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  • Bibliography:
    157 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1982
  • Latest Book:
    July 2011
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Full Series List in Order

Lone Star

1 - Lone Star on the Treachery Trail (Sep-1982)
2 - Lone Star and the Opium Rustlers (Sep-1982)
3 - Lone Star and the Border Bandits (Sep-1982)
4 - Lone Star and the Kansas Wolves (Oct-1982)
5 - Lone Star and the Utah Kid (Nov-1982)
6 - Lone Star and the Land Grabbers (Dec-1982)
7 - Lone Star in the Tall Timber (Jan-1983)
8 - Lone Star and the Showdowners (Feb-1983)
9 - Lone Star and the Hardrock Payoff (Mar-1983)
10 - Lone Star and the Renegade Comanches (Apr-1983)
11 - Lone Star on Outlaw Mountain (May-1983)
12 - Lone Star and the Gold Raiders (Jun-1983)
13 - Lone Star and the Denver Madam (Aug-1983)
14 - Lone Star and the Railroad War (Jun-1984)
15 - Lone Star and the Mexican Standoff (Oct-1983)
16 - Lone Star and the Badlands War (Nov-1983)
17 - Lone Star and the San Antonio Raid (Dec-1983)
18 - Lone Star and the Ghost Pirates (Jan-1984)
19 - Lone Star on the Owlhoot Trail (Mar-1984)
20 - Lone Star on the Devil's Trail (Apr-1984)
21 - Lone Star and the Apache Revenge (May-1984)
22 - Lone Star and the Texas Gambler (Jun-1984)
23 - Lone Star and the Hangrope Heritage (Jul-1984)
24 - Lone Star and the Montana Troubles (Aug-1984)
25 - Lone Star and the Mountain Man (Sep-1984)
26 - Lone Star and the Stockyard Showdown (Oct-1984)
27 - Lone Star and the Riverboat Gamblers (Nov-1984)
28 - Lone Star and the Mescalero Outlaws (Dec-1984)
29 - Lone Star and the Amarillo Rifles (Jan-1985)
30 - Lone Star and the School for Outlaws (Feb-1985)
31 - Lone Star on the Treasure River (Mar-1985)
32 - Lone Star and the Moon Trail Feud (Apr-1985)
33 - Lone Star and the Golden Mesa (May-1985)
34 - Lone Star and the Rio Grande Bandits (Jun-1985)
35 - Lone Star and the Buffalo Hunters (Jul-1985)
36 - Lone Star and the Biggest Gun in the West (Aug-1985)
37 - Lone Star and the Apache Warrior (Sep-1985)
38 - Lone Star and the Gold Mine War (Oct-1985)
39 - Lone Star and the California Oil War (Nov-1985)
40 - Lone Star and the Alaskan Guns (Dec-1985)
41 - Lone Star and the White River Curse (Jan-1986)
42 - Lone Star and the Tombstone Gamble (Feb-1986)
43 - Lone Star and the Timberland Terror (Mar-1986)
44 - Lone Star in the Cherokee Strip (Apr-1986)
45 - Lone Star and the Oregon Rail Sabotage (May-1986)
46 - Lone Star and the Mission War (Jun-1986)
47 - Lone Star and the Gunpowder Cure (Jul-1986)
48 - Lone Star and the Land Barons (Aug-1986)
49 - Lone Star and the Gulf Pirates (Sep-1986)
50 - Lone Star and the Indian Rebellion (Oct-1986)
51 - Lone Star and the Nevada Mustangs (Nov-1986)
52 - Lone Star and the Con Man's Ransom (Dec-1986)
53 - Lone Star and the Stagecoach War (Jan-1987)
54 - Lone Star and the Two Gun Kid (Feb-1987)
55 - Lone Star and the Sierra Swindlers (Mar-1987)
56 - Lone Star in the Big Horn Mountains (Apr-1987)
57 - Lone Star and the Death Train (May-1987)
58 - Lone Star and the Rustler's Ambush (Jun-1987)
59 - Lone Star and the Tong's Revenge (Jul-1987)
60 - Lone Star and the Outlaw Posse (Aug-1987)
61 - Lone Star and the Sky Warriors (Sep-1987)
62 - Lone Star in a Range War (Oct-1987)
63 - Lone Star and the Phantom Gunmen (Oct-1987)
64 - Lone Star and the Montana Land Grab (Dec-1987)
65 - Lone Star and the James Gang's Loot (Jan-1988)
66 - Lone Star and the Master of Death (Feb-1988)
67 - Lone Star and the Cheyenne Trackdown (Mar-1988)
68 - Lone Star and the Lost Gold Mine (Apr-1988)
69 - Lone Star and the Comancheros (May-1988)
70 - Lone Star and Hickok's Ghost (Jun-1988)
71 - Lone Star and the Deadly Stranger (Jun-1988)
72 - Lone Star and the Silver Bandits (Jul-1988)
73 - Lone Star and the Nevada Bloodbath (Aug-1988)
74 - Lone Star in the Big Thicket (Oct-1988)
75 - Lone Star and the Suicide Spread (Oct-1988)
76 - Lone Star and the Texas Rangers (Dec-1988)
77 - Lone Star and the Death Merchants (Jan-1989)
78 - Lone Star and the Comstock Cross Fire (Feb-1989)
