Gordon D. Shirreffs Books in Order

Marshal Rowan Locke rides into Llano determined to bring back a killer. The town is dominated by five violent Donnigan brothers who believe themselves beyond the law, leaving him to confront the power standing between him and justice.

Branded a killer despite his position as a lawman, a determined investigator pursues a cattle-rustling mystery. Clearing the case means facing armed opposition and risking his life while trying to uphold the code that defines his work.

Former Texas Ranger Boone Shattuck hunts the robbers responsible for his brother-in-law’s murder and his sister’s death from grief. Learning that their leader is imprisoned at Yuma, he plans to gain the man’s confidence to find the others.

Dave Yeamans’s first days running the Double-W bring a brutal confrontation with Shorty Ganoe and a gunfight against a gang. His new position places him at the center of violence that threatens to engulf the surrounding valley.

Lieutenant Niles Ord leads seasoned cavalry soldiers on a mission to rescue two women caught in a struggle for frontier control. Beyond the Rio Bravo, they face Apache chief Asesino and the dangerous terrain protecting his forces.

Army scout Hugh Kinzie rides west to rescue a party trapped by Apache chief Red Sleeves, only to become trapped alongside them. Outnumbered and facing deadly odds, he relies on his battered rifle to find a way out.

Ross Fletcher seeks revenge for his brother’s death and the recovery of his family’s fortune. His pursuit takes him through lawless settlements toward an ambush, a captive woman and a confrontation requiring more than skill with a gun.

Major Dan Fayes is sent to Fort Costain in Arizona as conflict with Apache forces intensifies. His mission becomes more dangerous when his opponents strike with new Henry rifles, threatening the soldiers charged with holding the frontier post.

Captured by Chiricahua Apaches, fifteen-year-old Alan Warden learns their language and customs with help from Never Still. Becoming part of the community changes his understanding of loyalty, leaving him to choose between betrayal and honoring the people who adopted him.

Gunslinger Dade Averill wants a life beyond his reputation and revolvers. When an old friend asks for help against hired killers, he must decide whether to return to the violence he has been trying to leave behind.

Cavalryman Sabin Shay falls into the hands of Cheyenne captors and waits for the consequences of his defeat. Their hostility leaves him fearing that death may not be the worst ordeal ahead in this Western tale of captivity and survival.

Holt Cooper inherits his murdered brother’s ranch and sets out to find the killer. As other small ranchers are attacked and a powerful neighbor covets his land, Holt faces fresh murders and suspicion that he is responsible.

A vanished stagecoach draws Alec King into Arizona Territory with experienced driver Dance Birney. Their investigation involves attacks, rivalry and a struggle over mail routes, putting both their lives and Alec’s family interests at risk.

Fort Joslyn faces an assault while its defenders also guard mutinous prisoners and shelter civilians. With too few soldiers fit to fight, those inside prepare for a desperate defense against forces threatening to overwhelm the post.

After his wife is raped and murdered, Matt Morgan pursues justice despite the power of the killer’s father, Craig Belden. Armed and determined, he enters a confrontation in which protecting the guilty may bring violence to everyone nearby.

Former marshal Rowan Emmett returns to Silver Rock after ten years in prison on a false charge. Wanted by enemies on both sides of the law, he sets out to confront the men responsible for destroying his life.

Fourteen-year-old David Scott witnesses the developing career of naval officer William Cushing during the American Civil War. His account follows dangerous operations at sea and the exploits that begin to establish Cushing’s military reputation.

Seventeen-year-old Thorp Barrett survives the destruction of his brother’s outlaw gang by a U.S. marshal. Inheriting his brother’s guns and a demand for vengeance, he sets out to kill the lawman despite his own narrow escape from death.

Cavalry soldiers discover a barely living man who has suffered brutal treatment at the hands of Sioux captors. The encounter confronts them with the dangers of frontier warfare and the fear used against those who fall into enemy hands.

Carrying stolen money and a Winchester, Case Hardesty must cross a brutal Mexican desert on foot. The outlaws he robbed are pursuing him, with lawmen close behind, and reaching the ranch he dreams of buying means surviving both.

