Paul L. Thompson Books In Order
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Black Widow | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Black Widow Returns | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Bounty Hunters Books
Shoot To Kill | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Robbbers And Shooters | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
He Killed My Husband | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Revenge of Timmy Dowd | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When the Last Man is Dead | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wrong Bullet Wrong Man | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Stage Shot Full of Holes | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson Books
Ride Hard For Rayado | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Willow Lane | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Children of the West | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Last Gun In Town | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Long Chase For Justice | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Janice McCord | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Saddle Mountain | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Clayton New Mexico | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
If Hell Ain't Hot Enough | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Two Sister's Revenge: Maggie and Helen Stillson | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ms. Deborah Has Been Kidnapped | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Kidnapped Education | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mister I’ll See You Dead | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You Get Five Years | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Evil With A Gun | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Marshal Shorty Turns In His Badge | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Winter Too Cold For Gold | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dead Is All You'll Get | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cora Laredo - One Mad Woman | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Billie & Bonnie Coleman - Women To Deal With | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blood, Sweat and Gold | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
From Texas to Montana | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You Think I Shot Him | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Please Don't Leave Me | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Can Loneliness Last Forever | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Fifth Man | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Whiskers McPherson & Gabriel O'Grady | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Marshal Shorty Please Help Us | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Gold And Silver: A Robber's Paradise | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rough Trip Back to Boise | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Almost The Fastest Gun | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shorty Thompson: U.S. Marshal | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Malpais | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Silver of the Black Range | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Trouble In Tascosa | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
One Good Deed Before I Die | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Mother's Wrath | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
White Oaks: A Town With No Law | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wanted: Kill Shorty Thompson: Five Thousand Dollars | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Brothers of the West | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Young Jessie Owens | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When Preaching Is Hell | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Women In The West Did Survive | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Montrose Colorado | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Elijah 'Longhorn' Thompson | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wells Fargo Is Easy To Rob | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
I'll See You Both Dead | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wrong Man Again | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Young Trackers | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
This Mountain Is Mine | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Grandpa and The Kid | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dead Trail | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Molly Muldoon Kills Her First Man | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Bit Of Crooked Law | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Caught One Crooked Banker | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cimarron River: Rustlers Hideout | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keith Aurzada: Lawyer Gunfighter | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Last Man | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Bad Decision | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Six Years Wait For A Showdown | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
She's Alive, Not For Long | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mister You Was Shot In The Head | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
I Sentence You To Twenty Years | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
We're Going To Die Ain't We Danny | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You Shot Me Once, Never Again! | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
One Sweet Kiss Can Kill You | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Animas City - A Town to Forget | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Don’t Ever Make Old Men Mad | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kill Every Witness | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Deputy U.S. Marshal Betty McCabe | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson Meets U.S. Marshal Hopper Scranton | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Long Hunt | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Before I Die | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Killing Of Outlaws | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Martin Boys | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cowboy Cody Strickland | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Janice McCord Rides Again | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
James P. Retzer: Dentist: New Mexico, Territory | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Doug Brown And Shelly Hampton | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
David Graham - The New Gun | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Milo Tillie | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Road To Chama | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
William Colby U.S. Marshal Retired | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Young Outlaws | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hang Shorty in Leadville, Colorado | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Love Is One Shadow Away | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Little Toby Smith | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Killers and Outlaws | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Revenge of the Bullet | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Black Pearls, Blue Diamonds And Bullets | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Very Long Time Before Cowboys | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Devil Will Get You | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Long Trail To Nowhere | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
It Takes More Than Bullets | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Keep The Gold - We Keep Our Ranch | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When Winter Winds Blow | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You Ain't Worth Killin' | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Take Aim - Shoot Straight | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
I'll Hunt You Down | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
One Crooked Town | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Yer in the Wrong Town Mister | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Middle of the Colfax County War | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wherry Gang Saves Christmas | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tillie Jane From Hillsboro | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Death is All That's Left | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Pure Raw Justice | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