79 - Lone Star and the Medicine Lodge Shootout (Feb-1989)
80 - Lone Star and the Barbary Killers (Mar-1989)
81 - Lone Star and the Rogue Grizzlies (Apr-1989)
82 - Lone Star In Hell's Canyon (May-1989)
83 - Lone Star on the Warpath (Jun-1989)
84 - Lone Star and the Mountain of Gold (Jul-1989)
85 - Lone Star and the Diamond Swindlers (Aug-1989)
86 - Lone Star and the Texas Killers (Sep-1989)
87 - Lone Star and the Arizona Strangler (Oct-1989)
87 - Lone Star and the Bounty Hunters (Aug-1990)
88 - Lone Star and the Shadow Catcher (Nov-1989)
89 - Lone Star and the Gamble of Death (Dec-1989)
90 - Lone Star at Cripple Creek (Jan-1990)
91 - Lone Star and the Arizona Gunmen (Feb-1990)
92 - Lone Star and the Renegade Ranger (Apr-1990)
93 - Lone Star and the Ripper (Apr-1990)
94 - Lone Star and the Indian Gold (May-1990)
95 - Lone Star and the Railroad Killers (Jul-1990)
96 - Lone Star and the Devil Worshippers (Jul-1990)
98 - Lone Star in a Colorado Ambush (Oct-1990)
99 - Lone Star and the Bank Robbers (Oct-1990)
100 - Lone Star and the Cheyenne Showdown (Nov-1990)
101 - Lone Star and the Sierra Sabotage (Jan-1991)
102 - Lone Star and the Gemstone Robbers (Jan-1991)
103 - Lone Star and the Oklahoma Ambush (Feb-1991)
104 - Lone Star and the Alaskan Renegades (Mar-1991)
105 - Lone Star and the California Gold (Apr-1991)
106 - Lone Star in the Devil's Playground (Jun-1991)
107 - Lone Star and the River Pirates (Jun-1991)
108 - Lone Star in the Choctaw Nation (Feb-1991)
109 - Lone Star and the Yuma Prison Break (Sep-1991)
110 - Lone Star and the Oklahoma Rustlers (Oct-1991)
111 - Lone Star and the Deadly Vigilantes (Nov-1991)
112 - Lone Star and the Ghost Dancers (Dec-1991)
113 - Lone Star and the Hellbound Pilgrims (Jan-1992)
114 - Lone Star and the Trail to Abilene (Feb-1992)
115 - Lone Star and the Horse Thieves (Mar-1992)
116 - Lone Star and the Deep Water Pirates (Apr-1992)
117 - Lone Star and the Black Bandana Gang (May-1992)
118 - Lone Star in the Timberlands (Jun-1992)
119 - Lone Star and the Mexican Muskets (Jul-1992)
120 - Lone Star and the Santa Fe Showdown (Aug-1992)
121 - Lone Star and the Gunrunners (Sep-1992)
122 - Lone Star and the Buccaneers (Oct-1992)
123 - Lone Star and the Aztec Treasure (Nov-1992)
124 - Lone Star and the Trail of Murder (Dec-1992)
125 - Lone Star and the Wolf Pack (Jan-1993)
126 - Lone Star and the Chicago Showdown (Feb-1993)
127 - Lone Star and the Brutus Gang (Mar-1993)
128 - Lone Star and the Gold Mine (Apr-1993)
129 - Lone Star and the San Diego Bonanza (May-1993)
130 - Lone Star and the Ghost Ship Pirates (Jun-1993)
131 - Lone Star on the Hangman's Trail (Jul-1993)
132 - Lone Star and the Steel Rail Sellout (Aug-1993)
133 - Lone Star and the Bellwether Kid (Sep-1993)
134 - Lone Star and the Great Pilgrim Heist (Oct-1993)
135 - Lone Star and the River of No Return (Dec-1993)
136 - Lone Star and the Death Mine (Dec-1993)
137 - Lone Star and the Redemption Massacre (Jan-1994)
138 - Lone Star and the Death Chase (Feb-1994)
139 - Lone Star and the Slaughter Showdown (Mar-1994)
140 - Lone Star and the Montana Marauders (Apr-1994)
141 - Lone Star and the Trail of Blood (May-1994)
142 - Lone Star and the Deadly Vixens (Jun-1994)
143 - Lone Star and a Saloon Called Hell (Jul-1994)
144 - Lone Star and the Sierra Diablos (Aug-1994)
145 - Lone Star and the River Queen (Sep-1994)
146 - Lonestar and the Trapper Turf War (Oct-1994)
147 - Lone Star and the Nevada Gold (Nov-1994)
148 - Lone Star and the Texas Tornado (Dec-1994)
149 - Lone Star and the Temperance Army (Jan-1995)
150 - Lone Star and the Galvanized Yankees (Feb-1995)
151 - Lone Star and the Scorpion (Mar-1995)
152 - Lone Star and the Bogus Banker (Apr-1995)
153 - Lone Star and the Mountain of Fire (May-1995)

Book List in Order: 157 titles



  • ACROSS THE BORDER! Nightriders are raiding the ranches near the Starbuck spread, so Jessie and Ki set out to raid the raiders. Then their trails split ...Jessie's leads to a remote U.S. Army outpost and the arms of a cavalry officer, while Ki's lead...



