Johnny Boggs Books in Order

A wry nonfiction look at modern Western style, image, and the business built around cowboy identity. Boggs mixes reporting, humor, and affection for the culture he knows well.

A young West Texas rancher who also cares for orphans finds an unlikely match in Pete Belissari, a Greek-born cowboy and horse catcher. Their partnership starts with attraction and quickly runs into frontier danger.

On the way to her wedding, Hannah Scott walks into a bank robbery and is taken hostage by outlaws. Pete Belissari joins the chase, and the series turns courtship into a rescue adventure.

Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter escapes a deadly attack only to find his family shattered and his sisters missing. With danger at every turn, he is forced to grow up fast and hunt through a brutal frontier world.

Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari ride into rougher country, where the law barely reaches and danger hangs over every choice. The romance remains, but the road grows meaner here.

Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari try to launch a stagecoach business, only to run into fierce competition and flying bullets. The series blends romance, humor, and old-fashioned Western trouble.

Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari take their mix of grit, romance, and frontier chaos farther down the trail. New country brings fresh risks, and the couple has to meet them together.

A young narrator gets swept into danger on the frontier, where survival depends on grit, quick thinking, and a steady hand under pressure. Boggs turns a lean setup into a sharp coming-of-age Western.

A hunt tied to hidden gold and old frontier talk pulls young characters into greed, danger, and fading legend. Boggs keeps the story moving like a classic treasure-chase Western.

Just when life should be settling down, Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari take on one more risky job and get dragged into fresh Western trouble. Romance and danger stay closely paired in this series finale.

A lively nonfiction look at Texas weather in all its extremes, from droughts and dust to storms and cold snaps. Boggs mixes local history, odd detail, and plain appreciation for the state's rough climate.

Sixteen-year-old orphan Tyrell Breen reaches his uncle's ranch dreaming of cowboy life and finds a washed-up trail boss instead. A cattle drive up the Chisholm becomes both men's best chance at proving themselves.

Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari head into another sprawling frontier adventure, with home, love, and safety all under pressure. The series keeps its warmth, but the trail is not getting easier.

Boggs goes back to the rough beginnings of frontier justice, where courts are new and personal honor still fills the gaps. It is a historical Western about trying to make law hold on violent ground.

Former Confederates try to build lives after defeat while old loyalties and newer chances pull them in different directions. Boggs treats the postwar West as a place where memory can be as dangerous as a gun.

After Jesse James is dead, Frank James faces trial for murder and the whole state seems ready to protect him. This Western turns a famous outlaw case into a fight between evidence, myth, and public adoration.

A nonfiction look at famous homicide trials from the Western past, where courtroom drama could be as wild as any gunfight. Boggs combines legal history, frontier character, and colorful detail.

A court-martial in 1881 puts Lieutenant H. C. Flipper, the first Black graduate of West Point, at the center of a dangerous political storm. Boggs builds suspense from prejudice, rumor, and the struggle for a fair defense.

Set on an older American frontier, this historical Western looks at land, power, and divided loyalties in the Carolina backcountry. Boggs keeps the story grounded in human conflict rather than simple heroics.

Washed-up former lawman Ben Cameron rides into a dying mining town with more legend than usefulness left to him. When murders begin, the townspeople still look to him, and a waitress named Amie Courtland has her own reasons to care.

General Sherman decides to put Kiowa leaders Satanta and Big Tree on trial instead of simply sending in the Army. Boggs turns the case into a sharp Western about law, race, fear, and public spectacle.

After his father is killed and he escapes captivity, twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain falls in with buffalo hunter Dylan Griffith. Their fight to survive strips away dime-novel myths and shows the frontier at its hardest.

A dangerous journey turns into a pressure cooker of fear, secrecy, and survival. Boggs uses the close confines of travel to build a Western that feels tense from the opening pages.

A borderland Western where distance, divided loyalties, and hard country keep raising the stakes. Boggs uses the Texas-Mexico edge to tell a lean story about survival and shifting allegiance.

Billy the Kid gets the legal-historical treatment in this courtroom-centered Western. Boggs asks what law can really mean in a place where legend, politics, and fear are already writing the verdict.

