Luke Short

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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1936
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • The Branded Man

    LITTLE SILVER CREEK VALLEY WAS BLOODY HELL... when a murderous range war changed friendly neighbors into ruthless gun-men. Into the storm rode trail boss Mark Flood, his guns for hire, his past a secret, his vengeance set on the gang of rustlers w...

  • Raw Land

    TAKING A STAND Folks figured Will Danning was crazy to buy Pitchfork Ranch. The rocky, godforsaken place was worthless. So why did he fight so hard to take possession? And why were three desperate men willing to gun him down to take it from him? ...

  • The Man on the Blue

  • King Colt

    Rustlers and renegades ran the town They were hair-trigger killers, all wanted by the law, but here they only law was theirs. Young Johnny Hendry aimed to be sheriff but they had the votes -- and the guns -- to stop him. So Johnny fought fire w...

  • Feud at Single Shot

  • Bounty Guns

  • Brand of Empire

    GOLD IN HIS DREAMS. . .BLOOD ON HIS HANDS Nothing could stop Matt Waranrode'smlust for power. As U.S.msenatormand respected cattleman,mhemcontroll D the law,MThe territory and everyone in it -- Indians and ranchers alike. He bribed the greedy ...

  • Ambush

    Ambush, a word that had great import to any troop of cavalry in the U.S. Army on patrol during the Apache Wars of the mid to late 1800's. This small post (Fort Gamble, New Mexico Territory) is sending out a small scout patrol, moving across "heat-sco...

  • Hard Money

    Mining adventure story for Western fans. An old timer has been successful and is able to give his daughter all he hoped, when his success is threatened by sabotage. He brings in a young adventurer to help put through a certain tunnel project, which w...



  • The Stalkers

  • Trouble Country

    Sam Dana left off prospecting and went home to the Bar D. The spread wasn't being worked and a crew of hardcases hired by his brother Walt was guarding the place. Then word got out that Walt was selling stolen beef. Sam wasn't involved -- he could ha...

  • Saddle by Starlight

  • Barren Land Showdown

  • Last Hunt

    DEAD SHOT Judge John Lillard lay under his horse in the snow, a bullet through his chest. Game warden "Mac" McPhail usually went after poachers here in the high mountain country. But Mac vowed he'd find his best friend's murderer. Many men had reaso...

  • Fiddlefoot

    A hard-charging tale of oppression and revenge by an award-winning author who helped define the western genre.

    Frank Chess didn''t care for much in this world. Especially himself. So taking a job for local big shot Rhino Hulst was an easy c...

  • Coroner Creek

    A gunfighter rides high and low on a manhunt for the Apache who killed his fiancée in this blazing story of revenge from a master storyteller of the West. 

    The army wagon train carried rifles, ammunition, and a chestful of gold thr...

  • Bought With a Gun

    Some spine creasing and slight edge wear. Front cover has a stamp on top right edge and bottom corner has a small tear. Age discoloring and a few pages have rippling. Top edge has a small stamp. No other marks and intact. Ships very quickly and packa...

  • Savage Range

    Down on his luck, Jim Wade takes a job as foreman of the deadliest bunch of cowboys he has ever seen. Then he discovers that he has been set up to take the blame for a bloody massacre the crew commits and is forced to turn fugitive with a lynch mob a...

  • Donovan's Gun

    Two desperate gangs-and the man who stood between them.Burt Hethridge had ruled the Triangle H and the people of Pitkin with an iron fist. When the old man died, the whole town exploded in a wild, blood-letting spree. The violence mounted until it se...



  • Marshal of Vengeance

  • The Jackleg Sheriff

  • And the Wind Blows Free

  • First Claim

  • Hardcase

  • Ride the Man Down

  • Marauders' Moon

    HEADED FOR HELL Webb Cousins was headed for a short trial and a long stretch in jail. A bounty hunter had him cuffed, covered, and brought back alive. But when the prisoner and his captor rode into Wagon Mound, death rode in with them. In a fla...

  • The Outrider

    The collapse of the Mary E mine draws the attentions of Will Christie, whose investigation unearths unsafe conditions at the mines and evidence of owners who care more for their profits than for their workers...

  • Silver Rock

    TULLY GIBBS WAS A KILLER ... A bullet sang, and Tully Gibbs hit the dirt. Tully was a killer -- trained, highly skilled, merciless. But he was pinned down, exposed to the hail of rifle fire: shots slamming past his ear, spraying the bitter dust into ...

  • Dead Freight for Piute



  • The Some-Day Country

    Lieutenant Scott Milham must put down an uprising when a band of homesteaders and rancher Jess Hovey battle each other--as well as the law and the Cherokees--for a prime piece of Cherokee land in the Kansas Territory...