  • SIN CITY OUTLAWS The international crime cartel that killed Jessie's dad is out to destroy the Starbuck empire, and they're allied with the Steel Claw, the gang leader of the West's wide-open city. To stop them, Ki fights the "tong" while Jessie g...



  • STAMPEDE OF GREED When the cartel murdered Jessie Starbuck's father, they left behind the seed of their own destruction: a young Western beauty with a deep hunger for vengeance. Now word has reached Jessie that the conspirators are rustling Starbu...



  • AN OLD SUPERSTITION COMES TO LIFE Werewolves in Kansas? The Hungarian immigrants on Starbuck land were convinced that the legendary creatures had followed them to America. But Jessie and Ki smell a rat -- and the cartel that murdered Jessie's fath...



  • A STARBUCK SON? He claimed he was Jessica Starbuck's bastard half-brother. Whoever he was, he was an 18-year-old crime wave, and Jessie was determined to save him from a lynching. With Ki and a sweet-loving bounty hunter at her side, Jessie must r...



  • WAR ON THE RANGE! A greedy cattle baron, willing to kill anyone who gets in his way, joins up with the international cartel to destroy Wyoming's cattle ranches. Only Jessie knows why and is prepared to fight them -- with the help of a handsome dep...



  • When a mysterious fire destroys the Starbuck timber mill on the Oregon coast, Jessie and Ki set out to investigate. They suspect that the cartel is behind it, but they need hard evidence. With the help of a determined newspaperwoman they get more evi...



  • To defend the Starbuck empire's territory, Jessie and Ki must stop Julius Goodpaster and his gang of desperadoes from taking over godforsaken Beacon, Nebraska -- lock, stock and oil barrel. Recovering from a gunshot wound, Ki is forced to fight "sing...



  • STRANGE DISAPPEARANCES! A desperate message for help brings Jessie and Ki across the desert. Men are vanishing. An old friend's mine is in danger. And a strange glow shines out from the crags of Satan's Thundermug. Together Jessie and Ki face an arm...






  • ON THE WARPATH Renegade Indians are on the rampage in Dry River, and only Jessie and Ki realize they're not working alone. The European cartel--Jessie's sworn enemies--are instigating the slaughter for their own villainous purposes. To stop them, Je...




  • In the disputed Texas territory, Jessie and Ki ride to the rescue of an old family friend in the eleventh Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's fron...



  • In a race across the desert, Jessie and Ki search for a city of untold wealth....



  • SOCIETY'S WEB Lynnie had been Jessie's friend and now she was dead -- murdered by the same vicious cartel that had killed Jessie's father. Vowing revenge, Jessie and Ki are stalking high-living Denver when they find themselves the targets of a myst...



  • BUSHWHACKERS ON THE BORDER A cutthroat gang is carving out a reign of terror along the Mexican border. And they're also headed toward Purgatory Gorge with a dose of dynamite that'll blow the Congressional train from Washington sky high. But the rene...



  • RANGE WAR! There's trouble brewing in the Dakotas and a Starbuck ranch is right at its center. To head off violence, Jessie and Ki go north -- and step into a full-blown range war. As Ki tangles with the local guns, Jessie takes on a mad Marquis who...



  • IT WAS AN OUTLAWS' CONVENTION Doc Holliday... Clay Allison ...John Harrow... and two hundred more of the West's worst badmen had gathered in a secret riverside camp -- and the cartel that had always menaced the Starbucks was behind it somehow. Their...



  • Making a mint off a defenseless, sugar-rich nation: that's what the Baron and his men have in mind when they camouflage a fleet of Starbuck ships sailing from New Orleans to Cuba. But even an obstacle course of explosives, cunning rurales, and the ha...



  • "THE ICEMAN" His real name was Von Eismann. Captured by Ki, sentenced to life for murder and sedition, now the dreaded German has escaped from the hellhole of Yuma Prison. When Von Eismann's cronies kidnap Babette, the beautiful chanteuse who is als...






  • DANGER ON THE OPEN RANGE Driving two thousand head of cattle from the Starbuck ranch in Texas all the way to Dodge City is no easy task, but a flood that's put the railroad out of commission leaves Jessie and Ki with no choice. Drought, prairie fire...



  • WITH HIS MIND SET ON VENGEANCE ... James "Two Wolves" Campbell had only one thing in mind: to kill the man who had poisoned his people and used the Apaches to spread terror in the West. In him, Ki met his match in battle, and Jessie found some of t...



  • In a race across the desert, Jessie and Ki search for a ciy of untold wealth in the twelfth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -...



  • HELL-RAISING HOODWINKERS ARE WORKING ON THE RAILROAD! The South Sierra Railway Company wants Hidden Valley, and if money won’t buy it, maybe arson, hired killers or dynamite will. Crooked county officials and sweet-talking dirty dealers run a t...



