The Gunsmith Books in Order

475

Books

1982

First Book

2024

Latest Book

43

Years

Below you'll find the complete list of The Gunsmith books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.

Reading order verified: January 2026

Publication Order

1

Macklin's Women

1982

2

The Chinese Gunmen

1982

3

The Woman Hunt

1982

4

The Guns of Abilene

1982

5

Three Guns for Glory

1982

6

Leadtown

1982

7

The Longhorn War

1982

8

Quanah's Revenge

1983

9

New Orleans Fire

1983

10

Heavyweight Gun

1983

11

One-Handed Gun

1983

12

The Canadian Payroll

1984

13

Draw to an Inside Death

1984

14

Dead Man's Hand

1984

15

Bandit Gold

1984

16

Buckskins and Six-Guns

1984

17

Silver War

1984

18

High Noon at Lancaster

1984

19

Bandido Blood

1984

20

The Dodge City Gang

1984

21

Sasquatch Hunt

1984

22

Bullets and Ballots

1984

23

The Riverboat Gang

1984

24

Killer Grizzly

1984

25

North of the Border

1984

26

Eagle's Gap

1984

27

Chinatown Hell

1984

28

The Panhandle Search

1984

29

Wildcat Roundup

1984

30

The Ponderosa War

1984

31

Trouble Rides a Fast Horse

1984

32

Dynamite Justice

1984

33

The Posse

1984

34

Night of the Gila

1984

35

The Bounty Women

1984

36

Black Pearl Saloon

1985

37

Gundown in Paradise

1985

38

The El Paso Salt War

1985

39

King of the Border

1985

40

The Ten Pines Killer

1985

41

Hell with a Pistol

1985

42

The Wyoming Cattle Kill

1985

43

The Golden Horseman

1985

44

The Scarlet Gun

1985

45

Navaho Devil

1985

46

Wild Bill's Ghost

1985

47

The Miners' Showdown

1985

48

Archer's Revenge

1986

49

Showdown in Raton

1986

50

When Legends Meet

1986

51

Desert Hell

1986

52

The Diamond Gun

1986

53

Denver Duo

1986

54

Hell On Wheels

1986

55

The Legend Maker

1986

56

Walking Dead Man

1986

57

Crossfire Mountain

1986

58

The Deadly Healer

1986

59

The Trail Drive War

1986

60

Geronimo's Trail

1986

61

The Comstock Gold Fraud

1987

62

Boom Town Killer

1987

63

Texas Trackdown

1987

64

The Fast Draw League

1987

65

Showdown in Rio Malo

1987

66

Outlaw Trail

1987

67

Homesteader Guns

1987

68

Five Card Death

1987

69

Trail Drive to Montana

1987

70

Trial by Fire

1987

71

The Old Whistler Gang

1987

72

Daughter of Gold

1987

73

Apache Gold

1988

74

Plains Murder

1988

75

Deadly Memories

1988

76

The Nevada Timber War

1988

77

New Mexico Showdown

1988

78

Barbed Wire and Bullets

1988

79

Death Express

1988

80

When Legends Die

1988

81

Six-Gun Justice

1988

82

The Mustang Hunters

1988

83

Texas Ransom

1988

84

Vengeance Town

1988

85

Winner Take All

1989

86

Message From a Dead Man

1989

87

Ride for Vengeance

1989

88

The Takersville Shoot

1989

89

Blood on the Land

1989

90

Six-Gun Sideshow

1989

91

Mississippi Massacre

1989

92

The Arizona Triangle

1989

93

Brothers of the Gun

1989

94

The Stagecoach Thieves

1989

95

Judgment at Firecreek

1989

96

Dead Man's Jury

1989

97

Hands of the Strangler

1989

98

Nevada Death Trap

1990

99

Wagon Train to Hell

1990

100

Ride for Revenge

1990

101

Dead Ringer

1990

102

Trail of the Assassin

1990

103

Shoot-Out at Crossfork

1990

104

Buckskin's Trail

1990

105

Helldorado

1990

106

The Hanging Judge

1990

107

The Bounty Hunter

1990

108

Tombstone At Little Horn

1990

109

Killer's Race

1991

110

Wyoming Range War

1991

111

Grand Canyon Gold

1991

112

Guns Don't Argue

1991

113

St. Louis Showdown

1991

114

Frontier Justice

1991

115

Game of Death

1991

116

The Oregon Strangler

1991

117

Blood Brothers

1991

118

Scarlet Fury

1991

119

Arizona Ambush

1991

120

The Vengeance Trail

1991

121

The Deadly Derringer

1992

122

