U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson Books in Order
151
Books
2001
First Book
2025
Latest Book
25
Years
Below you'll find the complete list of U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
1
Ride Hard For Rayado
Buy on Amazon2001
2
Willow Lane
Buy on Amazon2002
3
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson
Buy on Amazon2003
4
Children of the West
Buy on Amazon2005
5
The Last Gun In Town
Buy on Amazon2008
6
The Long Chase For Justice
Buy on Amazon2009
7
Janice McCord
Buy on Amazon2010
8
Saddle Mountain
Buy on Amazon2013
9
Clayton New Mexico
Buy on Amazon2020
10
If Hell Ain't Hot Enough
Buy on Amazon2020
11
Two Sister's Revenge: Maggie and Helen Stillson
Buy on Amazon2020
12
Ms. Deborah Has Been Kidnapped
Buy on Amazon2020
13
A Kidnapped Education
Buy on Amazon2020
14
Mister I’ll See You Dead
Buy on Amazon2020
15
You Get Five Years
Buy on Amazon2020
16
Evil With A Gun
Buy on Amazon2020
17
Marshal Shorty Turns In His Badge
Buy on Amazon2020
18
A Winter Too Cold For Gold
Buy on Amazon2020
19
Dead Is All You'll Get
Buy on Amazon2020
20
Cora Laredo - One Mad Woman
Buy on Amazon2020
21
Billie & Bonnie Coleman - Women To Deal With
Buy on Amazon2020
22
Blood, Sweat and Gold
Buy on Amazon2020
23
From Texas to Montana
Buy on Amazon2020
24
You Think I Shot Him
Buy on Amazon2020
25
Please Don't Leave Me
Buy on Amazon2020
26
Can Loneliness Last Forever
Buy on Amazon2020
27
The Fifth Man
Buy on Amazon2020
28
Whiskers McPherson & Gabriel O'Grady
Buy on Amazon2020
29
Marshal Shorty Please Help Us
Buy on Amazon2021
30
Gold And Silver: A Robber's Paradise
Buy on Amazon2021
31
Rough Trip Back to Boise
Buy on Amazon2021
32
Almost The Fastest Gun
Buy on Amazon2021
33
Shorty Thompson: U.S. Marshal
Buy on Amazon2022
34
Malpais
Buy on Amazon2022
35
Silver of the Black Range
Buy on Amazon2022
36
Trouble In Tascosa
Buy on Amazon2022
37
One Good Deed Before I Die
Buy on Amazon2022
38
A Mother's Wrath
Buy on Amazon2022
39
White Oaks: A Town With No Law
Buy on Amazon2022
40
Wanted: Kill Shorty Thompson: Five Thousand Dollars
Buy on Amazon2022
41
Brothers of the West
Buy on Amazon2022
42
Young Jessie Owens
Buy on Amazon2022
43
When Preaching Is Hell
Buy on Amazon2022
44
Women In The West Did Survive
Buy on Amazon2022
45
Montrose Colorado
Buy on Amazon2022
46
Elijah 'Longhorn' Thompson
Buy on Amazon2022
47
Wells Fargo Is Easy To Rob
Buy on Amazon2022
48
I'll See You Both Dead
Buy on Amazon2022
49
The Wrong Man Again
Buy on Amazon2022
50
The Young Trackers
Buy on Amazon2022
51
This Mountain Is Mine
Buy on Amazon2022
52
Grandpa and The Kid
Buy on Amazon2022
53
The Dead Trail
Buy on Amazon2022
54
Molly Muldoon Kills Her First Man
Buy on Amazon2022
55
A Bit Of Crooked Law
Buy on Amazon2022
56
Caught One Crooked Banker
Buy on Amazon2022
57
Cimarron River: Rustlers Hideout
Buy on Amazon2022
58
Keith Aurzada: Lawyer Gunfighter
Buy on Amazon2022
59
The Last Man
Buy on Amazon2022
60
A Bad Decision
Buy on Amazon2022
61
Six Years Wait For A Showdown
Buy on Amazon2022
62
She's Alive, Not For Long
Buy on Amazon2022
63
Mister You Was Shot In The Head
Buy on Amazon2022
64
I Sentence You To Twenty Years
Buy on Amazon2022
65
We're Going To Die Ain't We Danny
Buy on Amazon2022
66
You Shot Me Once, Never Again!
