Troy Smith: 61 books

Several Confederate POWs were offered a choice, prison or go West to fill ranks on the frontier. Joe Evans and several Rebs from his captured outfit opted for the frontier and became 'Galvanized Yankees'. Their duties should have been endless patrols and drills with very little real Indian fighting. Trouble was someone forgot to tell the Indians.

Retired lawman, Luke Temple, has seen it all, and become a living legend along the way. Now, he must come out of retirement to face his greatest challenge.With his oldest friends by his side, he trails the vicious Thaw gang to an outlaw stronghold where he almost died forty years before.Will the mountainous fortress called Sundown be Luke Temple's redemption, or his final defeat?

Army sergeant Max Blackwell and his brother, Texas Ranger Jake Blackwell, lead an expedition to rescue a woman and her daughter who have been taken captive by Comanches. The pursuit will lead them across the Llano Estacado to Ransom Canyon -and the notorious comanchero leader Dutch John... Read...

Duke Blackwell, California outlaw, is trying to go straight -but his efforts are complicated by a string of stage robberies by someone impersonating him. Now he has to catch "the Blackwell Gang" before the law catches him... Read the whole Blackwell series! "Blackwell's Run" was nominated for the 2011 Peacemaker Award for best western short story!

Two desperate outlaws named Fred Stein and Apache Bill are holed up in a rocky stronghold, holding a wealthy man’s little girl for ransom. Pinkerton detective Thomas Grady has been sent to bring her back safely –but will his haunting memories of another tragic assignment cost the girl her life?

Two mountain men, Harry and Joe, stand before a strange phenomenon they found on the grassy plains–an aperture, a jagged hole in the sky. Is it an opening into another, evil dimension? The strange opening swirls with wild colors, and there are shadowy, demonic figures inside. One man is frightened,...

Murder and Intrigue in 5th century Ireland! Conor MacCormac is not only the most honored warrior of Connacht, he is the king’s closest friend. When his leader is murdered at the High-King’s Fair, it is up to Conor to find the killer. The king had no shortage of enemies – but which one is guilty? And what price must Conor pay to find the answer?

Jake Blackwell left the Texas Rangers to fight for the Union. Captured in battle, he finds himself in a makeshift Confederate prison called Camp Henry. Now he is in for the hardest fight of his life -the fight to stay alive in the disease-ridden prison, when a sadistic guard has marked him for death... Read...

"Pike's Peak or Bust" is the rallying cry for the Colorado gold rush -and veteran prospector Caleb Blackwell is busted. Busted, and growing disenchanted with the mining business. Then he wanders into a town that is tightly controlled by a gang of vicious thugs -and sees a new option... Read...

From the dark streets of Knoxville to the hills and hollers of the Smoky Mountains... dead rednecks are stacking up like cordwood. Private eye Howard Qualls, fearless paragon of justice, is on the case... and his older, smarter, tougher ex-con brother Hoss is tagging along to make sure Howard doesn't...

Caleb Blackwell found no luck in the California gold mines... but there is a new rush, in a place called Australia. Unfortunately, Blackwell arrives just in time to be caught up in one of the most violent uprisings in that land's history... Read the whole Blackwell series! "Blackwell's Run" was nominated for the 2011 Peacemaker Award for best western short story!

Good-natured bandit Duke Blackwell meets a beautiful Mexican damsel-in-distress who informs him that he has become a local legend for preying on corrupt merchants. And she desperately needs the help of the famous highwayman, for a noble quest--but Blackwell has a feeling all is not as it seems... Read...

The American Civil War was by far the most dramatic time in U.S. history. No one could escape its influence who lived in America while it was fought; indeed, we can still not escape its influence today. It was a contest for the soul of the nation, to define who and what America was to be. And...

The railroads hated Judah King –but the people loved him, viewing him as a modern-day Robin Hood. Judah has a scheme to parlay that popularity into his gang’s biggest score yet –and his ambitions don’t stop there. His oldest friend, and trusted lieutenant, fears that the charming psychopath Judah King may finally be going too far… but what is he willing to do to stop it?