Johnny Gunn

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2010
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Brookside, Oregon Territory

1 - Tangled Web of Frontier Life (Feb-2022)
2 - Newcomers (Apr-2023)

Ezekiel's Journey

1 - Ezekiel's Journey (May-2017)
2 - Ezekiel's Oregon (Jun-2017)
3 - Oregon Statehood (Aug-2017)

Jack Slater

1 - Jack Slater: Orphan Train to Cattle Baron (Apr-2017)
2 - Jack Slater: A Long Year In Outlaw Country (May-2018)
3 - Jack Slater: The Snake's Ugly Head (Aug-2019)
4 - Jack Slater: Revenge or Retribution? (Sep-2020)
5 - Jack Slater: Guns of Mound Valley (Oct-2021)
6 - Jack Slater: Christmas Storms and Murder (Sep-2022)

Jacob Chance, U.S. Marshal

1 - Jacob Chance, U.S. Marshal (Jun-2015)
2 - A Good Life Cut Short (May-2016)
3 - Take Out the Judge (Jan-2017)

A Simon Sol Dorsey Mystery

1 - Blood of Many Nations (May-2016)
2 - The Starr Baby Case (Aug-2017)

A Slim Calhoun, Bull Morrison Western

1 - Aurora, The Goddess of Dawn, Burns (Oct-2018)
2 - A Judge Gone Wrong (Feb-2019)
3 - Trouble at Every Turn (May-2020)
4 - Trouble in Pioche (Jul-2021)
5 - Parker Canyon Massacre (Jun-2023)

Snake and the Dog-Man

1 - Bordertown Trouble (Feb-2020)
2 - Apaches and Steamboat Gamblers (Jan-2021)
3 - A Home With A Lion Killer (Jun-2022)

A Terrence Corcoran Western

1 - Name's Corcoran, Terrence Corcoran (Nov-2017)
2 - Terror on Flat Top Ridge (Jan-2018)
3 - Rage On The Range (Jun-2018)
4 - Lahontan Valley War (Dec-2018)
5 - Death Stalks The Diamond Valley (Sep-2019)
6 - Young Guns Gone Bad (Jul-2020)
7 - Outlaws, Here, There, Everywhere (May-2021)
8 - Mayhem in Eureka County (Aug-2022)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • Out Of The West... Tales Of The American Frontier

    Here is a baker's dozen of great western short stories entitled Out of the West...Tales of the American Frontier by Johnny Gunn. The book is a reflection of life in the west from the early days of the westward migration right into the 21st century. T...

  • Jacob Chance, U.S. Marshal

    Jacob Chance, U.S. Marshal - 1

    Land law, water rights, deeds of ownership? Boring. Unless of course, people are shooting at you because of them. The Civil War has disrupted thousands of lives, including that of Sarah Jackson, whose husband was killed for not joining the Confederat...

  • The Quest

    Tom Henry, a writer, amateur archaeologist, and historian, is confronted one hot summer day by what he can only describe as a time and space traveler. He fears for his sanity as he is introduced to what the ancient people of the deserts of Nevada use...

  • Paradise Challenged

    Thornton Holiday is a murderer and a bank robber. He's a man with a plan-a plan to create an outlaw haven in the New Mexico community of Plainsville. The village is overrun with the meanest outlaws in the west and fights back with the help of a fourt...

  • So Young So Dead

    The vicious murder of a young girl leads to the disintegration of the Sandesta County Sheriff's Department. A homophobic district attorney, a misogynist sergeant of detectives, and a serial killer all come together in So Young, So Dead. Many issues f...

  • Blood of Many Nations

    A Simon Sol Dorsey Mystery - 1

    Simon Sol Dorsey is a renegade private investigator with close ties to a big city police department. That's why he's asked to investigate the disappearance of the teenage daughter of a disgraced cop. The cop is married to a Ukrainian "find-a-bride," ...

  • A Good Life Cut Short

    Jacob Chance, U.S. Marshal - 2

    Jacob Chance, U.S. Marshal just made the biggest move of his life. He retired from the Marshal Service and planned to move to a ranch in Nevada Territory, marry a beautiful young woman, and not spend the rest of his life chasing criminals, lunatics, ...

  • To Serve and Deceive

    Jason Caldwell, retired Hollywood producer and screenwriter, looked forward to years of fishing the oceans of the world. Instead, he married a gorgeous college professor who was also an undercover FBI agent. Jason didn't discover that little aspect o...

  • Take Out the Judge

    Jacob Chance, U.S. Marshal - 3

    A conspiracy among powerful landowners threatens the life of Nevada Supreme Court Justice Amos Stanfield and brings Jacob Chance, retired U.S. Marshal, into the fray. Vicious, selfish, and desperate men own Nevada’s capitol city sheriff, and pay ha...



