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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Standalone series? Start with "The Farthest Frontier" (1957) and follow publication order through all 288 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Farthest Frontier
1957
The Long Law Trail
1957
Wagon Train (As: Mark Carrel)
1957
The Massacre At Mountain Meadows
1958
Rogue River Cowboy
1958
Case Of The Innocent Witness (As: Mark Carrel)
1959
Conquest Of The Great Northwest
1959
The Hangrope's Shadow (As: Mark Carrel)
1959
Northwest Conquest
1959
Range War
1959
Apache Trail
1960
Man Behind The Gun
1960
Quick Shooter Beuhler
1960
Trail Of The Freighters
1960
Wyoming Trails
1960
Carry A Gun (As: Mark Carrel)
1961
The Man From Wells Fargo
1961
Return Of The Fast Gun
1961
The Short-gun Man (As: John Kilgore)
1962
Sheriff Of Cow Country (As: John Kilgore)
1962
Gunfighter (As: John Kilgore)
1963
Outpost
1963
This Time Tomorrow
1963
Lynch Law
1964
Man From Secret Valley (As: John Kilgore)
1964
Hidden Hills
1965
Johnny Colt (As: Concho Bradley)
1966
Land Of Long Rifles (As: Concho Bradley)
1966
Man From The Cherokee Strip (As: John Kilgore)
1966
Nightrider's Moon
1966
Oklahoma Fiddlefoot
1966
Texas Ben Thompson
1966
The Blood-pit
1967
The Dark Edge Of Violence (As: Mark Carrel)
1967
Lynch Town
1967
Winchester Hills
1967
The Steel Mask
1968
Death Of A Doctor
1969
Love Of A Banker
1969
Run With The Killer
1969
Time Of Assassins (As: Reg Batchelor)
1969
The Murder Game (As: Reg Batchelor)
1970
Murderer's Row (As: Reg Batchelor)
1970
Some Die Young (As: John Kilgore)
1970
Kill And Be Damned
1970
Twilight People (As: Reg Batchelor)
1970
Emerald Heart
1971
A Gaggle Of Ghosts
1971
A Crack In Time
1971
Cactus Country
1972
Witches In Fact And Fantasy
1972
Another View
1972
Counsel For The Killer
1972
Murder To Music (As: John Kilgore)
1972
The Undine
1972
The Hierarchy Of Hell
1972
Legacy Of Shadows (As: Reg Batchelor)
1972
A Killer's Category (As: John Armour)
1973
One Last Time (As: Mark Carrel)
1973
Bannister's Z Matter
1973
The Triangle Murder (As: Reg Batchelor)
1973
Murder Without Motive
1974
Witchcraft And The Mysteries
1974
Achilles' Isle (As: Reg Batchelor)
1974
Assignment For Trouble
1974
Gunman's Code (As: Concho Bradley)
1974
Octopus' Shadow
1974
Killer's Legacy
1975
Pawnee Butte
1975
The Assassins
1975
The Terrorists
1975
Underground Men
1975
The Assassins' World
1975
The Blue Hills (As: Concho Bradley)
1976
South-west Law
1976
The Partnership
1976
Painted Pony
1976
Raider's Moon (As: Concho Bradley)
1976
Juniper Shadow (As: Concho Bradley)
1977
Double Jeopardy
1978
Cody Jones (As: Reg Batchelor)
1979
Dakota Deathtrap
1979
Return To The South Desert
1980
Longlance Plain
1981
Punchbowl Range
1981
D Day
1981
Scarface
1981
Carter Valley (As: John Armour)
1982
Bannon's Law
1982
The Lord Of Lost Valley
1982
Copperdust Valley (As: Concho Bradley)
1982
Guns Of Arizona
1982
Thunder Valley
1982
Adobe Wells
1982
Frontier Steel
1982
Guns Of The Hunters
1983
Paloverde (As: John Armour)
1983
The Trail Drive
1983
Copperdust Hills
1983
Crow Range
1983
The Witness Tree
1983
South Desert Trail
1983
High Ridge Range
1983
The War Wagon
1984
The Bordermen
1984
Tanner
1984
Zuni Country
1984
Skye
1984
The Marshal
1985
The Homesteaders
1986
Moon Meadow (As: Concho Bradley)
1986
The Horseman
1986
Shadow Gunman (As: John Kilgore)
1986
The New Mexico Heritage
1987
The Peralta Country
1987
The Medicine Bow
1987
Spirit Meadow
1987
The Blue Basin Country
1987
Trail Of The Hawks
1987
Three Silver Bullets
1987
Custer Meadow
1988
Arrowhead Cattle Company
1988
The Guns Of Summer
1988
The Sheridan Stage
1989
The Taurus Gun
1989
