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  • Bibliography:
    104 Books (15 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1975
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

American Chronicles

1 - Dawn of the Century (Jan-1992)
2 - Over There (May-1992)
3 - The Lost Generation (Aug-1992)
4 - Hard Times (Feb-1993)
5 - Portals of Hell (Nov-1993)
6 - The Iron Curtain (Apr-1994)
7 - Cold War (Dec-1994)
8 - The New Frontier (Oct-1995)
9 - Flower Children (Jan-1996)

Cade McCall

1 - Long Road To Abilene (Aug-2016)
2 - Cade's Revenge (Nov-2016)
3 - Cade's Redemption (Jan-2024)
4 - Cade at the Walls (May-2024)
5 - Cade McCall: Army Scout (Jun-2024)

A Chaney Brothers Western

1 - Glory Dust (Aug-2019)
2 - The Chaney Edge (Aug-2019)
3 - The Hunters (Jul-2019)
4 - Chaney Law (Apr-2020)

The Crocketts

1 - Trail of Vengeance (Aug-2021)
2 - Slaughter In Texas (Aug-2021)
3 - Law Of The Rope (Sep-2021)
4 - The Town That Wouldn't Die (Sep-2021)
5 - Panhandle Justice (Sep-2021)
6 - Showdown At Red Rock (Oct-2021)
7 - Judgement Day (Nov-2021)
8 - A Time To Die (Nov-2021)
9 - Escape From The Devil (Jan-2021)
10 - Justice Of The Gun (Mar-2021)
11 - The Guns of Prescott (Dec-2021)
12 - The Lost Herd (Jul-2022)

The Founders

1 - Lost Lady of Laramie (Dec-2015)
2 - The Ranchers (Feb-2016)
3 - The Raiders (Apr-2016)
4 - Warriors Of The Code (Feb-2017)

Hawke

1 - Ride With the Devil (Nov-2004)
2 - Showdown at Dead End Canyon (May-2005)
3 - Vendetta Trail (Oct-2005)
4 - The Law of a Fast Gun (Nov-2006)
5 - The King Hill War (Jun-2007)

Lucas Cain

1 - A Rambling Man (Jan-2023)
2 - A Heap of Killing (Jun-2023)
3 - Ghost Coach (Jan-2024)
4 - Cain's Justice (Apr-2024)

Over the Rainbow

1 - The Gathering Place (May-2015)
2 - Ho'oponopono (May-2015)

People of the Book

1 - Masada Scroll (Jan-2024)
2 - Armor of God (Jan-2024)

Quinn Raiders

1 - Diablo Double Cross (Dec-2015)

Remington

1 - Red River Revenge (May-2016)
2 - Good Day For A Hangin' (Jun-2016)

The Seventh Cavalry

Yesterday's Reveille (Feb-1996)

Trail Drive

14 - The Dakota Trail (Sep-2001)

War-Torn

1 - The Brave and the Lonely (Dec-1982)
2 - Masters & Martyrs (Feb-1983)
3 - The Fallen and the Free (Mar-1983)
4 - The Divine and the Damned (Jun-1983)
5 - The Embattled and the Bold (Aug-1983)

The Wild, Wild West

1 - The Wild, Wild West (Jun-1998)
2 - The Night of the Death Train (Sep-1998)
3 - The Night of the Assassin (Dec-1998)

Multi-Author Series List

A Ralph Compton Novel

Clarion's Call (May-2001)
The Dakota Trail (Sep-2001)
Runaway Stage (Jan-2002)
The Alamosa Trail (May-2002)
The Bozeman Trail (Sep-2002)

Book List in Order: 104 titles



  • Late Summer, 1963. Saigon. Just behind the barricades that safeguard the Presidential Palace, five Buddhist monks commit suicide by setting fire to themselves. Moments later, an anonymous assassin slips inside the palace walls. That same night, Col...



  • Deadly Family Secrets Were Hidden Behind The Sin!Murder was a very rare crime in Sikeston, Missouri. But then, Leah Graves, the victim, was a very rare woman. She was the town everything: beauty, athlete, scholar, Cotton Bowl queen, spoiled brat,...















