Matt Braun Books in Order

After Comanche raiders shatter his world, Britt Johnson sets out across a brutal frontier to find his captured family. Braun turns that rescue quest into a hard, emotional western about endurance and resolve.

Born enslaved, Jim Beckwourth carves out his freedom as a mountain man and enters Crow country on a paid assignment. In the Wind River country he finds a new identity, and a bloody struggle that will define his life.

Jordan rides into the hard country of the Cimarron looking for room to build a life of his own. What he finds is a land ruled by power, violence, and men who do not give ground easily.

Confederate veteran Print Oliver comes home to find his family ranch under siege and his world broken. As he builds a cattle empire from the wreckage, the cost falls heavily on the people he loves.

Jake Kincaid's struggle to build a future becomes a sweeping family saga. Railroads, cattle, land runs, politics, and the Oklahoma oil boom all shape the generations that follow him.

John Wesley Hardin wants to leave killing behind and live as a husband and father. An ambush at a poker game ruins that hope, sending him back onto the trail with the law hard on his heels.

Braun steps away from fiction for a practical book on personal defense. It focuses on awareness, survival, and the hard realities behind protecting yourself.

Thirty years after the eccentric Lucas Brokaw died, the key to his hidden fortune may rest with a man who seems to be Brokaw reborn. Braun mixes mystery, menace, and western atmosphere in a stranger tale than usual.

Mattie Silks rises from farm girl to famed Denver madam in a world run by gamblers, gunfighters, and men hungry for power. At the center is a dangerous contest for money, reputation, and love.

In the lawless Cimarron, Buck Colter dreams of building a ranch of his own instead of serving richer men forever. That dream puts him on a collision course with cattle barons who do not welcome competition.

This is one of Braun's broad western sagas, built around land, power, and the people caught in the fight to control both. Families, ambition, and frontier violence all push toward a costly reckoning.

After Ben Langham is murdered, Luke Starbuck rides into New Mexico to find the men behind it. His hunt pulls him into cattle theft, political corruption, Billy the Kid, and the violence around the Lincoln County War.

Steamboat captain Tom Stuart chases love, profit, and a river empire from St. Louis to the Mexican border. His biggest gamble is not on the water, but on the people who can ruin him.

Braun turns to the women in the Stuart family, whose choices shape a turbulent life of river trade, risk, and border ambition. Love and survival matter as much here as business and war.

Luke Starbuck rides into Deadwood, where gold fever, bad blood, and easy money have made every street dangerous. To get his man, he has to sort truth from legend in one of the West's roughest towns.

Luke Starbuck has a reputation for finding the men nobody else can catch. This time he is on the trail of Jesse and Frank James, in a hunt that turns Indian Territory into a killing ground.

Luke Starbuck goes undercover inside a train-robbing gang tied to stolen gold shipments. The trail leads him into San Francisco's Barbary Coast, where getting close to the truth could get him killed fast.

Texas rancher Ben Langham sends loyal hand Luke Starbuck after a band of horse thieves in No Man's Land. Posing as an outlaw, Starbuck discovers he may be better at this hard new work than he ever expected.

In Virginia City, Luke Starbuck faces a hotheaded sheriff, vigilantes, a scheming lawyer, and a deadly saloon owner. Every faction wants control, and Starbuck has to stay alive long enough to see who is really pulling the ropes.

Sent to Tombstone to untangle the truth behind Wells Fargo robberies and Wyatt Earp's rise, Luke Starbuck finds himself caught between myth and fact. The deeper he gets, the more personal the fight becomes.

After a gang steals a fortune in silver and gold, Pinkerton agent Ash Tallman heads to Red Rock, Arizona, with Vivian Valentine. Their undercover mission draws them into a ruthless outlaw band and toward the darker power directing the bloodshed from Tucson.

Ash Tallman is sent into a frontier power struggle where respectable faces hide ugly motives. To stop the men pulling strings behind the scenes, he has to work the gray ground between law, politics, and violence.

With a Texas cow town falling apart under outlaw attacks, Pinkerton agent Ash Tallman and his partner Vivian Valentine go undercover to smoke out a killer bent on revenge. It is a slick, dangerous game where every sinner may know something.

Western detective Cole Braddock is hired to take on the Santa Fe Ring, a secret web of businessmen and politicians reaching for control of New Mexico. The case reads like a western mystery with corruption at its core.

John Ryan rides into Indian Territory with railroad men and expects rough work. What he finds is a deeper clash over land, loyalty, and the damage done when steel rails cut through a people's last refuge.

Just after the Civil War, three Brannock brothers head to booming Denver to chase luck, business, and revenge. Earl gambles, Virgil schemes, and Clint wears a badge, but the frontier has a way of testing every dream.

