Robert J. Conley Books In Order
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The Way of the Priests | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Way | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The White Path | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Way South | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Way Home | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Island | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The War Trail North | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War Woman | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Peace Chief | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cherokee Dragon | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spanish Jack | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sequoyah | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Texas Outlaw Books
Fugitive's Trail | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cold Hard Trail | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Trail | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Double D Western Books
Bitter Grass | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tangled Web | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Buffalo Hunt | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Had Enemies | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whipsaw Trail | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nickajack | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
GAMBLER'S LUCK | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Law and Lynchburg | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Farewell to Texas | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sheriff Go-Ahead Rider Books
Go-Ahead Rider | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Make a Killing | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Outside the Law | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Collections
The Rattlesnake Band & Other Poems | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witch of Goingsnake | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plastic Indian | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Cherokee | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cherokee Medicine Man | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cherokee Nation | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cherokee Encyclopedia | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cherokee Thoughts | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Books
All My Relations | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Narrative Chance | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Other destinies | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sharpest Sight | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Voices | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Firesticks of Stories | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer in the Spring | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Faces in the Moon | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grand Avenue | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bone Game | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Massacre at Sand Creek | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Only Approved Indians | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wolfsong | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eye Killers | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightland | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Native Ground | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mixedblood Messages | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kiss of the Fur Queen | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark River | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chancers | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Briefcase Warriors | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Hear the Train | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Other Words | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mask Maker | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Gypsy | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where the Pavement Ends | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Field of Honor | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silko | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trickster of Liberty | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Pipe for February | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Marriage of Saints | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Muting White Noise | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Singing Bird | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cherokee Syllabary | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twenty Thousand Mornings | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Native American Renaissance | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Progressive Traditions | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Creative Alliances | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wil Usdi: Novella | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Imagining Sovereignty | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chenoo | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Bird, Red Power | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Joseph Mathews | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Back to the Blanket | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plastic Indian | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Padoskoks | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Watermelon Nights | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Native Removal Writing | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Robert J. Conley is an American and Cherokee author of fiction. He was born on December 29, 1940 in Cushing, Oklahoma, and passed away on February 16, 2014. He was also known by the name of Robert Jackson Conley, his full given name. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.
Robert J. Conley was a member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. This is a tribe of American Indians that is federally recognized. He is known in his writing for making descriptions of historical Cherokee figures and Indians before they made contact with the white man.
He is fairly well known for writing the Real People series, a series of books. The Dark Island was the sixth book in this series and it received the Spur Award for the best Western novel all the way back in 1995. He would receive two more Spur awards later, one for Yellow Bird, a short story. The other is for the novel Nickajack in 1992.
Conley was the first American Indian that was ever to head the Western Writers of America group at Western Carolina University, located in North Carolina. Conley would end up passing away in North Carolina in Sylva.
He has had three poem collections come out. The first came out in 1975 and is called 21 Poems. There would be two more that came out in the eighties. Conley also tried his hand at writing non fiction books too and would eventually release five books to the public on the topic of Cherokee and the nation, traditions, thoughts, medicine and more related to the tribe.
Robert J. Conley is the creator and writer of the Sheriff Go-Ahead Rider series of fiction. In 1990, the series kicked off when the very first book was published. Go-Ahead Rider is the debut novel in the series and it was followed by a sequel shortly after. To Make a Killing came out in 1994 and one year later the third book was released to audiences. It’s called Outside the Law.
Go-Ahead Rider is the first novel in the Sheriff Go-Ahead Rider series by author Robert J. Conley. Only from a person that is a member of the Cherokee tribe could you get this type of novel, directly drawn from what the author knows first hand and what he has inherited as his memories, his traditions, and his identity.
In this first novel, you will be enthralled as the reader as you watch Conley bring the traditions and his own special knowledge of his people to life. He brings you into another world entirely using his skilled words and his perception into the lives of the Cherokee people past and present to transport the reader into a world that is totally unlike the modern white civilized world (with far more races and colors in it now) of the modern day.
See all that Robert Jackson Conley has to offer in this dynamic first novel that focuses on the Cherokee nation! When a Harvard-educated Cherokee of mixed blood comes home to a small town in Oklahoma, he gets another education that he soon won’t forget. Soon this man is on the trail of a murderer after being deputized. But can he catch the killer or will it all be in vain? Read this thrilling first novel, Go Ahead Rider, by Conley to find out.
To Make A Killing is the second novel in the Rider series by acclaimed author Robert J. Conley. When it comes to action and adventure novels, look no further! The Cherokee capital of Tahlequah has braced itself to vote on another issue that involves a land grant as well as a prisoner that ends up being in a cell guarded and drunk while also being alone.
The only thing is that the prisoner has no way to defend himself. Which is a shame, since he ended up being shot at close range. He was, of course, killed. The perfect murder has been accomplished by Matthew Thomson, but one thing threatens to give it away.
That is the fact that the case just got personal when it comes to Sheriff Rider. His deputy is one of the suspects in this case, and he is going to do everything in his power to prove that his deputy was not the one responsible. Beehunter must be proven innocent at all costs, and Sheriff Rider is going to be the one to do it.
To kill someone like that when they have nowhere to go surely must be a deed that qualifies as an act that is spiritually evil. Now he must go to a medicine man if he wants to get the answers that he needs in order to find a killer, and the pressure is building on all sides.
Bureaucrats demand to know what answers he has for them, and Rider is doing his best to try and prove that Beehunter is innocent. When it comes to this case, Rider is going to have to think hard and piece the evidence together if he’s going to make sure that he can clear up the name of his friend.
Thomson is trying to escape being detected, even though the noose is slowly tightening around his neck. Can he do what he needs to do in order to try and catch the killer once and for all? This individual is going to be tough to catch and may even kill again.
This adventure takes your breath away and gets your heart pounding! The sequel in the series from Conley is sure to be a page turner. What will this Western adventure have to offer? You’ve got to pick up To Make A Killing to find out for sure!
Experience all of the beauty and the rough wildness of the frontier from an Indian’s point of view that is authentic. This murder mystery fictional novel is so inventive and gripping, you’ll be wanting to read it again. Move on to the third book in the series if you liked this one and read Outside the Law, the third book in the series by Robert J. Conley, if you want to find out how this trilogy ends!
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