  • PLAYING FOR KEEPS! The Starbuck empire is in deep trouble. The raids and plunder are becoming routine. Rumors are being spread that Jessie is dead and her entire fortune is up for grabs. Who is behind it all? The notorious gambler Jessie loves but c...



  • JESSICA STARBUCK: MARKED FOR DEATH Who was the mysterious gunman who burst into Jessie's room shivering with fear? He had come to talk, to tell everything he knew about the cartel, the mortal enemy of the Starbuck empire. But as he opened his mouth ...



  • THE CARTEL STRIKES -- AND THE STAKES ARE HIGH... Beginning with a midnight ambush on the Starbuck ranch, the cartel launches its boldest attack yet: a shrewdly plotted takeover of the Montana copper mines. When they arrive in the company town, Jessi...



  • Strange things are happening in the Starbuck mines... When Jebediah Baker, an old friend of Jessie's father, is hanged by a mob, and the Starbuck manager in the town of Mule is killed with dynamite tied around his waist, Jessie and Ki head for Mon...



  • Jessie and Ki take on a wild downtown stampede -- and the Devil himself!He called himself a man of God. But he was the emissary of the devil. What was Prince Klaus von Stumpf of Bavaria doing in Kansas City? And what was his priest-secretary, Father ...



  • Jessie and Ki discover the cartel's new game -- piracy on the Mississippi!Mississippi creoles and Indians are up in arms. This time, the cartel has gone too far by arming a native insurrection, hijacking riverboats, and using passengers as slaves. &#...






  • Jessie and Ki battle Apaches and hired assassins in the twenty-eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial arts mas...



  • Jessie and Ki join a traveling circus -- headed for a deadly showdown!The cartel has a bold new idea: take control of New Mexico Territory by financing a rebellion and smuggling arms under the tents of a traveling circus from Amarillo. To stop them, ...



  • THE CARTEL IS AFTER JESSIE AND OUT FOR BLOOD! The death-bed confession of a hired gun reveals a plot to take Jessie's life, and a training ground for the cream of professional killers. Ki goes undercover and joins up. But Jessie is taken hostage. To...



  • NORTH COUNTRY LAND WAR Landgrabbers on the U.S: Canada line have already ruined one farm and are about to divert the water supply of an entire Ojibway Indian community. Jessie and Ki head north to stop them. On the way, Jessie discovers that being w...



  • JESSIE AND KI ANSWER ANOTHER CALL FOR HELP! E.E. Yates has never let anything stand in his way -- and he won't let a little trouble in the Moon Trail Canyon stop him from building his railroad. Bullets are flying and track is being blown into the sk...



  • AN ANCIENT GALLEON OF GOLD ENTOMBED WITH A TERRIBLE SECRET The Napi is a peaceful Arizona tribe whose only possession is the desert valley where they live. But deep beneath the desert's surface, trapped centuries before, is a Spanish warship laden w...



  • OUT OF THE FRYING PAN AND INTO THE FIRE... Things were hot enough back at the Circle Star. The cartel's operatives were moving in on the Starbuck spread, and it took the grisly death of a hired assassin to move them out again. The Lone Star team nee...



  • Jessie and Ki chase a secret that can change the history of the west!Born with a silver spoon in her mouth and a taste for whiskey in a tin cup, the troublesome Angela Halley has made off with a list of every member of the cartel that threatens the S...



  • JESSIE AND KI STRIKE BACK WITH A VENGEANCE! Fenton Chadwick is getting richer by the day -- at Starbuck's expense. His outlaw army rules the San Joaquin Valley, and his pirate navy chokes the rivers. As if that isn't enough, Jessie's life is threate...



  • APACHES ARE READY TO REVOLT The name Laslo keeps turning up -- on the lips of a dying man, on a scrap of paper found in a fireplace, and most importantly, in the black book left to Jessica Starbuck by her father, listing cartel members bent on takin...






  • JESSICA STARBUCK: WANTED FOR LARCENY Passing herself off as Jessica Starbuck, a scheming cartel woman buys up dozens of mining claims in California's Mother Lode -- paying for them with counterfeit bank drafts and leaving the real Jessie holding the...



  • BLACK GOLD FEVER! Oil is discovered on Starbuck territory, and the Lone Star team is in for big trouble when someone else lays claim to the land. Jessie and Ki suspect the Cartinas clan has been put up to no good, but before the duo can discover who...



  • GUNFIGHT ON THE GLACIERS Starbuck's prime scout has turned up dead in the frozen capital of the newly formed Alaskan territory, and Jessie and Ki know the cartel can't be far behind. There's a wild and dangerous wealth to be had in this savage new l...



  • A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER ... He appeared mysteriously in full armor, riding a black steed. The Ute Indians believed he was an evil spirit. The ranchers only knew that he was stampeding their cattle and burning their barns. But when the medieval knight f...



  • Jessie and Ki stake their lives in the deadliest town in the west in the forty-second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the ...



  • Someone's out to crush the Starbuck logging empire -- and Jessie along with it in the forty-third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, an...



  • A band of cattle rustlers are after Jessie's hide!If troubles were cattle, Jessie and Ki would have a whole herd on their hands. A bloodthirsty band of marauding outlaws, led by a seductive half-breed Creek Indian girl, is terrorizing the cattle ranc...



