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The Gunsmith Books in Order
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: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the The Gunsmith series? Start with "Macklin's Women" (1982) and follow publication order through all 475 books.
The complete The Gunsmith reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Macklin's Women
1982
The Chinese Gunmen
1982
The Woman Hunt
1982
The Guns of Abilene
1982
Three Guns for Glory
1982
Leadtown
1982
The Longhorn War
1982
Quanah's Revenge
1983
New Orleans Fire
1983
Heavyweight Gun
1983
One-Handed Gun
1983
The Canadian Payroll
1984
Draw to an Inside Death
1984
Dead Man's Hand
1984
Bandit Gold
1984
Buckskins and Six-Guns
1984
Silver War
1984
High Noon at Lancaster
1984
Bandido Blood
1984
The Dodge City Gang
1984
Sasquatch Hunt
1984
Bullets and Ballots
1984
The Riverboat Gang
1984
Killer Grizzly
1984
North of the Border
1984
Eagle's Gap
1984
Chinatown Hell
1984
The Panhandle Search
1984
Wildcat Roundup
1984
The Ponderosa War
1984
Trouble Rides a Fast Horse
1984
Dynamite Justice
1984
The Posse
1984
Night of the Gila
1984
The Bounty Women
1984
Black Pearl Saloon
1985
Gundown in Paradise
1985
The El Paso Salt War
1985
King of the Border
1985
The Ten Pines Killer
1985
Hell with a Pistol
1985
The Wyoming Cattle Kill
1985
The Golden Horseman
1985
The Scarlet Gun
1985
Navaho Devil
1985
Wild Bill's Ghost
1985
The Miners' Showdown
1985
Archer's Revenge
1986
Showdown in Raton
1986
When Legends Meet
1986
Desert Hell
1986
The Diamond Gun
1986
Denver Duo
1986
Hell On Wheels
1986
The Legend Maker
1986
Walking Dead Man
1986
Crossfire Mountain
1986
The Deadly Healer
1986
The Trail Drive War
1986
Geronimo's Trail
1986
The Comstock Gold Fraud
1987
Boom Town Killer
1987
Texas Trackdown
1987
The Fast Draw League
1987
Showdown in Rio Malo
1987
Outlaw Trail
1987
Homesteader Guns
1987
Five Card Death
1987
Trail Drive to Montana
1987
Trial by Fire
1987
The Old Whistler Gang
1987
Daughter of Gold
1987
Apache Gold
1988
Plains Murder
1988
Deadly Memories
1988
The Nevada Timber War
1988
New Mexico Showdown
1988
Barbed Wire and Bullets
1988
Death Express
1988
When Legends Die
1988
Six-Gun Justice
1988
The Mustang Hunters
1988
Texas Ransom
1988
Vengeance Town
1988
Winner Take All
1989
Message From a Dead Man
1989
Ride for Vengeance
1989
The Takersville Shoot
1989
Blood on the Land
1989
Six-Gun Sideshow
1989
Mississippi Massacre
1989
The Arizona Triangle
1989
Brothers of the Gun
1989
The Stagecoach Thieves
1989
Judgment at Firecreek
1989
Dead Man's Jury
1989
Hands of the Strangler
1989
Nevada Death Trap
1990
Wagon Train to Hell
1990
Ride for Revenge
1990
Dead Ringer
1990
Trail of the Assassin
1990
Shoot-Out at Crossfork
1990
Buckskin's Trail
1990
Helldorado
1990
The Hanging Judge
1990
The Bounty Hunter
1990
Tombstone At Little Horn
1990
Killer's Race
1991
Wyoming Range War
1991
Grand Canyon Gold
1991
Guns Don't Argue
1991
St. Louis Showdown
1991
Frontier Justice
1991
Game of Death
1991
The Oregon Strangler
1991
Blood Brothers
1991
Scarlet Fury
1991
Arizona Ambush
1991
The Vengeance Trail
1991
The Deadly Derringer
1992
The Stagecoach Killers
1992
Five Against Death
1992
Mustang Man
1992
The Godfather
1992
Killer's Gold
1992
Ghost Town
1992
The Caliente Gold Robbery
1992
Golden Gate Killers
1992
The Road to Testimony
1992
The Witness
1992
The Great Riverboat Race
1992
Two Guns for Justice
1993
Outlaw Women
1993
Valley Massacre
1993
Nevada Guns
1993
Deadly Gold
1993
Vigilante Hunt
1993
Samurai Hunt
1993
Gambler's Blood
1993
Wyoming Justice
1993
Gila River Crossing
1993
West Texas Showdown
1993
Gillett’s Rangers
1994
Return to Deadwood
1994
Blind Justice
1994
Ambush Moon
1994
Spanish Gold
1994
Night of the Wolf
1994
Champion with a Gun
1994
Lethal Ladies
1994
