Tim Champlin

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1984
  • Latest Book:
    February 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Chasing the Golden Treasure

1 - Sounding the Reef (Mar-2011)
2 - Cape Horn Fury (Apr-2011)
3 - Snatching the General (May-2011)
4 - Wild Man of the Woods (Jul-2011)
5 - The Long Trail Home (Feb-2012)
6 - Flying from France (Dec-2011)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • Staghorn

    Matt Tierney finds plenty of adventure when he rides the riverboats from New Orleans to the Dakotas. And he finds plenty of danger between the high-and-mighty prince, the gambler with a gleam in his eye, and the beautiful lady of the waterways....

  • Great Timber Race

  • The Last Campaign

    Geronimo and a band of warriors secretly flee toward Mexico during a peace conference with the United States Army, whose scouts--including courier Russell Norwood, the legendary Tom Horn, and Captain Henry Lawton--track the renegades across the borde...

  • The Survivor

    Running for his life, Marcel Dupre, an escaped prisoner, carries a manuscript that could destroy the French government, and Jay McGraw, an express messenger for Wells Fargo, is hired to protect Marcel and get him safely across the West, but a bloodth...

  • King of the Highbinders

  • Deadly Season

    When Jay McGraw helps his friend Detective Fred Casey investigate the flow of opium into San Francisco's Chinatown and the murder of a squad member, they enlist the aid of Sherlock Holmes to unravel the mystery. Reprint....

  • Swift Thunder

    Seeking adventure, nineteen-year-old Lance Barlow rides with a Missouri militia group known as the Border Ruffians, rescues his best friend from slavery, and courts the lovely Miss Jane Holland in a pre-Civil War tale of the American West. Reprint....

  • Shadow Catcher

  • Flying Eagle

    Former policeman Jay McGraw’s job as a messenger for Wells Fargo takes him east on the San Francisco to Chicago run of the Central Pacific. While often routine and boring, guarding the famous Wells Fargo treasure box is a steady job. Rarely does he...



  • Lincoln's Ransom

    Thieves steal the corpse of Abraham Lincoln and demand the release of counterfeiter Ben Boyd in return for the body, but the crime becomes more complicated when the train transporting the body is ambushed....

  • The Tombstone Conspiracy

    Tombstone, Arizona, is a town with some trouble. A phantom legion of former Confederate soldiers is continuing to fight the war its own way, and it's destroying the mining communities nearby. Federal agent Alexander Thorne has been assigned to invest...

  • Wayfaring Strangers

    Three different groups of people - Rob Merriman and Clay Collins, who are fleeing a murder charge, Trevor Sloan, whose father was murdered by Merriman, and Lisa Sizemore, who hopes to encounter Clay Collins again, embark on separate journeys to Calif...

  • Treasure of the Templars

    It's 1898, and archeology professor Roddy McGinnis is supervising a dig in a medieval dungeon when he unearths the journal of Peter Stirling. A 16th-century Scottish knight, Stirling had died there after being tortured to reveal the location of the g...

  • A Trail to Wounded Knee

    Court-martialed and abanded by his family after refusing to disobey a direct order from his commanding officer, Thaddeus Cole finds his only solace in his friend Tom Merrit--also known as Swift Hawk--a Lakota caught between his own heritage and the w...

  • By Flare of Northern Lights

    Terry Brandon abandons his job and fiancee to join the last great goldrush, where he narrowly escapes being shot. In Seattle he finds his funds are insufficient for the journey, but partners with Milton Conrad, the scion of a wealthy family."...

  • Iron Trail

    An undeclared rail war has commenced. How many men will lose their lives making sure the little road will survive? Matt Tierney has been warned not to get caught in the middle but he's prepared to ignore this advice and face the consequences....

  • The White Lights Roar

    It is 1916 in Arizona along the border with Mexico. Below the border there is a revolution in progress. Pancho Villa and his army are intent on seizing power. In Arizona thousands of Krag rifles have disappeared. In fact, the entire train on which th...

