Will Henry

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1954
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • The Tall Men

    A soldier turned outlaw, Ben Allison was ready to earn a fortune. Together with his brother Clint he was pushing three thousand longhorns through the rough country between Texas and Montana, where Crazy Horse and his fierce Oglala Sioux waited to way...

  • From Where the Sun Now Stands

  • Gates of the Mountains

  • Chiricahua

    The only individual standing between the white settlers and fierce Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Geronimo and Chatto is Pa-nayo-tishn (The Coyote Saw Him), a man of peace who forever alters the fate of the Apache. Reprint....

  • Summer of the Gun

    A tale of the Old West focuses on a frontier family with a dream, a murderous pack of Confederate deserters, a redheaded ranch boy with the cunning of a Comanche, and an old .44 Texas Ranger hip gun known as the Redeemer...

  • Yellowstone Kelly

  • The Squaw Killers

  • Custer's Last Stand

    The real story of the Little Big Horn begins a thousand bitter miles southward in a drift of burning tipi ashes on the banks of the Washita. There, in November 1868, Custer and his Seventh Cavalry murdered the sleeping village of the peace chief Blac...

  • The Day Fort Larking Fell



  • Reckoning at Yankee Flat

    This is the story of Henry Plummer. He was a silken-voiced charmer, leader of the dread ''Road Agents'' an d sheriff of Virginia City who, wearing his badge of office, murdered, robbed and terrorized the whole, vast Montana Ter ritory. '...

  • The Feleen Brand

    Hush Feleen came out of the Tennessee Mounta ins with his folks. Texas was a wide, strange place to him, but Hush walked tall and spoke softly - until they lynched h is father. Then he swore that the whole damn country was goi ng to bow to Hush Felee...

  • The Seven Men at Mimbres Springs

    This book is written by Will Henry. The best secret agent the South had was L L Henderson. She was also a beautiful woman and a counterspy for the Union army. Her men were dangerous hard cases: hired guns, drunks, drifters, a murderous freed slave an...

  • The White Man's Road

  • The Bear Paw Horses

    Carving out a reputation for himself as a ruthless gunman, Con Jenkins is astonished to find himself helping an aging Native American and his white-hating daughter carry out the dying wishes of Crazy Horse. Original....

  • No Survivors

    Originally published in 1950, No Survivors was the first of Will Henry’s many novels based on historic incident. In it he shows what General Custer’s lonely stand and final moments at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn might have been like, mi...

  • I, Tom Horn

    In I, Tom Horn, originally published in 1975, Will Henry presents a fictional autobiography of Tom Horn that answers decisively the question—did Tom Horn kill fourteen-year-old Willie Kickell, or was he framed?

    Horn was a cavalry scout in Ar...

  • Death of a Legend: Jesse James

  • The Crossing

    Jud Reeves's upbringing on the frontier is put to the test when he joins a deadly Confederate campaign to secure the region, and he confronts murderous visionary Elkanah Cavanaugh, wild woman Star Cavanaugh, and settler-hating Apache Sobre. Original....

  • MacKenna's Gold

    Entrusted with the secret location of the fabled Lost Canyon of Gold by a dying Apache warrior, Glen Mackenna sets out to find the site in the vast wilderness and must fight off the hordes of fortune-seeking scavengers who would beat him there. Origi...



  • Journey to Shiloh

    Wishing to obtain glory during the Civil War, Buck Burnet joins the Concho County Comanches and sets out to fight the Yankees, unaware that his greatest challenge is coming in a terrible battle with the forces of Grant and Sherman. Original....

  • Who Rides With Wyatt

    Wyatt Earp becomes the sheriff of Tombstone, a town known as "the Sodom in the Sagebrush," and with his long-barreled Colt shotgun, he cleans up the town, ridding it of stagecoach hold-ups, cattle rustlers, and gunfire in the streets. Original....

  • The Blue Mustang

    When 17-year-old Button Starbuck finds his father murdered, he swears to track down the man who shot him and get his revenge. The only friend he can rely on is a blue mustang with the cunning and heart of a fighter. Starbuck had $25,000 in gold, a...

  • The Last Warpath

    A five-time winner of the Golden Spur Award offers a fictional chronicle of the forty years of war between the U.S. Cavalry and the Cheyenne Indians, whose mighty leaders refused to compromise their people's freedom. Original....

  • Red Blizzard

  • One More River to Cross

    Burning with a rage to be free, Confederate Army slave Ned Huddleston finds himself in an outlaw band after the war and flees west, haunted by his past and the knowledge that he will have to pay for his crimes. Original....

  • Return of the Tall Man

    Equipped with an old mountain man's map, a cheap gold locket, an ornery pack mule, and his rifle, Ben Allison sets out to find a young woman who has been held captive by Native Americans for twenty-four years...

