Charles G West Books in Order

Funnelweb is among Charles G West's earliest published books, appearing well before the western series that made his name. It is best read by those interested in the full arc of his career.

Stonefish is an early Charles G West title from before his long run of frontier fiction. Readers exploring his full publication history will want it alongside his later western breakthrough.

One of West's earliest published novels, Rat's Nest predates the westerns that later defined much of his career. It is included here for readers tracing his work from the very beginning.

A brain transplant saves Dr. Chris Warren after a killer stabs him through the heart, but it puts Warren's mind inside the murderer's body. Now he is running for his life with a story no one will believe.

Jason Coles comes home to horror, his ranch burned, his wife murdered, and his infant son gone. Maddened by grief, he rides into the Oklahoma hills to hunt Black Eagle and take his child back.

Retired army scout Jason Coles is called back to use his legendary tracking skills against the savage renegade Stone Hand. The hunt becomes a fierce contest of grit, endurance, and will.

Tom Allred serves the U.S. Army and fights at the Little Bighorn, but helping Little Wolf escape costs him everything. Now he is a fugitive, hunted by soldiers and a deadly bounty hunter.

When a determined young reporter heads off to find Sitting Bull's camp, her frantic father turns to Jason Coles. The legendary tracker must save her from hostile country, bad men, and her own stubborn streak.

Sold as a child and later raised among Native people, Robert Allred grows into the warrior called Little Wolf. When the cavalry shatters his world, he is driven toward war and vengeance.

Little Wolf leaves war behind and tries to build a peaceful life in the high country with his wife and her family. A murderous posse destroys that dream and uses his wife as bait.

Bob Fisher stumbles into private detecting when he inherits an agency and is hired by a cult to find a missing computer disc. Then the murders start, and his own shady past gets dragged into the case.

As a boy, Jim Tracey survives the killing of his father and is raised by old fur trappers. Years later he returns to St. Louis, uncovers a web of lies, and becomes Trace McCall.

Trace McCall wants nothing more than the solitude of the mountains, but trouble has other plans. Helping settlers and rescuing Jamie Thrash drags him into a deadly struggle involving Blackfoot raiders and hostile whites.

After a Sioux attack destroys his Shoshoni camp, a boy called White Eagle sets out to find the white father he has never known. That father is mountain man Trace McCall.

Clay Culver vows to rescue his sister after Blackfoot Indians take her captive. But deep inside a larger frontier conflict, he discovers her future may not be the one he came to reclaim.

After killing an army officer in self-defense, Jim Culver is forced onto the run. The army answers by hiring Slocum, a brutal bounty hunter who is as dangerous as the men he chases.

In Canyon Creek, a gang of outlaws poses as militia and slowly bleeds a trusting town dry. Jim Culver sees through the lie and becomes the one man willing to stand against them.

A cold-blooded shooting sends a widow and a deputy after gunslinger Billy Ray Blevins into the Black Hills. Their best hope is Clay Culver, a scout and tracker who knows how to finish a hard hunt.

Polly Pike hires Jordan Gray to take her to Deadwood, and he assumes it will be a straightforward job. He is wrong, because her violent husband is already coming for her.

Jordan Gray rides out with a posse to hunt killers, only to return and find his own family slaughtered. His lonely pursuit of the gang soon leaves him hunted by the law as well.

Jordan Gray crosses paths with preacher Nathaniel Rix and his murderous sons, men who preach salvation and deliver death. Falsely accused of murder, Jordan must outrun both the posse and the fanatics.

After the Civil War, Matt Slaughter takes the blame for a killing that would ruin his brother's family. He escapes a noose and heads west, only to learn that men called outlaw are hunted everywhere.

Matt Slaughter and Ike Brister survive a brutal clash with Sioux warriors in the Bighorn Mountains. When Molly is taken captive by Iron Claw, the trail turns personal and the showdown becomes unavoidable.

Released convict Boot Stoner comes out of prison meaner than ever and launches a bloody rampage through Indian Territory. Veteran deputy marshal John Ward is the one man with a real chance of stopping him.

Matt Slaughter is hiding in the badlands and trying to build a new life when a savage bounty hunter finds his trail. Wildmoon and his sons mean to bring Matt back, dead or alive.

Horseman Cade Hunter heads toward Montana looking for a future and finds a partner in Luke Tucker. Their hunt for a lost Civil War gold shipment becomes a fight against ruthless men who want the treasure for themselves.

After years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Colt McCrea returns to Whiskey Hill to learn who murdered his father. His search points straight at a ruthless cattle baron with too much power.

Tanner Bland comes home from the Civil War to find his old life gone for good. Heading west with an army friend seems like a fresh start, until Montana Territory hands them the dangerous Leach brothers.

Clint Conner goes to prison for freeing an abused Appaloosa from a cruel owner. A prison break traps him beside a notorious outlaw and puts both a killer and a relentless deputy marshal on his trail.

Deputy marshal Casey Dixon hangs the youngest son of the murderous Blanton family and earns their full fury. Teaming up with veteran lawman Buck Avery may be his only shot at ending the feud.

