Dusty Richards

Two-time Spur Award winner and member of the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame, Dusty Richards pens gritty Western tales packed with period authenticity....

Cattle baron Rupart MacDavis wants to bury the ranchers of Horse Creek, Montana....

Gil Slatter's quick on the draw and has a head for running a ranch - but he's also a lonely man with nothing more than a cot in the bunkhouse at the TXY Ranch....

For Chet Byrnes, building a ranching empire means adding new land, hiring good men, finding water, and trying new breeds of cattle. But outlaws and Tuscon's idle rich want to take it all away - and Arizona just may be too lawless to stop it....

When a new railroad route is planned to pass through Navajo territory, US marshal Chet Byrnes fights to get the Indians a contract to supply the locomotives with coal. But the coal contract means millions, and the ruthless Tucson Ring will do anything to get it....

Vince was a mustanger with a solitary camp high in the Rusty Hills where he worked his operation alone. Then on a trip back from selling some mustangs, he came across Molly....

Chet Byrnes has built a ranching empire from the ground up. And he’s defended it with his sweat, blood, and a ragtag band of ranch-hand fighters. Now a beautiful young Spanish widow comes into Chet’s life, just as he starts off in search of a lost cattle drive....

Herschel Baker's new role as the sheriff of Yellowstone County is a far cry from his previous life as a rancher....

A rawhide-tough horse thief rides up from Mexico with a lightning-quick draw that leaves a trail of dead criminals in his wake....

A drunken plan to make some quick money with two friends landed drifter Whit Ralston in the Yuma Territorial Prison - the worst prison in Arizona....

In the thrilling new saga from Western Heritage and Spur award-winning author Dusty Richards, Chet Byrnes stands his ground - with his courage, guns, and blood....

A landmark feat of innovation is about to change the American West forever. With electric cables stretching from the Colorado River to Gallup, New Mexico, a new telegraph system will connect the settlers of the Arizona Territory to the rest of the country....

The Byrnes family saga continues in this epic novel by Western Heritage, Western Writers of America, and Spur Award-winning Dusty Richards, starting with a trailblazing moment in our nation's history - and ending in bloodsoaked vengeance....

Born out of the grit, sweat, and drive of a cattle ranching empire, US Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland. To some, he's the hero that the West needs. To others, he's a moving target....

Norman Thompson doesn't seek out trouble, but it has a way of finding him, anyhow....

With nothing to go on but five bloody bodies, a cracked safe, and an empty jail, Dell works the fringe of his sleepy western town....

Charlie Brackeen owns the big ranch that takes up the entire north end of drought-stricken Callie County. When he pushes his B-Bar-M cattle south of their own range, it’s no mistake - it’s a hostile takeover, enforced by Sheriff Alex Woodbridge....

With the authenticity of a real cowboy, best-selling author Dusty Richards weaves a moving coming-of-age story set against the cattle trails and open vistas of South Texas....

Chet Byrnes is building a new life in Arizona Territory as he expands his cattle ranching operation - but trouble just keeps coming. A brutal Apache attack on his cattle drive....

Unemployed ranch hand Jim Dailey only wants some matches when he rides up to a store in Willow Grove, Kansas, on a dusty, fateful summer day. What he gets when he steps inside, though, is anything but....