Tom Clavin Books in Order

Tom Clavin and Bob Bubka trace the Ryder Cup from its modest beginnings to an international golfing contest. Champions, rivalries, victories and defeats reveal how the competition developed its distinctive place in the sport’s history.

A disastrous day at sea transforms the fishing community of Montauk, Long Island. Tom Clavin reconstructs the event and its aftermath, placing the tragedy within the village’s postwar prosperity and a fishing culture that would never be quite the same.

In December 1944, Admiral Halsey's fleet sails into a devastating Pacific typhoon, leaving hundreds of sailors fighting for survival. Bob Drury and Tom Clavin reconstruct the disaster and a destroyer escort commander's determined efforts to rescue them.

Tom Clavin recounts the musical partnership and marriage of Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Their celebrated lounge act helped transform Las Vegas entertainment, while their professional triumphs unfolded alongside a relationship that proved harder to sustain.

As Saigon falls in April 1975, a small group of Marines and helicopter crews struggles to evacuate those left behind. Drury and Clavin trace the final hours through interviews, records, and the experiences of the last embassy defenders.

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin trace Red Cloud's rise as an Oglala Lakota leader and his resistance to American expansion. Drawing on historical accounts, they explore the alliances, battles, and pressures that shaped his defense of his people's land.

Once a racehorse in Seoul, Reckless was purchased by American Marines during the Korean War and trained to carry ammunition. Her repeated journeys through enemy fire made her an unlikely military companion and a vital presence on the battlefield.

Tom Clavin follows Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson as they attempt to bring order to violent Dodge City. Their friendship, law-enforcement careers and return during the Dodge City War reveal the people behind familiar frontier legends.

During the winter of 1777, George Washington struggles to hold together a starving, defeated army. The account follows the soldiers and advisers whose endurance and training helped transform the Continental Army while political rivals threatened Washington's command.

This biography traces Wild Bill Hickok’s life as a frontier scout, lawman and gunfighter. Tom Clavin examines the experiences that made him an American legend, separating the man’s dangerous career from the mythology that grew around it.

Tom Clavin reconstructs the conflict involving the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday and their enemies in Tombstone. The OK Corral gunfight and the violence that followed emerge from simmering disputes over cattle theft, law enforcement and frontier power.

During the Civil War, Union captain John Winslow pursues Confederate commerce raider Raphael Semmes across international waters. Their fourteen-month chase ends off France, where the Kearsarge and Alabama meet in a decisive naval confrontation.

Tom Clavin follows Texas Ranger Leander McNelly and his men through the violent frontier of the 1870s. Campaigns against cattle thieves and outlaws illuminate how the Rangers pursued order in a region where authority was contested.

Tom Clavin recounts the Dalton Gang’s rise and its disastrous attempt to rob banks in Coffeyville, Kansas. Family ties, frontier crime and increasingly desperate choices lead toward the confrontation that brought the gang’s career to an end.

Remote hideouts allowed cattle rustlers and bank robbers to evade pursuit across the American West. Tom Clavin traces the Hole-in-the-Wall gangs and their world, examining the outlaws and lawmen involved in the frontier era’s closing conflicts.

Tom Clavin recounts the wartime career of submarine USS Tang and captain Richard O’Kane. Their Pacific missions lead to disaster, capture and brutal imprisonment, followed by a struggle to survive until the end of the war.

Tom Clavin revisits Custer’s Last Stand and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Following the people and decisions behind the clash, he examines a devastating frontier confrontation and the consequences that spread beyond the battlefield.