  • Raiders of the Western Atlantic

    A group of men in the Union Army attempt to steal the General and drive the engine to safety behind Union Lines, burning Confederate bridges as they go. The theft of the General unleashes a desperate pursuit through Confederate territory....

  • Fire Bell in the Night

    Alex Thorne has been enjoying his retirement from the Secret Service by seeing the world. Aboard the City of Peking, he saves the life of a fellow passenger, Rudyard Kipling. Thorne is immediately suspicious that the incident was far from accidental....



  • Territorial Rough Rider

    Peter Ormond just wanted to help herd some wild mustangs, but as a result of fleeing an attack by bushwhackers, Peter and his friends escape via a military train and end up joining Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Reprint....

  • Devil's Domain

    There was a reason people called Andersonville Prison hell on earth. With more than thirty thousand Union soldiers held captive in the worst conditions possible, death and disease were daily visitors. If scurvy or starvation didn't kill them, the gua...

  • Amid The Blaze Of Noon

  • The Blaze of Noon

    The blistering road through Arizona Territory is called the Devil's Highway for a good reason. And now Dan Mora knows why. He's met all kinds of challenges on the trail, and he'll be in big trouble if he doesn't soon find water. Hugh Deraux knows the...

  • West of Washoe

  • Cold Cache

    When Kent Rasmussen is hired to protect Nellie Newburn as she takes a huge sum of cash back home to her family, he is plunged into a decades-old family feud involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in buried treasure. Reissue....

  • Beecher Island

    Matt Talbot was a scout with Sharp Grover and Bill Comstock at a parley with the Cheyenne chief Bull Bear along the Solomon River in western Kansas. The year was 1868. The Army was concerned about all the young braves coming to join Bull Bear's band,...

  • Annie and the Ripper

    1888, Whitechapel. Jack the Ripper terrorizes prostitutes and baffles Scotland Yard; 1888, London. Annie Oakley thrills audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her expert marksmanship. The Ripper may have picked the wrong target in this fasci...

  • Tom Sawyer And The Ghosts Of Summer

    12-year-old Matt Lively is obsessed with trying to somehow stretch time to make summer last indefinitely. Convinced he is living the ideal time of life-in Missouri,1950, between the 7th and 8th grade-he longs to experience extraordinary adventures be...

  • Sounding the Reef

    Chasing the Golden Treasure - 1

    Searching for something to make their game of “Find the Treasure” more exciting, Bradley takes an 1854 gold coin from his father's lockbox. In the thick woods of nearby Chicamauga National Battlefield, his cousin, Glen, slides down into a limesto...



  • Cape Horn Fury

    Chasing the Golden Treasure - 2

  • Snatching the General

    Chasing the Golden Treasure - 3

    Cousins, Brad and Glen Casemont, have lost a $3 gold coin worth half-million dollars that they borrowed without permission from Brad’s father.From inside a cave, the boys have gone back in time twice. During each adventure, they see the coin, or ge...

  • Wild Man of the Woods

    Chasing the Golden Treasure - 4

    First cousins, Brad and Glen Casemont, are back from their third time travel adventure, bruised and battered, having jumped off a speeding train being hijacked by Union spies in 1862. But, once again, they couldn't bring back the $3 gold piece belong...

  • Lummox

    What would you do if a big, furry, St.Bernard came thumping on your door? Brothers, Roger and Luke Braden, were thrilled when the huge dog showed up. Because he had no collar, he must be a stray. A sloppy eater and drinker, the friendly dog acted as ...

  • Flying from France

    Chasing the Golden Treasure - 6

    Cousins Brad and Glen Casemont were flung into the past five times when they touched a mysterious patch of foxfire. In each time-travel adventure, the boys barely escaped with their lives as they tried, and failed, to bring back the treasure--a rare ...