The Brannocks push deeper into the West as opportunity widens and family tensions harden. Gold, business, and the need to belong pull the brothers in different directions, and success starts to carry a real cost.

Clint and Virgil Brannock ride into rougher country, where border tensions, old grudges, and ambition collide. The further the family reaches, the more dangerous the West becomes.

As the Brannock story moves into a new generation, land and legacy matter more than ever. The family keeps chasing a future, but distance, loss, and divided loyalties threaten what they have built.

Braun's guide to the genre covers research, setting, plot, and the details that make frontier fiction feel lived in. It is a straightforward craft book from a writer who knew the territory.

More than a cookbook, this is a tour through ranch, trail, and campfire food. Braun mixes recipes with the flavor and history of everyday western cooking.

In 1881, Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire faces the Banning brothers in a border town thick with corruption and racial tension. Braun turns the Salt War era into a fierce story of law, violence, and divided loyalties.

Jack Stillman, one of Braun's western detectives, follows a dangerous trail into mountain country. Part mystery and part frontier adventure, the novel trades as much on investigation as gun smoke.

Braun follows Wyatt Earp through Tombstone, ambition, the O.K. Corral, and the revenge that followed. It is less a marble monument than a fast-moving look at a driven, flawed man.

A frontier lawman tries to bring order to a country where outlaws, opportunists, and weak institutions all thrive. Oklahoma's rough boom years give this one a big, lawless canvas.

Indian fighter turned cattleman Jack Jordan risks everything for land on the Llano Estacado. In Palo Duro Canyon, his dream of building a Texas empire meets danger, hardship, and the stubbornness needed to last.

Bill Tilghman, old but not finished, takes one more badge job in corrupt Cromwell, Oklahoma. Oil money, vice, and modern gangsters make this a final fight for a lawman from an earlier West.

Farm girl Mattie Silks trades innocence for the hard, glittering world of gamblers, gunmen, and boomtown Denver. Love, money, and survival all come with a price when the stakes keep rising.

As Oklahoma statehood closes in, a Cherokee leader refuses to accept stolen land without a fight. Braun frames the crisis as a hard western about dispossession, duty, and a final armed reckoning.

Dan Stuart plans to make a fortune staging the prizefight of the century, but politicians, thieves, and rival schemers keep closing in. Braun turns western sporting history into a lively caper with real stakes.

In Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, gambler and gunman Luke Short wants to run an honest game and build something lasting. Too many men would rather see him dead.

Bill Tilghman's last days unfold in corrupt, oil-boom Cromwell, where old-fashioned courage meets a newer kind of criminal. Braun gives the veteran lawman one final, bitter stand.

Ben Thompson has already made his name as a gambler and shootist. When powerful men ask him to wear a badge and tame Austin's wild side, law work becomes the most dangerous gamble of his life.

Seventeen-year-old Kinch Riley looks sickly and harmless, until the shooting starts. In violent Newton, Kansas, he is pulled into a feud that turns a boy with a gun into a frontier legend.

Disguised as a preacher, manhunter Cole Braddock rides into Mexico on a deadly mission. The deeper he goes, the more he finds killers, corruption, and trouble waiting behind the holy front.

Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody guide a royal buffalo hunt and stumble into a murderous conspiracy. Their chase from the frontier to New York turns legend into action-adventure.

Before the O.K. Corral made him famous, Doc Holliday was already feared across the frontier. Braun follows the dentist turned gambler and gunman through the boomtowns, losses, and inner demons that shaped the legend.

A family of New York stage performers heads west and finds a harsher world than they imagined. From cattle towns to Denver, fame, outlaws, and frontier violence shape young Lilian Fontaine's future.

After the First World War, Galveston is still ruled by vice bosses, gamblers, and political fixers. A stubborn heir, a Texas Ranger, and an undercover mission set the stage for a showdown by the sea.

Revolutionary Mexico and border intrigue collide when a Texas Ranger uncovers a German-backed plot with far wider consequences. Braun mixes espionage, violence, and frontier history.

In Osage County, oil has made people rich and made murder profitable. Braun pits gangsters and crooked politicians against the Osage and two lonely lawmen in a story drawn from the headright killings.

Broken by grief, Theodore Roosevelt returns to Dakota Territory and tries to build a ranching life in hard country. Braun shows the future president remade by loss, work, and a violent frontier.

With Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Mastersons laying down their own kind of order, Dodge City is no place for a man without a gun. Braun follows a courtroom fighter trying to survive in the middle of that chaos.

Stock detectives Newt Bascom and Sam Jordan get an odd job, recover a stolen English bull. The trail carries them from Texas through Dodge City and into the hands of a dangerous gang.

In this nonfiction collection, Braun shares frontier history, western legends, and the bits of lore that fed his fiction. It is part storytelling, part history, and part personal map of the West he loved.