The Stagecoach Killers

1992

123

Five Against Death

1992

124

Mustang Man

1992

125

The Godfather

1992

126

Killer's Gold

1992

127

Ghost Town

1992

128

The Caliente Gold Robbery

1992

129

Golden Gate Killers

1992

130

The Road to Testimony

1992

131

The Witness

1992

132

The Great Riverboat Race

1992

133

Two Guns for Justice

1993

134

Outlaw Women

1993

135

Valley Massacre

1993

136

Nevada Guns

1993

137

Deadly Gold

1993

138

Vigilante Hunt

1993

139

Samurai Hunt

1993

140

Gambler's Blood

1993

141

Wyoming Justice

1993

142

Gila River Crossing

1993

143

West Texas Showdown

1993

144

Gillett’s Rangers

1994

145

Return to Deadwood

1994

146

Blind Justice

1994

147

Ambush Moon

1994

148

Spanish Gold

1994

149

Night of the Wolf

1994

150

Champion with a Gun

1994

151

Lethal Ladies

1994

152

Tolliver's Deputies

1994

153

Orphan Train

1994

154

The Magician

1994

155

Dakota Guns

1994

156

Seminole Vengeance

1995

157

The Ransom

1995

158

The Huntsville Trip

1995

159

The Ten Year Hunt

1995

160

The Empty Gun

1995

161

The Last Great Scout

1995

162

The Wild Women of Glitter Gulch

1995

163

The Omaha Heat

1995

164

The Denver Ripper

1995

165

The Wolf Teacher

1995

166

Chinaville

1995

167

The French Models

1995

168

Crime of Passion

1996

169

The Elliott Bay Murders

1996

170

Funeral for a Friend

1996

171

The Hanging Woman

1996

172

Jersey Lily

1996

173

Gunquick

1996

174

Grave Hunt

1996

175

Triple Cross

1996

176

Buried Pleasures

1996

177

Wild Bull

1996

178

The Queensville Temptress

1996

179

Chinatown Assassin

1996

180

The Challenge

1997

181

Winning Streak

1997

182

The Flying Machine

1997

183

Homestead Law

1997

184

The Biloxi Queen

1997

185

Six for the Money

1997

186

Legbreakers and Heartbreakers

1997

187

The Orient Express

1997

188

The Posse from Elsinore

1997

189

Lady on the Run

1997

190

Outbreak

1997

191

Money Town

1997

192

Texas Wind

1998

193

Massacre at Rock Springs

1998

194

Criminal Kin

1998

195

The Counterfeit Clergyman

1998

196

Apache Raid

1998

197

The Lady Killers

1998

198

Denver Desperadoes

1998

199

The James Boys

1998

200

The Gambler

1998

201

Vigilante Justice

1998

202

Dead Man's Bluff

1998

203

Women on the Run

1999

204

The Gambler's Girl

1999

205

Legend of the Piasa Bird

1999

206

Kansas City Killing

1999

207

The Last Bounty

1999

208

Death Times Five

1999

209

Maximilian's Treasure

1999

210

Son of a Gunsmith

1999

211

Family Feud

1999

212

Strangler's Vendetta

1999

213

The Borton Family Gang

1999

214

Showdown at Daylight

1999

215

The Man from Peculiar

1999

216

Ambush at Black Rock

2000

217

The Cleveland Connection

2000

218

The Brothel Inspector

2000

219

End of the Trail

2000

220

Dangerous Breed

2000

221

The Lynched Man

2000

222

Baron of Crime

2000

223

Dead Horse Canyon

2000

224

Justice in Rimfire

2000

225

Wanted, Clint Adams

2000

226

Safetown

2000

227

The Sioux City War

2000

228

High Card Dies

2001

229

Pay Dirt

2001

230

The Posse Men

2001

231

Bullets for a Boy

2001

232

Train Full of Trouble

2001

233

Deadly Business

2001

234

Bayou Ghosts

2001

235

The Cherokee Strip

2001

236

The Killer Con

2001

237

The Spirit Box

2001

238

The High Road

2001

239

Stacked Deck

2001

240

Playing for Blood

2001

241

Dead and Buried

2002

242

Outlaw Luck

2002

243

The Shadow of the Gunsmith

2002

244

Ghost Squadron

2002

245

Dead Man's Eyes

2002

246

Random Gunfire

2002

247

A Man of the Gun

2002

248

Deadly Game

2002

249

The Doomsday Riders

2002

250

Next to Die

2002

251

The Making of a Bad Man

2002

