Paul L. Thompson has 15 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 10 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is US Marshal - Shorty Thompson: Janice McCord.
US Marshal - Shorty Thompson: Janice McCord
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Janice McCord is 14 years old, when the five Kraymon brothers ride in and shoot down her parents and twin brother Jack. She takes up Jack's name and her father's .45 to blaze a trail of revenge across the Territory of New Mexico. After out gunning one of the brothers in a saloon in Silver City, New Mexico Territory, outlaw friends of his are hot on her trail. When they catch up to her on the side of a mountain, she leaves a few more dead. Her fast shooting and sharp wit, turns a couple of them from lawlessness to helping her track down the killers of her family. She's in jail, arrested for the murders of her family before she writes her cousin, US Marshal Shorty Thompson for help. Help does arrive, but she still joins the outlaw gang that killed her family. Now they are getting ready to pull off the largest robbery in the Territory's history. Over a million dollars in gold will be crossing Tecolote Creek on Saturday. To make sure she is the one to get the killers of her family and the revenge she has sought for months, Janice may have to fight her three friends and her cousin Shorty, along with half the US Cavalry. It matters not, she has a set mind and will do what she has to do, or get killed trying. This she promised her dead parents and twin brother Jack, she would be the one to get them all. Her revenge may not be swift, but definitely painful and final!
©2010 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson - Before I Die
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Most folks, as they get older, reminisce about the past of unfulfilled hopes, plans, and dreams. Have you ever said yourself, or heard a few of your friends say, "Before I die"? In this story, several different people say those famous words. A few get to see their dreams come true; others do not. A young Pennsylvania doctor's father wants his son to take his wife and go west, following his dreams. "Son, before I die..." His dream came true, and they all went west to Trinidad, Colorado. An outlaw with murder in his heart said, "Before I die I want..." It never came to pass, as he was sentenced to hang before he could fulfill this murderous dream. Then there is a local town sheriff who does his job of protecting the people of his town. "Before I die, I hope to see my town and county safe from robbers and killers. Why are some men so greedy they would kill for money?" Will his dream ever come true for Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado? A judge sat in his courtroom; before him sat killers, kidnappers, and robbers. "Before I die, I want to see..." His dream was well on the way to coming true.
©2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson - Young Jessie Owens
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Jesse Owens was only nine years old when his family pulled up deep roots in their Tennessee valley coalmining town, and headed west. Riding a borrowed horse, he got to ride drag with the outriders. In Oklahoma Territory, he shot an outlaw in the back while saving one of his fellow outriders. Outlaws kidnapped Jesse's sister and two of the Stillwell girls in the Texas Panhandle, while the men from the wagon train were off somewhere wiping out an Comanchero camp.
©2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
Malpais Mystery: US Marshal Shorty Thompson
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The 1870s: As opposed to the myths of popular culture, not everybody was swaggering around with six-irons strapped down and leading lives of mayhem. But there were the exceptions - every bit as evil, bloody, and deadly as legends portray. And so too was the law that handled these outlaws. In the mold of men like Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp, MD Shorty Thompson is just that kind of lawman: Short on stature but tall on guts. Hand-picked by President Rutherford B. Hayes, he is one of best. And since United States Marshals of the 1870s handle desperados, this means just about everybody does seem to be using those strapped-down dragoons and wreaking havoc. For Marshal MD Thompson, it's the life of a lawman.
©2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
Willow Lane
Summary
Saddle up and ride the same wild lonesome trails that US Marshal Shorty Thompson rode from the 1870s through the 1890s. Short of stature but with a heart as big as the Southwestern sky, Marshal Thompson traveled throughout the territories of 19th century New Mexico and Arizona during the height of American expansion westward. From rough and tumble gold and silver mining country to savage wide open plains, the Marshal pursued outlaws and rustlers, extending the rule of law to the new territories.
©2016 Paul L. Thompson (P)2016 Outlaws Publishing LLC
Black Range Silver
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President Hayes sent a message to US Marshal M D (Shorty) Thompson at old Fort Tularosa, New Mexico Territory. He was to investigate why so many mine owners are turning up dead. Also while he was there, find out why ore samples do not match the ore quality when it gets to US Government Mints in Nevada and California. During his investigation, while riding down Burns Gulch, Shorty is shot in the head and is in a coma for well over a month. When he comes to, he has no memory of who he is or why he is there.