Union soldier Win MacNaughton is captured in Louisiana and sent to Camp Ford, the biggest Confederate prison west of the Mississippi. A baseball game between prisoners and guards becomes far more than a way to pass time.

During the War for Independence, a Black freedman joins the British to avenge his brother while an abused wife disguised as a man rides with the Patriots. Their paths move toward a bloody backcountry clash.

Sent from St. Louis to his uncle's New Mexico ranch in 1896, fourteen-year-old Caleb Hart gets a rough education in work, loyalty, and frontier power. It is a coming-of-age Western with a hard, unsentimental edge.

A tender, character-driven Western about dignity, endurance, and the quiet costs of frontier life. Boggs leans on people and place as much as action here, which gives the story its staying power.

Three restless twelve-year-olds from a New Mexico mining town join a sinister gunman on a hunt for lost treasure. Greed, old bloodshed, and a fast-moving cast of killers turn the adventure dark in a hurry.

Boggs retells the failed 1876 bank raid at Northfield through the voices of gang members and townspeople alike. Jesse James, the Younger brothers, and ordinary Minnesotans all get a place in the story.

After returning from the Carlisle school, Daniel Killstraight comes home to the reservation carrying a new name and a hard education. As a tribal policeman, he is soon pulled into a case that tests who he is and where he belongs.

This Civil War Western follows soldiers and families forced to reckon with duty, distance, and what is left when the fighting ends. Boggs keeps the focus on ordinary lives bent by war.

An old man tells his grandson about the brutal winter of 1866 and the wild cowboy years that led up to it. Texas trails, Montana range wars, love, and deadly weather make this one of Boggs's toughest frontier stories.

Gunfighter Britton Wade agrees to escort a condemned man to his hanging at Chama, even though powerful friends want the prisoner freed. Wade is sick, hunted, and hiding his own reasons for taking the job.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Reilly McGilvern survives an attack on his prison wagon only to be mistaken for an outlaw by an even deadlier gang. To stop Bloody Jim Pardo, he has to keep acting the part until the moment to strike.

When a little girl dies after her drunken father is supplied with contraband liquor, Daniel Killstraight is told to find the source. His search leads through reservation politics, white corruption, and attempts to stop him for good.

Boggs traces Jesse James through decades of film and television, showing how outlaw history became popular myth. It is part movie guide, part study of how the screen keeps remaking the same legend.

Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal, is handed the worst kind of warrant, one for his own son. Boggs uses the real lawman's dilemma to build a tense, human story about justice, duty, and family.

After faking his death to escape the Florence Stockade, young Union prisoner Zeb Hogan heads across the war-torn South with runaway slave Ebenezer Chase. Revenge and reunion drive them through the final days of the Civil War.

Texas Ranger sergeant Dave Chance rides into a badlands kingdom ruled by his corrupt old commander, Hector Savage. To bring Savage down, Chance may have to trust the killer he is supposed to be guarding.

A Missouri farm boy fighting for the Union and a Texas youth chasing Confederate adventure are forced to grow up fast. Their paths cross around Shiloh and Corinth in a Civil War story stripped of easy glory.

Daniel Killstraight is sent to Fort Worth to help showcase the assimilation program behind the Carlisle school. When a Comanche dies under suspicious circumstances, the trip becomes a sharp, dangerous murder investigation.

A detailed filmography of roughly seventy-five screen versions of Billy the Kid, from early silent film to modern reinterpretations. Boggs tracks how one outlaw became a lasting movie myth.

Boggs retells the Battle of the Little Bighorn through a chorus of more than forty voices, Native and white, military and civilian. The result is a wide, vivid portrait of one of the West's most argued battles.

One hard summer changes everything for people trying to hold family and hope together on the frontier. Boggs turns the season into a pressure cooker for loss, loyalty, and growing up.

A young Confederate released after capture walks home to Missouri and falls in with William Clarke Quantrill's world. Friendship, ideology, and violence twist together as the war grows more brutal and personal.

Down-on-his-luck gambler Micah Bishop is saved in the Mojave Desert by an outlaw hauling mail-order brides to a mining town. When Micah learns what awaits the women, he has to decide what kind of man he is.