Buy on Amazon2022
67
One Sweet Kiss Can Kill You
Buy on Amazon2022
68
Animas City - A Town to Forget
Buy on Amazon2022
69
Don’t Ever Make Old Men Mad
Buy on Amazon2022
70
Kill Every Witness
Buy on Amazon2022
71
Deputy U.S. Marshal Betty McCabe
Buy on Amazon2022
72
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson Meets U.S. Marshal Hopper Scranton
Buy on Amazon2022
73
The Long Hunt
Buy on Amazon2022
74
Before I Die
Buy on Amazon2022
75
Killing Of Outlaws
Buy on Amazon2022
76
The Martin Boys
Buy on Amazon2022
77
Cowboy Cody Strickland
Buy on Amazon2022
78
Janice McCord Rides Again
Buy on Amazon2022
79
James P. Retzer: Dentist: New Mexico, Territory
Buy on Amazon2022
80
Doug Brown And Shelly Hampton
Buy on Amazon2022
81
David Graham - The New Gun
Buy on Amazon2022
82
Milo Tillie
Buy on Amazon2022
83
The Road To Chama
Buy on Amazon2022
84
William Colby U.S. Marshal Retired
Buy on Amazon2022
85
Young Outlaws
Buy on Amazon2022
86
Hang Shorty in Leadville, Colorado
Buy on Amazon2022
87
Love Is One Shadow Away
Buy on Amazon2022
88
Little Toby Smith
Buy on Amazon2022
89
Killers and Outlaws
Buy on Amazon2022
90
Revenge of the Bullet
Buy on Amazon2022
91
Black Pearls, Blue Diamonds And Bullets
Buy on Amazon2022
92
A Very Long Time Before Cowboys
Buy on Amazon2022
93
The Devil Will Get You
Buy on Amazon2022
94
Long Trail To Nowhere
Buy on Amazon2022
95
It Takes More Than Bullets
Buy on Amazon2022
96
Keep The Gold - We Keep Our Ranch
Buy on Amazon2022
97
When Winter Winds Blow
Buy on Amazon2022
98
You Ain't Worth Killin'
Buy on Amazon2022
99
Take Aim - Shoot Straight
Buy on Amazon2022
100
I'll Hunt You Down
Buy on Amazon2022
101
One Crooked Town
Buy on Amazon2022
102
Yer in the Wrong Town Mister
Buy on Amazon2022
103
In the Middle of the Colfax County War
Buy on Amazon2022
104
The Wherry Gang Saves Christmas
Buy on Amazon2022
105
Tillie Jane From Hillsboro
Buy on Amazon2022
106
Death is All That's Left
Buy on Amazon2022
107
Pure Raw Justice
Buy on Amazon2022
108
No Justice for the Innocent
Buy on Amazon2022
109
Deputy Sheriff John Dunow
Buy on Amazon2022
110
Blood Over The Horizon
Buy on Amazon2022
111
I Know Who Back Shot Mister Fred
Buy on Amazon2022
112
The Widow Martha Camden
Buy on Amazon2022
113
A Friend Was Robbed And Murdered: Western Adventure
Buy on Amazon2022
114
A Dead Man's Trail
Buy on Amazon2022
115
Thunder On The Mountain
Buy on Amazon2022
116
The Name Is Savage... Dorothy Savage
Buy on Amazon2022
117
The Day Lottie McDade Was Shot
Buy on Amazon2023
118
White Oaks - A Town With No Law
Buy on Amazon2023
119
Ma'am I'll Kill You As Quick As I Did Him
Buy on Amazon2023
120
The Fastest Horse
Buy on Amazon2023
121
My Land Stay Off Or Die
Buy on Amazon2023
122
Thirty Miles From Nowhere
Buy on Amazon2023
123
The Life Of Sally Ward
Buy on Amazon2023
124
Liars and Crooks
Buy on Amazon2023
125
A Long Train Ride Home
Buy on Amazon2023
126
Too Young To Kill
Buy on Amazon2023
127
Kill That Senator
Buy on Amazon2023
128
Sent To England
Buy on Amazon2023
129
When Time Ran Out
Buy on Amazon2024
130
When Hell Rode Into Town
Buy on Amazon2024
131
He’ll Hang Before Sundown
Buy on Amazon2024
132
Out Of Town By Sundown
Buy on Amazon2024
133
That's No Reason To Die
Buy on Amazon2024
134
Wrong Family To Mess With
Buy on Amazon2024
135
You Won't Die Tonight
Buy on Amazon2024
136
Private Buck Lewis
Buy on Amazon2024
137
When Things Go Wrong
Buy on Amazon2024
138
One Bullet Will Kill
Buy on Amazon2024
139
For That You Will Die
Buy on Amazon2024
140
He Has To Be Dead
Buy on Amazon2024
141
Now You Will All Die
Buy on Amazon2025
142
The West Never Runs Out Of Crooks
Buy on Amazon2025
143
The Day I Get Rich
Buy on Amazon2025
144
Crooks Die Fastest
Buy on Amazon2025
145
This Crook Ain't Worth Killing
Buy on Amazon2025
146
It's Time We Rob The Bank
Buy on Amazon2025
147
Saddle Up Time To Ride
Buy on Amazon2025
148
Ambush At Red Rock Station
Buy on Amazon2025
149
The Sheriff Shot Her
Buy on Amazon2025
150
When All Hell Broke Loose
Buy on Amazon2025
151
Believe It! Shorty Thompson Turned Bad
Buy on Amazon2025
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson series is publication order: 1. Ride Hard For Rayado (2001), 2. Willow Lane (2002), 3. U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson (2003), 4. Children of the West (2005), 5. The Last Gun In Town (2008), and 146 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson series by Paul L. Thompson contains 151 books. The series began in 2001 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson series is written by Paul L. Thompson. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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