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About Peter Brandvold
Western novelist Peter Brandvold was born and raised in North Dakota. He has penned nearly 200 fast-action westerns under his own name and his penname, Frank Leslie as well as Tabor Evans and, more recently, Max O'Hara, the name under which he has written the recent Wolf Stockburn Railroad Detective series for Kensington. He is the author of the ever-popular .45-Caliber books featuring Cuno Massey as well as the Lou Prophet and Yakima Henry novels. The Ben Stillman books are a long-running series with previous volumes available as ebooks from Wolfpack Press. Brandvold published two horror westerns—Canyon of a Thousand Eyes and Dust of the Damned, also republished by Wolfpack. Brandvold has lived all over the American west but currently lives in the woods of western Minnesota with his dog, Buddy. Visit his website at www.peterbrandvold.com. Follow his blog at: www.peterbrandvold.blogspot.com.
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Blog postThe Day Buddy Came
One day five years ago this month—June 2021—my life changed forever.
Bud’s did, too.
That was the hot, humid summer day Buddy, who at only one and a half years had had a total of three names so far as he’d b1 year ago Read more -
Blog post"This is a book that all fans of Peter Brandvold should make sure they don’t miss, especially if you enjoy reading about Lou Prophet and Colter Farrow. In fact, this is a book that should be on the reading list of all western fans. "--Steve Myall
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Blog postMy Sheriff Ben Stillman Series is doing a brisk business on Amazon!
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Blog postI got my paperback copy of the second Ben Stillman book today, from Wolfpack Press! (Except it's really the third one but the numbering will all be fixed after the third one, which is really the second one, comes out on March 6th--ONCE MORE WITH A .44.) In whatever order you read them, they're damn good books...if I may be so humble.
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Blog postWolfpack Press ramrodded by Mike Bray is republishing my entire Sheriff Ben Stillman western series. The first book, ONCE A MARSHAL, is available now. (I've posted the book's gnarly prologue below.)
Another book in the series will follow every other week after this one.
At the tail end, in the spring or early summer, brand-new, freshly penned volumes will begin appearing.
I have been having a grand old time this winter, penning new tales in this series, the3 years ago Read more -
Blog postTHE WINTER OF MY FIRST LIBRARY CARD
Colder’n a grave-digger’s behind here this winter! Or a banker’s heart… Anyway…it got me thinking that I may not have become a writer if I’d grown up somewhere warm. What made me fall in love with reading was warming up in the Leach Public Library in Wahpeton, North Dakota, back in the 1970s when I was delivering newspapers—both the Wahpeton Daily Newsand the Fargo Forum. Before I started the fifth grade, I wasn’t all that big on rea3 years ago Read more -
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Blog postThe book on the left came out a couple months ago. The one on the right will be out in a month. The one on the left is being discounted to 1.99 from 11/25-1/6 to help promote the masterpiece on the right. So on the 25th, take a break from the family drama and go over to Amazon and pick Mean Pete's pockets. Make him hoppin' mad! He really hates gettin' fleeced like that!! (SUNDOWN is entirely new, by the way. Never before published anywhere. An entirely new book...er, masterpiece.)
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Blog postYesterday, Sunday October 22, 2018, was a great day for a road trip. My friend and old (but still young!) schoolmate, Mary Altoff, and I hopped in my Ford truck and motored on over to the Cheyenne River country in eastern North Dakota, about an hour's drive west of my old hometown of Wahpeton, on the Red River of the North. A great time was had by us both. The beer was cold and the pizza tasty at the Sand Dune Saloon in MacLeod.4 years ago Read more
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Blog postSADDLE UP FOR A HARD RIDE WITH THE HALF-BREED DRIFTER, YAKIMA HENRY, IN THE FOUR-PART SERIES...BLOODY ARIZONA!
In this final volume, Book 4—ARROYO DE LA MUERTE (CANYON OF DEATH)—Yakima Henry is once again Town Marshal of Apache Springs, Arizona. Not an easy job, for Apache Springs is booming and the railroad has come to town. Badmen outnumber the lawmen by a thousand to three.
Yakima’s job gets all the harder when someone kills a prominent businessman and siccs two kill-crazy a4 years ago Read more -
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Blog postFrom The Life and Times of Lou Prophet, Bounty Hunter by HEYWOOD WILDEN SCOTT
I’d been a tough-nosed newsman for nearly sixty years, yet it was with more trepidation than I like to admit that I knocked on the big, old rebel’s door.
