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Ralph Compton (1934-1998) was an American novelist of western novels. He created the Trail Drive and Sundown Riders series. Compton hailed from St. Clair County, Alabama and stood 6’8″ tall when he wasn’t even wearing his boots. Before becoming an author, he was a musician, songwriter, radio announcer and a newspaper columnist. Following his death, […]
Donald Hamilton (1916-2006) was a Swedish-American author of spy fiction, crime fiction and Western novels. He is the author of the Matt Helm series. His writing career began in 1946, as he wrote for various magazines. Much of his novels were set in the Southwest. Hamilton spent most of his life in Santa Fe, New […]
The Lonestar series is a series of Christian-themed contemporary western romance novels by American novelist Colleen Coble. The series features various marriage of convenience stories set during contemporary times.
Lauraine Snelling is an American author of Christian fiction, historical fiction and romance novels. She writes the Golden Filly, Dakota Plains, Red River of the North, High Hurdles, S.A.V.E. Squad and more series. In addition to her novels, she also writes for magazines and teaches at writer’s conferences across the country. Lauraine lives with her […]
Cormac McCarthy is an American author and playwright of gothic, western and post-apocalyptic fiction. He is the author of the Border Trilogy. His novels No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, The Road and Child of God have all been adapted to film. McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel […]
The Posadas County Mysteries is a series of western-themed mystery/police procedural novels by American novelist Steven F. Havill. The first nine novels of the series follow Bill Gastner, who starts off as Undersheriff of Posadas County, New Mexico. Since then, the novels follow Undersheriff Estella Reyes-Guzman following Gastner’s retirement.
Steven F. Havill is an American author of mystery and western novels. He is best known for his Posadas County Mysteries series, which is also known as the Undersheriff Bill Gastner series. Havill got his B.A. and M.A. from the University of New Mexico and teaches high school biology. He lives in New Mexico with […]
Sheriff Chick Charleston is the protagonist in a series of western/mystery novels by American author A.B. Guthrie, Jr. The series follows the title character and sidekick Jason Beard as they must solve murders – a crimes that were seldom committed in small Montana towns such as theirs.
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901-1991) was an American novelist of western fiction in addition to being a screenwriter. Guthrie grew up reading, and tried to write fiction in high school. He went on to major in journalism and then started working at the Lexington Leader – a job he held for 22 years before he started […]
Gabriel Du Pre is the protagonist in a series of mystery novels by American novelist Peter Bowen. The series is set in Montana, featuring Gabriel Du Pre. Du Pre is a Metis who starts out as a cattle inspector, overseeing that cattle sales are on the level. The series is also known as the Montana […]