  • Jessie and Ki ride a train of terror into the bloodiest of battles in the forty-fifth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the ...



  • Jessie and Ki battle an army of bloodthirsty bandits in the forty-sixth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial arts m...



  • IT BEGAN WITH MURDER ... AND THE ONLY CURE WAS GUNPOWDER AND LEAD A Starbuck employee had been ambushed. Jessie and Ki rode for the Arizona Territory just in time to see the burial. But it didn't take long for the Lone Star team to dig up the real r...






  • Jessie and Ki are marked for murder in a ruthless power grab!They may be British lords and bankers, but a cloak of respectability can't disguise their treacherous plot. The power-hungry businessmen are scheming to buy up all the land rights of the Wy...



  • Jessie and Ki fight for their lives in a vicious sea battle in the forty-ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial...



  • A Comanche uprising plunges Jessie and Ki into a raging storm of blood and bullets!A peace treaty is just a piece of paper as far as the white men and Comanches are concerned. Promises have been broken, and ruthless profiteers are selling Indian land...



  • Jessie and Ki round up a pack of wild horses -- and a coffin-load of danger in the fifty-first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and K...



  • A joy-ride in a balloon lands Jessie in a head of trouble south of the border!Jessie and Ki are breathing a little easier with the cartel out of the way. That is, until a ballooniest lands on Starbuck property with the notion of using his contraption...



  • MURDER ON THE OVERLAND EXPRESS! A business trip to San Francisco turns into deadly drama for Jessie and Ki. An old friend of Alex Starbuck recruits the Lone Star duo to investigate a recent string of fatal accidents and costly robberies that have pl...



  • The hunt for a lawnman's killer pits Jessie and Ki against an outlaw with a double score to settle in fifty-fourth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on Ameri...



  • HIGH COUNTRY HIJINKS Word has reached Jessie that someone's staked a claim on Starbuck land up in the Sierras. And although Jessie knows that the land is just a no-account piece of sage and rock, not even worth stealing, she decides to investigate. ...



  • Jessie and Ki track a herd of legendary horses on a bloody trail to glory in the fifty-sixth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki ...



  • Jessie and Ki ride a runaway train into a conspiracy of bitter vengeance!A savage gang of shotgun-wielding outlaws are out to bust the Central Pacific Railroad. But when a string of clever robberies doesn't halt the trains, the bandits turn to sabota...



  • Jessie and Ki lock horns with a herd of vicious rustlers in the fifty-eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial a...



  • A secret society of Chinese warriors sentences Ki to death in the fifty-ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial ...



  • Jessie and Ki ride a savage trail into wilderness hell in the sixtieth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial arts ma...



  • Jessie and Ki battle in a sky full of killers in a high-flying adventure in the sixty-first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -...



  • Jessie and Ki follow a town's bloody secret to Boot Hill!Jessie and Ki ride out to the Arizona territory to look after Starbuck interests. They find the town of Whitewash helpless against a band of phantom rustlers. And what starts as cow thieving en...



  • A corrupt cattle town explodes as an innocent man is sentenced to hang in the sixty-second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki --...



  • Jessie and Ki thwart the greedy plan of an evil land baron in the sixty-fourth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial...



  • Jessie and Ki ride a blood-slick trail with the west's most wanted men in the sixty-fifth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- ...



  • Jessie and Ki tame a town about to explode in a bloodbath of hate!A deadly double-threat awaits the Lone Star duo high in the Colorado Rockies. When Ki comes to the aid of a lovely lotus blossom from his past, the last thing he expects is to be stalk...



  • Jessie and Ki rescue a reformed gunslick from a bloody crossfire in the sixty-seventh Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the ...



  • Jessie teaches a lession in frontier justice when swindlers go after a schoolmarm's gold in the sixty-eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's f...



  • DUSTY DEATH IN COMANCHERO CANYON! Jessie knew that the devastating drought would dry up the Circle Star's vast fortune. She had 8000 head of prime beef standing in the merciless Texas sun. And the buzzards were already gathering. They had one cha...



  • Jessie and Ki face down the west's most infamous shootist in the seventieth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial ar...



  • Jessie and Ki are hunted on a bloody trail of vengeance!The bandit trail was deadly to start with. Add a wagonload of scrawny, greenhorn settlers, and dying was double easy. For outlaw gunslicks, it would be like shooting fish in a shot glass. But th...



  • Jessie and Ki fight their way out of a bloody mountain war in the seventy-second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the marti...



  • Jessie and Ki set out to topple a ruthless lumber baron in the seventy-third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial a...



  • Jessie and Ki help an old friend and touch off a powder keg of toruble!The interest on old debts can be murder! Jessica Starbuck owes her father's friend, Rawhide Avalon, a debt she can never repay. But when she gets the old rancher's telegram asking...



  • Jessie and Ki take on a wolf pack of back-shooting lumber pirates in a wilderness bloodbath in the seventy-fourth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on Americ...



  • Jessie and Ki ride south of the border to clear a lawman's name!The Texas Rangers are the hardest-riding, straightest-shooting breed of lawmen ever to wear a badge. So when Jessie and Ki hit El Paso to see if their old friend Ranger Semus Jones is in...



