Best Lawman
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. was an American television series set in the American West of 1893. The show centered on a Harvard-educated lawyer, Brisco County, Jr., who worked as a bounty hunter for wealthy industrialists pursuing John Bly and his gang. Supporting characters included Lord Bo...
Support Your Local Sheriff! is a 1969 American comedy Western directed by Burt Kennedy and starring James Garner. Garner plays Jason McCullough, a capable drifter who accepts the sheriff's job in a disorderly gold-rush town and confronts the powerful Danby family. The film treats familiar Western si...
Sundown Jim is a Western novel written by Ernest Haycox, originally published in 1938. The narrative follows a range detective investigating cattle rustling and murder in the American frontier. Haycox's writing in this period is noted for applying more literary techniques and character-driven psycho...
The Daybreakers is a 1960 western novel by Louis L'Amour that follows brothers Tyrel and Orrin Sackett as they venture westward seeking a new life. The book is notable for establishing the core themes and timeline of the sprawling Sackett family series. It explores the transition of the American fro...
"The High Rocks" is a historical Western novel written by Loren D. Estleman that serves as the inaugural entry in his long-running Page Murdock series. The narrative introduces the protagonist, Deputy United States Marshal Page Murdock, who is tasked with enforcing federal law across the dangerous M...
The Stranglers is a Western novel by Loren D. Estleman, forming part of his long-running series centered on Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock. In this installment, Murdock navigates the dangers of the Montana Territory, where he is tasked with confronting lawlessness and vigilante violence that chall...
This 1954 western novel by Elmore Leonard focuses on a young deputy sheriff who must uphold the law against wealthy cattlemen, highlighting the author's early moral complexity.
Mister St. John is a Western novel written by Loren D. Estleman and published in 1983. The narrative follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, a recurring protagonist in Estleman's series of historical Western fiction. Tasked with pursuing a complex case, Murdock navigates the rugged and lawless lan...
Blue-Eyed Devil is a 2010 Western novel by Robert B. Parker and the fourth published novel featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. After returning to the town of Appaloosa, the pair become involved in a struggle involving corrupt authority, hired gunmen, and competing claims to con...
Firecreek is a 1968 American Western film directed by Vincent McEveety. It stars James Stewart as Johnny Cobb, a part-time sheriff and farmer, and Henry Fonda as Bob Larkin, the leader of a roaming group of drifters who bring violence to a small frontier town. The film explores the reluctant hero tr...
Will Henry's western novel offering a fictionalized account of Wyatt Earp's frontier career, written by Henry Wilson Allen under his most prominent pen name.
Louis L'Amour's 1969 western in which a marshal is tasked with bringing law to a violent Colorado mining boomtown using experience and nerve rather than brute force.
Matt Braun's western novel about a young gunfighter suffering from a fatal illness who earns a deadly reputation in the violent Kansas cattle towns of the 1870s.
Loren D. Estleman's western novel in the Page Murdock series, following a deputy U.S. marshal investigating a series of murders in a lawless New Mexico border town.
