Forthcoming Westerns: October 2007

Another month is behind us, which means there is another full slate of new releases set to hit bookstore shelves. And there is no disappointment in this list of upcoming titles. We have a few classic writers—Louis L’Amour, Zane Grey, Bret Harte and Les Savage—and a few new favorites—J. Lee Butts and Joseph A. West. There is something of the traditional western represented, and even a few that probably don’t fit perfectly into that mold.

Overall, October looks to be a terrific month for Western reading, and as the days—for our North American, or should I say Northern Hemisphere, readers anyway—begin to shorten we can look forward to a few extra evening hours to buddy up with a novel or two. Enjoy.

October 1st
A Protégées of Jack Hamlin’s by Bret Harte
The Argonauts of North Liberty by Bret Harte
The Bell-Ringer Angel’s by Bret Harte
Trent’s Trust and Other Stories by Bret Harte
The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory
The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey

Description for Holding the Ace Card:

“Hired gun Lou Bellanger has just started his poker game when the law catches up with him. But the fastest draw in Arizona Territory manages to make a daring escape and is just starting to breathe easy when he hears the sheriff had been killed in cold blood. The last thing Lou wants to do is go back to that hostile town and clear his name. Besides, he had a job to do—a job that ends up leading straight into an all-out range war. With a posse ready to string him up for murder at his back and a gang of bloodthirsty hardcases ahead of him, Lou better have more than an ace up his sleeve if he hopes to stay alive.”

October 2nd
The Baron Brand by Jory Sherman
The Baron Range by Jory Sherman
The Barons of Texas by Jory Sherman
Bitter Wind by Wayne D. Overholser
Holding the Ace Card by Lauran Paine
The Lawless West by Louis L’Amour, Zane Grey, and Max Brand
Nate Coffin’s Revenge by J. Lee Butts
West of the Law by Ralph Compton and Joseph A. West
The Trailsman: Shanghaied Six-Gun (#312) by Jon Sharpe
Trouble Hunter by Fred Grove
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth by Henry Nash Smith
The Zane Grey Frontier Trilogy: Betty Zane, The Last Trail, & The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey
Last Gunfighter: Hell Town by William W. Johnstone

Description for Ralph Compton’s West of the Law:

“Ordered to head west when a New York gangster puts a price on his head for killing his son, Detective Sergeant John McBride ends up in High Hopes, Colorado-a lawless boomtown where McBride quickly runs afoul of corrupt saloon owner Gamble Trask and his vicious hired guns.”

October 9th
The Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations: Volume 3 by Louis L’Amour

October 16th
The World in Pancho’s Eye by J.P.S. Brown

October 17th
Melody and Cordoba by Max Brand
Wolves of the Sundown Trail by Les Savage

Description for Longarm in Hell’s Half Acre:

“After U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long blasts a killer to hell in an epic gunfight, he seeks respite in Hell's Half Acre, home of barely dressed women, drunks, gamblers, tinhorns, and outlaws. Looks like Longarm's vacation is gonna be a working one.”

October 30th
Bar-20 Days by Clarence E. Mulford
Bar-20 Three by Clarence E. Mulford
The Coming of Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour, Vol. 5 by Louis L'Amour
The Gunsmith: To Reap and to Sow (#311) by J.R. Roberts
Gunsmith Giant: The Knights of Misery (#12) by J.R. Roberts
Hangman’s Creek / Jury of Six by Matt Braun
Longarm in Hell’s Half Acre (#348) by Tabor Evans
Slocum and the Widow’s Range War (#345) by Jake Logan

Black Horse Westerns scheduled for release in October

Description for No Second Chance:

“The name, Cole Adams, was known to too many people - lawmen, outlaws, kin of folk he was said to have murdered during violent robberies.But was he guilty of these crimes or had someone been using his name? Riding innocently into town, beard-shagged and buckskin pockets bulging with gold nuggets, he walked right into trouble.There were bullets with his name on them - and, always, the shadow of a noose hanging above him.”

October 31st
Man of Blood by Lee LeJeune
No Second Chance by Clayton Nash
A Place Called Jeopardy by Eugene Clifton
Winter’s War by Matthew P. Mayo

A Note: It can be difficult to find upcoming release dates for small press titles, so if you are an author or a publisher and would like to see your book listed on our monthly Preview post send me an email.