  • Jack Slater: Orphan Train to Cattle Baron

    Jack Slater - 1

    In the fall of 1872, following a buggy mishap that killed his parents, Jack Slater, ten years old, was flung to the streets of New York City, among thousands of misplaced, orphaned, or runaway children. He was saved by the Children's Aid Society that...

  • Ezekiel's Journey

    Ezekiel's Journey - 1

    Frankie Finnigan and Mortimer Binks are two uneducated factory workers who lose their jobs and don't have much hope of finding more work. They decide to take matters into their own hands and take up a life of crime. Unfortunately for the most part, t...

  • Ezekiel's Oregon

    Ezekiel's Journey - 2

    Ezekiel's Journey continues as he and the family settle on their homestead and begin the hard work of developing a farm. There is a movement afoot to bring Oregon into the union and Zeke is one of those promoting the idea. He discovers his leadership...

  • Oregon Statehood

    Ezekiel's Journey - 3

    Spring floods, outlaws roaming the Willamette Valley, and men with clubs looking to pound his head will not stop Ezekiel Hawthorne from striving for statehood for his beloved Oregon. Young Hiram takes on a gang of outlaws and Travis enjoys the best C...

  • The Starr Baby Case

    A Simon Sol Dorsey Mystery - 2

    Sol Dorsey would best be described as a throwback to the twenties or thirties. The big man grew up on pulp crime magazines, thought once about being a cop but changed his mind as soon as he heard about things like Miranda and perp’s rights. “They...

  • Name's Corcoran, Terrence Corcoran

    A Terrence Corcoran Western - 1

    Terrence Corcoran carried a badge in Virginia City, Nevada until one day, in a drunken stupor, he shot the sheriff. Now he’s returning to the Comstock looking to get his badge back and stumbles into a conspiracy that might put the sheriff, district...

  • Terror on Flat Top Ridge

    A Terrence Corcoran Western - 2

    Terrence Corcoran, recovering from injuries he received breaking up a cattle rustling gang, stumbles onto a grisly scene high in the Monitor Range of central Nevada. That discovery nets him a charming teenage girl from a ranch in the valley, an old a...

  • Jack Slater: A Long Year In Outlaw Country

    Jack Slater - 2

  • Rage On The Range

    A Terrence Corcoran Western - 3

    Corcoran takes some time off as Eureka County Deputy Sheriff to visit an old family friend and stumbles into a land fraud scheme. It gets mighty dangerous as a conspiracy develops, one layer at a time, and bodies begin to pile up. A rancher leaves hi...

  • Aurora, The Goddess of Dawn, Burns

    A Slim Calhoun, Bull Morrison Western - 1

    The first novel in a new western series by bestselling author Johnny Gunn.

    U.S. Marshal Bull Morrison and his deputy, Slim Calhoun, ride into Aurora, a rowdy Nevada mining camp, to escort a large gold shipment to the U.S. Mint in Carson City...



  • Lahontan Valley War

    A Terrence Corcoran Western - 4

    An action-packed western novel by bestselling author Johnny Gunn

    Many wars between white men and Indians on the frontier started with the abduction and abuse of young white girls by the Indians. What Terrence Corcoran rides into is the oppos...

  • A Judge Gone Wrong

    A Slim Calhoun, Bull Morrison Western - 2

    A CAPTIVATING, NON-STOP ACTION TALE OF THE OLD WEST


    A stage coach hold-up turns into a federal judge’s wife being abducted, brutalized, and murdered. Federal marshals Bull Morrison and Slim Calhoun are called in and in ...

  • Jack Slater: The Snake's Ugly Head

    Jack Slater - 3

  • Death Stalks The Diamond Valley

    A Terrence Corcoran Western - 5

    The rich ranches of the Diamond Valley north of Eureka, Nevada, are plagued by rustlers, the Bank of Eureka is being threatened by a gang of bank robbers, the Eureka County Sheriff is wounded chasing rustlers, and Terrence Corcoran is named acting Sh...

  • Bordertown Trouble

    Snake and the Dog-Man - 1

    It’s the early 1870s, from the Rocky Mountains to northern Mexico a couple of drifters manage to discover their true purpose in life in this hard-hitting western adventure! A pair of nomadic cowboys are ‘asked’ to leave Deadwood and...

  • Trouble at Every Turn

    A Slim Calhoun, Bull Morrison Western - 3

    BOOK THREE IN THE CAPTIVATING, NON-STOP ACTION SERIES OF THE OLD WEST! United States Marshal Bull Morrison and his deputy, Slim Calhoun, are sent to investigate and stop a threat to the new United States Mint in Carson City, Nevada. The alleged threa...

  • Young Guns Gone Bad

    A Terrence Corcoran Western - 6

    HOT ACTION, TERRIBLE CRIMES AND JUSTICE SERVED.A series of fires, robberies, and assaults escalate quickly into killings in the small central Nevada community of Eureka. Deputy Sheriff Terrence Corcoran believes that two brothers along with a friend ...

  • Jack Slater: Revenge or Retribution?

