


Books in series

#1
Sheriff's Blood
1994
Jonas Culpepper is the no-nonsense sheriff of San Juan County in Colorado, patrolling the vast empty lands with his 200-pound mastiff, Bear. His dedication has won him the respect of everyone on the right side of the law. But he is a fierce and relentless foe of those who cross him or those he has sworn to protect. So when the Durango-Silverton train is robbed by Mack Ellsworth and his gang of villains, it is Culpepper’s duty to run them down and bring them to justice. But his job is made all the more dangerous when his enemies include men on both sides of the law. And when Culpepper’s wife is kidnapped, hell comes to San Juan County in the form of one enraged lawman.

#2
Blood In The Snow
1993
Rocky Mountain Lawmen...The Only Law The Land Had Ever Known
They were hard-riding men of the western frontier...a bold and rugged breed of straight-shooters meting out their own brand of high country justice...sworn to bring order to a wild and savage land where the only law was a loaded gun...
When trouble forced Travis Rhodes to flee his Clearwater, Iowa home, the rugged Civil War veteran hit the Oregon Trail west—where where the lure of gold made greedy dangerous fools of men. But in the rough-and-ready Colorado mining town Intolerance, high in the Rockies, Rhodes met with a new breed of violence. Stepping in after the marshal was cut down in cold blood by marauding outlaws. Rhodes pinned the badge to his chest to deliver justice in a town where a blazing shotgun was the creed men lived—and died—by. Dalton Turlow, leader of the meanest gang of gun toughs in the territory, wasn't about to let a greenhorn lawman stop him from shooting his way to a fortune in gold. But if it was all-out war Turlow wanted. then war he'd get, as Travis rode out of town amid a blizzard of bullets and blood...and headed for a showdown where the first to draw wasn't always the last to die.

#3
Shoshoni Vengeance
2015
Someone is killing and mutilating Shoshonis on the reservation. Most everyone—red and white—is certain the Arapahos are guilty. But Chief Washakie and the federal agent, Orv Ashby, aren’t so sure and request help. When U.S. Deputy Marshal Buck Morgan arrives to hunt down the venomous killers, he is not welcome by either side, but he soon finds himself liking and liked by the Indians. With the help of Big Horse, Two Wounds and other Shoshonis, he goes after the killers. With a corrupt Army lieutenant on one side and a pack of gruesomely vicious outlaws on the other, Morgan and his companions are in the battle of their lives as they search the Wind River Reservation and the fetid town of Flat Fork. Only one group can survive, and Morgan aims to make certain it is his.

#4
Vigilante Coffin
1993
Rocky Mountain Lawmen...The Only Law The Land Had Ever Known
The war is over, and with nowhere to go, Joe Coffin drifts west and ends up in the mining town of Madison, Montana Territory. His old commander, Enoch Pembroke, is a U.S. deputy marshal. With venomous outlaw Cady Merkle running rampant in the territory, Pembroke enlists Coffin as a fellow lawman. When Merkle makes it personal, Joe Coffin goes on a rampage of his own, and brings his wrath down on the band of ferocious outlaws.
Author
John Legg
Author · 44 books
John Legg has had more than 50 Westerns published, including a number of series novels, and one book of Western nonfiction. He has also done a number of articles on Western history for national magazines. He has been a newspaper copy editor for more than 30 years. He also has edited novels, articles, short stories, and other works through his editing/critiquing service, JL TextWorks. He has an MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.