  • Captain Frank Sanders, an archivist in the War Department in the 1940's happens upon a fascinating file. It seems that there was a member of George Armstrong Custer's famed 7th U.S. Cavalry who did not perish in the bloody Battle of the Little Bighor...





  • Amid the pageantry of the St. Louis World's Fair of 1914, cowboy Eric Trainbough rides the rails east, a young landowner risks his family fortune, a St. Louis journalist faces death to get a story, and a brave woman fights for love and equality....



  • The life and loves of Lady Lucinda Chetwynd-Dunleigh, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, are set against the backdrop of a history that spans from the 1912 ocean disaster, through revolution in Russia, to the beginning of World War I. ...



  • In this, the third, explosive volume of Robert Vaughans American Chronicles, prohibition and gangland wars define the era. The 1920s were perhaps the most exciting and glamorous decade of the century, as America leaves behind the strife and deprivati...



  • While wealthy John Canfield embarks on a secret mission for FDR, reporter Shaylin McKay risks her life as a war correspondent, and dreamer Del Murtaugh moves from the dustbowls of Oklahoma to the playgrounds of Hollywood....



  • This fifth volume of Robert Vaughan's AMERICAN CHRONICLES follows America's tumultuous and surprising journey through the 1940's, as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor thrusts the nation into the Second World War. Hitler's army ravages Europe, and a...



  • Volume six of Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles begins with the emergence of a new America from the fiery furor of World War II, an America ready and eager to grasp the future. But the country cannot escape the shadows of the past horrors nor the ...



  • The launch of Sputnik. Rock 'n' roll fever. The struggle for civil rights. Robert Vaughan's seventh volume of the American Chronicles has America entering the fifties amidst the fright of a cold war with Russia and a fiery war in Korea. Prizewinning ...








  • Joining Mississippi's Freedom Riders, proud African-American Deon Booker begins a devastating journey, accompanied by heiress Alicia Canfield, whose new law degree fails to protect her from racial violence....



  • In the ninth installment in the series, pilot Bob Parker finds himself in a helicopter above Vietnam, teenage heiress Tina Canfield becomes a hippie in San Francisco, and black veteran Andrew Jackson returns to the South....



  • They were soldiers young and brave in a war that would change America forever. Some came from the gray cliffs of West Point. Some came from the bloody caldron of the Civil War. By train and steamship they traveled West to fight against an enemy ba...





  • In Texas during 1836, men like Crockett, Houston, and Bowie fight their way to the Alamo and, although outnumbered forty-to-one, prepare to do battle with one of the most powerful armies in the world. Original....



  • THE MEN SWARMED OUT OF THE NIGHT, BRANDISHING SWORDS OF BLOODY RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHEN THEY WERE DONE, INNOCENT LIVES WERE SHED, AND A NATION WAS ONE STEP CLOSER TO WAR... Blood on the Plains Between one man's mad dream and another's outla...



  • For Johnson County, Wyoming, neighbors and friends are pitted against one another, as struggling ranchers take on big landowners and a legendary killer, in an epic chronicle of a violent chapter in frontier history. Original....



  • The first novel in a new series based on the 1960s television series starring Robert Conrad as federal agent James West pits West against criminal mastermind T. Marcus Cosgrove, who declares himself dictator over his valley. Original....



  • The second story based on the classic TV western series pits gunslinger-turned-federal-agent James West against a gang of international saboteurs intent on derailing the finest locomotive in the West. Original....



  • THEY TOOK AWAY HIS HOME AND HIS PAST. NOW, HE WOULD START AGAIN -- IN A LAND OF VIOLENCE, HATRED, AND HOPE.... The war was over. But Hank Tyreen was a long way from being st peace. Riding out of Mississippi, his family home in ashes, Hank crosse...






  • The characters of the television series return in a new adventure, as two-fisted federal agent James West and his salty partner, Artemis Gordon, confront a group of Texas secessionists who plan to assassinate President Garfield. Original....



  • A historical novel about the Spanish American War follows General Joseph Murchinson and his son, Lieutenant Todd Murchinson, who is assigned as one of the white officers to the Buffalo Soldiers. Original....