No Justice for the Innocent | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Deputy Sheriff John Dunow | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blood Over The Horizon | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
I Know Who Back Shot Mister Fred | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Widow Martha Camden | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Friend Was Robbed And Murdered: Western Adventure | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Dead Man's Trail | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Thunder On The Mountain | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Name Is Savage... Dorothy Savage | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Day Lottie McDade Was Shot | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
White Oaks - A Town With No Law | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ma'am I'll Kill You As Quick As I Did Him | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Fastest Horse | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
My Land Stay Off Or Die | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Thirty Miles From Nowhere | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Life Of Sally Ward | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Liars and Crooks | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Long Train Ride Home | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Too Young To Kill | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kill That Senator | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sent To England | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When Time Ran Out | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When Hell Rode Into Town | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
He’ll Hang Before Sundown | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Out Of Town By Sundown | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
That's No Reason To Die | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wrong Family To Mess With | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You Won't Die Tonight | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When Things Go Wrong | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Littlest Gun | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal Books
Blood Trail To Hell | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
An Eye For An Eye | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
There Will Be Blood | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Wagon Wheel Justice | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Thou Shall Not Steal | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Blood In The Texas Badlands | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Saved By Another Lawman's Star | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Blood Moon Over Texas | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Bones of Dripping Springs | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Reckoning In Big Spring | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Blood Is Thicker Than Water | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Thirty Bloody Miles To Tucson | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bad Blood In Laredo | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Judas In Waco | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Dancing With A Dead Man | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Lawless Town | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Twisted Justice | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Justice at El Malpais | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Banditos' Rule | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Death Stalks The Streets Of Dallas | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Best Law Money Can Buy | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
It's Time To Kidnap A Deputy Marshal | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
My Brother's Keeper | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Too Many Dead Men | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Trouble In Abilene | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Blind Man's Bluff | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Town Called Paine | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Justice East Of Texas | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Iron, Sweat And Blood | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Parson's Secret | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Blood Along the Brazos | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Wild Goats Of Eagle Pass | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
'Til Death Do We Part | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bloody Hunt At Red Rock | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
You've Got The Wrong Man Mister | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Whoever Took 'Em Will Pay | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Gutful of Hate | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
One Dollar Just Might Get You Hung | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Thorn Hatcher Must Die | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Man Called Gator Wade | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Grave Digger of Cherry Hill | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Three Horsemen | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Tyson Tadlock's Secret | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Showdown at High Plains Oasis | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Texas Town Tamers | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Downwind Of Trouble | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Drifter | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Santa Fe Connection | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bloody Spurs | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Poser | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bringing Down Slade Silverton | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Stone Justice at Devils River | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Spilled Whiskey | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Jaded Justice at Cripple Creek | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Mountains Won't Save You | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Young Widow of Stephenville | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Hunt For Captain Forrester | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Protectors | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Nine Hombres Begging For Justice | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Slago | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Gunsmith’s Deadly Game | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A Town Full Of Killers | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Search For Madie | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Crigger | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Nathan Gage And Jubal Stone | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Deadly Crossing At Blood River | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Return Of Slago | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Hunt For Willow Blue | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bloody Little Job Harrison | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Shallow Graves at Big Cow Creek | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Judge Dread | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Lucius Clay’s Reward | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Paul L. Thompson
Paul L. Thompson was born and grew up on a farm and ranch in New Mexico, and he only uses true locations in each of his novels. The name of towns are the exact same as in the 1880s, some are ghost towns now while others grew into our modern cities of modern day.
He writes “true” historical western fiction. Each of the locations is, or was, true to the times 1870s through 1912. Names of towns which no longer exist (or names that have been changed) are brought to life right before your very eyes. Canyons, creeks, and towns that you may have walked through on your vacation in the southwest are all named correctly.
Every location that gets used in one of his novels might be visited today. Much of the country Thompson writes about, he has rode over while on horseback multiple times.
