Paul L. Thompson writes "true" historical western fiction. Every location is, or was, true to the times...the 1870s through 1912. Names of towns that no longer exist (or names that have been changed) come to life before your very eyes, page after exc...
The 1870s. As opposed to the myths of popular culture, not everybody was swaggering around with six-irons strapped down and leading lives of mayhem. But there were the exceptions--every bit as evil, bloody and deadly as legends portray. And so too, w...
The 1870s. As opposed to the myths of popular culture, not everybody was swaggering around with six-irons strapped down and leading lives of mayhem. But there were the exceptions--every bit as evil, bloody and deadly as legends portray. And so too, w...
The brother of an outlaw kidnaps U.S. Marshal M D (Shorty) Thompson for revenge. Shorty had caught Sam Tolbert’s brother Ed, and he was hung for killing the Laramie sheriff. Sam and his gang will make Shorty pay, first with his gold and then with h...
A young mother suffers and dies three years after giving birth to her third child. She left behind a nine-year-old son Jimmy, her six-year-old daughter Sara and three year old Tommy. Sam, husband and father blamed the death of his beautiful wife on...
Adeline Morris takes up the trail of three murderers who have just killed her husband and son. U S Marshal Shorty Thompson -- not even the cavalry can stop this ninety-pound mother’s wrath of skull busting and maiming. These killers are terrified o...
R.B. Handlin, a young preacher from Boston, goes west in 1882. He finds his inherited ranch taken over by outlaws. His church is burned and he is sent to prison for murder. Once released, he goes against everything he ever believed in, straps on a .4...
Young Jesse Owens is a cute, small nine year old. He had bright sandy hair with a sprinkle of pale freckles on his nose and under his eyes. He also has a soft quiet voice that some young boys thought sissy. That was not the case, you tease him or hur...
Winston and Minnie Scroggins found it rough making a living in the late 1870's. Winston was a hard worker, but lived a little close to the bottle when things were going good. Work would slack off a bit and at times the family had very little to eat a...
Betty Sue Gains' father was the first farmer killed in the Mesilla Valley land stealing scheme. She went to the law, but Sheriff Brady Cole couldn't cross to the east side of the Rio Grande to bring those men to justice. U S Marshal Shorty Thompson w...
A gang of Texas outlaws kidnap U S Marshal Shorty Thompson and is after his and Buffalo's Wyoming gold. Buffalo and his ranch foreman ride over two hundred miles to get little Janice McCord and her .45 to bring Shorty back alive. The horseback ride f...
Being the youngest and by far the smallest brother to the famous gunfighter Ben Thompson, M D had been called Shorty since he was ten years old. That didn’t bother him at all, but being called ‘little man’, made him mad enough to take a quick l...
July 4th. 1879 the first Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train pulled into Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory. The railroad had made it's entry into a lawless land. The town band was playing and hundreds of people turned out to greet the passengers. The f...
The Wilkes-Hoyt gang thought they had an easy set-up, rustling cattle around Chama. Things got complicated, though, when a group of local kids witnessed their crimes. But they were only kids, after all, and how much trouble could a bunch of kids caus...
William Colby just wanted to enjoy his retirement â€"but not only do thieves steal the money he meant to feather his nest with, they kill one of his friends during the robbery. Now, badge or not, he will not rest until he hunts them down… but those...
Doug Brown was seventeen years old when cattle rustlers burned their small Wyoming farm, killing his father and stealing every head of cattle he and his father had gathered in five days. Now he and Shelly Hampton are heading out to hunt down these co...
Can a young cowboy be too young to be a horse thief? Zack Wood, Harrison and Marshall Pascoe were cousins and got into all kinds of trouble. All of it wasn't their fault, but enough was. May 23rd, 1889, being a late spring day and very hot, they snea...