    Jack Slater - 4

    Amos Warren, a ranching neighbor of Jack Slater, is eaten up by envy, jealousy, and a lack of ability to run his own ranch. He blames Slater for all his failures and often threatens to burn Slater out.Warren's foreman, Sonny Belafleur, is an outlaw u...

  • Apaches and Steamboat Gamblers

    Snake and the Dog-Man - 2

    Nomadic cowboys, drifters, troublemakers - Snake and Dog-man have heard it all, but they are more than that, they're strong, determined, and never back down from a fight.Continuing their trek to California by guiding a freight wagon train to Tucson, ...

  • Outlaws, Here, There, Everywhere

    A Terrence Corcoran Western - 7

    LOVELY LADIES, EXTREME WEALTH AND INCREDIBLE DANGER IN THE AMERICAN OLD WEST!An outlaw gang is ravaging the small White Pine County mining camp of Ward, Nevada. The sheriff is grievously wounded in a battle with the gang and puts out the call to near...



  • Trouble in Pioche

    A Slim Calhoun, Bull Morrison Western - 4

    SADDLE-UP FOR GUNFIGHTS, SALOON BRAWLS, A TOUCH OF ROMANCE, AND MAYHEM IN THE OLD WEST. The southeastern Nevada mining camp of Pioche was known as one of the most corrupt and dangerous communities in the silver state. When it was rumored that a fede...

  • Jack Slater: Guns of Mound Valley

    Jack Slater - 5

    Thrilling action from page to page, from the valley floor to the granite spires of the Ruby Mountains. A vicious gang of killers moves into Elko County, Nevada and stages a robbery following the Fall Stock Sales killing several and nabbing thousands....

  • Tangled Web of Frontier Life

    Brookside, Oregon Territory - 1

    Life in the Oregon Territory frontier village of Brookside is drastically changed when schemes and frauds turn violent. Families are split apart, and good citizens die in this first novel in a continuing series of life in Oregon's frontier period.Bro...

  • A Home With A Lion Killer

    Snake and the Dog-Man - 3

    Johnny Gunn's iconic cowboy drifter duo are back in the saddle for another rip roaring adventure!Snake and Dog-man, two foot-loose young men enjoying the freedom of adventuring in the 1870s, fight their way through the great Mojave Desert, one of the...

  • Mayhem in Eureka County

    A Terrence Corcoran Western - 8

    Murder, infidelity, and intrigue...a Western whodunit full of enough twists and turns-and plenty of action-to satisfy even the most hardened of appetites!It's a wet spring in 1870s Eureka, Nevada, when the wife of a leading mine owner is found murder...

  • Jack Slater: Christmas Storms and Murder

    Jack Slater - 6

    A combination of vicious winter storms, ugly and stupid men, and son Rob and his wife coming home turn the holiday period around the Jack Slater ranch to near chaos. Short-handed and facing a winter disaster on the range, Slater also faces a cattle r...

  • Newcomers

    Brookside, Oregon Territory - 2

    The Oregon Territory village of Brookside sees further violence as the lone constable fights to keep law and order in the second novel in the continuing series of life during Oregon's wild frontier period.The year is 1848. The pace is Brookside, Oreg...

  • Parker Canyon Massacre

    A Slim Calhoun, Bull Morrison Western - 5

    The rough and tumble US Marshal and his cantankerous deputy are back in the saddle, raring to go in the latest action-packed installment from hard-hitting western author Johnny Gunn!It's late 1862 in Nevada Territory. The bank in Washoe City has been...

  • Trouble at Buzzard Pass

    These cowboy drifters are back in the saddle for another gun-toting adventure, the likes of which they've never seen before.When Snake and Dog-man, owners of a newly acquired ranch, embark on their first cattle drive to market, their path becomes fra...

  • To Kill or Not to Kill

    WESTERN ACTION, OMINOUS STORMS, AND A FIGHT TO THE DEATH.In the rugged terrain of Eureka County, where the promise of gold lures dreamers and opportunists alike, Chief Deputy Sheriff Terrence Corcoran finds himself entangled in a web of deception tha...



  • Gunfight at Rabbit Ridge

    Frontier action on every page, from the valley floor to the sun-scorched mesas.Five years ago, Jack Slater helped capture a notorious outlaw who now roams free with a singular, deranged ambition: to annihilate Jack and his entire family. The relentle...

  • Orphan Train to Cattle Baron

    In the fall of 1872, following a buggy mishap that killed his parents, Jack Slater, ten years old, was flung to the streets of New York City, among thousands of misplaced, orphaned, or runaway children. He was saved by the Children's Aid Society that...

  • A Long Year in Outlaw Country

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Johnny Gunn has published 42 books.

Johnny Gunn does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Long Year in Outlaw Country, was published in December 2024.

The first book by Johnny Gunn, Out Of The West... Tales Of The American Frontier, was published in November 2010.

Yes. Johnny Gunn has 8 series.
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