Tim Champlin Books In Order

Matt Tierney Westerns Books In Order

  1. Summer of the Sioux (1981)
  2. Dakota Gold (1982)
  3. Staghorn (1983)
  4. Shadow Catcher (1985)
  5. Great Timber Race (1986)

Adventures in Time – 1849 Books In Order

  1. Tom And Huck’s Howling Adventure (2017)
  2. Tom Sawyer’s Dark Plot (2018)
  3. Tom and Huck’s Deathly River (2020)

Novels

  1. Iron Trail (1987)
  2. Colt Lightning (1989)
  3. King of the Highbinders (1989)
  4. Flying Eagle (1990)
  5. The Last Campaign (1996)
  6. The Survivor (1996)
  7. Deadly Season (1997)
  8. Swift Thunder (1998)
  9. Lincoln’s Ransom (1999)
  10. The Tombstone Conspiracy (1999)
  11. Wayfaring Strangers (2000)
  12. Treasure of Templars (2000)
  13. A Trail to Wounded Knee (2001)
  14. By Flare of Northern Lights (2001)
  15. Raiders of the Western and Atlantic (2002)
  16. White Lights Roar (2003)
  17. Fire Bell in the Night (2004)
  18. Territorial Rough Rider (2004)
  19. The Blaze of Noon (2005)
  20. Devil’s Domain (2005)
  21. Cold Cache (2007)
  22. West of Washoe (2009)
  23. Beecher Island (2010)
  24. The Secret of Lodestar (2012)
  25. Tom Sawyer and the Ghosts of Summer (2013)
  26. Annie & The Ripper (2013)
  27. Cross of Gold (2013)
  28. Border Reprisal (2016)
  29. Chasing the Golden Treasure (2016)
  30. Mark Twain Speaking from the Grave (2016)
  31. Flying for France (2019)

Omnibus

  1. Color at 40 Mile / 2 Queens for Skidway Empire / Long Gone (1999)

Non fiction

  1. The Wild West of Louis L’Amour (2015)

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Tim Champlin Books Overview

Staghorn

Matt Tierney finds plenty of adventure when he rides the riverboats from New Orleans to the Dakotas. And he finds plenty of danger between the high and mighty princ e, the gambler with a gleam in his eye, and the beautiful la dy of the waterways. ‘

Shadow Catcher

Matt Tierney and Wiley Jenkins risk their li ves to rescue two photographers from an Apache massacre. On the trail ahead there”s gold, silver and copper and no sho rtage of danger. ‘

King of the Highbinders

Everyone in San Francisco is trying to work out who stole $3m in gold from the U.S. mint, when Jay McGraw walks into a police station with a beautiful Chinese slave girl and an incredible story.

Flying Eagle

This title is written by Tim Champlin. Jay McGraw’s job might not have been too exciting, but it was a steady one. He was a messenger for Wells Fargo, and guarding its famous treasure box was his responsibility. Usually it was a fairly routine business, but one day trouble came his way. Not long into the run between San Francisco and Chicago, masked bandits blew up a key bridge on the trail. Jay knew rights away what they were after. If the bandits had their way, Wells Fargo would lose its shipment and Jay would lose his job. But Jay wouldn’t give up without a fight.

The Last Campaign

Ca on de los Embudos, Mexico It’s 1886 and General George Crook is holding a peace conference with the last wild band of Apache renegades and their chief, Geronimo. The Apaches are expected to lay down their arms and go peacefully to Arizona until Geronimo disappears into the night with a small band of warriors. A treaty with Mexico allows the U.S. Army to track the hostiles into Mexican territory. General Nelson A. Miles replaces General Crook and oversees the final effort to come to terms with the renegades. Russell Norwood, a courier, and chief of scouts Tom Horn are assigned to accompany Captain Henry W. Lawton’s pursuit of Geronimo into northern Mexico. Intrigue thickens with Horn’s intention to kill Norwood during the course of the mission. Stopping in a Mexican village, Norwood meets Elena, a most unusual and beautiful woman who will come to play a key role in protecting the Indians once they have agreed to surrender…

The Survivor

WesternLarge Print EditionA prisoner in a French penal colony for twenty years, Marcel Dupr finally escapes and is quickly pronounced a threat to the French government for having written a memoir of his years in the French Foreign Legion. Wells Fargo employee Jay McGraw is given the task of locating Dupre and the manuscript and getting them safely to New York. Meanwhile the French have dispatched a gang of cutthroats to make sure the manuscript never sees the light of day…

Deadly Season

WesternJay McGraw has taken a leave of absence from Wells Fargo & Company to help out his friend Detective Fred Casey on the Chinatown police squad of San Francisco. Their mission to stern the flow of opium into the Bay City. Unable to crack the source of the opium, the squad calls in a visiting Londoner, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Though Holmes does clarify some of the clues, he unwittingly plunges McGraw and Casey into grave danger…
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Swift Thunder

THE PONY EXPRESS! Lance Barlow was only nineteen when he started riding with a Missouri militia group known as the Border Ruffians. Hed joined them seeking adventure, but their wanton destruction and murder of the Free Staters was too much for him. Finally, after a brutal attack on a farm family, Lance couldnt take any more. He rebelled and switched sides. He reunited with his best friend, a freed slave named Shadrack, and together the pair set off to ride with the newly organized Pony Express. But Lance got more adventure than he had bargained for when he was forced to rescue Shadrack from slavers. Still working for the Pony Express, the friends escaped west to Utah with the Missouri militia and a Marysville slaver on their trail. They had no idea that the real danger lay in front of them, waiting in the midst of Paiute country.

