New Classic Westerns (paperback)

Updated December 16, 2025
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The best of enemies
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
Introducing Trace and Chaw- a pugnacious pair of Civil War veterans who nearly killed each other in battle-but lived to fight another day. Together . . . . They met in a bloodbath. Two demons in uniform caught in the middle of one hell of a war. Private Chaw, the Rebel, liked...
Calamity James
Johnstone, William W.
The unbelievable, untold story of Jesse James's other brother... In this rollicking stand-alone novel from the bestselling Johnstones, fact and fiction collide in the jaw-dropping story of Jesse James' little-known, disaster-prone brother. They call him Calamity-for a reason.<...
Cold dead cash
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
Johnstone Country. Where the Dead Sleep Cold. HAVE COFFIN, WILL TRAVEL On his latest bullion run for the Reverend's Temptation Gold Mine, Shotgun Johnny crosses paths with three desperate strangers. One is an old man. The other is his daughter Dixie. The third...
Dead Broke, Colorado
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
Welcome to Dead Broke, Colorado. Where all that glitters is not gold-it's silver. Where miners and grifters get rich or go broke. And where the money flows like blood . . . JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. COLORADO OR BUST. The town got its unusual name when a pair...
Derringer
Johnstone, William W.
Introducing a gun-blazing new series from the masters of the classic Western. Meet Jesse Derringer. Troubleshooter for the Union Pacific Railroad. Where there's trouble, there's Derringer. And where there's Derringer, there's shooting . . . On the Fourth of July in 1867, the...
Elmer Kelton's the Familiar Stranger
Kelton, Steve/ Bradshaw, John
Elmer Kelton's Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his middling years, as he looks for work--but not too much work--in 1904 West Texas. Hewey Calloway had intended to pass straight through Durango, Colorado, en...
Everybody has a gun
Johnstone, William W.
"The Fastest Gun in the Territory " returns-and the ultimate showdown begins-in the latest, greatest Jon Gage adventure from the bestselling Johnstones . . . Like any gunslinger with a bloodstained past, Jon Gage needs to keep moving to stay alive. Too many people know the legend...
Halfway to hell
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
In this hot-blooded new series from the bestselling Johnstones, a small town deputy sheriff with nothing to do decides to go looking for treasure . . . and winds up with six cutthroat killers out for his blood. JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. GET TOUGH OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Hard men to kill
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
In this action-packed new series, a rascally pair of prospectors run for their lives from a gun-toting posse-and discover a million ways to die in San Francisco's criminal underworld . . . Charlie Dawson and his partner Clem don't consider themselves bad guys. But they definitely...
The high country
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone celebrate the guts, glory, and often deadly exploits of the pioneering fur trappers who tracked and tamed the wild and lawless American frontier. JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. IF YOUR HORSE DOESN'T WANT TO GO THERE, NEITHER DO YOU. ...
I'm here to kill you : Smoke Jensen and the taming of the West
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WITH A SHORTER BARREL, STAND CLOSER TO THE TARGET. Two action-packed tales about the greatest gunslinger to ever ride the Wild West. When the scales of justice need to be set right, nothing stands in the way of the Mountain Man. Brutal...
Painting the town red
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
Welcome back to Dead Broke, Colorado. Where the latest discovery-a giant boulder of zinc-sparks an all-out frenzy of greed and gunfire that rocks the Rockies to their core. . . . Ever since the silver market crashed, the mining town of Dead Broke has been awfully quiet. The local...
Purgatory crossing
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
The new action-packed historical Western in the popular Nathan Stark series by the bestselling legends William W. and J.A. Johnstone... JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. NEVER RUN A BLUFF WITH A SIX-GUN. A legend, his name is mentioned alongside Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild...
Scream of Eagles
Johnstone, William W.
Raised by the Shawnee, Jamie Ian MacCallister survived the bloodshed of the Alamo and the Civil War. With each victory, the MacCallister legend grew-as violent and unpredictable as the land that gave him life... From the greatest western writers of the 21st century, the...
The Texas Hill Country
Johnstone, William W.
Introducing a bold new saga from the bestselling Johnstones. This is the epic story of new arrivals in the Old West-a proud family of dreamers in the untamed wilds of the Texas Hill Country . . . They came to America to start a new life. Three brothers and their sister, the...
Thunder of the Mountain Man
Johnstone, William W
In this pulse-pounding western from national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, Smoke Jensen welcomes a new rancher to the valley-whose intentions are deadly, especially when his ...arrival brings a wild bunch of merciless killers in his wake . . . ...
Trigger happy : nathan stark western #2
Johnstone, William W.
Accompanied by his Crow partner, Moses Red Buffalo, the famed army scout Nathan Stark takes on a mission in Montana Territory that forces him to choose between duty and honor in this action-packed frontier adventure from the Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century. Steely...

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