In 1864 Arkansas, thirteen-year-old Travis Ford watches war close in on his struggling family farm. Set against the Battle of Poison Spring, this is a Civil War frontier story about hunger, fear, and growing up too fast.

Daniel Killstraight follows a trail of blood and betrayal through country where law, politics, and personal loyalty never line up cleanly. The case pushes him into another harsh reckoning with power on the frontier.

Gambler Micah Bishop thinks a derringer-packing nun is saving him from jail, but she really wants help finding buried gold in dangerous New Mexico country. Bandits and bounty hunters make the trip far deadlier than promised.

Sixteen-year-old Emily Stewart comes of age in the lawless South Carolina backcountry of the 1760s. When government fails to protect local families, her father joins the Cane Creek Regulators and risks everything.

In 1913, former bushwhacker Cole Younger stands at a tent revival and begins to confess. Boggs uses that setup to tell a hard, reflective Western about memory, guilt, and the long shadow of border-war violence.

Years after being adopted by Thomas Dunson, Matt Garth leads a dangerous cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City. Storms, rustlers, and violence inside his own family turn the trail into a test of endurance and authority.

William Lee Braden rides off to war from Texas even though he opposed secession. His absence leaves family and home exposed, and the aftermath shows how the Civil War scarred both soldiers and the frontier they returned to.

Wild Bill Hickok agrees to umpire a baseball game in Kansas City, and Boggs has a lot of fun with the setup. It is a quick frontier tale where sport, celebrity, and danger share the field.

Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of cowboy life, but his mother wants him to use his throwing arm on a baseball field. When Kansas City gets a National League team in 1886, both ambitions suddenly collide.

In 1861, Sam Houston faces the collapse of everything he thought he had secured for Texas and the Union. Boggs turns the aging statesman into the center of a character-driven story about family, honor, and final battles.

After a robbery goes wrong, saddle tramp Sam MacKinnon is left wounded and alone in southern New Mexico. His hunt for revenge changes when he crosses paths with a stranded young woman and her family.

Fifteen-year-old Evan Kendrick is forced to ride an eighteen-hundred-mile horse race after his father is badly hurt. With a half-broke mustang under him, he learns about horses, friendship, and the kind of grit survival takes.

A young narrator gets pulled into a lively frontier story where clothes, manners, and stubborn pride all matter. Boggs mixes humor with the harder edges of life in the West.

This frontier story plays with the gap between what really happened and what people choose to remember. Boggs keeps it lean, sly, and interested in how reputations grow larger than life.

Boggs explores how movies have imagined the American West, from familiar myths to messier historical visions. It is a readable guide to the stories, images, and arguments that shaped the screen West.

In Abilene's last year as a cattle town, a young observer finds himself caught between Wild Bill Hickok and John Wesley Hardin. It is a coming-of-age Western set in a place where fame and violence travel together.

Inspired by the real 1866 drive of Nelson Story, this novel follows a thousand longhorns from Texas toward Montana. Bandits, weather, disease, stampedes, and old grudges make every mile feel earned.

A broad survey of sports movies across genres and decades, from crowd-pleasers to darker takes on competition. Boggs looks at how film turns athletes, coaches, and fans into stories about ambition, identity, and pressure.

Boggs studies how sound-era movies have portrayed reporters, editors, and newsroom culture. It is a smart film-history look at changing ideas about the press, truth, and the people who chase a story.

Daniel Killstraight rides back into a West that looks newer on the surface and just as dangerous underneath. This late series entry brings old wounds, unfinished business, and hard justice back to the foreground.

Once a dime-novel hero, Matthew Johnson arrives in Denver in 1894 as a broken, hard-drinking new U.S. marshal. Corruption, labor unrest, and looming violence force him to decide whether he can still live up to the legend.

A collection of Western, Civil War, and Southern frontier tales that ranges from bootmakers and cowboys to Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok. Boggs mixes humor, revenge, baseball, and hard-earned feeling throughout.

Boggs follows cattle and cowhands in a trail story that heads in a less familiar direction. Weather, ambition, and the daily grind matter as much as open range legend.

Set in the violent Kansas cowtown of Newton, this novel digs into the chaos that gives the place its name. Boggs uses the town's history to tell a fast, hard story about boomtime lawlessness.