Gene Turney Books in Order

July McCray returns from the Rockies to find his mother gravely ill and his siblings starving. After helping the family start again near a mountain outfitter’s post, he must protect their new life from outlaws hiding in the wilderness.

Seeking solitude, John heads into the Rocky Mountains and learns to survive brutal winters in a cave. Welcoming an elderly Indigenous chief and later rescuing his daughter bring unexpected responsibilities and a new purpose to his isolated life.

Live Oak Springs hopes to grow into a respectable Texas community, but rustling, arson, and dishonest land deals undermine that ambition. As disputes deepen and occasional gunfire erupts, old grievances drive a destructive pursuit of revenge.

Michael Turner dreams of becoming a professional gambler despite his mother’s objections. Leaving home and adopting another name, he builds a life around his skill at cards until circumstances require him to put gambling aside.

Travis Henry believes his speed with a gun and instinct to help others could make him a Texas Ranger. Foiling a bank robbery and pursuing cattle rustlers draw him closer to the badge he has long hoped to wear.

As Texas settlements and ranching businesses prosper, outlaws exploit the wide countryside to avoid capture. When the resulting violence reaches Live Oak Springs, the community needs the Rangers to pursue criminals and restore security.

Charlie Taylor buys a Texas ranch without seeing it and arrives eager to learn cattle work. His inexperience attracts trouble, but honesty, determination, and help from people in Live Oak Springs give him a chance to establish a home.

An English immigrant arrives in America in 1870 and joins the military, spending a decade building forts and traveling the frontier. Reaching Texas, he turns toward founding a family and helping establish a town that will endure.

Men seeking a life in the Yellowstone Mountains find that isolation offers no guarantee of peace. Amid forests and wildlife, gunfire and violent conflict challenge their attempts to establish themselves on the frontier.

After surviving tribal conflict, the McCray family faces a harsh mountain winter. When an avalanche catches Little Boots, a hostile relative sees an opportunity to strike at Boots McCray and reclaim his sister.

A robbery at their busy mountain trading post leaves one family member on the floor and three outlaws fleeing with the takings. Boots McCray and Bill Taylor pursue the men into forests they hoped would provide a hiding place.

Red Feather has opposed Boots McCray since his sister chose to marry the mountain man. After battles and banishment deepen the feud, a chance to save Boots’s life forces him to reconsider the man he has treated as an enemy.

A mountain man and a wolf form an unlikely partnership, protecting each other through the dangers of frontier life. When the wolf is badly injured while defending him from coyotes, the man struggles to keep his companion alive.

Mountain Man John returns to his former home in the mountains with his wife Sunray and daughter Star. What begins as a reunion becomes an eventful journey that brings unexpected action and lasting changes for all three.

Texas Jess Raymond confronts the Stanley gang while learning the dangers of mountain life. Facing outlaws in rugged country, he relies on his knowledge of the terrain to gain an advantage in their violent encounter.

Mountain Man John faces a deadly encounter with a grizzly in the wilderness. Even experience and caution may be insufficient against the dangers of the mountains, where survival can be threatened without anyone making a mistake.

When a notorious outlaw tries to seize a cherished valley, Boots and fellow mountain men refuse to yield. Gunfire disrupts the settlement as they use their knowledge of the country to defend the people living there.

An entrepreneur offers wealthy adventurers the chance to build a frontier legacy through gold-mining expeditions in the Rockies. The promise of a good story and a little gold turns dangerous when tempers rise and a duel follows.

A gold discovery promises comfortable retirement for two men but transforms their quiet Rocky Mountain foothills into a crowded destination. As fortune seekers arrive, the rush draws both honest newcomers and people willing to turn greed into violence.

Boots McCray’s reputation for strength and fairness does little to keep trouble away. On Flapjack Street, the mountain man again faces a confrontation in which standing his ground could mean that only one opponent walks away.