  • Summer of the Smoke

  • Station West

    Lieutenant Haven is ordered to retrieve or destroy a shipment of Army uniforms bound for Fort Stambaugh in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of the outlaws who have intercepted all of the town's recent gold shipments...

  • Paper Sheriff

  • Desert Crossing

    Dave Harmon had a job to do: take a girl and the guns the army desperately needed across the burning malpais to Fort Whipple. But the desert was Apache territory. Faced with scorching sand and killing thirst, savage Apaches and ruthless outlaws, Dave...

  • Three for the Money

    Following a bloody train holdup that left one man dead and resulted in the theft of a cargo of gold, Cam Holgate is determined to retrieve the booty and win the reward that could save his failing ranch, but the only witness to the crime, greedy Tina ...

  • First Campaign

    The new state's first gubernatorial election heats up when cattleman candidate Hal Halsey goes up against the powerful mining companies and their hired guns, who have kidnapped Hal's illegitimate son....

  • Man from Two Rivers

    They wanted his land. They should have taken his life.He'd shot to defend his property. Now Hobe Carew was wanted by the law. First Hobe found an ally in a half-breed named Jim. Then he found a friend in a runaway girl and a good reason to come back ...

  • Guns of Hanging Lake

    Tony Braden's first sin was being an Englishman; his second was being rich enough to make a go of ranching. The good folks of Indian Bend ridiculed, robbed and cheated Braden. Then he was killed - knifed clean in the gut - and no one in town seemed t...

  • Sunset Graze

    Word came to cowpuncher Dave Wallace that his friend Tip Macy had frozen to death in a blizzard. Wallace knew it was a damn lie. That's why he had a chip on his shoulder and a .44 at his side when he rode into town. But all that got him was a fast tr...



  • High Vermilion

  • Vengeance Valley

  • Gunman's Chance

    A tale of big Texas, of cattle, ranges and saloons; of punchers, cowboys and Ute Indians; and where the possibilities of fulfillment are as endless as the desert, and just as unpredictable. Jim Garry is a hard, embittered cowboy, who believes there i...

  • Ramrod

    Walt Shipley's plans to bring sheep to Signal Bench are circumvented by Frank Ivey, leaving Shipley's wife to round up some hired guns and begin a bloody range war....

  • The Whip

    With a smoking rifle and a stinging lash, it was Gannon's job to cut a path through the outlaw gangs grown thick as a mesquite over the Midland stage route. The final challenge came when a hardcase crew knocked over one of his coaches carrying a heav...

  • Man from the Desert

    If Hal Hanaway can stop Ben Kittrick from robbing his own family, Ben's uncle will deed his ranch to Hanaway, but the task proves difficult when a trigger-happy sheriff jumps into the action. Reprint....

  • Raiders of the Rimrock

    Determined to take over all of Tornado Basin, shrewd sheepman Sands realizes he has bitten off more than he can chew when he is confronted by a gang of angry men, a determined young woman, and range detective Tim Enever...

  • Debt of Honor

    Reeves Cable had ridden 200 miles to answer his foster mother's plea for help. When he arrived, he found the widow Traver's name was being dragged through the mud of Junction City... From clucking women to foul saloon talk, the town was feasting on a...

  • Blood on the Moon

    Blood on the Moon is widely hailed as one of the first noir Westerns. Director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, West Side Story) used deep shadows and murky landscapes to convey the ambiguity of right and wrong in a film Variety calls "a terse, tight...

  • Trumpets West!

    An Indian-fighting officer carries on, facing danger and risking disgrace......



  • The Deserters

    No critter is lower than a soldier who murders his own. But Jess Fairly has done just that, killing his buddies to grab a paymaster's gold. With it he bought himself a new identity and became mining honcho Ben Maule, owner of an entire Arizona town a...

  • Rimrock

    Dave Borthen knew the odds, and he didn't like them.No man would. On one side, him. On the other, the outfit that controlled the territory -- with their men, their guns, their ruthless power. But Dave Borthen swallowed hard and dug his heels and wait...

  • Bold Rider

    • / Historical
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    Getting the gold was easy--as easy as riding his horse up that mountain. But getting down again was another story. Set up by his partner, ambushed by his ally, left for dead in an avalanche, Poco St. Vrain had a long trail ahead. He had to recover th...

  • Luke Short's Best of the West

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

  • A Man Could Get Killed

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • The Marshall of Vengeance

    • / Historical
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  • Play a Lone Hand

    • / Historical
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  • The Primrose Try

    • / Historical
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  • Show the Colors

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

  • War on the Cimarron

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Two cattle punchers share a dream of making it big - until one of them is murdered - in this suspenseful western from an award-winning author.  

    Frank Christian and Morg Wheelon were going to build something great. After the two ve...

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Luke Short has published 59 books.

Luke Short does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rimrock, was published in August 2017.

The first book by Luke Short, The Branded Man, was published in January 1936.

No. Luke Short does not write books in series.
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