  • Jessie and Ki take on a pack of crooked gamblers in a deadly game of chance...One by one, the town's citizens are cashing in their chips, leaving grieving widows and gambling debts. It is up to Jessie and Ki to turn the tables on some crooked card sh...



  • DEATH AT THE COMSTOCK LODE! The Comstock Lode turned a worthless patch of Nevada desert into a mining boomtown. Overnight there were more saloons and gambling halls than sagebrush and tumbleweed. And what starts as a trail drive to get a premium ...



  • Jessie and Ki track down a crooked banker to save a town in the seventy-ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial ...



  • An outlaw's thirst for blue blood has the Lone Star duo a hoofbeat ahead of death in the eightieth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, a...



  • The bears and the rustlers run wild in the eighty-first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial arts master sworn to p...



  • Jessie and Ki blaze a vengeance trail across a fearsome chasm of death!In Hell's Canyon, curiosity can be a far sight deadlier than the scorching desert sun. So when some peace-abiding gold panners are corralled into a bloody slaughter in the deepest...



  • Jessie and Ki declare war on a band of ruthless rustlers!There is no such thing as a "routine" cattle drive, and this time is no exception for the Lone Star duo. Jessie and Ki must track down the killers of her trail boss while fending off Brave Buff...



  • Jessie and Ki follow the trail of some rough-riding freedom-fighters in the eighty-fourth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- ...



  • Jessie and Ki's search for gemstones leads straight into a trail of tombstones in the eighty-fifth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, a...



  • Jessie and Ki take on a tough border town -- and turn the heat on a gang of cold-blooded killers in the eighty-sixth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on Ame...



  • Jessie and Ki risk their necks on the trail of a gruesome killer...Someone is taking Shakespeare seriously and is killing all the lawmen in Yuma, including Jessie's ex-fiance Judge Hastings. Jessie is determined to find the strangler, even if it mean...



  • Coal mining is always a dirty business, but for Jessie and Ki it may be deadly in the eighty-eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, ...



  • Jessie and Ki track down a stolen train -- and find a freight load of danger!How in tarnation could an entire train disappear into thin Nebraska air-along with the army payroll it was carrying? That's what Colonel Marshal Harrison wants to know -- an...



  • Jessie and Ki risk death to settle a bloody battle over a gold mine!Utilizing all the seductive charm and martial arts firepower they can respectively muster, Jessie and Ki dive headlong into an explosive labor dispute at the Bluebell mine at Cripple...



  • Jessie and Ki round up an army to end a bloody range war in the ninety-first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial a...



  • Jessie and Ki are in for one rough ride with a bloodthirsty outlaw who calls himself a Texas Ranger in the ninety-second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on...



  • Jessie and Ki trail a mad slasher who's cutting a bloody path across the west in the ninety-third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, an...



  • Jessie and Ki go looking for a mother lode of gold -- and find a load of trouble!When a map to a legendary gold mine is stolen from the Hopi Indians, Jessie and Ki race against the clock to reach the mine before the thieves do, and recover the gold f...



  • Jessie and Ki tangle with a dirty-dealing cult leader and his cold-blooded disciples!The townsfolk of Fort Collins are scared out of their wits. Seems that people have reason to believe that there are witches roaming the Colorado mountains. There hav...



  • Some angry settlers are fighting for their land...and Jessie and Ki are caught in the crossfire!The Fresno homesteaders broke their backs turning the California range into a Garden of Eden. Now the money-grabbing snakes at Southern Pacific Railroad w...



  • Jessie's been cheated by a dirty dealer -- and now she's accused of murder in the ninety-seventh Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and...



  • A bank robber makes off with a cool million and Jessie and Ki must track him down in the ninety-ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier...



  • Jessie and Ki are marked for murder when a cattle-buying trip turns into a slaughterhouse in the ninety-eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's...



  • 100th JUBILEE EDITIONJessie and Ki must rescue the transcontinental railroad from a bitter and bloody siege!Bossing a crew that's laying track over some of the roughest terrain this side of Hell is no easy feat. And Hugh Hollister's job has been a fa...



  • Jessie and Ki hunt down a stolen ruby -- and a pack of thieves and killers in the one hundred and second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's front...



  • Jessie and Ki will make sure the railroad goes through -- even if they have to lay their lives on the line in the one hundred and first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting...



  • A con man's scheme turns into murder and mayhem -- and only Jessie and Ki can stop it in the one hundred and third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on Ameri...



  • There's violence brewing at Jessie's coal mine -- and the Lone Star duo is about to be buried alive in the one hundred and eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for j...



  • Jessie and Ki ride a frozen trail of blazing bullets in the one hundred and fourth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the mar...



  • Jessie and Ki must stop a gold-hungry tycoon from turning a mountain paradise into a wasteland!A letter marked "urgent" summons Jessica to the California high country -- a fish-and-game paradise held hostage by the ruthless Tower family. To satisfy h...



  • Jessie and Ki square off against a cunning river bandit in the one hundred and seventh Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the...



  • Jessie and Ki battle bloodthirsty renegades in an all-out range war in the one hundred and sixth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and...