©2016 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
U.S. Marshal
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US Marshal, M D (Shorty) Thompson received a letter at his Fort Tularosa ranch, in western New Mexico. "Dear Shorty, it saddens me to let you know Matt was killed and robbed of $11,000 and was buried today. April 19, 1881. Almost half of the stolen money was to pay off our ranch which the bank will foreclose on the first day of September. I know who killed my husband but the law cannot find him. It has been told he has family in Montana. I need your help if at all possible, or the children and I shall lose the ranch." Sincerely, Nadine Rogers Matt was one of Shorty's best friends, they had worked on ranches' together back in their teen years and were as close as any brothers. Shorty told his partner Buffalo he may be gone for months, but will write when he can. That night he cleaned and oiled his guns. As the sun came up the next morning, he was miles closer to Big Spring, Texas.
©2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
US Marshal Shorty Thompson: Whiskers McPherson & Gabriel O'Grady
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Mackland McPherson, a.k.a. Whiskers McPherson, headed west to the Rocky Mountains. Set upon by road agents twice before getting to the Mississippi River, he realized he was a greenhorn and needed a rifle and pistol to survive. Heading west across Kansas, for the first time in his life, he found what real fear was. Indians kept him hunkered down in a buffalo wallow for days before cowboys rode up and saved his life. Instead of letting him ride on to certain death, the ranch these cowboys worked for would not let him go on west until he learned everything they knew about surviving. He did learn and became one of the last fur-trapping mountain men in the Sangre de Cristo Range of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Gabriel O'Grady was the son of the very wealthy Henry O'Grady. This young man could not see himself behind a desk, leading a dull life forever. No, he wanted adventure and found it out west, working as a cowboy on a ranch in the wilds of the New Mexico Territory. He knew his boss was the ex-sheriff of Taos County, but did not know he also ran the biggest cutthroat gang of outlaw bank robbers in New Mexico. As these men live their lives, McPherson finds love with a beautiful young widow woman whose 12-year-old son is as smart as any grown man, and a darn good fishing buddy. Gabe goes all the way back to Kansas City to fetch his dead boss's daughter. This beautiful city girl will become the love of his life.
©2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson - Janice McCord Rides Again
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A gang of Texas outlaws kidnap US Marshal Shorty Thompson, and is after his and Buffalo's Wyoming gold. Buffalo and his ranch foreman ride over 200 miles to get little Janice McCord and her .45 to bring Shorty back alive. The horseback ride from New Mexico to Wyoming is filled with gunfights and crooked town sheriffs. Though Janice starts out two weeks behind, she catches sight of the gang in northern Colorado. If not for her trackers Indian friends, they could have been ambushed several times. Two Texas Rangers show up looking for the same gang, but the local law does not take too kindly to Rangers messing around in his town. Late one night while the outlaws were getting drunk in a saloon, Shorty makes a run for it. Early the next morning, the outlaws grab Janice and Cloudy Dawn to take his place, as they leave their hotel room. Dawn is turned loose to find Shorty and tell him to back off or Janice is dead. Dawn strikes out on her own to free Janice and removes several outlaws from their saddles with an arrow or two. The gang is in total panic, thinking they are about to be scalped. When gold is found, greed takes over the minds of friend and foe alike. A bunch more men are about to die.
©2012 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson: A Mother's Wrath
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A young mother's heart is most ripped from her body, as she holds her dying baby boy in her arms. Not three feet away lay her dead husband. She saw as two men saddled and stole Morris horses and a third gunned down two of the people she loved most. When the posse came looking for the men, US Marshal Shorty Thompson would not let her take up the trail after them. A woman's place is in the home, not riding with a posse. That is all right, she would go alone. She knew how to ride a horse and use her guns as well as any man. Living on a ranch, her husband had taught her everything she needed to know about surviving years ago. She had seen all three faces of the men, and the horses they stole had the Circle M brand. She would know them anywhere and those men she would find no matter how long it took. When found they would face the wrath of her justice, not laws that put them into prison for a few years where they would have every chance to escape. No, these men will know what real fear is as a mother's wrath slowly, and very painfully, destroys them. They would be looking forward to, begging for a quick trip to hell just to get away before she is through. Those men will suffer like no others before them.