252

Tangled Web

2003

253

A Day in the Sun

2003

254

The Treasure Hunt

2003

255

Just Reward

2003

256

The Rat's Nest

2003

257

Widow's Watch

2003

258

A Killer's Hands

2003

259

Faces of the Dead

2003

260

The Only Law

2003

261

The Devil's Spark

2003

262

Empty Hand

2003

263

The Love of Money

2003

264

Long Way Down

2003

265

The Red Queen

2004

266

No Turning Back

2004

267

Big-Sky Bandits

2004

268

The Hanging Tree

2004

269

The Big Fork Game

2004

270

In for a Pound

2004

271

Dead End Pass

2004

272

Tricks of the Trade

2004

273

Guilty as Charged

2004

274

The Lucky Lady

2004

275

The Canadian Job

2004

276

Rolling Thunder

2004

277

Justice from Hell / The Hanging Judge

2005

278

Death in Denver

2005

279

The Reckoning

2005

280

Ring of Fire

2005

281

The Last Ride

2005

282

Riding the Whirlwind

2005

283

Scorpion's Tail

2005

284

Innocent Blood

2005

285

The Ghost of Goliad

2005

286

The Reapers

2005

287

The Deadly and the Divine

2005

288

Amazon Gold

2005

289

The Grand Prize

2006

290

Gunman's Crossing

2006

291

Alive or Nothing

2006

292

The Road to Hell

2006

293

Farewell Mountain

2006

294

Kira's Bounty

2006

295

The Imposter

2006

296

Dangerous Cargo

2006

297

Loose Ends

2006

298

Snakebite Creek

2006

299

The Long Arm of the Law

2006

300

The Killing Blow

2006

301

The Friends of Wild Bill Hickok

2007

302

Two for Trouble

2007

303

Shadow Walker

2007

304

The Sapphire Gun

2007

305

One Man's Law

2007

306

Red River Showdown

2007

307

Clint Adams, Detective

2007

308

Outlaw's Reckoning

2007

309

Way with a Gun

2007

310

To Reap and to Sow

2007

311

Under a Turquoise Sky

2007

312

Wildfire

2007

313

Dying Wish

2008

314

The Madame of Silver Junction

2008

315

Ace in the Hole

2008

316

The Valley of the Wendigo

2008

317

Five Points

2008

318

Out of the Past

2008

319

Straw Men

2008

320

The Greater Evil

2008

321

Louisiana Shoot-out

2008

322

A Daughter's Revenge

2008

323

Ball and Chain

2008

324

Red Water

2008

325

The Two-Gun Kid

2009

326

The Golden Princess

2009

327

East of the River

2009

328

The Dublin Detective

2009

329

The Dead Town

2009

330

The Man With the Iron Badge

2009

331

The Town Council Meeting

2009

332

Virgil Earp, Private Detective

2009

333

Message on the Wind

2009

334

Crossing the Line

2009

335

Bad Business

2009

336

Pariah

2009

337

Pleasant Valley Shoot-Out

2010

338

The Lady Doctor's Alibi

2010

339

The Bisbee Massacre

2010

340

The Bandit Princess

2010

341

The Last Trail Drive

2010

342

The Hunt for Clint Adams

2010

343

Anatomy of a Lawman

2010

344

Someone Else's Trouble

2010

345

Lady Eight Ball

2010

346

Chicago Confidential

2010

347

Showdown in Cheyenne

2010

348

Riverboat Blaze

2010

349

With Deadly Intent

2011

350

The Trial of Bat Masterson

2011

351

Unbound by Law

2011

352

The Deadly Chest

2011

353

Cross Draw

2011

354

Bitterroot Valley

2011

355

Hunt for the White Wolf

2011

356

Fort Revenge

2011

357

Two Guns for Vengeance

2011

358

The Mad Scientist of the West

2011

359

The Letter of the Law

2011

360

Buffalo Soldiers

2012

361

The Death List

2012

362

The Vicar of St. James

2012

363

The Last Buffalo Hunt

2012

364

The Governor's Gun

2012

365

The Omaha Palace

2012

366

The University Showdown

2012

367

Forty Mile River

2012

368

Fraternity of the Gun

2012

369

The Town of Two Women

2012

370

The Missing Patriarch

2012

371

Ticket to Yuma

2012

372

Deadly Election

2013

373

The Thousand Mile Case

2013

374

Trail to Shasta

2013

375

The Legend of El Duque

2013

376

The Pinkerton Job

2013

377