  • HE FOLLOWED THE CALL OF HIS COUNTRY -- STRAIGHT INTO THE FRONTIER'S BLOODIEST BATTLE... Quinn Pendarrow is looking forward to a new chapter in his life. After obtaining an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army, he sets off to marry his sweetheart -...



  • THE FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL After the Civil War, Dick Hodson returns to his home of Windom, Texas, the lone survivor of all the men who left to fight against the Union. He finds the former cattle town destitute, for there were no able ranch hands to dr...



  • THREE PEOPLE Quince Fremont -- wanted for a robbery and a murder he didn't commit. Rachel Kincaid -- summoned from Boston to return to her family's ranch. Damon Parker -- suspected of cheating at gambling in almost every saloon in the West. ONE PA...



  • This inspirational novel explores the drama, sweep, and grandeur of World War II--those who fought it overseas and those who lived through it on the home front--and a time when faith in God was our national security."Oh, I have slipped the surly bond...



  • DESPERATE TIMES After the merciless Blizzard of 1886, times are tough, but on a ranch called the Trailback, the cowboys are tougher. From horse racing to train robbing, they'll survive on whatever schemes their wits can muster until a job comes thei...



  • Justice casts a long shadow in this Ralph Compton western.James Cason…son of the owner of the Long Shadow ranch and head of a posse that tracked Mexican bandits across the border and killed their leader.   Duke Faglier…wanted by both sides o...



  • It Wasn't Your Land Until You Fought For It. It Wasn't Your Life Until You Were Willing To Die... Cole Collier once was a preacher, but in the smoke and fire of the Civil War, he found a bloody calling--with a gun that was faster and deadlier tha...



  • O Christ, whose voice the waters heard and hushed their raging at thy word… -from The Navy HymnThis second WWII novel from decorated veteran, Robert Vaughan, has the same appeal as Touch the Face of God-painstaking research of military strateg...






  • Too Old. Too Angry. Too Tough To Surrender... In Risco, Texas, John Carmack and Charley Dawson had both held the office of Sheriff and built two competing bases of support. But the rivals shared a granddaughter, Lucy, born to Charley's son and John...



  • As a student at Litchfield College, Dewey Bradley wants nothing more than to graduate, marry his girlfriend Unity, and become pastor of a church. But when war breaks out, Dewey-impassioned by the atrocities of the Nazis-drops out of school to enli...



  • There is a light that never goes out. Galen Scobey has lost hope. Since his wife's death seven years ago, he has thrown himself completely into two things: taking care of his beloved young son and advancing his career. He has no time for love, an...



  • Mason Hawke had success, fame, respect. Then war made him a murderer -- and left him scarred in the worst possible way. Haunted by a past as black as the depths of Perdition, Hawke's looking for a place to start over, to disappear. And Salcedo is jus...



  • In 1971, the world was introduced to Brandywine's War, a brilliant satiric novel of army life in the midst of battle. That book was peopled by a kooky collection of characters who managed to turn the Vietnam War into a stage for bizarre events. Now a...



  • There's no peace for Mason Hawke from the ghosts of his past. A drifter and a loner, he's not looking for trouble when he rides into Wyoming Territory -- but it's waiting for him nonetheless. Coming to the rescue of a wealthy landowner's daughter who...



  • SOMETIMES A MAN'S GOT TO STOP RUNNING . . . A haunted drifter with a dark history, Mason Hawke calls no town home. Now the past he's managed to stay one step ahead of has caught up with him in New Orleans--in the enticing form of Rachel Brubaker, ...



  • A man haunted and changed by war-;whose fingers are equally skilled in the arts of music and death-;Mason Hawke has found a new home in Braggadocio, Nebraska. But a dustup in the local saloon has forced his hand, and now two bodies lie lifeless on th...



  • The memory of all the good men he killed during the Civil War still haunts former Captain Mason Hawke--fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands, who just happened to be wearing Union blue. Now only bad men can enflame his killing rage. A drifter who...



  • John and Madison Carmichael's success in their careers has come at a high price at home: they are on the brink of divorce. To soften the blow for their two children, they decide to spend one final Christmas together as a family. Responding to a trave...






