U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson Books In Order
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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 |
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson (Series by Paul L. Thompson)
Paul L. Thompson writes the “U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson” series of western novels. Saddle up and ride the same wild lonesome trials that US Marshall Shorty Thompson did in the 1870s through the 1890s.
Narrated in the authentically seasoned dialect of a southwestern storyteller, these books are a tribute to the heartbreaking and thrilling hardships of our nation’s western history. Accurately reconstructing the sweeping landscapes of the old west, these novels document the times and the historical locations largely ignored by writers that have never even been there. Paul’s actually been there, and you’ll feel as though you were too.
“Shorty Thompson: US Marshall” is the first novel in the “U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2001. The 1870s. As opposed to the myths from popular culture, not everyone was swaggering around with six-irons strapped down and leading lives filled with mayhem. However there were the exceptions, who were just as evil, deadly, and bloody as the legends portray. And so were the law that handled these outlaws.
With one eye toward the Arizona Territories perhaps or New Mexico, MD Shorty Thompson is a young cowboy that looks for winters warmer than those of the deep-in-your-bones cold of the Texas plains. However north of the old Republic’s border Thompson runs afoul of killers and cattle rustlers. The ensuing ordeal lands this young Texan in Wyoming where he crosses paths with the stolen cattle’s illegal new owner, this retired Army General that’s more crooked than the hind leg of a dog. However crooked or not, the Army fort nearby carries more weight than local law enforcement and they’re solidly behind the retired General. So in hopes of finding justice with just a bit more backbone, Thompson strikes out for Washington DC.
However instead of getting justice, Thompson becomes a justice himself when President Rutherford Hayes sees the Marshall that he was looking for in this gutsy Texan. In order to get the justice he seeks, Thompson has to fight these cattle rustlers of the whole Wyoming and New Mexico territories, all as he wears his tin star target.
“Silver of the Black Range” is the second novel in the “U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2002. President Hayes sent Shorty Thompson a message while he was at old Fort Tularosa, New Mexico Territory. He was to investigate why so many mine owners are winding up dead. Also while he was there, learn why ore samples aren’t matching the ore quality when it gets to US Government Mints in California and Nevada.
During his investigation, as he rides down Burns Gulch, Shorty gets shot in the head and is in a coma for more than a month. He comes to and has no memory of why he’s there or who he even is.
“Willow Lane” is the third novel in the “U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2003. Land stealers and cattle rustlers get overly greedy after they take over this tiny Spanish village and use the town people as their slaves in their own gold and silver mines. Greed for some other family’s ranch leads to a murder, while Manco Dillon believes he’s above the law. He’s got plenty of outlaws with him to take over any piece of property in the New Mexico Territory. However Dillon’s downfall starts with two small kids, who just so happened to run into US Marshal Shorty Thompson.
This young lady named Willow Lane returns home from school back east and finds that her brothers and dad have gone missing. The Dillon gang has taken the Lane ranch over. With Shorty’s help, all hell’s about to break loose. Men are going to die.
This flash flood in Mogollon almost ends Shorty’s life, after he gets knocked into the swollen waters of the Main Street drainage ditch and gets washed a mile or so downstream. This is a bruised and waterlogged little US Marshal.
Dillon was now attempting to expand his operations. Stealing the gold mines around Mogollon is going to add to his power rather nicely. At least he is attempting to. He needs more men to work these jumped claims of his. Shanghaiing men from Mogollon saloons supply all of the cheap labor that he needs for success.
“Trouble in Tascosa” is the fifth novel in the “U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2003. Shorty Thompson’s oversized ranch partner, Buffalo, talked Shorty into allowing him come along with him on this assignment he had in West Texas. James (Buffalo) Blackburn could be just as stubborn as a sick mule over just about everything.
President Hayes sent a wire to Shorty that just had to be delivered by the Butterfield Stage Lines, telling him he had to head to Tascosa and round up a few rustlers and land grabbers. This nagging feeling came over Buffalo to tag along, not realizing that this could lead them to his wife’s killers. Law or no law, nothing is going to keep Buffalo from beating them into a bloody pulp and ripping them apart. He waited far too long to get his hands on these two lowlife murdering polecats.
The local ranchers near Tascosa had waited just long enough for the Texas Rangers to arrive, and Washington didn’t seem to care too much. Now they’d take the matter into their own hands. Far too much blood had been spilled in and around Tascosa and all of it was theirs. With each and every rancher and farmer in the Panhandle using their guns, things would soon change. King or no damn King, a bunch of men were going to die. Crooked law was about to be stopped. This huge showdown was coming to Tascosa.
“Malpais” is the seventh novel in the “U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson” series and was released in 2003. In the mold of guys like Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp, Shorty is just the sort of Short on stature yet tall on guts. Handpicked by President Rutherford B. Hayes, he’s one of the best.
And since US Marshals of the 1870s handle desperadoes this means just about everyone does appear to be using those strapped down dragoons and wreaking havoc. For Marshal MD Thompson, it’s just the life of a lawman.
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