A growing village in the Rocky Mountain foothills earns a dangerous reputation as gunfights erupt along its main street. Around the hotel, café, and trading post, survival on Flapjack Street requires more than a fast draw.

After helping prevent wars in the Rocky Mountains, Texas Jess considers returning home to earn a living tracking predators. A fellow mountain man urges him to make the journey, setting him on a new path beyond the high country.

Texas Jess discovers that becoming a mountain man means confronting outlaw visits, armed conflict, and unexpected dangers. As he learns to meet those challenges, his actions place him in a position to protect lives and preserve a frontier legend.

Seeking revenge for the massacre of his family and village, a Blackfoot man hunts the scout who guided the attackers. Marshals pursue him as the trail reaches a retired mountain man whose peaceful life conceals a violent past.

A mountain lion begins killing people, drawing Boots McCray into a hunt through the Rockies. Joined by an old trapping friend and a flamboyant trick shooter, Boots must track a predator that has learned to target humans.

Boots McCray answers a rancher’s need for help when rogue militiamen challenge his ownership of the Blue Spruce. With friends beside him, Boots risks his life to stop the attack and keep the ranch in its owner’s hands.

Usually self-contained, Boots McCray can become formidable when pushed beyond his limits. This frontier adventure follows the confrontations that stir his anger and test his strength, as those provoking him discover the consequences of underestimating the mountain man.

Boots longs to return to the solitude of his mountain home, but outlaws repeatedly block his way. Help from old frontiersmen and a dangerous mission to rescue a child complicate his journey back to the Rockies.

Marshal Riley Steele and mountain man Will Richards seek to preserve peace in the Rockies while building lives there. When new violence threatens the region, the two Texans must face danger together to protect what they have established.

A federal judge arranges for his daughter, a deputy marshal, to work closer to him in the Rockies. When the transfer places her in grave danger, he calls on Will Richards and Riley Steele to bring her to safety.

After saving a federal judge, Riley Steele unexpectedly becomes a United States marshal. Sent back to a small settlement beneath the Rockies, he must build a jail and confront the growing trouble that threatens its residents.

Will Richards seeks a quieter existence in the Rockies, but his reputation as a fast gun follows him. When a call for help arrives, he must decide whether to preserve his retreat or return to the pursuit of justice.

Two Texans arrive in the Rockies with opposing hopes: one wants peace after years of fighting for justice, while the other seeks revenge for his family’s deaths. Their meeting brings those separate paths together in the mountains.

Railroad construction draws troops into country where the Blackfoot fear the destruction of their way of life. As an attack approaches, Marshal Riley Steele intervenes between the chief and a cavalry general, hoping negotiations can avert war.

When Marshal Riley Steele is shot by an assassin, his friend Will Richards sets out to discover who was responsible. The search draws the former gunslinger through hidden motives and dangerous confrontations as loyalty becomes a demand for justice.

A powerful man sends outlaws and hired guns to seize Texas ranchland, bringing death to livestock and residents. Charlie Taylor and his crew stand against the repeated attacks, defending their property through an escalating range war.

Boots McCray has learned to survive blizzards and other hardships in the Rockies, finding sustenance and peace in the natural world. Yet endurance against the elements offers little protection from the more difficult threats created by other people.

A heart attack leaves Boots vulnerable just as an outlaw ambushes his son. With family under threat, the veteran mountain man must draw on his remaining strength, relatives, and trusted friends to confront the danger.

Men who supported Boots in a San Antonio murder trial join him at Whispering Pines to stop horse thieves. A sheriff disgraced by the proceedings follows him in pursuit of revenge, bringing another threat to the ranch.

Wildfires sweep through the Rocky Mountains, trapping people who cannot reach safety alone. Boots McCray enters smoke and flame and tackles a dangerous river crossing as he risks his own life to rescue those in peril.

Forced from the mountains by wildfire, Boots encounters men determined to profit from challenging his reputation. A false claim of killing him sparks further revenge, leaving Boots wounded and dependent on help from a Mohawk woman.