- and, along the way, he grew to admire the Indian way of life….and a Cherokee maiden. When hired gun John Ryan heads ...

  • You Know My Name


    His career spanned the West itself, from the days of reckless cowboys and their long-barrel colts to an age of mobsters, tommy guns, and cars. Now, the last days of his towering story are told.

    Bill Tilghman was the real thing, a lawman wh...

  • Bloodsport

    Dan Stuart is a sporting man from Dallas with a scheme as big as Texas. He plans to stage the prizefight of the century and reap a million-dollar gate. But Stuart finds the path to riches strewn with obstacles. Outraged politicians block him at every...

  • Shadow Killers

    THE PREACHER WORE BLACK. BUT BENEATH HIS FROCK COAT WAS A HAIR-TRIGGER COLT IN A CROSS-DRAW HOLSTER -- TOOLS OF A KILLER'S TRADE ... The Reverend Titus Jacoby has come to Cimarron on a mission: to put himself up as bait for a shadowy coalition o...

  • Buck Colter

    In the Cimarron, other men had all the power. But he had a fire burning in his soul...They called it the wild land. No Man's Land. The Cimarron. And in the lawless strip of open range between Texas and Kansas, one man had the wildest ambitions of all...

  • Kinch Riley

    THE YOUNG DRIFTER HAD A TASTE FOR LIFE. THE OLD GUNFIGHTER HAD A DATE WITH DEATH. THEIR FRIENDSHIP LED TO A KILLING STORM -- AND A TRUE LEGEND OF THE FRONTIER. He was young and hungry for life -- a scarecrow kid alone in a lawless land. Something...

  • Deathwalk

    "MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer KeltonCould the most feared gunman in the WestBen Thompson carved out a name for himself as a gambler and a shootist-from Dodge City to the Rio Grande. But settling down in Austin with ...

  • Hickok and Cody

    The West made legends of two men. Heaven help the fool who dared to risk their wrath.In a windswept campsite of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, Russia's Grand Duke Alexis has arrived to experience the thrill of the buffalo hunt. His guides are Wild Bill ...

  • The Wild Ones

    In the 1870s the frontier was a battleground, where the U.S. Army fought Plains warriors, outlaws terrorized the land, and lawmen took no prisoners. Into the West came a family of New York City stage performers: a widowed father, his son, and a daugh...



  • The Spoilers

    A Luke Starbuck Novel

    A rare breed of bullbog and bloodhound, private detective Luke Starbuck's has been hired to ferret out the Judas working for the Central Pacific--a mastermind behind a string of train robberies. The target: gold shipments from the Frisco mint. All St...

  • Tombstone

    A Luke Starbuck Novel

    In 1878, a struggling prospector found silver in the jagged mountains of Arizona. Within a year the town of Tombstone was filling up with merchants, tradesmen, gamblers, whores, and gunslingers. And then the Earp family came to Tombstone--five brothe...

  • The Overlords

    A Luke Starbuck Novel

    IN EUROPE, MEN FOUGHT A WAR TO END ALL WARS. IN GALVESTON, THEY FOUGHT TO SURVIVE... In Europe, the guns had gone silent. But in Texas, the spirit of the Wild West still lived--and the town of Galveston belonged lock, stock, and barrel to a handfu...

  • The Warlords

    The Invasion of Texas-1915! In Europe, men were dying in trenches. In Washington, sentiment was growing for war against the Kaiser. And in Mexico, an explosive plot was set in motion by a German agent, a deposed dictator, and an army of murderous ...

  • Deadwood

    A Luke Starbuck Novel

    Five thousand dollars. That was what a slick Denver lawyer-representing a mysterious client-offered to pay the legendary manhunter Luke Starbuck. The job: find a way into Wyoming's infamous Hole-in-the-Wall outlaw stronghold and shoot a bad man dead....

  • Black Gold

    The Osage Indians lost their ancestral freedom on a windswept reservation in Oklahoma. Now, in the Roaring Twenties, the land is spewing black gold; oil has been found, and every Osage owns a share of the rights. Soon Osage tribal members are being k...

  • The Highbinders

    Pinkerton Detective Agency

    In California, The Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in gold. While some men got in on the action, and some got out of the way, one group of settlers was making a stand-and holding up the railwa...

  • Crossfire

    Pinkerton Detective Agency

    They'd killed five men already, and stole a quarter of a million dollars in silver and gold. Now, a band of vicious thieves has drawn the best man that Wells Fargo can send: the rangy, mysterious Chicago-based Pinkerton agent named Ash Tallman. An op...

  • The Wages of Sin

    Pinkerton Detective Agency

    With outlaws wrecking havoc left and right, a cow town in Texas is on the brink of becoming a ghost town. That's when it's time to call in Chicago-based Pinkerton agent Ash Tallman and his partner Vivian Valentine. Going undercover as a handsome, cha...

  • Dakota

    Teddy Roosevelt's wife and mother died on the same night in his home in New York City. To outdistance his grief, he turned his back on a promising political career and fled to the badlands. Dakota deals with the restoration of his spirit during this ...



  • Westward of the Law

    In the Texas Panhandle, Newt Bascom and Sam Jordan are stock detectives who have the brains to outwit most rustlers--and the brawn to outfight the rest. Now, Bascom and Jordan are being dispatched on a once-in-a-lifetime job. Someone has made off wit...

  • Dodge City

    The cattle trail from Texas to Kansas was long, hot and dangerous. And by the time cowboys got there, they had the money and means to make a boomtown explode--and make Dodge City a great place to be a defense attorney...as long as you weren't looking...

  • The Second Coming of Lucas Brokaw

    Lucas Brokaw is an incredibly wealthy man. But though he has amassed one of the greatest fortunes in the world, he is without an heir. Looking death in the face, he decides to leave his money to whoever can prove to be his reincarnated self. He has s...

  • Doc Holliday

    He came from the American South, a gentleman by breeding, a dentist by training, a gambler by vocation. But as Dr. John H. Holliday, a man fleeing his tragic past, drifted across the West, living among some of the roughest men on the frontier, word s...

  • Westernlore

    Matt Braun is considered one of the best living western writers in America today. He's written about both myth and legend as well as historical characters. In WesternLore, Matt has mixed fact with the characters that have become almost mythological i...

  • The Stuart Legacy

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  • This Loving Promise

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    After leaving the antebellum South, Tom Stuart journeys first to Texas where he meets passionate, tempestuous Maria and later to New Orleans where Jovette, a dazzling Creole beauty, ignites his dreams of dynasty...

Award-Winning Books by Matt Braun

Dakota
2006 SPUR Award -- Paperback Original
The Kincaids
1976 SPUR Award -- Historical Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Matt Braun has published 56 books.

Matt Braun does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Westernlore, was published in June 2013.

The first book by Matt Braun, The Kincaids, was published in January 1976.

Yes. Matt Braun has 3 series.
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