Texas Trails

After starpackin' for a spell in Benton, Rawley Pierson and his pard Chaw Stevens reckoned it was high time they got back to some honest work like cow punching. So, they handed in their tin stars and headed north through the Diablos, fixin' to find work in the panhandle. But trouble seems to follow the men like coyotes on a spring herd, and soon they found themselves trading lead in a full scale range war.Hired by Zeb Hawkins to protect his small Circle H Bar spread from the army of gun-totin' rustlers working for rival cattleman Ed MacWilliams, Rawley and Chaw kept their guns loaded and the herd on the move. But when Rawley kills a gunsel in a fair fight and is sentenced to hang, there's hell to pay. Bustin' out of jail to clear his name, the ex-sheriff and his ornery sidekick go gunnin' for payback until the open Texas range runs red with rustlers' blood. Patrick E. Andrews was born in Oklahoma in 1936 into a family of pioneers who participated in its growth from the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory to statehood. His father's family were homesteaders and his mother's cattle ranchers. Consequently, he is among the last generation of American writers who had contacts with those people from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Patrick's wife Julie says he both speaks and writes with an Oklahoma accent.He is an ex-paratrooper, having served in the 82nd Airborne Division in the active army and the 12th Special Forces Group in the army reserves. Patrick began his writing career after leaving the army. He and his better half presently reside in southern California. He has a son Bill, who is an ex-paratrooper and a probation officer, and two grandchildren. This series consists of three novels set in the Lone Star State of Texas, featuring different characters and fast-action.

In the time the hardworking Barlow boys tended their south Texas spread, there'd been no rustlin' trouble. So, when Morgan got word of his old Mel buddy's funeral, he saddled up, leaving his brother Sam to mind their herd for a spell while he paid his respects. 'Course, he never reckoned on the likes of Zach Medford and his gang of blood-thirsty gunmen riding across the Mex border to kill his kin and steal his cattle.Revenge burning in his guts, Morgan tracked the varmints day and night by the trail of blood they left clear down to Mexico. Taking up with a sharp-shootin' gal name of Anna lee and Marcel Pain, a rawhide tough Cajun trapper both with their own bitter debts to settle with Medford,Barlow cornered the outlaws in their own stinking hideout. With bullets flying fast and furious under the hot desert sun, the final showdown leaves the Texican trio standing tall and the hardcases facedown and done for! Patrick E. Andrews was born in Oklahoma in 1936 into a family of pioneers who participated in its growth from the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory to statehood. His father's family were homesteaders and his mother's cattle ranchers. Consequently, he is among the last generation of American writers who had contacts with those people from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Patrick's wife Julie says he both speaks and writes with an Oklahoma accent.He is an ex-paratrooper, having served in the 82nd Airborne Division in the active army and the 12th Special Forces Group in the army reserves. Patrick began his writing career after leaving the army. He and his better half presently reside in southern California. He has a son Bill, who is an ex-paratrooper and a probation officer, and two grandchildren. This series consists of three novels set in the Lone Star State of Texas, featuring different characters and fast-action.

The governor had ordered Texas Ranger Captain Charlie Delano to clean up Denton County by putting Ace Erickson behind bars. Teaming with Guy Tyrone and Gideon Magee, two of the orneriest peace officers ever to pack a Ranger star, Delano cut a road of outlaw blood clean to Ace's door. Outnumbered by the owlhoot army, with the odds fading faster than the Rangers could reload, Delano reckoned there was one way to bring law and order back to Stavanger. Standing tall, he walked out in the open, ready to face Erickson alone in a deadly showdown only one man could win! Patrick E. Andrews was born in Oklahoma in 1936 into a family of pioneers who participated in its growth from the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory to statehood. His father's family were homesteaders and his mother's cattle ranchers. Consequently, he is among the last generation of American writers who had contacts with those people from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Patrick's wife Julie says he both speaks and writes with an Oklahoma accent.He is an ex-paratrooper, having served in the 82nd Airborne Division in the active army and the 12th Special Forces Group in the army reserves. Patrick began his writing career after leaving the army. He and his better half presently reside in southern California. He has a son Bill, who is an ex-paratrooper and a probation officer, and two grandchildren. This series consists of three novels set in the Lone Star State of Texas, featuring different characters and fast-action.