Books by Robert Vaughan

WITH THE CROCKETTS' IN TOWN, EVERY TWO-BIT GUNSLINGER'S CHANCES OF SURVIVING ARE JUST ABOUT ZERO...After brothers Will and Gid Crockett deliver several horses to Colonel John Abernathy - a man they knew during the civil war - he hires them to accompany his sixteen-year-old daughter, Julia, on a stagecoach trip for fear she may be kidnapped and held for ransom.Julia is very highly sought after, and Silas King and his outlaw gang refuse to back down.The Crockett brothers find themselves in the outlaw town of Jericho with nothing but a shootout standing in the way of justice."The Crockett brothers carry a mean punch and wild adventures."

"Javanna Caldwell, a widow, is an advertising executive in Chicago. Luke Bryant, now two years divorced, is a Christian filmmaker in New Orleans. When an unfortunate series of events occurs, they are both forced to return to their roots in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. Luke has maintained his faith throughout his profession, but after the death of her husband, Javanna lost her faith. Following an accident in a blizzard, Javanna becomes desperate and turns to the God she abandoned for help. With circumstances still out of their control, Javanna and Luke renew a life-time friendship that begins to blossom into something more. Along the way, she from Chicago and he from New Orleans, recognize the joys and benefits of small-town America"--

It Takes Two Loyal Brothers to Outsmart a Texas Outlaw.Buck Chaney first crosses paths with Rufus Blanton on a West Texas train car halted suddenly in the night. Rufus is on board-and set on robbing every passenger. When a shootout with Buck leaves two of his gunmen dead, the outlaw gets away with his life - but without any loot. He'll come back to haunt Buck Chaney and his brother Lance.

Once they fought on opposite sides of a war. Now they're fighting for justice and revenge!They Came from one Missouri family, but Lance and Buck Chaney had been fighting on opposite sides of the war-until they were brought together ba a shipment of gold dust. Fighting for the Confederacy, Buck had been ordered to hijack the gold his brother's Union troops were bringing north to Jefferson City. By the time the skirmish was over the shipment of gold was missing. Now the former enemies have joined together again-to hunt down the man who had taken the gold from them both in an act of treachery and bloodshed.

THE MATTHEW FARADAY SAGA CONTINUES...Jared Macalester is, to all appearances, a trackwalker for the Union Pacific. His first notable action in this entertaining Western pot-boiler is to throw a boorish cowboy off a train, while the train is in motion. Before Macalaster can show his face in the tale, bandits rob a UP train of its money shipment, and kill an agent. Macalester has, in fact, been assigned by the Faraday Security Agency to solve the robbery case, and uses the trackwalker position as a cover. His assignment evolves to cleaning up the railroad town of Ironsprings, and is complicated by the corrupt local lawmen and various roughnecks.

INTRODUCING MATTHEW FARADAY...The train-top murder of one of his female operatives has thrust Matthew Faraday, the wily chief of Faraday Security Service, into the dark and twisting tunnel of another railroad mystery, and a coded message in the dead woman's pocket is the only clue. Don't miss this novel in the Faraday western series by bestselling author Robert Vaughan.

A STORY OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL…When Lance Chaney's ex-commanding officer from the Civil War comes to him for help, the Barlow Marshal cannot refuse, even when things don't add up.With his brother Buck riding alongside him, the pair find more trouble than they care to. From Indians, to outlaws, their trail is dotted with violence.Meanwhile back in Barlow, Lance's remaining deputy is killed, leaving the town wide open for the lawless. But out of the freezing winter comes a one-eyed man who seems to be fit for the job.Except Ben Travers has a plan. He and his gang are going to take Barlow for all it has, and he doesn't care how many corpses he has to walk over to get itBest-selling western author Robert Vaughan keeps you glued to your seat with the third Chaney Brothers Western.