©2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson: Cowboy Cody Strickland
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Eighteen-year-old cowboy Cody Strickland lost his parents to an illness that he didn’t understand. Saddened, confused, and alone, he saddled up and rode north, stopping and working awhile, but bounced around from one location to another. He was free to come and go as he pleased. His new boss on the Double Bar X Ranch put his trust in Cody after only a couple of months. He was to go along on a cattle drive from northeast of Cheyenne, Wyoming all the way to Salt Lake City, Utah. The worst snows in history hit the Utah Mountains, so Cody had to lay over months before making his long trip back with the $26,000 of cattle money that he had collected. Coming upon a wounded man, he could not leave him to die, alone. Patching him up and taking him home proved to be a bigger chore than anyone would expect. Outlaws and gold-robbing thieves kidnap the rancher’s daughter and that sets Cody on a rescue mission that leads all over northern and western Colorado and southern Wyoming. With the very pretty daughter, two packhorses loaded with gold, and angry men on their trail, this little cowboy has to do some fancy shooting. Men should have been killed, but Cody let them live, now he and the girl are riding all out for the ranch. Cody knows how to muddy a trail, just ride in rivers, over mountains, and keep doubling back. Never ride in a straight line too long. They make it to the ranch where they think there is safety. Just how wrong can one little cowboy be?
©August 2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
United States Marshal Shorty Thompson: A Western Adventure
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Saddle up and ride the same wild lonesome trails as US Marshal Shorty Thompson did in the 1870s through the 1890s. Feel the dry heat of hot desert floors and the bitter cold of snow-covered mountain passes, as Shorty gets shot and survives as he goes after lawless men. Though the novels are written about things that happened over 140 years ago, many of the old towns can be visited today. Many are in ruins, destroyed, but others still survive as haunting ghost towns. Western history lives on in this series. This is one you don't want to miss. This is the beginning of the Shorty Thompson US Marshal stories.
©2015 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson
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In the spring of 1882, after arriving in the small village of Albuquerque, Lee J Robins got arrested and thrown into jail because he was wearing a gun. A small boy, Lorenzo Baca sees this happen and picks the locks of the jail, and sets him free. That is when he found out it was Emmett Blazedale’s men that had locked him up. This gang of murdering skunks had taken over the small Village of Albuquerque. No way could he fight this large gang alone, but who could he trust getting help? He must bide his time and let no one know why he is here. It is Lee J Robins, the young man Blazedale called: THE LAST GUN IN TOWN.
©April 2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2019 Outlaws Publishing LLC
The Legend of Jake Jackson, Book 7
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The seventh book in this best-selling Western series from William H. Joiner, Jr. Jake Jackson was a legend in the Old West. His ability with a gun was unmatched. His name brought hope to the oppressed and sent shivers of fear up the spines of outlaws. Jake Jackson was equally as revered among the Comanche where he was raised from an infant to become the Comanche warrior White Wolf. There were many songs sung around campfires in Comanche villages praising his fierceness in battle. Jake Jackson could revert back to his Comanche ways in the blink of an eye when the situation demanded, no mercy to those preying on the weak or unprotected. Listen today!
©2020 William H. Joiner Jr. (P)2020 William H. Joiner Jr.
John Crudder: Justice of the Midnight Marauder
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Awarded First Place for Western Series by Texas Authors Association Three digital books for the price of one! Meet John Crudder. A new kind of hero. He's not the biggest, fastest, meanest, or quickest. But he's smart and deadly. And he has a gut-level drive to see justice served. The most unlikely person to ever be called on to be the marshal of a Texas town, John Crudder finds out the town council is composed of thieves and murderers. The only way to stop them is to take to the shadows to fight them. If they find out who he is, they will hurt the people he loves. So this unassuming youngster from the East becomes the Midnight Marauder to clean up a town before the corrupt leaders destroy it. At just over five feet tall, John Crudder is the only hope Bandera, Texas has. If he fails, the town dies with him. Someone wins. Someone loses. Someone lives. Someone dies. Best-selling title for Top Westerns Publishing.
©2020 Roy Clinton (P)2020 Roy Clinton