John Duncklee

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1999
  • Latest Book:
    August 2015
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Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Genevieve of Tombstone

    Nov. 1999 Leisure Books mass market paperback, John Duncklee (Quest for the Eagle Feather). Tombstone in the 1880's was the toughest town in the West, and it took a special kind of grit just to survive there. Ask the Earps or the Clantons. But among ...

  • Graciela of the Border

    Jeff Collins sets out in pursuit of the rustlers who had stolen his prized roan mare, pregnant with the foal of a great racehorse, which he had won in a high-stakes poker game, and ventures in to the perilous region near the Mexican border, where he ...

  • Double Vengeance

    Undercover agent Joe Holly is sent to Fort Huachuca, deep in the heart of Apache territory, to find out who at the fort has been selling information to the gang of outlaws who have been stealing the Army's payroll deliveries. Original....

  • Girl from New Hope

    Girl from New Hope is a heart-warming tale of love won and lost, how people react to cultural change, a quite different look a life in the frontier west, and a wonderful addition to the literature of the west. The author writes authoritatively about ...

  • Bull by the Tale

    John Duncklee's short stories are about men and women from the Spanish Colonial era to the twentieth-century American West. Men in "The Developers" and "Padre Mirandi" face similar problems, although they live centuries apart. Each suffers from human...

  • Disowned

    One day Carlos Montoya was Mexican; the next day he was American; and it was not by his own choice. When the United States makes the Gadsden Purchase from Mexican president Santa Ana, it starts a chain of events that forever alters the lives of Carlo...

  • The Pocket Watch

    There is an authenticity in John Duncklee's voice that you don't find in other writers of the American West today. His characters are as lively as a wild mustang stallion, and as unpredictable as the weather. If you love a good story, treat yourself ...

  • Peach Trees

    After two tours in Vietnam, the cruel war continues to haunt Bill O'Leary, as he tried to escape the terrifying nightmares and the nagging restlessness by becoming an itinerant banjo player. The applause from his audiences becomes his solace, draggin...

  • Bench With Warped Slats

    Some say that all the high technology arrived after Sputnik, and we launched the age of computers, cell phones, GPS instruments and such. But, a poem’s creation is still the same; it comes from the heart, mind and soul of its poet....



  • Zemo

    Zemo Doyle goes to the Southwest to learn how to be a cowboy from his uncle. He accomplishes that goal, tries being a rodeo cowboy and ends up an artist. This is a moving story about making choices, experiencing adventures and falling in love....

  • Manchado and His Friends Manchado Y Sus Amigos

    This is a delightful tale of a charming burro and the family he is born into. It is set in the Sierra Madres of Sonora, Mexico, just south of Arizona. Maria and Pablo hear their father telling their mother that he intends to sell the burro because he...

  • Special Arrow

    When the wagon pulled by a runaway team during a violent storm tossed John Butler off and onto a large rock, life changed for the blond-haired son of a gold hungry man heading for the California Gold Rush. A member of a Hopi hunting party rescued him...

  • A Buzzard's View

  • Crashing the Superbowl

    Always interested in the ways of the human race. Burton and his beloved mate, Bernice, discover an event they just can't miss. Find out what happens when these two vocal, always hungry, Turkey Vultures crash the Superbowl. This is the second in a hum...

  • Hello Cyberspace

    Due to a bountiful spring, the carrion is slim pickings for the flock. Burton & Bernice with their sons, Manny and Maurice, head west to the pumpkin fields of California. Bernice discovers several things she didn't know about her sons' education, and...

  • Summer in Manhattan

    Bernice finds a copy of the New York Times featuring news of the Waste Engineer Strike in Manhattan. She convinces not only Burton, but their entire flock to catch the Jet Stream to head east to feast on the streets full of garbage. What could possib...

  • The Adventures of Burton and Bernice

  • Apache Tears

    An Apache youth, stolen from his home after witnessing a massacre, is forced into slavery. The young man dreams of freedom and hungers for revenge. Join Kaetin on his journey through life as he seeks freedom and chooses how to deal with the bitternes...

  • The Grand Experiment

    What if... Long ago - in a far off galaxy - a human-like race of aliens devises an experiment and populates Planet Earth. Then, through sensors and occasional inspection tours, they watch as Earthlings adapt, thrive, and reproduce. What...



  • Along the Trail to Freedom

    Escaping the Civil War and slavery, three young men go West in search of freedom. Arriving in Independence, Missouri, they meet a teamster who hires them for his wagon train to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The teamster admires and becomes friend with the th...

  • The Soul of the Hobnailed Boot

    Harry Kennedy stakes out a home for himself on The Lonesome Buzzard, his mining claim in the mountains near Bandino. For 23 years, he scraped a living out of the old mine. Then he finally decides to retire, and accepts a monthly check from Social Sec...

  • I Bit the Silver Spoon

    "I read Will James, and dreamed of becoming a cowboy." John Duncklee shared the dream of many young boys. But growing up in the years of the Great Depression were difficult and his father had other plans for John. His mother's death and his father's ...

  • Song of Hoofbeats

    A coming of age story for hearts of all ages... Orphaned unexpectedly, fifteen-year-old Danny Kelly must grow from boy to man. Not only does he have the loss of his parents and his grief to deal with, he has a match race to win. There are mules to ca...

  • Secrets

    A man pushed too far... Uncontrollable rage... Secrets... Michael Cushing is determined to become a concert pianist. He practices relentlessly as he struggles against drunken parents, lack of finances, lost love, and overwhelming odds. But there is o...

  • Holiday Surprise

    ~ A talented and versatile author, John Duncklee, brings us a second chance at romance short story set during the magic of Christmas, but entertaining all year ~ Joe and Marge, sweethearts in high school, break up when Joe graduates and travels west ...

  • Boston Boy - A Short Story

    Percival Barlow escapes New England and its prudish life style and lands in Arizona where he finds work as a teacher in a private school. This is where he meets the infamous Sally Esquivel, quite a number and especially bawdy in Percy's eyes. Their l...

  • Never Homeless

    Are you what, or whom, you seem? A man who appears homeless to the wealthy man behind him in line to buy a lottery ticket discovers he has lost the dollar he had put in his pocket for the ticket purchase. The wealthy man initiates a conversation wit...

  • Intrigue Along the Border

    There are instances where Mexican Drug Cartels use border ranchers as 'mules' to carry their illegal goods from Mexico into the United States. Some of the ranchers who fight drought, downsizing of grazing permits, low beef prices, and high taxes can ...

  • Tales from Corral Fences

    Countless yarns begin from storytellers sitting atop corral fences while waiting for whatever the sitters are waiting for. Or, the sitters might be sitting just to sit. But, the stories that are born from these locations emanate from real experience,...



  • To the Harvest

    This is the story of the travels of Antonio Beltrán, a migrant farm worker from Mexico. The descriptions of landscapes are as accurate as the characters in the story, and here is an opportunity to look at what may be a different side to immigration ...

  • Tales from Clouds and Sea

  • Jennifer

    NOTE FROM PENNY DUNCKLEE This is the last book written by John. He finished it while he was in the hospital getting ready to die. Actually, the book ends like the end of a chapter, rather than the end of a story - just like the stages of life. Our im...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Duncklee has published 32 books.

John Duncklee does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Jennifer, was published in August 2015.

The first book by John Duncklee, Genevieve of Tombstone, was published in November 1999.

No. John Duncklee does not write books in series.
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