Gunfighter Chronicles Books

Noble Outlaw Matt Braun John Wesley Hardin's powderkeg temper earned him twelve bodies by age twenty―and a place at the top of the Texas MOST WANTED list. Now a happy husband and a father, he thinks his fighting days are over and done. Until he's ambushed by an angry loser in a local poker game… Soon the law is on Wes's trail again, but this time he's got too much at stake. Hardin only wants peace―but he's willing to wage a one-man war to stay free.

Bill Tilghman was the real thing, a lawman who wore his badge for one reason alone: to bring criminals to justice. Master novelist Matt Braun captures the final days of this extraordinary manhunter--when he faces a heroic fight on the bloody corrupt streets of Cromwell, Oklahoma. The saga of a man who would not back down and the woman who loved him to the end, One Last Town tells the story of a land swiftly vanishing into a new era: the legendary American frontier.

"MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer Kelton THEY WERE LEGENDS OF THE FRONTIER They towered over the frontier: men like Hickok, Custer, Cody, and Earp. From Tombstone to Abilene, on a sprawling, rugged frontier, they forged a life by their cunning and courage. And between these gambling men-some who lost and some who won-was a woman who carved out a legend of her own. WHO LIVED-AND DIED-IN A GAME OF CHANCE A beautiful farm girl from Indiana, Mattie Silks traded innocence for the West's wildest men. But then her trail of love and money took her to the boomtown of Denver and a man named Cort Thomson-where Mattie could play for the highest stakes of all... "BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!" -Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series

Tells the story of the legendary Doc Holliday, a Southern gentleman turned professional gambler, as he drifts through the cities of the Western frontier, building his reputation as a skilled fighter and killer. Reissue.