  • Flash Fiction Friday is a monthly radio program aired on WUWM's Lake Effect in Milwaukee, WI. Each month host Robert Vaughan selects local writers who come in, do a quick flash interview and read their flash fiction piece on the air. Then, Robert rea...



  • DEVIL IN DISGUISE? In the days after the Civil War, a solitary rider travelled the open frontier -- but he wasn’t alone, for Death seemed to travel with him. Or maybe it was the Devil himself who gave him the lethal pistol shot that earned him t...



  • "Vaughan compresses human love and behavior with great precision, evoking people and places with language and images full of wonderment and heartbreak. This book is a marvel, with lines so sharp you will find yourself wanting to return to them often....



  • On the magical, mystical island of O’ahu, there is a place where ‘dreams’ are real and ‘serendipity’ is a cosmic law.Christopher Robert Matthews, restless free spirit and reluctant heir to the Matthews shipping empire, stands on the precipi...



  • ‘Dreams’ that are real, a strange and exotic land where ‘magic’ is a fact of life and ‘serendipity’ is a cosmic law. For Chris Matthews, former heir to the Matthews shipping empire, the path of destiny he unwittingly chose from a random s...



  • Introducing Marcus Quinn and his raiders. Ex-Rebel out to take what they can get and then some. The war between the States is over, and Quinn's Raiders, the fiercest unit of guerrilla fighters in the South, are on their way to Texas to swing for thei...






  • A daredevil Confederate captain challenges the Union blockade - while a bold young beauty lays siege to his wayward heart. Tawny-haired, golden-eyed Candice Pratt, whose daring was equal to the captains, and whose entanglement in his life ashore and ...



  • Lost in time--and the only way home for this gunsmith is on a river of blood. Boothenay Irons, to her own bewilderment, is the possessor of a mysterious power. By profession a gunsmith, there is something within her that answers to the history held w...



  • Justice is color-blind in the courtroom of Samuel P. Barstall, and sentencing three gunslingers to swing for the murder of an Indian squaw is his way of proving it. But after a jailbreak, the judge's kinfolks are paying for his honesty with their liv...



  • LONG ROAD TO ABILENE, is a classic hero's journey, a western adventure that exemplifies the struggles, the defeats, and the victories that personify the history of the American West. After surviving the bloody battle of Franklin and the hell of a Yan...



  • Follow Cade McCall as he rides the Chisholm Trail, crosses raging rivers, faces cattle rustlers and fights marauding Indians while taking a herd of longhorns north to Kansas. He reaches his destination only to be devastated by the most heinous act he...



  • When border tensions in South America reach a boiling point, the United States provides Columbia with military assistance to help in a struggle against rebels supported by neighboring Venezuela. The "police action" quickly escalates, and six captured...



  • Brilliantly slippery pieces of flash fiction and longer form prose from the author of Addicts & Basements, and Rift (with Kathy Fish), among others. Robert Vaughan is unrivaled in his ability to suprise, stimulate and explore. A magician with a typew...



  • A tired old lawyer with a secret past, and the young protégé that he rescued from a wagon train attack that killed his parents and left him an orphan, are warriors in the tough town of Tombstone. Warriors of the code . . . they are equally adept wi...



  • IN A BATTLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL, WHO WILL PREVAIL? In 1885 Buck Elliot, already a legendary gunfighter, comes to Canyon Diablo, Arizona Territory, to aid a friend and several small, but honest ranchers who must deal with Nigel Smythe, a titled Eng...



  • INTRODUCING MATTHEW FARADAY...The train-top murder of one of his female operatives has thrust Matthew Faraday, the wily chief of Faraday Security Service, into the dark and twisting tunnel of another railroad mystery, and a coded message in the dead ...



  • THE MATTHEW FARADAY SAGA CONTINUES...

    Jared Macalester is, to all appearances, a trackwalker for the Union Pacific. His first notable action in this entertaining Western pot-boiler is to throw a boorish cowboy off a train, while the tr...



  • THE MATTHEW FARADAY SAGA CONTINUES...