  • Ki's behind bars -- and Jessie's gunning for justice in the one hundred and ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the mart...



  • Jessie and Ki stalk a wily cattle bandit -- but is he closer than they think?When a herd of his cattle disappears without a trace off his land, the owner of the Circle Star Ranch calls on Jessie and Ki to catch the cattle rustlers....



  • Vengeance is this posse's game -- and Jessie and Ki are moving targets in the one hundred and eleventh Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontie...



  • Scheming bureaucrats on one side, Indian vengeance on the other -- and Jessie and Ki are smack in the middle in the one hundred and twelfth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, figh...



  • A preacher's sacred mission becomes a trial by fire for Jessie and Ki in the one hundred and thirteenth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's fronti...



  • Jessie and Ki ride herd, risk death, and raise hell on a cutthroat cattle drive in the one hundred and fourteenth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on Americ...



  • The outlaws have left a cold trail for Jessie and Ki -- but things are starting to heat up in the one hundred and fifteenth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice...



  • It's sink or swin when Jessie and Ki take on a gang of deep-sea raiders!With the Oceana Fish Company in danger of going under, Jessie and Ki take to the open seas to stop rival trader Boone Vermillion and his gang of seafaring crooks from ruining the...



  • Their faces were hidden -- but there was murder in their eyes!When an old friend is slain by the ruthless Black Bandanna Gang, which has been wreaking havoc all over Nevada mining territory, Jessie calls on Ki to help her bring the gang to justice....



  • A merciless killer stalks Jessie and Ki in California's redwood country!Jessie and Ki rush to a northern California redwood forest to save Ms. Starbuck's logging business from the Mendocino Monster, but when they get there, they realize that the mons...



  • The Apaches are on the warpath, and Jessie and Ki follow their bloody trail south of the border!Cutthroat Apaches are holding an entire Mexican town hostage for money, and unfortunately, Jessie and Ki forgot to bring along their moneybags. So they'll...



  • On a train ride from hell, Jessie and Ki track a deadly duo of fake lawmen!When a duo of duplicitous criminals posing as lawmen terrorizes a trainload of passengers and attacks Ki, leaving him for dead, Jesse and Ki pick themselves up and set out to ...



  • A range war is brewing -- and it's about to boil over!Hot on the trail of gun thieves who intend to sell their wares to an Indian nation, Jessie and Ki find their mission complicated when Chief Running Wolf steps up his campaign to wipe out white set...



  • Jessie and Ki fight in a double threat -- rustlers working on land and sea!Their prize herd stolen by a group of buccaneers, Jessie and Ki spring into action, riding south of the border with Brownsville's worst cutthroats for a deadly encounter with ...



  • Jessie and Ki track the bloody trail of a band of greedy gold thieves!Out tracking down a cougar who has been making meals out of Jessie's herds, the Lone Star duo picks up the scent of some gunslinging profiteers out to rape the holy Chuacas Canyon ...



  • Jessie and Ki blaze a deadly path to corner a pack of purebred killers!The blackhearted boss of a ruthless stickup gang makes life difficult for Jessie and Ki when he guns down a friend of Jessie's father....



  • Jessie and Ki set a trap for a blood-hungry killer -- with Jessie as the bait!When one of Jessie's ranch hands is killed at the hands of Wolf Martyn and his band of outlaws, Jessie teams up with Ki to send Wolf's pack scattering....



  • Jessie and Ki deliver country-style justice to a snake pit of city slickers!Hired to find the person responsible for the death of one of Chicago's Civic Reform Council members, Jessie and Ki discover that a group of big-city backstabbers could be inv...



  • Jessie must rescue Ki from a death-row frame-up!Jessie and Ki head for the rough and tumble town of Haley to exact revenge for the murder of Jessie's father, but when Ki is thrown into jail for murder, Jessie must take on the entire town in order to ...



  • Jessie's kidnapped and Ki's fighting back -- on a deadly trail through the rockies!While on a trip to the Rockies to check out the latest Starbuck investment, a gold mine, a bandit kidnaps Jessie, and Ki must rescue her before it is too late....



  • A killer goes for gold -- and leaves Jessie and Ki in the dust of his deadly trail...When Jessie's old pal, Lawson Blaine, turns up dead, the Lone Star team searches for the killer, certain that it is the same person who recently robbed Wells Fargo....



  • Jessie and Ki face a band of seafaring marauders as mysterious and deadly as the ocean depths!When the Star Sarah, the proudest frigate in Jessica Starbuck's Texas Star Line, is abandoned and torched, the Lone Star duo are determined to fin...



  • The victims were Jessie's friends. The noose will be Jessie's revenge.When her friends are slaughtered by an outlaw gang, Jessie will stop at nothing to bring them to justice, but she and Ki might pay the ultimate price for revenge....



  • A mysterious gold coin sets Jessie and Ki on the trail of a greedy killer!A coin slipped into Ki's pocket by a stranger leads Jessie and Ki into an ambush, and the Lone Star duo must tangle with a greedy baron and his henchmen who plan on blowing up ...



  • Jessie and Ki are in danger when they dig up the facts behind a newsman's fatal plot in the one hundred and thirty-third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on...