Mountain man Joe Fox reluctantly agrees to guide settlers through the Rockies toward Oregon. When a smooth-talking killer steals, murders, and kidnaps Callie Simmons, the wagon party needs Joe more than ever.

Advertising executive Laura Hammond is kidnapped by mobsters and hidden on an island off Florida. Her escape leaves her running with a dangerous stranger who has lost his memory, while the mob closes in.

Jim Moran has never really had a family until a loyal partner leads him into a new life with an Indian tribe. Renamed Rider Twelve Horses, he must hold on to that hard-won belonging in dangerous country.

Retired lawman Jason Storm wants to leave badge work behind and start over as a rancher. When outlaws seize control of Paradise Valley, he is forced back into the saddle.

In 1950 Georgia, newly trained textile engineer John Reed takes a room in a boarding house for mill workers. Life at the Marble Hill turns wild, funny, and unforgettable thanks to its offbeat residents.

Scout Will Cason rescues a young widow and her daughter from a Cheyenne attack, and in doing so makes a deadly enemy. When Bloody Hand strikes back, Will is caught between duty and the people he wants to protect.

Ben Cutler avenges the deputy who destroyed his family, only to be branded a murderer and chased across the frontier. Helping a westbound family gives him one last chance at something like hope.

When his gold-seeking brother fails to come home, Adam Blaine rides out to find him. Instead he walks into thieves, mistaken identity, and a deadly run with fellow fugitives.

The McCloud brothers agree to help Roberta Morris search the Bitterroots for her missing prospector uncle. Gold fever, outlaws, and reports of Chief Joseph crossing Lolo Pass make the job far more dangerous than it looks.

Luke Sunday rides with Crow warriors to scout for General Crook and quickly clashes with a brutal fellow scout. After he loses the job, guiding a family west becomes a perilous journey through enemy country.

A former lawman called Grayson is hired to bring a killer named Billy Blanchard back to Fort Smith. Catching him is easy. Escorting him alive across Indian Territory, with Billy's ruthless father in pursuit, is another matter.

Orphaned in a wagon train attack, Tom Logan grows up hard and independent in the mountains. A guiding job that should have been simple draws him into outlaw trouble and the wrath of a fearsome Shoshone warrior.

At thirteen, Chapel pulls his murdered parents from a burning house and makes vengeance the center of his life. The years that follow turn him into a relentless hunter on a long and dangerous trail.

Cam Sutton leaves ranch work behind and heads for the Black Hills in search of a different future. A chance stagecoach rescue ties him to a widow, her daughters, and a gold claim that outlaws want badly.

After witnessing the murder of his parents, Cord Malone grows up with one purpose, finding Eli Creed. His long hunt leads through ranch work, outlaw country, and a range war that pulls him off the trail.

Carson Ryan's plan to head for Montana falls apart when trouble with cattle rustlers puts the law on his trail. Then an outlaw gang forces him into an even worse fight for his freedom.

Newlywed Cole Bonner heads into Wyoming Territory hoping to build a life on the land. When outlaws destroy his family, he has nothing left but the hunt for every man responsible.

After the Civil War, Joel McAllister heads for Idaho Territory with his longtime sergeant to join his brother's mining claim. A rescue on the trail brings new allies, and a claims war at Silver City brings trouble.

Tracker Clint Cooper is hired to help stop Sioux raiders in the Yellowstone Valley. Crooked lawmen in Miles City want him out of the way, and soon both the town and Fort Keogh are turned against him.

Disgraced after a failed mission to recover two kidnapped women, Bret Hollister resigns his army post in shame. Then he joins old scout Nate Coldiron for one more dangerous ride into Blackfeet country.

After a shooting forces him to flee as a boy, Jace Engels grows to manhood among Crow people in the Absaroka Mountains. As the scout called Slater, he faces old enemies and a feared Sioux war chief.

Brothers Logan and Billy Cross take a horse driving job to Sturgis after finishing a cattle drive. A saloon fight with the Morgan gang turns the trip into a running battle for survival.

When a young couple vanishes after a wagon train is abandoned near Helena, Monroe Pratt hires scout John Hawk to find them. Hawk rides into hard country where every hour makes rescue less likely.

Army scout John Hawk finds three stranded women on the Mullan Road and agrees to get them safely to Helena. What starts as a simple escort quickly turns into a deadly chase.

Years after his family's slaughter, Cole Bonner has found a fragile peace in the mountains and among Crow friends. Then two killers draw him back toward Crow Creek Crossing and the life he tried to leave behind.

Dismissed from his post after defying orders, scout John Hawk is asked to track the killers behind a savage mule train ambush. Alone in rough Montana country, he has no backup and no reason to show mercy.

Scout Cody Hunter returns to the place where his family was lost and learns the past may not be finished with him. His search for the truth becomes a dangerous hunt across Montana.

After a wagon train massacre, young Cody Hunter is taken in by the Crow and raised as Crazy Wolf. His growth into a hunter and army scout gives this western the feel of a true frontier origin story.