Union Army drummer Steve Ames receives a silver trumpet from a dying Confederate soldier at Bull Run. His experiences show how courage and duty shape a young participant in the Civil War whose contribution is made without a gun.

Ken Driscoll enters dangerous country seeking evidence against men supplying contraband whiskey to an Apache band. Trapped among hostile gunmen and threatened ranch residents, he must navigate betrayal while pursuing the people behind the violence.

These accounts follow men awarded the Medal of Honor through moments of danger, sacrifice and military service. Gordon D. Shirreffs recounts their experiences across conflicts, examining the courage and decisions that brought them the nation’s highest military recognition.

Ken Macklin returns to the Double H after his father is killed in an ambush, determined to find those responsible. Discovering he is also being followed pulls him into a valley poised on the brink of range war.

Young Clint Wallace serves aboard the Confederate vessel Florida as it targets Union shipping across the Atlantic. Disease, shortages, and retaliation test the crew while Wallace learns what service at sea demands during the American Civil War.

Former marshal Les Gunnell returns to Sundown, New Mexico, and finds a town transformed by violence and concentrated power. When his former deputy is murdered, Gunnell sets out to identify those responsible and challenge the forces protecting them.

Three young Pennsylvania volunteers help an artillery battery during the first day at Gettysburg. Allowed to remain with the unit, they take on unfamiliar duties while confronting the danger, confusion, and responsibility of serving under fire.

The last surviving Union soldier in a dangerous stretch of Arizona has one mission left: recover ammunition stolen by Confederate forces. Alone in hostile territory, he must finish the task before he can hope to rest.

Fleeing trouble after killing three men, young Holt Deaver accepts an old outlaw's offer of a lucrative partnership. The arrangement promises escape from poverty, but a pursuing group of gunmen makes survival far from certain.

Gary Cole, Tucker Browne, and Sue Browne search remote canyons for a fortune in gold that has already cost men their lives. Stories of ghostly guardians trouble them less than evidence that someone is defending the treasure with real bullets.

Burke Dane sets out to avenge his half-brother, who was unlawfully lynched. Following the trail draws him into deception and turns him into a hunted man, forcing him to fight for survival while pursuing justice.

Captain Holt Downey pursues the Apache warrior responsible for killing his brother and attacking his fiancée. His long search becomes a personal reckoning, carrying him toward a confrontation from which only one of the two men can emerge alive.

Drifter Matt Turlock has always put his own survival first. When a commander who asked for his protection is killed, Turlock must decide whether to avenge him or slip further into a world of hired killers.

Former Texas Ranger Sloan Sutro inherits a ranch from an outlaw he once arrested. A corrupt banker wants the land and sends hired men to intimidate him, but Sutro refuses to surrender a property others are determined to seize.

High school senior Jerry Hunter searches for his missing uncle, who disappeared while hunting treasure near Lake Mead. Joined by two friends, Jerry ventures into canyon country where dangerous weather, wildlife, and criminals threaten their expedition.

Texas Ranger Lane Forbes faces seven opponents with little room for error. His survival depends on a steady hand and accurate shooting, but the confidence that makes him dangerous may prove a liability when the odds turn against him.

The Sioux resolve to destroy the fort at Broken Bow, which has occupied their sacred land for too long. As the confrontation approaches, the struggle over the outpost promises a battle that will decide who controls the contested ground.

Alaskan teenagers Bob Dunbar and Gary Lunt join the Otter's crew to support American forces during World War II. Their apparently quiet posting in the Aleutian Islands becomes dangerous as Japanese forces prepare an invasion.

When outlaws terrorize the Lazy E Ranch, Vic Standish rides to help its surviving woman owner. Confronting the men responsible draws him into a dangerous struggle to protect her and stand against the gang's violence.

Lorimer survives the massacre at Big Hatchet, but the missing money makes the Army regard him as a thief and coward. Pursued by enemies and distrusted by his own side, he has almost nobody to help him survive.

Bob Dunbar and Gary Lunt serve aboard a destroyer during the Solomon Islands campaign. When their ship sinks, new duties aboard a patrol boat lead them toward an isolated island and a wounded coastwatcher's dangerous assignment.