Lincoln’s Ransom

In 1876, the corpse of President Abraham Lincoln was stolen from its mausoleum and held for ransom. But the train on which the body was being secretly transported was held up in Missouri by the James gang!

Wayfaring Strangers

When gold was discovered in California in 1849, the news spread like an electric shock through the United States and its territories. There were three ways to get to those gold fields and the promise of incredible riches: overland by wagon train, horse or on foot; by ship around Cape Horn; or by stem wheeler through the Gulf of Mexico, thence overland to the Pacific. Wayfaring Strangers follows travelers on all three of these arduous and dangerous journeys, whose lives are connected by more than the fortunes sought in California.

A Trail to Wounded Knee

It is 1876, and Lt. Thaddeus Coyle is stationed with the U.S. Army at Fort Hartsuff, Nebraska. Driven to oppose his commanding officer on a question of honor, Coyle winds up court martialed and abandoned by his wife and family. For a time he works the mining camps in the Black Hills, becoming a partner to Tom Merritt, known as Swift Hawk on the reservation. Reconciling with his family, Coyle takes a position with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and is assigned to advise the Indian Agent at the Pine Ridge Agency at Wounded Knee where he and Swift Hawk will meet again…

Raiders of the Western and Atlantic

A group of men in the Union Army attempt to steal the General and drive the engine to safety behind Union Lines, burning Confederate bridges as they go. The theft of the General unleashes a desperate pursuit through Confederate territory.

White Lights Roar

It is 1916 in Arizona along the border with Mexico. Below the border there is a revolution in progress. Pancho Villa and his army are intent on seizing power. In Arizona thousands of Krag rifles have disappeared. In fact, the entire train on which they were being transported vanished into the desert without a trace. Tim Champlin, born John Michael Champlin in Fargo, North Dakota, currently resides in Nashville, Tennesse. In all of Champlin’s stories there are unconventional plot ingredients, striking historical details, vivid characterizations of the multitude of ethnic and cultural diversity found on the frontier, and narratives rich and original and surprising.

Fire Bell in the Night

Alex Thorne has been enjoying his retirement from the Secret Service by seeing the world. Aboard the City of Peking, he saves the life of a fellow passenger, Rudyard Kipling. Thorne is immediately suspicious that the incident was far from accidental. A high regard between the two men leads to friendship. After another attempt on Kipling’s life, Thorne proposes to act as guardian for the British author on his tour of the American West. Incidents continue to plague Kipling as he traverses the West. Tension and suspense constantly increase as the attempts at harassment take a sudden turn for the worse when the plan changes: Kipling is to be killed. Tim Champlin was born John Michael Champlin in Fargo, North Dakota. He began his writing career in 1982.

Territorial Rough Rider

On a trip to visit his parents back East, Peter Ormond steals his father’s collection of rare gold coins valued at $50,000. On the return trip to Prescott, Arizona Territory, Ormond himself is robbed. Back in Prescott, Ormond meets Charley Gunderson and agrees to help him take a herd of wild mustangs to Ash Fork to sell. When C. E. Ormond’s black servant arrives to get the coins back, the three men find themselves on a military train and end up enlisting in the Rough Rider unit being formed by Teddy Roosevelt. In trying to save their skins, all three find themselves in the expeditionary force invading Cuba to defeat the Spaniards who are at war with the United States. The accuracy with which the battles are recounted is chillingly dramatic and unforgettable. With his customary panache for telling a vivid story with characters thrust into exciting historical events, Tim Champlin provides a narrative at once rich, original, and always surprising. Tim Champlin was born John Michael Champlin in Fargo, North Dakota. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University and earned a Master’s degree from Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his western writing career with Summer of the Sioux in 1982.

The Blaze of Noon

The blistering road through Arizona Territory was called the Devil’s Highway for a good reason. Even Apaches won’t travel on it during the deadly heat of August. And now Dan Mora knows why. First he nearly died of a rattler bite, then he lost all his gear, and he’ll be in even bigger trouble if he doesn’t soon find water. Hugh Deraux knows the same stifling thirst. Breaking out of prison was easy compared to this trek through the unforgiving desert. But both men are driven by more than thirst. They hunger for the riches rumored to be found along the dangerous trail. And nothing will stop them from claiming the treasure not each other, not Apaches, not even…
The Blaze of Noon

Devil’s Domain

There was a reason people called Andersonville Prison hell on earth. With more than thirty thousand Union soldiers held captive in the worst conditions possible, death and disease were daily visitors. If scurvy or starvation didn’t kill the prisoners, the guards would. Sergeant John Mulroy knows he’ll die if he doesn’t find some way to escape. Problem is, even if he does get out, his closest ally suffers bouts of madness and just may murder him anyway…
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Cold Cache

In helping a woman in need, Kent Rasmussen gets caught between two families feuding over a legendary cache of Confederate gold.

West of Washoe

A thrilling chase ensues as a stagecoach driver and passengers try to avoid armed robbers on a treacherously narrow and winding road.

Tom Sawyer and the Ghosts of Summer

12 year old Matt Lively is obsessed with trying to somehow stretch time to make summer last indefinitely. Convinced he is living the ideal time of life in Missouri,1950, between the 7th and 8th grade he longs to experience extraordinary adventures before he is forced to confront high school, and eventually, boring adulthood. Along with his best friends, Rob Linehart and Wally Carter, Matt begins the summer with pranks, problems and fun. A mysterious and ominous tramp, Thatcher, accosts Matt and Rob and tells them things he should have no way of knowing. As Thatcher captures the boys’ attention, he invites them back in time to save a life or two and recover a treasure, but mostly to change history in a way that will preserve The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn for posterity. Join Matt, Rob and Wally on their time traveling adventure of self discovery.

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