The gunfighter chronicles

5 total works

One Last Town

by Matt Braun

Published 15 October 1997

Bill Tilghman was the real thing, a lawman who wore his badge for one reason alone: to bring criminals to justice. Master novelist Matt Braun captures the final days of this extraordinary manhunter - when he faces a heroic fight on the bloody, corrupt streets of Cromwell, Oklahoma. The saga of a man who would not back down and the woman who loved him to the end. ONE LAST TOWN tells the story of a land swiftly vanishing into a new era: the legendary American frontier.

Noble Outlaw

by Matt Braun

Published 1 March 1977

This is the tale of John Wesley Hardin and his power keg temper that earned him twelve bodies by age twenty, and a place at the top of the Texas mostwanted list. But now he's a husband and a father, and thinks his fighting days are done - until he's ambushed by an angry loser in a local poker game. Soon the law is on Wes's trail again, but this time he's got too much at stake.

Wyatt Earp

by Matt Braun

Published 15 June 1994

On October 26, 1881, three outlaws lay dead in a dusty vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona. Standing over them--Colts smoking--were Wyatt Earp, his two brothers Morgan and Virgil, and a gun-slinging gambler named Doc Holliday. The shootout at the O.K. Corral was over--but for Earp, the fight had just begun.

Outlaw Kingdom

by Matt Braun

Published 23 February 1996

Outlaw Kingdom

Matt Braun

In 1889, Bill Tilghman joined the historic land rush that transformed a raw frontier into Oklahoma Territory. A lawman by trade, he set aside his badge to make his fortune in the boomtowns. Yet Tilghman was called into service once more, on a bold, relentless manhunt that would make his name a legend for all time--in an epic confrontation with outlaw gang leader Bill Doolin.

The Gamblers

by Matt Braun

Published 15 June 1997

They towered over the frontier: men like Hickok, Custer, Cody and Earp. From Tombstone to Abilene, on a sprawling, rugged frontier, they forged a life by their cunning and courage. And between these gambling men - some who lost and some who won - was a woman who carved out a legend of her own. A beautiful farm girl from Indiana, Mattie Silks traded her innocence from the West's wildest men. But then her trail of love and money took her to the boomtown of Denver and a man named Cort Thompson - where she would play for the highest stakes of all...