The fifth book of The Western Adventures of Cade McCall is an incredibly authentic story of survival against all odds…Cade McCall is starting another chapter of his life when he becomes an Army Scout with General Miles and Colonel Mackenzie during the Red River War.When John German's wagon is attacked by Indians, he, his wife, Lydia, his son, Steven, and two of his daughters, Rebecca and Joanna, are killed. Four of his daughters are captured by the Indians, but the two youngest, Julia and Addie are abandoned.The survival of the young German girls depends upon the efforts of Cade McCall and the troopers of General Miles' cavalry.

IN A BATTLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL, WHO WILL PREVAIL?An action-packed, captivating western novel by bestselling author Robert Vaughan.In 1885 Buck Elliot, already a legendary gunfighter, comes to Canyon Diablo, Arizona Territory, to aid a friend and several small, but honest ranchers who must deal with Nigel Smythe, a titled Englishman who is trying to build a fiefdom under the Mogollon Rim. Smythe has hired as many gunfighters as cowboys, using them to force the smaller ranchers out of business, but Buck who has been commissioned an Arizona Ranger by the governor, organizes the small ranchers to defend their rights. In a direct confrontation between Buck, his friends, and the outlaw army of Smythe, good prevails over evil.A little more than forty years later Buck Elliot, a still-living iconic gunfighter of the Old West, comes to Hollywood to be a technical consultant for LEGEND OF A GUNFIGHTER, a movie about his life. He discovers that the star of the movie, Clive Malone, is more interested in playing himself than he is in portraying the true story. Buck enlists the aid of Ernest Haycox, author of the book from which the movie is to be taken, and they try to get the studio to bring the picture more into line with the truth.If you like William W. Johnstone and George P. Cosmatos's Tombstone, you will be engrossed in this unputdownable western.

THE MATTHEW FARADAY SAGA CONTINUES...As our wounded nation heals itself in the aftermath of the Civil War, it is once more plunged into sorrow.In one treasonous moment President Abraham Lincoln is dead, and - though his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is quickly caught - the treachery is far from over. A plot is being hatched to kidnap Lincoln's body from the funeral train that will carry the fallen leader through the countryside of mourners, from Washington to its final resting place in Springfield, Illinois. But the great railroad detective Matthew Faraday has gotten wind of the plot - although its perpetrators are still a mystery.With the blessings of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and the aid of his newest and boldest agent, Cole Yeager, Faraday is sworn to protect the great man's body from desecration - while ambush, runaway locomotives, and death-dealing renegades wait up ahead.

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: QUINN'S RAIDERSMARCUS QUINNHANK PROUDYBOB DEPROLOOMIS DEPROBILLY JOE HIGGINS$5,000 RewardThese men are armed and dangerous. They have committed murder, armed robbery, and cattle rustling.----Can Quinn's Raiders outrun the bogus paper put out by the Tucson sheriff's office?

Introducing Marcus Quinn and his raiders. Ex-Rebel out to take what they can get and then some. The war between the States is over, and Quinn's Raiders, the fiercest unit of guerrilla fighters in the South, are on their way to Texas to swing for their crimes. But no Yankee prison train can hold these boys for long.

Fort Keogh, Wyoming: 1878After surviving bloody ambushes by renege Sioux warriors, Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Cavanaugh finds his welcome at Fort Keogh to be hardly a warm one. Major Templeton, the officer who built the fort, is outranked by Cavanaugh and unwilling to play second fiddle to the new commander.With a mutiny and the chain of command endangered, the Sioux begin attacking. Though Cavanaugh orders caution, his subordinate boasts that he could rout the entire Sioux nation with a handful of pony soldiers. The disgruntled major leads his troops straight into a vicious Sioux trap. Now Cavanaugh and the few good men he has left must defeat the savages, and avenge... THE TEMPLETON MASSACRE.

Sweetwater Creek, Texas: 1876Only wisps of smoke and buzzards engorged on human flesh remain after Comanche warriors attack a stage relay station in the Texas Panhandle. Leading a company of untested recruits to an outpost on Sweetwater Creek, Major Marcus Cavanaugh finds the gruesome evidence and realizes he has a full-scale Indian uprising on his hands.With stagecoaches, homesteaders, and cattle drovers crossing the Panhandle for Arizona Territory and the Kansas railheads, hundreds of lives are still at stake. But before Cavanaugh can whip his troops into shape, a wagon train rolls straight into a Comanche ambush. Ready or not, Cavanaugh is forced to head his men into the brutal hell of an all-out... COMANCHE WAR.

