Will Welton: 24 books

Never Too LateFinding out his brother had been hung as a horse thief; Jim went to find out who had framed his brother. Several men had formed a grange. They were determined to take over the cattle range of the Box L ranch. The lady and her brother were trying to run the ranch when her brother...

“Nights of Terror”A woman of Hugoton, a one horse town, on the Kansas plains tried to help two small Indian children. They died of lung fever in her home. Several months went by and a prominent citizen was found dead on the plains near town. Then the nights of terror started. After dark the town...

In the old American west young girls and boys, at times, had to grow up fast. One day they might be playing with dolls or shooting make believe bad hombres or Indians. The next day they might have to deal with their parents and kin folks being killed by Indians or desperadoes. Some times they had...

By the end of the Civil War jobs were a thing of luxury if you had one which paid money. The men returning from the war found their lives disrupted, families starving or dead. Then someone decided to drive cattle north to Kansas City or Sedalia Missouri. There was where the markets were for a country...

In the old west and even in today's time frame you will still findsome people that are partners. Some of the partnerships last ashort while with others from the time they are first made until theafter life. The characters in this novel are factious names but thetwo men are buried side by side...

Black Thorn was a self schooled man in the facts of life. He masterminded the largest train robbery of the early 1900’s. His father had married a woman, supposed to be a Creek Indian, who was the daughter of a Freedman slave of the Creek Nation. His father had run Thorn and his sister off from home because he didn’t want anything to do with having half Black children.

An old time type western, about the old adage of one Ranger for the job, is the best way. After delivering a prisoner for the Texas Rangers, Sam Mountain took a leave of absents to visit his sister-in-law and nephew. Sam didn’t bother to tell anyone he was a Texas Ranger. From the time he arrived until he finished he was in constant danger.

In the early years of the War Between the States, Civil War or War of Northern Aggression, as some southerners called it, a man paid his debts however he could. In the southern states, at times, slaves were used as collateral and won or lost on the turn of a card in games of chance. Whole plantations was lost because of this war and the slaves set free with no where to go.

J.P. Daily was waiting to be hung for several citizens had been killed during the robberies that him and his gang had committed in New Mexico. While waiting, on a circuit judge to arrive, he came across an opportunity to escape. On the run, he holed up in a place to keep from freezing to death, and...

Horse TraderThe horse traders that would lie to you about the health or what was not straightforward about an animal were the kind that did not have much of a repeat of customers. Word would get out on the trader and not many people would be trading or buying a horse from this type of trader.The horse...

During my younger years I was fortune to meet some of the old time law men from the late 1890’s. One of them happened to live not far up the way from me and was an acquaintance of my step-father. When I was a teenager I gut the grass in the old man’s yard and would rack the leaves from his trees...

As a young boy that was half Scottish and half Chickasaw Indian the just tried to do right and always came up wrong. He tracked down a gang of murders and along the way met a beautiful woman. He married her and they made a large ranch together with two adopted kids that were Comanche Indian.

Don Ulma had heard of the Bell ranch but who hadn’t in this part of the country. By a fluke in being in the wrong place at the wrong time Don had the chance of working on the ranch. While taking the money which Harmon Bell had recovered from bank robbers Don was involved in a shoot out at the bank...

Other stories are centered about outlaws such as the silver coins that were buried in Le Flore County on the Holsum Valley road near the old Sulpher River Bridge. The legend states that around half a bushel of silver coins was hidden by bandits somewhere along the roadside.More outlaws gangs as tales...