  • The Long Trail Home

    Chasing the Golden Treasure - 5

    Cousins Brad and Glen have failed four times to recover a rare coin they lost. The valuable $3 gold piece, belonging to Brad’s father, continues to elude them as they adventure back to different times and places.Frustrated, they head back into the ...

  • The Secret of Lodestar

    Three bandits made off with $30,000 in gold and buried it in secret. When the gang leader is released from prison, ex-railroad detective Marc Charvein follows his prey to the hidden treasure--in a ghost town called Lodestar....

  • Susanah & the Frog

    Have you ever wondered what you’d ask for if someone granted you three wishes? That’s what happened to Susanah. You’d think a seven-year-old girl wouldn’t have a care in the world on a beautiful summer afternoon when she’s out in a boat wit...

  • Cross of Gold

    One hundred pounds of gold, half of it in the form of a gold cross, lies buried in the ruins of a dynamited church in the ghost town of Lodestar, Nevada... Lucinda Barkley, a kidnapped hostage of prison escapees, is rescued by part-time lawman Mar...

  • For the Good of the Service and Stand-Off at Tinajas Altas

    Two Tim Champlin westerns in one collectionFor the Good of the ServiceOn the dusty land of New Mexico, Lieutenant Miles Justine and his men are chasing a band of Apache raiders when they come upon an over-turned wagon. Its riders are dead, their bodi...



  • The Wild West of Louis L'Amour

    Heroes, adventure, history and trouble - discover it all through the eyes and pen of Louis L'Amour.

    At the time of his death in 1988, all of Louis L'Amour's 100 novels and short-story collections remained in print, a testament to the popula...

  • Border Reprisal

    Is there some connection between a string of train robberies, a mysterious nightrider who delivers hand-minted gold coins to poor Mexican peasants, and a violent feud between two former partners? Marc Charvein, Wells Fargo express messenger, and two ...

  • Chasing the Golden Treasure

    Searching for something to make their game of “Find the Treasure” more exciting, Bradley takes an 1854 gold coin from his father's lockbox.In the thick woods of nearby Chicamauga National Battlefield, his cousin, Glen, slides down into a limeston...

  • Mark Twain Speaking from the Grave

    This is a "What if...?" novel. What if Mark Twain actually dictated secrets on the recordings he made toward the end of his life? What if he had hidden them for a future generation to find, then laid a trail of clues for their discovery?

    Fo...

  • Tom and Huck's Howling Adventure

    A modern 13-year old boy, Zane Rasmussen, falls into a coma and wakes up on Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi River where he is found by Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and freed slave, Jim.

    It is June, 1849, and Zane gradually accepts that t...

  • Tom Sawyer's Dark Plot

    Adventures in Time - 1849 (Book 2)Bored after their previous adventure, Tom Sawyer concocts a scheme to convince the villagers of St. Petersburg that Bigfoot-type monsters are migrating up the Mississippi River. Tom, Huck, Becky, Jim, and Zane Rasmus...

  • Flying for France

    By using an elixir purchased from a New Orleans voodoo queen, young teen Zane Rasmussen has recently returned to the twenty-first century after an accidental time-travel to 1849 Missouri where he shared three perilous adventures with Tom Sawyer and H...

  • Tom and Huck's Deathly River

  • Colt Lightning

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Jay McGraw was lucky to be fast on his feet when he chose the outlaw life instead of the gallows. Falsely accused of murder, he busted out of prison and headed for the hills with the posse right behind. At the McPherson ranch, a kind cowboy hid him...

  • Dakota Gold

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy



  • Summer of the Sioux

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Matt Tierney was a rather ordinary young man. His first big assignment for the Chicago Times Herald was the Big Horn and Yellowstone expeditions of General Daniel Buck. He stepped right into one of the most crucial and bitter confrontations between...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tim Champlin has published 50 books.

Tim Champlin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tom and Huck's Deathly River, was published in February 2020.

The first book by Tim Champlin, Staghorn, was published in January 1984.

Yes. Tim Champlin has 1 series.
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