Tolliver's Deputies
1994
Orphan Train
1994
The Magician
1994
Dakota Guns
1994
Seminole Vengeance
1995
The Ransom
1995
The Huntsville Trip
1995
The Ten Year Hunt
1995
The Empty Gun
1995
The Last Great Scout
1995
The Wild Women of Glitter Gulch
1995
The Omaha Heat
1995
The Denver Ripper
1995
The Wolf Teacher
1995
Chinaville
1995
The French Models
1995
Crime of Passion
1996
The Elliott Bay Murders
1996
Funeral for a Friend
1996
The Hanging Woman
1996
Jersey Lily
1996
Gunquick
1996
Grave Hunt
1996
Triple Cross
1996
Buried Pleasures
1996
Wild Bull
1996
The Queensville Temptress
1996
Chinatown Assassin
1996
The Challenge
1997
Winning Streak
1997
The Flying Machine
1997
Homestead Law
1997
The Biloxi Queen
1997
Six for the Money
1997
Legbreakers and Heartbreakers
1997
The Orient Express
1997
The Posse from Elsinore
1997
Lady on the Run
1997
Outbreak
1997
Money Town
1997
Texas Wind
1998
Massacre at Rock Springs
1998
Criminal Kin
1998
The Counterfeit Clergyman
1998
Apache Raid
1998
The Lady Killers
1998
Denver Desperadoes
1998
The James Boys
1998
The Gambler
1998
Vigilante Justice
1998
Dead Man's Bluff
1998
Women on the Run
1999
The Gambler's Girl
1999
Legend of the Piasa Bird
1999
Kansas City Killing
1999
The Last Bounty
1999
Death Times Five
1999
Maximilian's Treasure
1999
Son of a Gunsmith
1999
Family Feud
1999
Strangler's Vendetta
1999
The Borton Family Gang
1999
Showdown at Daylight
1999
The Man from Peculiar
1999
Ambush at Black Rock
2000
The Cleveland Connection
2000
The Brothel Inspector
2000
End of the Trail
2000
Dangerous Breed
2000
The Lynched Man
2000
Baron of Crime
2000
Dead Horse Canyon
2000
Justice in Rimfire
2000
Wanted, Clint Adams
2000
Safetown
2000
The Sioux City War
2000
High Card Dies
2001
Pay Dirt
2001
The Posse Men
2001
Bullets for a Boy
2001
Train Full of Trouble
2001
Deadly Business
2001
Bayou Ghosts
2001
The Cherokee Strip
2001
The Killer Con
2001
The Spirit Box
2001
The High Road
2001
Stacked Deck
2001
Playing for Blood
2001
Dead and Buried
2002
Outlaw Luck
2002
The Shadow of the Gunsmith
2002
Ghost Squadron
2002
Dead Man's Eyes
2002
Random Gunfire
2002
A Man of the Gun
2002
Deadly Game
2002
The Doomsday Riders
2002
Next to Die
2002
The Making of a Bad Man
2002
Tangled Web
2003
A Day in the Sun
2003
The Treasure Hunt
2003
Just Reward
2003
The Rat's Nest
2003
Widow's Watch
2003
A Killer's Hands
2003
Faces of the Dead
2003
The Only Law
2003
The Devil's Spark
2003
Empty Hand
2003
The Love of Money
2003
Long Way Down
2003
The Red Queen
2004
No Turning Back
2004
Big-Sky Bandits
2004
The Hanging Tree
2004
The Big Fork Game
2004
In for a Pound
2004
Dead End Pass
2004
Tricks of the Trade
2004
Guilty as Charged
2004
The Lucky Lady
2004
The Canadian Job
2004
Rolling Thunder
2004
Justice from Hell / The Hanging Judge
2005
Death in Denver
2005
The Reckoning
2005
Ring of Fire
2005
The Last Ride
2005
Riding the Whirlwind
2005
Scorpion's Tail
2005
Innocent Blood
2005
The Ghost of Goliad
2005
The Reapers
2005
The Deadly and the Divine
2005
Amazon Gold
2005
The Grand Prize
2006
Gunman's Crossing
2006
Alive or Nothing
2006
The Road to Hell
2006
Farewell Mountain
2006
Kira's Bounty
2006
The Imposter
2006
Dangerous Cargo
2006
Loose Ends
2006
Snakebite Creek
2006
The Long Arm of the Law
2006
The Killing Blow
2006
The Friends of Wild Bill Hickok
2007
Two for Trouble
2007
Shadow Walker
2007
The Sapphire Gun
2007
One Man's Law
2007
Red River Showdown
2007
Clint Adams, Detective
2007
Outlaw's Reckoning
2007
Way with a Gun
2007
To Reap and to Sow
2007
Under a Turquoise Sky
2007
Wildfire
2007
Dying Wish
2008
The Madame of Silver Junction
2008
Ace in the Hole
2008
The Valley of the Wendigo
2008
Five Points
2008
Out of the Past
2008
Straw Men
2008
The Greater Evil
2008
Louisiana Shoot-out
2008
A Daughter's Revenge
2008
Ball and Chain
2008
Red Water
2008