  • The Hunting of Tom Horn

    A collection of short western tales by a five-time winner of the Spur Award showcases the early American frontier adventures of such characters as a cowboy, a bounty hunter, a preacher, and an accused murderer. Original....

  • Tumbleweeds

    Presents a collection of short stories that chronicle the exploits of frontier outlaws Jesse and Frank James and Cole Younger and his brothers, as well as "Home Place," featuring an early episode in the life of Ben Allison, and other action-packed ta...

  • Alias Butch Cassidy



  • The Brass Command

    Little Wolf, last War Chief of the Powder River Cheyenne, sets out to lead his people back to their native lands in the distant Black Hills, and only a lonely outpost of the U.S. Cavalry at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, stands in his way...

  • Custer

    The author's two classic novels of George Armstrong Custer--Yellow Hair and Custer's Last Stand--are reprinted here, retelling the tragic story of a brash young general, his relations with the Indians, and his colorful defeat at the B...

  • The Pitchfork Patrol

    DUTY BOUND It took a tall horse to carry him, they said. He was a giant of a man, six-and-a-half-feet tall and 275 pounds. He could bend a horseshoe with his bare hands and lift a fully-loaded wagon on his back. But Sergeant Honus Schlonager was gett...

  • Ghost Wolf of Thunder Mountain

    From the five-time winner of the Spur Award comes a riveting collection of five frontier stories, brimming with adventure and excitement, that includes "Wolf-Eye," in which a cattle rancher must make a tough decision when wolves invade his land. Orig...

  • The Legend of Sotoju Mountain

    In the title story of this trio, a young brave must find and defeat Mato Sapa, the giant black grizzly bear of Sotoju Mountain whilst small bands of Oglala Sioux are heading to Canada and the Apache Kid must rescue his beloved Apache maiden....

  • Winter Shadows

    From the very beginning of his long and illustrious career, Will Henry wrote from the Native American viewpoint with authenticity and compassion. This volume collects two of his finest short novels, each focused on the American Indian. The title nove...

  • The Legend of the Mountain

    Everything Will Henry wrote was infused with historical accuracy, filled with adventure, and peopled with human, believable characters. In this collection of novellas, Will Henry turns his storyteller's gaze toward the American Indian. "The Rescue of...

  • The Hunkpapa Scout

    A Five-time Spur Award-winning Author

    "Red Blizzard" is set in the Dakota Territory during the conflict between Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and the U.S. Army. Pawnee Perez is an army scout, distrusted by some of the officers and hated by the Sioux. He...

  • Blind Canon

    Holding a rich claim during the Alaskan gold rush, Murrah Starr, a half-breed Sioux, must take on the head of the local miners' association who is determined to steal his claim by brute force. Reprint....

  • The Scout

    Will Henry remains one of the most widely recognized and honored novelists ever to write about the American West. As demonstrated by the three novellas in this brilliant collection, throughout his career he was able to create exciting, authentic tale...



  • Medicine Road

    "Orphans of the North," in Will Henry's words, is a story in which "you will meet no purely instinctive, so-called dumb animals, but only those sensitive wilderness folk who are able, in their mysterious unknown ways, to think and to feel and to comm...

  • Frontier Fury

    When Kamiac, a murderous Palouse chieftain, attacks Colonel Stedloe and his troops, declaring war and annihilation of all other tribes, Sergeant Emmett Bell, trained in wilderness fighting, along with his chief of scouts, prepares to fight to the dea...

  • A Bullet for Billy the Kid

    Packed with adventure, this volume features two novellas "Sante Fe Passage" and "The Fourth Horseman," as well as the title story "A Bullet for Billy the Kid," in which legendary outlaw Billy the Kid meets a mysterious stranger who forever changes hi...

  • The Apache Kid

  • Spanking Today

  • Wallace the Brave

    Welcome to Snug Harbor! Will Henry's Wallace the Brave is a whimsical comic strip that centers around a bold and curious little boy named Wallace, his best friend Spud and the new girl in town, Amelia. Wallace lives in the quaint and funky town of Sn...

  • Snug Harbor Stories: A Wallace the Brave Collection!

    The follow up to the Eisner-nominated collection of Wallace the Brave comics, featuring beautifully illustrated scenes of childhood imagination, friendship, outdoor exploration, and adventure. Think "Peanuts" if Charlie Brown were less of a mo...

  • The Big Pasture

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  • Black Apache

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  • The Fourth Horseman

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  • To Follow a Flag

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Yellow Hair

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Award-Winning Books by Will Henry

Chiricahua
1972 SPUR Award -- Historical Novel
From Where the Sun Now Stands
1960 SPUR Award -- Historical Novel
Gates of the Mountains
1963 SPUR Award -- Historical Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Will Henry has published 51 books.

Will Henry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Snug Harbor Stories: A Wallace the Brave Collection!, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Will Henry, The Tall Men, was published in January 1954.

No. Will Henry does not write books in series.
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