Frederic Bean
Murder at the Spirit Cave. Bantam, 1999.
Carla Jenkins, the first woman appointed to the all-male ranks of the Texas Rangers, works with her father’s former partner on the case of a murdered young man whose body is found in a remote cave, whose injuries mimic an ancient Indian ritual of torture.

Matt Braun
The Warlords. St. Martin’s, 2003.
In 1915, a German plot sends a force of embittered Tejanos has crossed the Rio Grande, burning ranches, killing Texans, and gathering fighters in its wake in order to keep the United States from joining the war raging in Europe. It is up to a Special Agent and a Texas Ranger to infiltrate enemy lines and derail the conspiracy.

J. Lee Butts
Bad Blood: Lucius Dodge and the Redlands War. Berkley, 2005.
In a town ravaged by blood feuds, Texas Ranger Lucius Dodge tries to stay alive as he brings back a prisoner wanted for murder and searches for a young woman who has disappeared.

Henry Chapppell
Blood Kin. Texas tech, 2004.
After the fall of the Alamo, 16-year-old Isaac Webb joins the Texas Rangers and battles both the Mexican forces of Santa Ana and the Comanche.

Bill Crider
Texas Vigilante. Dell, 1999.
Two women ride across Texas to save a little girl and bring a killer to justice.

Elmer Kelton
The Way of the Coyote. Forge, 2002.
Texas Ranger Rusty Shannon rescues 10-year-old Andy Pickard, whose has been a captive of the Comanche since childhood. When Andy’s relatives spurn the half-wild child, Rusty takes him in. But his problems are only beginning: an unscrupulous judge and a pair of enemies rob him of his ranch and the Comanche kidnap the son of his old love. This is the ____ book of the “Texas Rangers” series. The Sachem Library also owns: Jericho’s Road (2004) and Texas Vendetta (2004)

Richard Matheson
The Gun Fight. M. Evans, 1993.
After shooting a teen-aged bank robber, Texas Ranger and famous gunslinger John Benton decides to hang up his guns and become a peaceful rancher. But when a young girl trying to make her beau jealous tells a lie, the result is tragedy for everyone involved.

Larry McMurtry
Dead Man’s Walk. S&S, 1995.
This prequel to Lonesome Dove tells the story of Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae when they were young Texas Rangers.

Diana Palmer
Lawless. MIRA, 2003.
(Okay, you John Wayne types, skip this one if you don’t have the stomach for a romance.) Texas Ranger Judd Dunn married 16-year-old Christabel Gaines merely to protect her from her abusive father and save the family ranch. Now that she is turning 21, he plans to annul their union. But Christabel has fallen in love and will do what it takes to make him fall in love with her.

F. M. Parker
A Score to Settle. Kensington, 1999.
In 1849 New Orleans, disgraced ex-Texas Ranger Lew Fannin decides to change his luck by assuming a murdered man’s identity and inheritance. But Tim Wollfolk is anything but dead and he is determined to take back what is his.

James Reasoner
Walker, Texas Ranger. Berkley, 1999.
Based on the TV program of the same name featuring the lawman with lightning-quick karate skills. By the same author: Siege on the Belle. Berkley, 1999.

Gene Shelton
Manhunter: The Life & Times of Frank Hammer. Berkley, 1997.
A fictionalized account of the fabled lawman who took down Bonnie and Clyde.

Cotton Smith
The Thirteenth Bullet. Pocket, 2004.
After his lifelong friend and fellow Texas Ranger is betrayed and killed simply because of a hatred of the Irish, Time Carlow throws away his badge and decides to seek revenge.

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