Frank Bonham

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1968
  • Latest Book:
    October 2015
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Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Nitty Gritty

    Torn between a desire to stay in school and his father's insistence that it is a waste of time, a black boy decides to quit school and go into business with the uncle he worships. When the venture fails and his uncle deserts him, the boy faces realit...

  • Chief

  • Mystery of the Fat Cat

    Everything in Dogtown, including the Boys Club, was run down and beat up. The Health Department wanted to close the Club because it was full of rats and cockroaches. But that only meant that kids like Buddy Williams, Johnny Pastelito, Rich Smith, and...

  • Golden Bees of Tulami

  • Forever Formula

  • Mystery of the Red Tide

    Who is trying to get Tommy's uncle in trouble? Tommy and Jill look for the answer in the dark, forbidden tunnels by the ocean. Suddenly, their flashlight goes out! A frantic sound ... and in the darkness, shining green footprints appear on the fl...

  • Logan's Choice

    The Yaqui Indians had a few friends - and a lot of dead enemies. Tom Logan's dad had been one of their few white friends. But now Frank Logan was dead and his son had to prove his own worth by coming up with the $10,000 that the whites had stolen - o...

  • Missing Persons League

  • Blood on the Land



  • The Feud at Spanish Ford

    This is the story of two men as different from each other as father and son could ever be. Ruel Starrett was a fighter, driven by roughshod ambition, but his son, Rex, was young enough to believe in justice. Between them there grew a misunderstanding...

  • Tough Country

  • Defiance Mountain

  • Trago

  • Hardrock

    A lifetime of sweat and blood goes into a hardrock mine like the Sweet Betsy. But a lifetime in the Arizona Territory can be awfully short. Bill Croft was one of those miners who'd been crippled when a mine cable snapped. Now there was just Bill and ...

  • Sound of Gunfire

    The miners were blasting the haylands into mud, the ranchers were ready to blast the miners out and the Snake warriors were waiting on the ridgetops with blood-hungry lanches. All that stood between the Oregon Territory and a three way war was F Comp...

  • Cast a Long Shadow

    Rian McCool had dreamed of revenge, staring at the inside of Vallecito jail for a year, while the man who framed him was raking in the cash as the owner of a prosperous stage line. McCool had been and easygoing man. But that was last year. This y...

  • Lost Stage Valley

    WesternLarge Print EditionIn the turbulent days before the Civil War, bandits posing as Southern patriots were threatening to wipe out the famous Butterfield Stagecoach Line. John Butterfield turned to Grif Holbrook, his ace trouble shooter, for help...

  • Night Raid

  • Fort Hogan

    In the West, gun-running was a business and Gary Fidel was a business man. The Gatling could outshoot 50 men. It was worth a hatful of gold if Fidel could get it across the Mexican border to the Yaqui Indians - and worth a slow neck-stretching if he ...



  • Rawhide Guns

    Jim Harlan had to drive a railroad across the wilds of New Mexico but the cattlemen of the region had an even tougher job. They had to try to stop him! What Harlan knew about railroading was slung from his belt, but it was more than enough....

  • The Best Western Stories of Frank Bonham

  • The Eye of the Hunter

    The Richard I. Parrish Trust checks were faithfully cashed each month, but letter sent to Rip Parrish's ranch in the Arizona Territory hadn't been answered for nearly a year. So the family's lawyer hires war veteran Henry Logan to go search for Rip,...

  • That Bloody Bozeman Trail // Stagecoach West

  • Snaketrack

    'A sowbelly bridegroom!' That's what Holt Bannerman had called Tom Carmody a year ago when Tom wanted to marry Holt's daughter. The rich rancher had ordered Ruth home. She obeyed... and Tom left the territory. Now Tom was back. This time he had a tra...

  • One Ride Too Many

  • Bold Passage

    When Sam Cary and his bullwhackers set out on the Bozeman Trail for Fort Greybull, they knew they were riding into danger. Sam's arch-rival Mark Stockwell had been running guns to the Indians, a hot-blooded young warchief was stirring up the tribes a...

  • The Canon of Maverick Brands

  • Burn Him Out

    Three stories on one audiobook! In "Burn Him Out", a massive swarm of grasshoppers threatens every ranch in the area. There's only one way to save themselves--set fire to one man's land. But they may have to shoot him first. In "One Ride Too Many", a...

  • Durango Street

    When Rufus Henry gets out of work camp for Grand Theft Auto, he has only one place to go? back to Durango Street. Almost right away, he gets on the wrong side of the Gassers, has to join the rival Moors? and starts running for his life. Years ahead o...



  • Break for the Border

  • Last Stage West

  • Stage Trails West

    Working on a stage trail isn't just a job for Grif Holbrook, it's in his blood. Grif's a hard-bitten but soft-hearted veteran who's worked as a troubleshooter and shotgun guard for the Butterfield line for years. These four exciting novels recount Gr...

  • The Last Mustang

    With rousing action, well-developed characters and colorful backgrounds, Frank Bonham is regarded as one of the best Western storytellers. And the eight tales in this collection perfectly showcase Bonham's vast talent. In the title story, a good-humo...

  • Outcasts of Rebel Creek

    Four of the author's best stories are contained in this volume detailing the adventures of a gambler trying to clear his family name, a rancher who butts heads with a greedy cattle buyer, a gang of outlaws trying to survive the High Sierras, and a yo...

  • The Phantom Bandit

    Complies some of the author's greatest stories in this exciting anthology that captures the action, adventure, and unforgettable characters of the Old West, from a former army captain on the trail of the con-artist who framed him, to a map-maker forc...

  • High Iron

    Here, for the first time in book form, are three of Bonham's best Western short novels. "The Sin of Wiley Brogan" is the good-humored tale of a young horse-breaker fed up with his lot in life, whose chance meeting with an entrepreneurial postal offic...

  • Dakota Man

  • Devil's Graze

    A collection of seven Western stories includes the title story, in which Lyle Kearny fights Gus Stoneman's plan to improve life for the settlers of the San Augustin Plains by building a dam on Kearny's land....

  • The Dark Border



  • Trouble at Temescal

    A pair of action-packed tall tales from Western master Frank Bonham.

    The first story, Trouble in Temescal, is set in Los Angeles in the days following the Mexican-American War, and tells the tale of two entrepreneurial mustangers, Hank Ashw...

  • Mission Creek

    Rodeo Killer is the tale of smoldering and violent conflicts among New Mexico cattle ranchers... cattle buyers... and breeders of horses for the rodeo circuit. Greed... deceit... trickery... and murder mix with romance and human and animal courage in...

  • Border Man

    A masterpiece of Western fiction from prolific author Frank Bonham featuring crooked men, romance, and gun-slinging adventure

    In the Arizona-Mexico border country, a man has to work hard for his living, and there's no shortage of crooks willi...

  • Furnace Flat

    Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army is set in eastern Oregon, at a forgotten outpost left behind by the regular Army during the War between the States. Fort Haney is now home to a troop of fifty-seven men, raw recruits in the Oregon Volunteer Cavalry,...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frank Bonham has published 43 books.

Frank Bonham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Furnace Flat, was published in October 2015.

The first book by Frank Bonham, Nitty Gritty, was published in September 1968.

No. Frank Bonham does not write books in series.
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