Cash Laramie & Gideon Miles Books in Order

Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles belong to a shared western world created by Edward A. Grainger, and Wayne D Dundee's entries fit that world by leaning into its strongest qualities: hard trail action, frontier law under pressure, and a lead character who never feels fully domesticated by the badge he wears.

Cash Laramie is the spark plug.

He is often called the Outlaw Marshal, which tells you almost everything about his reputation. Cash is a lawman, but not a tidy one. He is independent, quick to act, and willing to go places more proper authorities would rather avoid. Gideon Miles is the steadier presence in the broader series, the kind of partner who helps hold the line when Cash's instincts start running hot. Even when Gideon is offstage, that partnership still shapes the feel of the world.

Dundee's books tend to focus heavily on Cash himself. In Manhunter's Mountain, he is bringing a prisoner down dangerous country while trying to protect two women and stay ahead of men who want both revenge and control. In The Guns of Vedauwoo, he goes into southeastern Wyoming hunting hidden rifles and the dangerous man who may use them to inflame wider violence. In The Empty Badge, Cash's very identity becomes part of the mystery when reports spread of a badge-wearing accomplice helping a gang of bank robbers and claiming to be him.

Those plots show what the series does well. Frontier law here is personal, unstable, and often undercut by distance and rumor. A missing man, a hidden gun cache, a prisoner on a mountain trail, any of those can grow into a bigger crisis because the country is wide and institutions are thin.

The tone is brisk and pulpy, but there is real western texture underneath. Weather, geography, tribal tension, outlaw pressure, and the simple difficulty of moving people safely from one place to another all matter. If you like lawman westerns with movement, danger, and a hero whose badge never quite tames his edge, the Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles books are a good fit. Dundee's contributions, especially, read like a seasoned hardboiled writer having a very good time out on the range.