    As our wounded nation heals itself in the aftermath of the Civil War, it is once more plunged into sorrow.

    In one treasonous moment President Abraham Lincoln is dead, and - though his assassin, Joh...



  • A STORY OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL…

    When Lance Chaney’s ex-commanding officer from the Civil War comes to him for help, the Barlow Marshal cannot refuse, even when things don’t add up.

    With his brother Buck riding alongside him, the pair f...



  • It Takes Two Loyal Brothers to Outsmart a Texas Outlaw.

    Buck Chaney first crosses paths with Rufus Blanton on a West Texas train car halted suddenly in the night. Rufus is on board-and set on robbing every passenger. When a shootout with Buck leave...



  • Once they fought on opposite sides of a war. Now they're fighting for justice and revenge!

    They Came from one Missouri family, but Lance and Buck Chaney had been fighting on opposite sides of the war -- until they were brought together by a shipmen...



  • LANCE AND BUCK CHANEY, BROTHERS BY BLOOD, HARDENED BY WAR...After being seriously wounded in his pursuit of the Carter brothers, Deputy Marshal Buck Chaney wakes to find himself in the middle of a sheep war in Blanco County, Texas. On one side are th...



  • Can a childhood friendship turn into a happily ever after? Javanna Caldwell, a widow, is an advertising executive in Chicago. Luke Bryant, now two years divorced, is a Christian film maker in New Orleans. When an unfortunate series of events occurs, ...



  • WITH THE CROCKETTS' IN TOWN, EVERY TWO-BIT GUNSLINGER'S CHANCES OF SURVIVING ARE JUST ABOUT ZERO... After brothers Will and Gid Crockett deliver several horses to Colonel John Abernathy - a man they knew during the civil war - he hires the...



  • LIES, GUILT AND TRUE LOVE STAND IN THE WAY OF ONE MAN'S DREAM. Pat Flannigan has plans to resurrect a failed railroad spur line that runs from Boise, Idaho to Jordan Valley, Oregon. Though the cattlemen and the valley residents initially welcome the ...



  • THE TWO BROTHERS YOU DON'T WANT TO FIND YOU...The Crockett brothers Will and Gid, respond to the request of Sheriff Tyrone McMurtry, LaSalle County, Texas, is being plagued by the Jess Felton Gang.When the Crocketts set up a phony money shipment, the...



  • It started out as a silly idea to bring buyers back to Abilene. Wrangle some buffalo, put them on a train, and ship them to Chicago so folks back east could see the massive, shaggy beasts with their own eyes. The concept seemed sound. What could go w...



  • When sixteen- year-old Troy Elliot's father, mother, and sister are killed, he is shot and left for dead. But he doesn't die, and over the next six years he starts a campaign of revenge. His campaign accounts for all but one of the men who broke into...



  • FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ROBERT VAUGHAN COMES A WESTERN FICTION NOVEL OF DETERMINATION, OBSTACLES, AND LOVE.Gabe Hansen is determined to build a railroad from Albuquerque to the Pacific Ocean, but first, he must deal with two major adv...



  • A HISTORICAL WESTERN FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ROBERT VAUGHAN. The Battle for Texas begins with the brave defense of the Alamo in which every man is killed. The women of the Alamo, Susanna Dickinson and Caroline LaFont are spared. Luke Calhoun, who ar...



  • An American western folklore adventure - bringing justice no matter the cost. Will and Gid Crockett have joined forces with a fiery redhead - and there's more money in the offing than either could imagine. And this robbery will settle an old score to...



  • A five-star masterpiece from best-selling author Robert Vaughan. Will Crockett and his brother Gid go from card players to bar owners when the winning poker pot includes the deed to a Belle Springs saloon. But Belle Springs is run by a crooked sherif...



  • Non-stop action through the western frontier! After rescuing Pamela Wellington from varmints, Will and Gid escort her to her daddy's spread - Camelot, a bright, shining 60,000-acre kingdom in the middle of Texas. But like that golden ranch of yore, t...



  • Best-selling author Robert Vaughan shows the human side of the wild west.Riding through Texas, Will and Gid Crockett approach a cabin with the hope that the occupants will be friendly. But their welcome is rifle fire. Forced to return fire, they kill...



