J R Roberts: 274 books

A fine-looking young lady is brutally butchered before Clint Adams' eyes. Then some back-shootin' varmints start taking potshots at Buffalo Bill Cody, the West's proudest hero. The Gunsmith takes this insult right personal and figures on tackin' their hides to a wall with some .45 caliber slugs. But...

A lynch mob ranks just below a rattlesnake in the Gunsmith's eyes. And a lynch mob that would hang a woman doesn't deserve the dirt it would take to bury it. That's just the kind of low-down cowardice Clint Adams finds when he rides into Horizon, Kansas. This bunch of so-called men left an...

Around Truxton, Missouri, there's only one thing folks hate like death. And that's taxes. So when the Homestead Inspector is shot through the heart, no one cares—save for Clint Adams. The Gunsmith thinks he knows the cowards who did it. And he's about to show ’em that they can run from taxes, but they can't hide from death...

Clint Adams suddenly finds himself laid up in the one-horse town of Tucumcari, New Mexico. Seems that one horse up and kicked him in the pants, breaking his leg. Now the whole town wants a piece of the Gunsmith. The mayor wants him to make a celebrity appearance at a ribbon cutting. The local gunfighter...

Lately, Pete Jensen hasn't slept a wink—ever since Clint Adams wounded him and killed his two brothers in a shoot-out. Now Pete's rounding up all his cousins to go settle the score... Clint doesn't want any more trouble, so he's leavin' town. But this time, trouble's coming in like the wind...

The Elsinore Palace wasn't much of a palace...but Clint figured it was a fine place to rest his sore feet in this Nevada mining town. Elsinore had seen better days, but it seemed quiet and pleasant—why, even the local cathouse had a white picket fence. But it's all just the calm before the...

"I want to get rid of as many of those vermin as I can before I die," says Ben Farmer. He's as worn as an old truss—and twice as weak with cancer—but the fire in his eyes is as hot as Clint Adams has ever seen it. Farmer wants the Gunsmith to ride with his handpicked posse, gut-shooting...

THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN Firecreek, the most peaceful little town in Nevada, is about to pay a heavy price for its hospitality. Putting up outlaws like the Hardin Gang was a big mistake. Bigger yet was telling the Gunsmith about their special guests of dishonor. Add a desperate little...

Clint Adams was used to having a reputation, but the rumors coming out of Denver weren't the sort he was used to. A woman was telling folks that she had found him to be less than a legend. In all his days, he had never known such a woman. So who was this gossiping girl? And why was she giving him a bad name? The Gunsmith had to find out, even if it killed him...

The Gunsmith isn't much inclined to settle down, so when he finds himself saddled with a building and a business after a high-stakes poker game, he makes tracks for Sheldon, Wyoming, to see just what he's won and figure out what to do with it. At first it seems too good to be true: The "business"...

The Gunsmith has never been one to back away from a friendly wager. So when a friend challenges him to earn a living as a gambler. Clint figures it's a good chance to work on his poker game—and stay out of trouble. He sets out for Chinaville, Colorado, where a nearby gold strike has the miners pouring...

When you're a living legend like the Gunsmith, people want to take you on for one fool reason or another. Tempers flare and men don't back down when they should. Then Clint Adams is forced to teach the show-offs a lesson: walking away is better than getting carried out in a box. Del Nolan wants...

After Clint Adams and Eclipse are injured in a fall, they are cared for by a lone Indian brave who promises to stay with the horse while Clint goes for help. Clint finds he has a deadly journey on foot ahead of him, to get help for the big Darley Arabian—and himself—or the horse may die. Although...

The Gunsmith 447 “Boots and Saddles” is the title of the first of 3 books written by Elizabeth Bacon Custer about her husband George Armstrong Custer. In this book the Gunsmith encounters Elizabeth while she is putting her second book together. It’s called “Tenting on the Plains”...