Dusty Richards

Cattle rancher and U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes goes up against a gang of outlaws, the railroad, and a corrupt gang of millionaires to get the Indians a contract to supply coal to the trains on a new railroad route through Navajo territory.

Bloodthirsty hired guns are out to ruin a lawman's plans for progress in this action-packed Western from the award–winning author of Sharpshooter.

Born out of the grit, sweat, and drive of a cattle ranching empire, U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland. To some he's the hero that the West needs. To others, he's a moving target.

Chet is spearheading a stage

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Spur Award–Winning Author: "To read a Dusty Richards novel is to journey back into the Old West with a writer who knows the territory." —Jory Sherman, author of Trapper's Moon
The land made him hard.
The Byrnes family came to Texas and carved out a place on the land. Three generations who paid in blood and treasure. Children carried off by Comanche. A brother lost to war. Lives shattered. Chet Byrnes was trying...

Arizona is hard country. Good thing Chet Byrnes is a hard man . . . "Dusty Richards writes . . . with the flavor of the real West." —Elmer Kelton

Chet Byrnes is building a new life in Arizona Territory as he expands his cattle ranching operation—but trouble just keeps coming. A friend's young daughter is abducted, and the search leads Chet and his men to the wild town of Tombstone and ultimately south of the...

Spur Award–winning author: "Dusty takes readers into the real west at full gallop." —New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas

Ride into an unforgettable tale of valiant courage and bloody conflict from the Western Heritage and Spur award-winning author Dusty Richards . . .

They've crossed the line . . .

Chet Byrnes has his hands full taking care of his family and running his...

From Dusty Richards, winner of the 2007 Spur Award for The Horse Creek Incident, comes a brand-new series about a former Texas Ranger out to enforce the law, no matter where he goes…
When the Texas Legislature decided to stop paying its rangers, Phil Guthrey knew it was time to move on to greener pastures. As he rides into Arizona Territory, he finds a slew of criminals running free—thanks to Crook County’s no-good...

In the latest installment of his epic Byrnes family saga, Western Heritage and Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards tells of the blood that was spilled trying to make Arizona Territory a good place to live. . . Building a ranching empire is one thing, keeping it out of the hands of robbers, kidnappers, murderers, embezzlers, and every no good opportunist crawling through the Arizona desert is a daily grind for Chet Byrnes. He's just as likely...

First in Spur Award and Will Rogers Medallion Award-winning author Dusty Richards' newest action-packed western series, The Fighting Harrigans of the Frontier. From the Spur Award-winning author begins a new western saga with Westbound, chronicling the adventures of the Harrigan family as they brave crossing the American West, fighting to survive in the dangerous wilderness-and against even deadlier people-to forge a better life for themselves....

At the end of the War Between the States, great numbers of rootless, exhausted men and women set out to try and rebuild their lives in the unmapped, untamed freedom of the Great Plains. Noble McCurtain had been sickened by the slaughter of the war-he deserted, seeking a place where he could live in peace. Fleta Corey had waited years for her husband to return from the war, trying desperately to keep herself and her little boy alive. Noble chanced...

From acclaimed western author Dusty Richards comes an explosive new novel in his O'Malley saga, the powerful story of a strong Texan family caught in the crossfire of rebels, assassins, and history itself... It begins with a spectacular train robbery-a brilliantly planned, brutally executed heist masterminded by a shadowy gang of conspirators with far deadlier motives than money or gold. Their mission: to steal the train's shipment of powerful explosives....