  • When Jessie and Ki meet a mysterious minister, it's more than their souls that'll need saving!Leading Reverend Henry Abrams and his flock across desolate prairie, Jessie and Ki must fight off ambushes, and they soon discover that Abrams is in possess...



  • Jessie and Ki are trapped in an underground slave camp!En route to Fort Younger to help a friend beat a trumped-up murder charge, Jessie and Ki encounter the real killers, who intend to keep the duo from proving their friend's innocence....



  • Jessie and Ki play hide and seek with a killer -- if they lose, they die!When one of Jessie's prospecting scouts is pumped full of lead, Jessie and Ki set out to hunt for the killer, braving deadly waters along the way....



  • Jessie and Ki fight for a gold mine -- but a killer wants to make it their tomb!In the gold mining town of Redemption, Colorado, a snakepit of violence and greed, Jessie and Ki must do a little investigating when one of Jessie's friends is murdered b...



  • Jessie and Ki meet an outlaw who's shottin' and lootin' his way into legend!After a violent stagecoach heist that leaves a family friend dead, Jessie and Ki join the chase for the killer, Reno Quant, an outlaw who has never been seen....



  • A valuable ranch is up for grabs -- and so are Jessie and Ki's lives!After old friend Malcom Birnam is gunned down by his two new hired hands, it is up to Jessie and Ki to protect Birnam's son from the murderous schemes of the vicious duo....



  • A ruthless killer leaves messages of doom -- but Jessie and Ki aim to write his epitaph!Jessie and Ki track a brutal cattle-rustling killer who is out to rid Montana of every rancher, only to find themselves the next target of the murderer....



  • Jessie and Ki follow the trail of a missing man -- and fall into a deadly trap!When a trusted ranch manager and some money vanish from the Starbuck ranch, Jessie and Ki track their quarry to Rock Canyon, a lawless town in the heart of the Arizona Ter...



  • Hell hath no fury like a dozen women riding for vengeance!After witnessing the murders of their families, twelve women band together to seek revenge on the men responsible for the crimes, but when their blood lust rages out of control, it is up to Je...



  • In the wickedest town since Sodom, Jessie and Ki fight to save a young man's life -- and their own souls!When Jessie and Ki tackle a rescue mission inside a saloon called Hell, known for its debauchery, depravity, and death, they find themselves tang...



  • Ki's stalking a gang that's taken lives, land -- and Jessie!Kidnapped by the henchmen of ruthless Texas land baron Antonio Vargas after she witnesses his shooting, Jessie Starbuck's only hope of escape from her abductors and depraved gang leader Swan...



  • Jessie and Ki stalk a killer who's turned a riverboat into a floating coffin!When one of her father's old friends asks them to check out his investment in a St. Louis steamboat, Jessie and Ki set out to investigate the River Queen, only to ...



  • Jessie and Ki find more swindlers than timber in the cross fire of a bloody north-woods feud!Pursuing double trouble when both the Flaming Geyser stage line and Rod Delmonico's forest holdings become targets of assault, the Lone Star duo Jessi and Ki...



  • Jessie and Ki fix up a deadly cure for some outlaws with gold fever!Jessica Starbuck and her partner, martial arts master Ki, head to the Nevada desert to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a family who was rumored to have struck gold there....



  • Jessie and Ki fight to save a mysterious hellraiser from a life sentence of death and vengeance!Rewarding an act of heroism with a seat on the spring roundup, Jessie learns that her new hand, Dustin Gamble, has a larger score to settle and is threate...



  • At the Liberty Saloon the blood's flowing faster than the whiskey!Jessie and Ki get involved in a showdown between the Liberty Saloon and Sister Angela's Temperance Army, and soon realize that an evil cartel plans to make America's freedoms into sins...



  • RANGE OF FIRE A stretch of Jessie's Circle Star ranch is crawling with trigger-happy settlers hell-bent on snatching her land. Jessie has the deed. But the squatters have Pleas Barstow. And he's known for getting what he wants...victim by victim! ...



  • An assassin blazes a bloody trail headed straight for Jessie and Ki!Jessica Starbuck, a woman fighting for justice on the American frontier, and Ki, a martial arts expert devoted to her protection, return in an adventure that brings them face to face...



  • A con man plans an all-out border war -- and makes Jessie a deal to die for!When Colonel Edgar Perry rides into the Circle Star ranch with a get-rich-quick scheme to extend the border of Texas into Mexico, Jessie's refusal to go along leads to her ab...



  • The triumphant final ride of the Lone Star legend!Jessie and Ki are on a train to Laredo with Jessie's new thoroughbred, Lucifer, when the train is ambushed. Ki is wounded and left for dead. Jessie and Lucifer are taken to a hacienda at the foot of E...




  • People tell me their secrets. They always have. Not just like lust for another man's wife or husband, but their truest, darkest, or brightest secrets ever since I was a small child. This book however, is about my secrets, and plans, and taking owners...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Wesley Ellis has published 157 books.

Wesley Ellis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Secret Evil Plans, was published in July 2011.

The first book by Wesley Ellis, Lone Star and the Border Bandits, was published in September 1982.

Yes. Wesley Ellis has 1 series.