The Catch Colt
1989
The Young Marauders
1989
The Arizona Panhandle
1990
Alamo Jefferson
1990
The Open Range Men
1990
Open Range
1990
The Bandoleros
1990
The Sun Devils (As: John Armour)
1990
Riders Of The Trojan Horse
1991
The Deadwood Stage (As: John Kilgore)
1992
The Cloverleaf Cattle Company
1992
The Squaw Men
1992
The Undertaker
1992
Paiute Trail
1993
Adobe Empire
1993
Poker Flat
1993
The Prairieton Raid
1994
The Fifth Horseman
1994
Kiowa-apache
1994
Vengeance Trail
1994
Greed At Gold River
1994
The Gunman's Legacy
1994
Moon Prairie
1995
Trail To Trouble
1995
The Devil On Horseback
1995
The Renegade
1995
Comancheria
1995
Return Of The Hunted
1995
El Vengador
1995
The Manhunter
1995
Last Of The Balfrys
1995
Navajo Country
1995
Tears Of The Heart
1995
The Past Won't End
1995
Timberline
1995
Trail Of The Sioux
1996
The Verde River Kid
1996
Apache Kid
1996
The Rawhiders
1996
Lockwood
1996
Californios
1996
The Flathead Country
1996
Valour In The Land
1997
The Misplaced Psyche
1997
The White Bird
1997
Wilderness Road
1997
The Grand Ones Of San Ildefonso
1997
Devil's Den
1997
Buckskin Buccaneer
1998
Cache Canon
1998
Forest Mountain
1998
Murder Now, Pay Later
1998
The Man From Coyanosa
1998
Six-gun Atonement
1998
Stone Mountain
1998
The Killer Gun
1998
Murder In Hawthorn (As: John Armour)
1999
Bags And Saddles
1999
The Outcast
1999
The Mustangers
1999
Guns Of The Law
1999
Murder In Paradise
1999
Death Of A Millionaire
2000
Death Was The Echo
2000
Man From Butte City
2000
The Running Iron
2000
Buckeye
2001
The Long Years
2001
The Dark Trail
2001
Thunderbird Range
2001
The Tombstone Range
2001
Dead Man's Range
2001
Ambush Canyon
2001
The Trail Without End
2002
The Bald Hills
2002
High Desert Guns
2002
All Men Are Strangers
2002
The Border Country
2002
Carleton's Meadow
2002
Winchester Pass
2002
The Green Hills
2002
Guns In The Desert
2002
Thieves' Trail
2002
Montana Trail
2003
Thunder Pass
2003
Border Town
2003
The Free-graze War
2003
The Oxbow Range
2003
Tumbleweed Trail
2003
Brothers Of Vengeance
2003
Gathering Storm
2003
Arizona Ambush
2003
The Time Of The Texan
2003
Night Of The Comancheros
2003
The Ghost Rider
2004
Law Along The Border
2004
The Guns Of El Paso
2004
Rain Valley
2004
Cain's Trail
2004
Outlaw Town
2004
Pinon Range
2004
Guns In Oregon
2004
The Gunsight Affair
2004
The Man From Cody County
2004
Sixshooter Trail
2004
The Saddlegun Man
2004
Circle H Range
2005
The Forsythe Stage
2005
Avenger's Trail
2005
The Hunter Of Faro Canyon
2005
Holding The Ace Card
2005
Land Of Barbed Boundaries
2005
The Born Survivor
2005
Western Vengeance
2005
Texas Revenge
2005
Bounty Hunters' Range
2005
Buffalo Township
2005
Feud On The Mesa
2005
The San Luis Range
2005
Squatter's Rights
2006
Gunman
2006
Killian's Canyon
2006
The Law Trail
2006
Utah Summer
2007
Halfmoon Ranch
2007
Cottonwood
2007
Ride To Battle Mountain
2007
Desert Journey
2007
Saddle Mountain
2007
Man From Durango
2007
Morgan Valley
2008
Gunhill
2008
Salt-lick Range
2008
Patterson
2008
Corral Canyon
2009
The Buckskin Hills
2009
Gundown
2009
Long Bow
2009
Shepler's Spring
2009
The Guns Of Parral
2010
The Gunsmith
2010
Horsethief's Moon
2011
Hurd's Crossing
2011
Beyond Fort Mims
2011
Tomahawk Meadow
2012
Lost Valley
2012
Ute Peak Country
2012
Way Of The Outlaw
2012
Marshal Redleaf
2013
Guns In Wyoming
2013
Ghost Meadow
2013
Prairie Empire
2013
The Texan Rides Alone
2013
Rough Justice
2014
Shadow Of A Hang Rope
2014
Dead Man's Canon
2017
Trail Of Shadows
2017
Reckoning At Lansing's Ferry
2017
Wagon Train West
2018
Winter Moon
2018
Cheyenne Pass
2019
Terror In Gunsight
2020
Showdown In Gun Town
2022
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