  • Bringing justice, no matter the cost in this western folklore! Normally the Crockett brothers paid no mind to some varmint's love life. But Will and Gid were down to their last dollars, so they agreed to find the guy's long-lost lover, a little filly...



  • A five-star masterpiece from best-selling author Robert Vaughan. Will and Gid are looking forward to a quiet rest in the tiny town of Sulphur Springs. But Will's female companion offers more than he bargained for when she says her brother was murdere...



  • The Crockett brothers go hog wild in this non-stop action adventure! When Kansas Charley Kellett massacres a family on the Fourth of July, the only red, white, and blue Will and Gid want to see are the red of his blood, the white of his eyes, and the...



  • Join the Crockett brothers' adventures through the western frontier.Cochise Springs rose from the hot, sunbaked earth like a series of low lumps of clay and rock. It was a one-street town but it offered Will and Gid Crockett the opportunity of a cold...



  • A five-star masterpiece from best-selling author Robert Vaughan. When sixteen-year-old Matt Logan and his friend Danny Duggan run away from an orphanage, they go west. There, they meet Jim Bridger, among other mountain men, and become fur trappers. B...



  • An American western folklore adventure - bringing justice no matter the cost. Will and Gid Crockett have taken a huge leap of faith on buying a gold mine in Prescott, Arizona. When arriving in Prescott they learn that the town is controlled by a para...



  • When Rand Colby's fiancé is killed by four escaping bank-robbers, Rand takes up the mission of finding the men who killed her. During his search, Rand befriends Charles Holiday, owner of a hotel/saloon/brothel in Laramie. Charles is shot, and hi...



  • Master of the Western adventure, New York Times best selling author Robert Vaughan is back with another page turner sure to please Western fans of all ages.When Turquoise Ranch hand Curly Stevens went into Flagstaff to meet a new employee arriving on...



  • Award winning, best selling author Robert Vaughan brings back some of his most endearing characters with the Crockett brothers. Mount up and get ready for the trail, pard, as these two wisecracking cowpokes head out on the trail for their most audaci...



  • Bestselling author Robert Vaughan is back with another riveting adventure sure to please fans of all ages.Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cr...



  • Bestselling author Robert Vaughan's fan favorite Lucas Cain is back with another fast-paced action and adventure tale set in the old wild west.First introduced in Vaughan's A Rambling Man, Lucas Cain is back in the saddle, searching for some peace of...



  • In the riveting follow-up to The Masada Scroll, delve into a compelling and thought-provoking narrative that remains as relevant today as ever.In Masada, the discovery of a previously unknown gospel sets in motion a powerful chain of events that rock...



  • Trying to recover from the grief over the death of his wife, Cade McCall settles in Dodge City, Hell on the Plains. While drunk, Cade loses the saloon that he owns in partnership with Jeter Willis, rupturing a friendship that had stood for years. Cau...



  • In the highly anticipated return of Robert Vaughan's iconic protagonist, Lucas Cain, the notorious rambling man finds himself embroiled in Old West justice.Haunted by the memory of the SULTANA riverboat disaster, where he witnessed countless lives pe...



  • In the great tradition of classic novels like The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas and, more recently, Christ the Lord by Anne Rice and Stone Tables by Orson Scott Card, The Masada Scroll is bold and reverent, with deep and important meaning for today's worl...



  • When evil dominates Rebel Ridge, there's only one person to call on for help.In the dusty frontier town of Rebel Ridge, Sheriff Jesse Loman rules with an iron fist, exploiting the local populace through unjust taxes and a corrupt legal system. His ga...



  • From bestselling author Robert Vaughan comes a gripping tale of Western justice in the latest chapter of legendary wandering hero Lucas Cain's adventures.When Deputy U.S. Marshal Lucas Cain and Deke Pauley forge a partnership on the dusty bounty hunt...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Vaughan has published 104 books.

The next book by Robert Vaughan, Cade McCall: Army Scout, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Robert Vaughan, The Valkyrie Mandate, was published in April 1975.

Yes. Robert Vaughan has 15 series.