Ross Starkey has sold his gun to range wars, revolutions, and outlaws willing to pay him. Now he wants to abandon that life, but escaping it requires a showdown with the man known as the Tascosa Kid.

Washed overboard from their destroyer, Bob Dunbar and Gary Lunt are rescued by the submarine Grayfin. Its mission to retrieve British and Australian commandos brings the young sailors into another dangerous operation during World War II.

A dying blind man offers two Civil War veterans the location of a lost silver mine if they help him find it. Their search leads through desert heat, corrupt officials, hostile forces, and treacherous cliffs toward a fortune.

During World War II, Bob Dunbar and Gary Lunt join guerrilla operations in the Philippines. Gathering intelligence, assisting coastwatchers, and disrupting enemy movements become essential tasks as Allied forces prepare to return to the islands.

Wes Yardigan discovers that someone is determined to kill him, though he does not know who or why. Refusing to accept his fate, the drifter fights back as the campaign against him becomes increasingly violent.

Bob Dunbar and Gary Lunt return to the submarine Grayfin for its third wartime patrol. Assigned to seek and destroy enemy shipping in the Java Sea, they face the hazards of combat beneath hostile waters.

After four Texas Rangers are murdered, including his brother and closest friend, Buck Terrell adopts an outlaw identity to infiltrate the gang responsible. An order to commit a terrible crime threatens both his cover and his pursuit of justice.

Leaving the Navy after World War II, two young men choose work aboard a salvage tug over college. Their next operation involves a Canadian ship occupied by Japanese men who do not know the war has ended.

Holt Deaver rides with men who rob and murder an army paymaster. When his companions decide he must die to keep their crime secret, the young drifter faces a desperate struggle to escape his former allies.

After a fellow Ranger is killed, Vic Jamison reluctantly returns to the Arizona Rangers as an undercover operative. His mission takes him into the Rio Diablo country, where brutal conditions and violent men have defeated previous efforts to impose order.

Captain Cutlass commands fear on the seventeenth-century seas with his formidable skill as a swordsman. Pirate Kate Devon matches his courage and loves him, but ambition, greed, and the constant possibility of betrayal threaten any bond between them.

Exiled after killing his cousin in a duel, Calgaich vows to reclaim his place as a tribal chief. Betrayal and Roman captivity instead send him into the gladiatorial arena, where surviving becomes the first step toward returning home.

Trapper Quint Kershaw seeks to make his life in the American West while three women compete for his heart. His relationships with a Shoshoni woman, an Easterner and a Mexican heiress complicate the independence he hopes to preserve.

Frontiersman Quint Kershaw receives orders to assist the American invasion of New Mexico. His loyalty to the government collides with the feelings of his wife Lupita, whose allegiance to her Spanish heritage puts strain on their marriage.

Kit Carson calls on Quint Kershaw to help defend New Mexico against Confederate forces. The conflict draws in his family and brings him face to face with a former love, complicating both his duty and his personal loyalties.

When Mexican bounty hunters threaten to destroy the Apache through a campaign of scalp-taking, Major Alec Kershaw joins Chief Baishan and Anne Sinclair against them. Their resistance culminates in a confrontation over the people and land they are determined to protect.

Jim Murdock returns to Ute Crossing after seven years and witnesses the lynching of three accused killers. Suspecting someone wanted them silenced, he searches for the real murderers, even though exposing the truth could put him on the gallows.

Lee Hunter and Jack Pries face a Mexican firing squad after lives of crime, still consumed by their hatred for each other. Their shared pursuit of lost gold drives a dangerous story of greed, betrayal, and mutual destruction.

Jonas Carlisle drives his cattle toward Montana through dangerous country, accompanied by his wife and carrying a rare albino buffalo hide. Both attract unwanted attention, and the experienced killers riding with him make the journey still more perilous.

Lawman Buck Ruffin tracks four outlaws across the desert into an abandoned mining town. Traps and dangerous terrain complicate the pursuit, but he is determined to bring them to justice, whatever he learns about the people they killed.