The Two-Gun Kid
2009
The Golden Princess
2009
East of the River
2009
The Dublin Detective
2009
The Dead Town
2009
The Man With the Iron Badge
2009
The Town Council Meeting
2009
Virgil Earp, Private Detective
2009
Message on the Wind
2009
Crossing the Line
2009
Bad Business
2009
Pariah
2009
Pleasant Valley Shoot-Out
2010
The Lady Doctor's Alibi
2010
The Bisbee Massacre
2010
The Bandit Princess
2010
The Last Trail Drive
2010
The Hunt for Clint Adams
2010
Anatomy of a Lawman
2010
Someone Else's Trouble
2010
Lady Eight Ball
2010
Chicago Confidential
2010
Showdown in Cheyenne
2010
Riverboat Blaze
2010
With Deadly Intent
2011
The Trial of Bat Masterson
2011
Unbound by Law
2011
The Deadly Chest
2011
Cross Draw
2011
Bitterroot Valley
2011
Hunt for the White Wolf
2011
Fort Revenge
2011
Two Guns for Vengeance
2011
The Mad Scientist of the West
2011
The Letter of the Law
2011
Buffalo Soldiers
2012
The Death List
2012
The Vicar of St. James
2012
The Last Buffalo Hunt
2012
The Governor's Gun
2012
The Omaha Palace
2012
The University Showdown
2012
Forty Mile River
2012
Fraternity of the Gun
2012
The Town of Two Women
2012
The Missing Patriarch
2012
Ticket to Yuma
2012
Deadly Election
2013
The Thousand Mile Case
2013
Trail to Shasta
2013
The Legend of El Duque
2013
The Pinkerton Job
2013
The Devil's Collector
2013
Kentucky Showdown
2013
Blood Trail
2013
Standoff in Santa Fe
2013
Death in the Desert
2013
Louisiana Stalker
2013
The Silent Deputy
2013
Vengeance Ride
2014
Mexico Mayhem
2014
Magic Man
2014
The Salt City Scrape
2014
Copper Canyon Killers
2014
Showdown in Desperation
2014
The Clint Adams Special
2014
The Counterfeit Gunsmith
2014
The South Fork Showdown
2014
The Three Mercenaries
2014
A Different Trade
2014
Let It Bleed
2014
Deadly Fortune
2015
Death in the Family
2015
The Lincoln Ransom
2015
New Mexico Powder Keg
2015
Kidnap a Gunsmith
2015
Lawman's Sunset
2015
Three Rings of Trouble / Three Rings of Justice
2016
Blood Coast
2016
The Put Up Job
2016
The Dodge City Inheritance
2016
The Gold of Point Pinos
2016
Shot in the Back
2016
Silent Assassin
2016
Grizzly Hunt
2017
Dakota Kill
2017
Demon's Curse
2017
Death of a Gandy Dancer
2017
The Funeral of Doc Holliday
2017
The Tomb of Joaquin
2017
Ace High
2017
The Art of the Gun
2017
The Devil's Payload
2017
The Show Girl
2017
The Science of Death
2017
The Bank Job
2018
Little Amsterdam
2018
The Butcher of the Bayou
2018
The Ghost of Butler's Gulch
2018
Deadly Feud
2018
The Reluctant Executioner
2018
The Treasure of Little Bighorn
2018
Blackbeard's Gun
2018
Lost Man
2018
Aces & Queens
2018
The Last Wagon Train
2018
Beauty and the Gun
2019
Deadly Trouble
2019
The Curse of the Gold City
2019
Deadville
2019
Boots and Saddles
2019
The Fantastic Mr. Verne
2019
The Girl Nobody Knew
2019
The Ambush of Belle Starr
2019
The Last Way West
2019
Portrait of a Gunsmith
2019
Deadly Heirloom
2019
Into the Fire
2019
Brotherly Love
2020
The Daughter of Jean Lafitte
2020
The Guns of St. Augustine
2020
The Gunsmith Saloon
2020
The Imperial Crown
2020
The Traveling Undertaker
2020
Standoff in Labyrinth
2020
The Gypsy King
2020
The Gunsmiths Women's Club
2020
The Ticket Clerk
2020
The Children of Willow Springs
2020
Young Butch Cassidy
2021
The Lady Sheriff
2021
Murder in the Family
2021
The Tall Texan
2021
Gunsmith for Hire
2021
A Price on a Gunsmith's Head
2021
The Tracker
2021
Freakville
2021
Outlaw's Gun
2021
Six Deadly Guns
2022
Deadly Delivery
2022
Sheriff Iron Horse
2022
The Red Lady of San Francisco
2022
Steel Disaster
2022
The Friendly Gold Mine
2022
Cheap Whiskey and Sad Women
2023
The Chanteuse from the East
2023
Belle Starr's Daughter
2023
To Steal from the Dead
2023
The Central City Poker Challenge
2023
The Gunsmith Down Under
2024
Deadly Debt
2024
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