The Devil's Collector

2013

378

Kentucky Showdown

2013

379

Blood Trail

2013

380

Standoff in Santa Fe

2013

381

Death in the Desert

2013

382

Louisiana Stalker

2013

383

The Silent Deputy

2013

384

Vengeance Ride

2014

385

Mexico Mayhem

2014

386

Magic Man

2014

387

The Salt City Scrape

2014

388

Copper Canyon Killers

2014

389

Showdown in Desperation

2014

390

The Clint Adams Special

2014

391

The Counterfeit Gunsmith

2014

392

The South Fork Showdown

2014

393

The Three Mercenaries

2014

394

A Different Trade

2014

395

Let It Bleed

2014

396

Deadly Fortune

2015

397

Death in the Family

2015

398

The Lincoln Ransom

2015

399

New Mexico Powder Keg

2015

400

Kidnap a Gunsmith

2015

401

Lawman's Sunset

2015

402

Three Rings of Trouble / Three Rings of Justice

2016

403

Blood Coast

2016

404

The Put Up Job

2016

405

The Dodge City Inheritance

2016

406

The Gold of Point Pinos

2016

407

Shot in the Back

2016

408

Silent Assassin

2016

409

Grizzly Hunt

2017

410

Dakota Kill

2017

411

Demon's Curse

2017

412

Death of a Gandy Dancer

2017

413

The Funeral of Doc Holliday

2017

414

The Tomb of Joaquin

2017

415

Ace High

2017

416

The Art of the Gun

2017

417

The Devil's Payload

2017

418

The Show Girl

2017

419

The Science of Death

2017

420

The Bank Job

2018

421

Little Amsterdam

2018

422

The Butcher of the Bayou

2018

423

The Ghost of Butler's Gulch

2018

424

Deadly Feud

2018

425

The Reluctant Executioner

2018

426

The Treasure of Little Bighorn

2018

427

Blackbeard's Gun

2018

428

Lost Man

2018

429

Aces & Queens

2018

430

The Last Wagon Train

2018

431

Beauty and the Gun

2019

432

Deadly Trouble

2019

433

The Curse of the Gold City

2019

434

Deadville

2019

435

Boots and Saddles

2019

436

The Fantastic Mr. Verne

2019

437

The Girl Nobody Knew

2019

438

The Ambush of Belle Starr

2019

439

The Last Way West

2019

440

Portrait of a Gunsmith

2019

441

Deadly Heirloom

2019

442

Into the Fire

2019

443

Brotherly Love

2020

444

The Daughter of Jean Lafitte

2020

445

The Guns of St. Augustine

2020

446

The Gunsmith Saloon

2020

447

The Imperial Crown

2020

448

The Traveling Undertaker

2020

449

Standoff in Labyrinth

2020

450

The Gypsy King

2020

451

The Gunsmiths Women's Club

2020

452

The Ticket Clerk

2020

453

The Children of Willow Springs

2020

454

Young Butch Cassidy

2021

455

The Lady Sheriff

2021

456

Murder in the Family

2021

457

The Tall Texan

2021

458

Gunsmith for Hire

2021

459

A Price on a Gunsmith's Head

2021

460

The Tracker

2021

461

Freakville

2021

462

Outlaw's Gun

2021

463

Six Deadly Guns

2022

464

Deadly Delivery

2022

465

Sheriff Iron Horse

2022

466

The Red Lady of San Francisco

2022

467

Steel Disaster

2022

468

The Friendly Gold Mine

2022

469

Cheap Whiskey and Sad Women

2023

470

The Chanteuse from the East

2023

471

Belle Starr's Daughter

2023

472

To Steal from the Dead

2023

473

The Central City Poker Challenge

2023

474

The Gunsmith Down Under

2024

475

Deadly Debt

2024

Frequently Asked Questions

The recommended reading order for the The Gunsmith series is publication order: 1. Macklin's Women (1982), 2. The Chinese Gunmen (1982), 3. The Woman Hunt (1982), 4. The Guns of Abilene (1982), 5. Three Guns for Glory (1982), and 470 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.

The The Gunsmith series by Robert J. Randisi contains 475 books. The series began in 1982 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.

The The Gunsmith series is written by Robert J. Randisi. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.

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