Fort Wallace, Colorado Territory: 1873After reports of brutal Cheyenne attacks on small ranches, young Captain Marcus Cavanaugh and his men saddle up to intercept the renegade band. While they're gone, a grief-stricken settler takes matters into his own hands and ambushes an Indian camp, killing several braves.Angered by the cowardly slaughter of his people, Chief Silver Bear vows revenge by enlisting the neighboring Sioux and Arapaho nations to declare war on the white man. When regular patrols can't stop the raiding parties, Captain Cavanaugh volunteers to take his company of Quick Riders to wipe out the hostiles and head off a full-scale uprising. But in a predawn attack, the three nations surround Cavanaugh's troops camped on a small island in the Arikaree River. Pinned down by enemy crossfire and low on supplies, they fight to hold their ground in the bloody battle for... CAVANAUGH'S ISLAND.

The Town Marshal is ripped from the annals of authentic American history of the Old West. Its two main participants, James Cooper and Henry Newton Brown, form a close friendship when, along with Billy the Kid, they fight in the Lincoln County War. After that, James and Henry move on, their bond of friendship growing even stronger as James becomes a crusading newspaper editor and Henry, a town marshal feared by outlaws and lauded by his peers and the towns he served. But something goes wrong, and in an emotive moment, the two best friends find themselves face to face in a dramatic and poignant confrontation.

LONG ROAD TO ABILENE, is a classic hero's journey, a western adventure that exemplifies the struggles, the defeats, and the victories that personify the history of the American West. After surviving the bloody battle of Franklin and the hell of a Yankee prison camp, Cade McCall comes home to the woman he loves only to find that she, believing him dead, has married his brother. With nothing left to keep him in Tennessee, Cade journeys to New Orleans where an encounter with a beautiful woman leads to being shanghaied for an unexpected adventure at sea. Returning to Texas, he signs on to drive a herd of cattle to Abilene, where he is drawn into a classic showdown of good versus evil, and a surprising reunion with an old enemy.

Fort Reynolds, Colorado: 1868Fresh from WestPoint, Second Lieutenant Marcus Cavanaugh arrives with a platoon of recruits from the East into territory seething with Indian trouble. Two Eagles and his renegade band of Cheyenne warriors have broken the peace, raiding railroad crews and wagon trains, slaughtering men, women, and children, then disappearing into the hills.Scouting for Two Eagles war party, Cavanaugh, at last, discovers their winter village, barely escaping with his life to report back to the fort. But nothing in his military training has prepared him for the savagery and danger he encounters as he leads his men against hostile braves in the bloody battle known as the… OUSHATA MASSACRE

Lured by the prospect of making a lot of money from hides, Cade McCall joins other buffalo hunters to follow the herd south into hunting land set aside, by treaty, for Indians. The Indians, in defense of their hunting rights, attack the buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls. Cade and 27 other buffalo hunters, must defend themselves against a combined force of Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne, numbering as many as 1000 warriors.

Trying to recover from the grief over the death of his wife, Cade McCall settles in Dodge City, "Hell on the Plains". While drunk, Cade loses the saloon that he owns in partnership with Jeter Willis, rupturing a friendship that had stood for years. Caught up in the infamy of lawlessness and gun slinging that is Dodge City, Cade fights the battle against his own despair, and against the Slater Brothers who are trying to take over the town. He is aided in the struggle by his new found friend, Bat Masterson, old friend Jacob Harrison and the renewed friendship with Jeter Willis.

Follow Cade McCall as he rides the Chisholm Trail, crosses raging rivers, faces cattle rustlers and fights marauding Indians while taking a herd of longhorns north to Kansas. He reaches his destination only to be devastated by the most heinous act he has ever encountered. Driven by a rage-filled determination, Cade begins his search for justice, a search that ends with Cade's Revenge.

Could it be that a miracle from 'Christmas Past' will bring a family together again?