William Colt MacDonald Books In Order

Three Mesquiteers Books In Order

  1. The Singing Scorpion (1934)
  2. Ghost-Town Gold (1935)
  3. Law Of The Forty-Fives (1936)
  4. Bad Man’s Return (1947)
  5. Powdersmoke Justice (1949)
  6. Three Mesquiteers (1954)
  7. The Galloping Ghost (1955)

Gregory Quist Books In Order

  1. Gunsight Range (1949)
  2. Thunderbird Trail (1949)
  3. Mascarada Pass (1954)
  4. Destination, Danger (1955)
  5. The Comanche Scalp (1958)
  6. Tombstone for a Troublemaker (1960)
  7. Action At Arcanum (1961)
  8. The Devil’s Drum (1962)
  9. The Osage Bow (1964)

Novels

  1. Restless Guns (1929)
  2. King of Crazy River (1934)
  3. Powdersmoke Range (1934)
  4. The Red Rider of Smoky Range (1935)
  5. Fighting Kid from Eldorado (1938)
  6. Six-Gun Melody (1939)
  7. The Phantom Pass (1940)
  8. Boomtown Buccaneers (1942)
  9. The Shadow Rider (1943)
  10. The Vanishing Gun-Slinger (1943)
  11. Cartridge Carnival (1945)
  12. Crimson Quirt (1949)
  13. The Deputy of Carabina (1949)
  14. Stir Up the Dust (1950)
  15. Dead Man’s Gold (1951)
  16. Sombrero (1952)
  17. Blind Cartridges (1953)
  18. The Killer Brand (1953)
  19. Peaceful Jenkins (1953)
  20. Ranger Man (1954)
  21. Lightning Swift (1955)
  22. The Black Sombrero (1956)
  23. Hellgate (1956)
  24. The Mad Marshal (1958)
  25. Ridin’ Through (1958)
  26. Blackguard (1959)
  27. Gun Branders (1962)
  28. Battle at Three Cross (1963)
  29. Guns Between Suns (1963)
  30. Glossolalia in the New Testament (1964)
  31. The Gloved Saskia (1965)
  32. West of Yesterday (1968)
  33. Alias Dix Ryder (1969)
  34. Powder Smoke (1969)
  35. Marked Deck at Topango Wells (1970)
  36. Rebel Ranger (1971)
  37. The Riddle of Ramrod Ridge (1972)
  38. Punchers of Phantom Pass (1973)
  39. Master of Mesa (1973)
  40. Wheels in the Dust (1973)
  41. Bullet Trail (1974)
  42. Snake Hunt (1994)
  43. Winchester Welcome (1994)
  44. The Gun-slingin’ Gringo (1995)
  45. The Red Raider (2004)
  46. Spanish Pesos (2008)

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William Colt MacDonald Books Overview

Thunderbird Trail

Trapped in a ranch house, a gang of train robbers were holding off a posse. Quist was thinking any minute now, when a rifle barked and the sheriff called for an immediate attack. His last command was to close in, ignore the bullets, and pretend not to care whether death came or not.

The Comanche Scalp

WesternLarge Print EditionIn the middle of the desert, in the middle of a rowboat sat Old Brose Randle quite dead. The only clue lay in the nearby bushes, a Comanche scalp. It wasnt much for Gregory Quist, the famous railroad detective, to go on, especially while he was being sniped at. Quist isnt a man to give up easily, even when hes arrested for murder and put into a predicament that could be his undoing…

King of Crazy River

Known to everyone as the King of Crazy River, Big Vink Thorpe certainly looked like a king. Tall, handsome, open-hearted, a true cattleman of the old type, he was known and liked throughout the Crazy River country. But one night he was found dead, still clutching a poker hand — three aces and two eights — of sinister significance. Rance Duncan, the murdered man’s foreman, was determined to avenge Thorpe’s death. And circumstances forced him to play a lone hand in his search for the killer.

Available only in Wheeler Western 6.