Before he begins writing his novels, he did fifteen years of extensive research on top of the knowledge that he already gained from living in New Mexico. His love of horses, cattle, and the entire southwest, with its wide-open spaces, inspired him to write novels which express the beauty of the Southwest in print.
“Black Ranger Silver” is the second novel in the “Tales of the Old West/Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2003. President Hayes sent word to US Marshal Short Thompson at old Fort Tularosa, New Mexico Territory. He was supposed to investigate why so many mine owners were ending up dead. Also as he was there, learn why ore samples don’t match the ore quality when it arrives to US Government Mints in California and Nevada.
During his investigation, as he rides down Burns Gulch, Shorty’s shot in the head and lays in a coma for more than a month. When he comes to, he’s got no memory of who he is or why he’s even there.
“Young Jesse Owens” is the fourteenth novel in the “Tales of the Old West/Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2007. Jesse Owens was just nine years old when his family pulled up their deep roots in their Tennessee Valley coal mining town, and headed west. Jesse, while riding on a borrowed horse, got to ride drag with the outriders. In Oklahoma Territory, he shot this outlaw right in the back as he saved one of his fellow outriders.
Outlaws abducted Jesse’s sisters and a couple of the Stillwell girls in the Texas Panhandle, while the men of the wagon train were off wiping this Comanchero camp out.
Delbert Fleming and Jesse rode hard to pursue the kidnappers. They found the outlaw camp right around midnight and Jesse snuck in to get the girls, and ran off the outlaw’s horses. Jesse was a hero now, at least in the eyes of his sister and the rest of the girls in the wagon train.
“A Long Train Ride Home” is the 123rd novel in the “Tales of the Old West/Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2023. Shorty stepped down off the train in Calgary, Canada. He was tired down to the bone after he switched trains five times and sat on this hard seat for twelve days without much sleep for more than two thousand miles.
The Canadian Government had allowed the United States come all the way to Calgary after Nathanial Grossmont. This man had escaped from prison in Canon City, Colorado and went back and murdered the judge that sentenced him, along with the judge’s own wife.
Shorty’s orders from Captain Hardesty was to bring Nathanial back alive to Colorado whatever the costs. This man has to be hung for what he’s done and never given the opportunity to ever escape again. Four guards got knocked out and left lying in a field. Judge Ryder and the man’s wife, Francine, would both be alive today if he’d just hung Grossmont and been done with it.
“Too Young To Kill” is the 124th novel in the “Tales of the Old West/Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2023. It took a week for Karl and Frank Lang to round up and separate 170 head of cattle that they were taking to this waiting buyer they had in Amarillo, Texas. It’d be four or five days of slow driving in order to take this herd the 25 miles south.
The hardest part would be that it was just two men and one ten year old boy taking them. Cody, the ten year old boy and his dog, named Pup, would lead out, with the cattle following them. The second night that camp was made and cattle circled and bedded down. Frank (Cody’s grandpa) bragged on how well they did that day. He said they could not ask for better, as he was keeping the right speed.
The very next morning after coffee and breakfast were over, these seven riders came firing guns and stampeded their cattle. Karl and Frank grabbed their guns and promptly got shot down. That shooter sat on his horse, looking down at a scared Cody. Told him that he was too young to kill and to get.
Cody told him to get that he was checking on his dad and Grandpa. Clete just laughed, turned his horse, and headed after his men and the running cattle.
“Kill That Senator” is the 125th novel in the “Tales of the Old West/Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2023. The US Senate was in session and the senators were yelling back and forth. Jack Dorsey (the Senate Majority Leader) banged that gavel over and over shouting about how the bickering won’t get anything done.
For as long as he’s Senate Majority Leader this bill is never being brought to the floor for a vote. Never are the American taxpayers going to liable for ten or so million dollars for a private industry to be able to get filthy rich without any oversight from this body as to what this ten million bucks is going to be used for.
He then says that the senate’s in recess to allow everybody to hit the campaign trail. Then he wishes them good luck on their re-election. He banged his gavel again. And then the yelling and screaming really began.
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