Frank Leslie Books in Order

Half white and half Native, Yakima Henry is scraping by on the edge of town life when he defends a brothel girl from four brutal men. One violent night makes him her protector and puts a bounty hunter on his trail.

A supply run goes bad when Yakima Henry rides into a bloody clash between townsfolk and bandits. When the outlaws make off with his stallion Wolf and a saloon girl, the chase turns personal fast.

For a little while, Yakima Henry has a ranch, a future, and the woman he loves. Then Bill Thornton comes back nursing old hatred, and Yakima's violent past tears through the peace he thought he had finally earned.

Yakima Henry heads into Mexico to save an old flame's brother from prison and finds far worse waiting for him. Apaches, rurales, and revolutionaries turn a rescue ride into a desperate borderlands gauntlet.

Yakima Henry steps in when grieving father Barstow is bullied while taking his dead daughter home for burial. Rumors that the girl knew where outlaw loot is hidden turn the trail deadly, and Yakima becomes a target too.

Young Colter Farrow rides to Sapinero hunting justice for the man who raised him. What starts as revenge becomes something darker, as he learns how easily anger can turn him into the kind of killer he hates.

To get out of jail, Yakima Henry agrees to guide wealthy Cleve O'Shannon and his wife through savage country to save family and fortune. It is a bargain that promises freedom only if he survives the trip.

On the run and badly in need of a refuge, Colter Farrow finds work on Cimarron Padilla's ranch. When killers steal gold, murder Cimarron, and take Pearl hostage, Colter rides out again on a hard, personal rescue.

Yakima Henry signs on as shotgun guard for a stagecoach and lands in a town rotted by theft, lies, and murder. The deeper he digs into the mess, the harder it gets to walk away alive.

A brutal winter drives Yakima Henry and Sheriff Jack Kelly into the town of Dead River. Shelter does not mean safety, and Yakima soon faces a killer determined to make the place live down to its name.

Ambushed and left bleeding in the wild, Yakima Henry is saved by widow Aubrey Coffin. As he heals, the gunmen who tried to finish him keep circling closer, putting both rescuer and patient squarely in the line of fire.

While hunting wild horses, Yakima Henry stumbles onto a dead rifleman and a sack of gold. Trying to deliver the money to the man's family, he rides into a snowy Christmas trail full of outlaws, suspicion, and one more person who needs saving.

Wilbur Calhoun wants nothing more than to live out his last years quietly on his mountain ranch. Then his long-lost son rides in through a snowstorm, now a deputy marshal come to arrest him for a murder buried deep in the past.

As the Civil War burns on, James Dunn and Crosseye Reeves abandon old loyalties for a treasure hunt deep in Mexico. The promise of three solid-gold bells offers a new life, but the road to them is steeped in danger and bad choices.

Fleeing bounty hunters and trying to reach Mexico, Yakima Henry cuts through Skull Canyon despite every warning to stay away. What waits there is worse than lawmen, and this short tale leans into the eerie side of the frontier.

After killing a soldier in self-defense, Colter Farrow is driven south toward Mexico. There he joins the fierce young Bethel Strange in a search for her missing father, with outlaws and borderland violence closing in behind them.

This collection gathers a batch of Frank Leslie western short fiction in one place. Expect drifters, old grudges, frontier violence, and quick hard rides told with the same blunt speed as the novels.

Colter Farrow returns to face the past that scarred him, only to be framed for the murders of two deputy marshals. Hiding in Utah as a makeshift lawman, he finds fresh enemies and another fight he cannot avoid.

Before Yakima Henry became a wandering gunfighter, he was a young scout at Fort Hell in Arizona Territory. When a stagecoach is attacked near Apache Pass, he is pulled into a larger fight with the Chiricahua and a mystery that will not stay buried.

This duo edition introduces Mike Sartain, a former Confederate cavalryman turned hunted avenger. Wanted by the law and driven by private grief, he rides into traps, mountain danger, and other people's vendettas with his own brand of frontier justice.

This duo edition sends Mike Sartain, the Revenger, into West Texas and New Mexico with bounty hunters on his trail and fresh trouble in every town. Family feuds, old murders, and dangerous women keep turning his ride into another reckoning.

This western duo drops Yakima Henry into Apache Springs, where a dead marshal's badge, railroad money, and rumors of hidden gold turn a desert town into a war zone. It collects two linked adventures and works best read as the start of this Arizona arc.

Yakima Henry promises a dying prospector he will carry a letter and a money belt north to Dakota Territory. The job grows far messier when he falls in with two sisters on the run and a relentless assassin called the Reverend.

Trying to slip quietly toward Mexico, Yakima Henry stops in Horsetooth and winds up killing a saloon owner. His trouble only deepens when he is drawn to the dead man's widow, Paloma Collado, and the schemes circling her.

Grieving and trying to disappear, Yakima Henry holes up near Apache Springs and ends up behind bars in the wrong town at the wrong moment. A murdered marshal and a vengeful mining man force him to pin on the badge himself.

A murder in booming Apache Springs puts hired killers on Yakima Henry's trail. The chase leads back toward a treasure-laden canyon that may be cursed, where greed is spreading faster than the town can hold together.

Apache Springs is booming, the railroad has arrived, and Emma Kosgrove's secret canyon is no secret anymore. With one young intruder dead, another broken with fear, and more violence heading in by stage, Yakima's badge gets heavy fast.

When Yakima Henry kills a young bushwhacker in self-defense, he makes an enemy of the dead man's powerful mother. Captured, humiliated, and burned with her brand, Yakima rides out bent on a hard, very personal vengeance.

Yakima Henry is back as marshal of Apache Springs just as gold and the coming railroad start changing the town. Hidden treasure, a cursed canyon, and the dangerous pull between Julia and Emma Kosgrove make his job even worse.