Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Colonel’s Lady | 1952 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 2 | Six-Gun Boss | 1952 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 3 | The Desperado | 1953 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 4 | A Noose For The Desperado | 1953 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 5 | Whom Gods Destroy | 1953 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 6 | Two-Gun Law | 1954 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 7 | Gambling Man | 1955 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 8 | Death’s Sweet Song | 1955 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 9 | Law of the Trigger | 1956 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 10 | Boomer | 1957 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 11 | Outlaw’s Son | 1957 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 12 | When Oil Ran Red | 1957 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 13 | Killer in Town | 1959 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 14 | Stranger in Town | 1962 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 15 | The Legend of Lonnie Hall | 1963 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 16 | The Moonlight War | 1963 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 17 | The Oceola Kid | 1963 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 18 | Reckless Men | 1963 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 19 | Moonlight War | 1963 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 20 | The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones | 1964 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 21 | Doomsday Creek. | 1964 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 22 | Hogan’s Way | 1964 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 23 | Hardcase For Hire | 1964 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 24 | Hottest Fourth of July in the History of Hangtree County 4th | 1965 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 25 | The Grabhorn Bounty | 1966 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 26 | Shorty | 1966 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 27 | A Partnership With Death | 1967 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 28 | Tragg’s Choice | 1969 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 29 | The Last Days of Wolf Garnett | 1970 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 30 | Dude Sheriff | 1970 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 31 | The Badge and Harry Cole | 1971 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 32 | Biscuit-Shooter | 1971 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 33 | Hassle and the Medicine Man | 1972 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 34 | Outlaw Destiny | 1972 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 35 | Rogue Cowboy | 1972 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 36 | The Most Dangerous Profession | 1973 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 37 | The Hard Time Bunch | 1973 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 38 | Lawman’s Badge | 1973 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 39 | Hard Times For Arnie Smith | 1974 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 40 | Concannon | 1974 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 41 | Once An Outlaw Dual | 1981 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
| 42 | Day Of The Gun | 1984 | Clifton Adams | Buy |
Clifton Adams wrote 42 standalone novels across more than three decades, starting with The Colonel’s Lady and Six-Gun Boss in 1952 and continuing through Day Of The Gun in 1984. The titles tell a story of their own: desperados, outlaws, lawmen, bounties, gunslingers, and small-town conflicts run through the entire catalog, placing Adams squarely in the western fiction tradition.
The most productive stretch came in the early 1960s and early 1970s, when Adams was releasing multiple books per year — four in 1963 alone, and another cluster of four in 1972. Later entries like Once An Outlaw Dual (1981) and Day Of The Gun (1984) came after a longer gap, rounding out a catalog that spans the full arc of the mid-twentieth century western.
Because these are standalone novels rather than a series, readers can start anywhere. Titles like Tragg’s Choice, The Last Days of Wolf Garnett, and The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones give a sense of the range of characters and settings Adams worked with across the collection.