Powdersmoke Range

WesternLarge Print EditionWhen the Guadalupe Kid rode in to see his old friend, Tresbarro, he didnt expect to use his gun. But Tresbarro was being forced to sell his ranch to someone who wanted it bad enough to kill for it. And when the Kid bought the ranch instead, he wound up in the sheriffs jail, with a slug in him. It was no ordinary frame up. And when Tucson Smith, Lullaby Joslin and Stony Brooke the Three Mesquiteers came around to look for the Kid, they realized that it would take plenty of gunplay to make the sheriff see things their way…

Ridin’ Through

There was no law in Tosco, only the bullet law of Dike Scaraban and his crew of range pirates. Nothing stood in their way except a single, lone ridin’ stranger, the man known as Ridin’ Through because he never stayed for long.

Battle at Three Cross

DESERT DISASTER
Lance Tolliver wants nothing more than to solve his friend’s murder and go home. But his only clues are the strangest he’s ever seen: a blackened right hand and a rare cactus bud found with the body. As Lance gets closer and closer to the truth, he finds a band of border terrorists, a secret Indian cult, and more all leading to an ultimate three way showdown between outlaws, the Yacquente tribe, and lawmen. All Lance can do is pray he solves the case before getting caught in the crossfire.

Alias Dix Ryder

When Santone Austin rode into Arboledo, he was surprised to find that everyone mistook him for another man one who had been dead for years.

Rebel Ranger

The valley was being torn apart by a bloody feud. Rifles and six-shooters exploded, lighting the night sky with brilliant lances of flame. A man cursed, the words choking abruptly in his throat. A horse screamed and fell, tossing its rider to the hoof-churned earth. The once-peaceful Valley was now a scarred battlefield. Into the midst of the fighting walked Johnny Auburn, Texas Ranger, with his six-shooter strapped to his thigh.

Available only in Wheeler Western 6.

The Riddle of Ramrod Ridge

Ramrod Ridge was a ghost town and a hideout for the dregs of the frontier that no law abiding community would tolerate. Here Simon Crawford, a tyrant who ruled with fear and ill gotten wealth, held absolute power. The trail that led Caliper and Nogales, two footloose and reckless cowboys, to Ramrod Ridge began when they interrupted a necktie party where Crawford’s henchmen were trying to extract the whereabouts of a cache of stolen gold. Available only in Wheeler Softcover 4.

Master of Mesa

Hawk Nielson was the most powerful man on the range. His enemies numbered all the men he had stolen from and cheated and crushed. Vard Whitlock had more reason to hate him than most. Land and money were all Hawk cared about until his wife bore him a son. His pride almost matched his greed. Now Vard knew how to strike back, he just had to wait for the right moment. When it came, he kidnapped the baby and hit the trail. Then he settled down to work out the revenge justice demanded for Nielson. When it came, it caused the bitterest fight the men of the Mesa had ever seen.

Wheels in the Dust

Hoyt Murragh. A well-built, rangy man with good features, and an expression that verges on the sardonic. There are even humorous lines about his gray eyes. He can think as fast as he can shoot, and has to de plenty of both in his investigation of a series of pay-roll holdups.

The Red Raider

‘Gun Fog’opens at the tail end of an all-night poker game. Young Jerry Knight, who has just drifted in, finds himself the big loser and signs an agreement to work for the Circle F without compensation for two months. The destitute cowboy has no idea that he is about to become involved in cattle rustling and framed for a murder. ‘The Red Raider‘ is the story of murder and mayhem on the open range. Old Dad Flint sets out to revenge the murder of his son and, unfortunately, the confrontation takes place in the desert where the murderer is accompanied by Kicking Horse and his band of renegade Apaches.

Allan William Colt MacDonald was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1891. His career became a long string of successes in pulp magazines, hardcover books, films, and eventually original and reprint paperback editions. The Three Mesquiteers, MacDonald’s most famous characters, were introduced in 1933 in Law of the Forty-Fives.

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