Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Branded Outlaw | 2008 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 2 | If I Were You | 2008 | L. Ron Hubbard | N/A |
| 3 | Six-Gun Caballero | 2009 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 4 | The Professor Was a Thief | 2006 | L. Ron Hubbard | N/A |
| 5 | Under the Diehard Brand | 2009 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 6 | The Crossroads | 1941 | L. Ron Hubbard | N/A |
| 7 | Cattle King for a Day | 2010 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 8 | Devil’s Manhunt | 2010 | L. Ron Hubbard | N/A |
| 9 | The Toughest Ranger | 2010 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 10 | Shadows from Boot Hill | 2011 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 11 | Death Waits at Sundown | 2012 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 12 | Gun Boss of Tumbleweed | 2012 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 13 | The Magic Quirt | 2012 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 14 | Gunman’s Tally | 2012 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 15 | King of the Gunmen | 2013 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 16 | The No-Gun Man | 2014 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 17 | Tinhorn’s Daughter | 2014 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 18 | The Baron of Coyote River | 2014 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
L. Ron Hubbard’s Western Short Stories Collection consists of eighteen western stories republished between 2008 and 2014. The original stories date to Hubbard’s pulp magazine days in the 1930s and 1940s, when westerns were one of the most popular pulp genres. Titles like Branded Outlaw, Six-Gun Caballero, and Cattle King for a Day are typical of the fast-paced, action-heavy western fiction that filled the magazines of that era.
These republications are part of a larger project to bring Hubbard’s complete pulp-era output back into print. The stories are straightforward western adventures, reflecting the genre conventions of their time rather than the longer, more ambitious fiction Hubbard would write later in his career.