Lewis B Patten Books In Order
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Gene Autry and the Ghost Riders | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gene Autry and Arapaho War Drums | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Snake Stomper | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Massacre at White River | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gunmen's Grass | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gunsmoke Empire | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White Warrior | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rope Law | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Back Trail | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Showdown at Stony Crest | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pursuit | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Home is the Outlaw | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Massacre at San Pablo | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Maverick Empire | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Valley of Violent Men | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gun Proud | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Showdown at War Cloud | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Five Rode West | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tomahawk | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Adventures of Jim Bowie | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Rode Alone | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Top Man with a Gun | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fighting Rawhide / Sunblade | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ruthless Men | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Savage Star | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gun and the Man | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Range .45 | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hangman's Country | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Savage Town | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Angry Horsemen | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Outlaw Canyon | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Law of the Gun | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Renegade Gun | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Savage Country | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gold Magnet | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Savage Vengeance | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flame in the West | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tarnished Star | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Guilty Guns | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guns at Gray Butte | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ruthless Range | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tarnished Star | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scaffold at Hangman's Creek | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vengeance Rider | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Killer from Yuma | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Giant on Horseback | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wagons East! | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Proudly They Die | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ride for Vengeance | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Arrogant Guns | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Odds Against Circle L | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No God in Saguaro | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Waited at Rialto Creek / The Trap | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deputy from Furnace Creek | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prodigal Gunfighter | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Star and the Gun | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bones of the Buffalo | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ambush Creek | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of a Gunfighter | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Sabbath | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cheyenne Drums | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Youngerman Guns | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Meeker Massacre | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Posse From Poison Creek | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Death in Indian Wells | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Runs the River | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Apache Hostage | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six Ways of Dying | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Showdown at Mesilla | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Massacre Ridge | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ride the Hot Wind | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guilt of a Killer Town | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hands of Geronimo | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Track of the Hunter | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trial of Judas Wiley | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cheyenne Pool | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Killing in Kiowa | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Feud at Chimney Rock | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Homesteader | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tired Gun | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hide Hunters | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Redskin | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gun of Jesse Hand | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ordeal of Jason Ord | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lynching at Broken Butte | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bounty Man | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Angry Town of Pawnee Bluffs | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two for Vengeance | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Stalks Yellowhorse | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gallows at Graneros | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Orphans of Coyote Creek | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vow of Vengeance | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ride a Crooked Trail | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ambush at Soda Creek | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lawless Breed | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Man Outgunned | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Villa's Rifles | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trial at Apache Junction | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Killings at Coyote Springs | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hunt The Man Down | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Rides a Black Horse | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cheyenne Captives | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Law in Cottonwood | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rifles of Revenge | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trail of the Apache Kid | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ride a Tall Horse | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Redskin Time | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tincup in the Storm Country | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trail to Vicksburg | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Rides the Denver Stage | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Woman at Ox-Yoke | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gun and the Law | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Grass | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red is the Valley | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guns of Vengeance | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
Lewis B Patten was an American Western novelist from Denver, Colorado. He was born in 1915 and by the time of his death in 1981, he was deemed one of the most prolific western fiction authors of his generation. He often published as Joseph Wayne, Lee Leighton, and Lewis Ford pseudonyms that he would use while authoring novels with his fellow author Wayne D. Overholser. The award-winning author was the winner of the Western Writers of American 1979 Golden Saddleman’s Award for his collection of works. It is an award that is given to authors that have been instrumental in furthering the legend and history of the American West. It has been awarded to authors such as S. Omar Barker, A.B. Guthrie, Luke Short, actor John Wayne and John Ford the film director. Patten is also the winner of the WWA Golden Spur Award and also became a charter member as a number of his short stories and novels were adapted into movies. In 1969 “Death of a Gunfighter,” which had Lena Horne and Richard Widmark in the lead roles was made into a very successful movie.
After he graduated from high school in Denver, he joined the Navy in 1933 and went on to serve for four years up to 1937. During this time, he was stationed on a destroyer that patrolled the waters of the Far East. In 1940, he decided to go back to school and attended the University of Denver to study accounting. Upon graduation, he got a job as an auditor at the Colorado Department of Revenue, where he also achieved much success. He left the department in 1944 to pursue his love for farming and would soon own and operate several ranches in Evergreen, Colo, and DeBeque. He decided to venture into writing in 1949 when he teamed up with Wayne D. Overholder to cowrite three novels in “The Meeker Massacre,” “A Killing at Kiowa,” and “Red Sabbath.” “Five Rode West” which was one of his very first novels was a runaway success as within a few months of its release it had sold more than two million copies.
Lewis B, Patten’s “Death of a Gunfighter” things have come to a head in Cottonwood Springs when Luke Mills is murdered by Marshal Frank Patch. The murdered man had been a known drunk but when someone had yelled from a dark passageway followed by a few shots, Frank had reacted instinctively and killed the man. The town had always wanted Patch to resign and stop his vigilante activities as the defacto marshal. Most people in the community believed that the town needed a proper and regulated police force. Patch had refused to stop his activities and is now a relic of a bygone era that just will not quit. When he had become the town’s law enforcer, it was a place full of wild types that needed the likes of him to maintain law and order. But that had been two decades ago and the shots he had faced from Mills were a first in over five years. Many people in town were afraid of Patch as he had a manner around him that was menacing even though he hardly raised his voice, looked crosswise, hit, or threatened anyone. Patch could refuse to step down as his long stint as law enforcement meant that he knew a lot of things about the movers and shakers in the community. They did not want their secrets to come out and threatening to refuse to pay him did nothing to the stubborn man. After all, he had a lot of money stored away and he lived on very little as it as. But something had to be done as they believed that investors thinking of setting up in town would be scared of the big gunfighter riding in town with his rifle.
“Ride a Tall Horse” by Lewis B Patten tells the story of Jason a sixteen-year-old that is an aspiring deputy. He had heard the sound of gunfire one early morning and while he not yet a deputy his lawman instinct had kicked in. Walking up the narrow street, he found a man with six guns firing relentlessly running out of a general store with a bag full of gold on his back. Going down on one knee while taking aim, he had asked the thug to stop while he drew his Colt and fired. The man did not stop and continued with his frantic dash down the street and out of town. He now had a chance to make a name for himself by arresting the criminal which would surely earn him the deputy’s star. But when he tries to create a roundup party, he learns the hard way that despite his impressive size, almost no one was interested in being led by a sixteen-year-old. They believe that he is just an inexperienced boy but he is undaunted in his quest to bring the criminal to justice. But he soon discovers that being a lawman is not only about carrying a pistol and wearing a badge.
“The Tired Gun” is the story of a Texan gunfighter who is back in his hometown where he had met and married his wife, learned to shoot, and served as marshal. He had been unfortunate to lose his wife during childbirth and grief-stricken, he had left town leaving his son to be raised by his in-laws. He had run away and now did not want to run anymore. He is running away from a revenge crazed Wyoming rancher that is after him since he had killed the man’s brother in self-defense. The rancher has with him more than 20 of his friends willing to exact revenge. He does not know what brought him back; design or chance but now that he is back home, he is never leaving again. It is a story full of suspense as it is built up to showcase the challenges of a man that is determined to make a life for himself in the wild west.
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