I’d heard the stories about him. Hell, I’d printed many of those yarns in the various newspapers I’d written and edited in that grand old time of the Old West gunfighters, larger-than-life lawmen4 years ago Read more -
Blog postNOW AVAILABLE IN BEAUTIFUL HARDCOVER AND EBOOK FROM FIVE STAR!
Two western novels featuring Bear Haskell, U.S. Deputy Marshal, who rides for Chief Marshal Henry Dade out of Denver’s First District Court. Haskell’s a former Union war hero and Pinkerton agent, a big man over six and a half feet tall and as broad as a barn door. He wears a necklace of bear claws taken from the grizzly that almost had him for supper. That’s the kind of man bear is. He holds a grudge and he gives no quar4 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe author with a fresh batch of beer
I brew beer for the same reason men and women have been brewing beer since they started pounding on tom-toms and genuflecting before the sun gods—because I like the taste of a good, heady pail of suds. Aside from a little slap ‘n’ tickle on a hot August Saturday night with the radio turned low, you just can’t beat a good beer buzz. It’s almost as much fun as wrestling pterodactyls.
Brewing beer probably wasn’t as enjoyable back when men and4 years ago Read more -
Blog postSign up for the Goodreads Giveaway of my new mass-market paperback Lou Prophet novel due out next month from Pinnacle...This book is two 50k word Lou Prophet novels in one. Each I published briefly as ebook originals but when Pinnacle asked if I could send them a book fast to fill a hole in their schedule, I took those two ebooks off Amazon and put this single volume together. The books are framed by a fictional introduction by an old, ink-stained newsman who got to know Lou when Lou, in hi4 years ago Read more
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Blog postPre-order BLOOD AT SUNDOWN
I just received a new Lou Prophet cover from Pinnacle, so I thought I'd post it here. This is the second of three books Gary Goldstein at Pinnacle is publishing over the course of the next year. The first one, STAGECOACH TO PURGATORY, will be out in late August.
I'm also posting the links, so if you're of a mind to pre-order either...or both...you can. (I could use the beer money.) I'm about to wrap up the third book now, which is4 years ago Read more -
Blog post(I'm reprinting this from a mother's day past...)My mother never met a grisly story she didn’t like. And she never met one she considered unfit for her children, no matter how young we were. In fact, she often retold these stories to my little sister and me with startling, sometimes morbid delight, as though she not only wanted to tell us stories of death and grisly destruction, but she considered it her parental duty to do so.I’m not just talking about the vague imparti4 years ago Read more
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Blog postWhen I'm not writing my two-fisted pot-boiler westerns, I brew (and drink) beer.4 years ago Read more
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Blog postYesterday was the first brew day of the season here at Angry Dog Brewing. That's me on the left there with my pal, Bill Schmidt, whom I've known since we were in the fifth grade together in Wahpeton, North Dakota, 24 miles east of where I currently live in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
When I moved back to the old home country a little over three years ago, Bill and I quickly got back in touch, and the main way we got back in touch was through brewing beer together. We brew several weeke4 years ago Read more -
Blog postI became a writer when I was ten years old. At least, that’s when I began seeing myself as a writer. An author, really. I was in the fifth grade, and an editor of the local newspaper, the Wahpeton Daily News, must have needed extra ink with which to fill her pages. She asked my fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Bjornson, a matronly sister-of-the-sod and a die-hard fan of Anne of Green Gables, to have her students write poems that might, just might, if they made the cut, be published in the sainted News.4 years ago Read more
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Blog postThe new Colter Farrow western, Book 5 in that series, is free until midnight tonight!
Hop on over to Amazon and snag your copy. I hope you'll leave a review.
Happy Spring from Mean Pete Press. (We can't see it from here in western Minnesota, but we know it's out there...somewhere.)
COLTER FARROW #5 FREE4 years ago Read more
Titles By Peter Brandvold
Town Marshal “Bloody” Joe Mannion is back in this third high-action volume in Peter Brandvold’s explosive new western series!
When Jeremiah Claggett, constable of the nearby ghost town of Fury, is murdered by Frank Lord, the kill-crazy leader of a dozen wild outlaws, Bloody Joe has to come to grips with the fact that he’s inadvertently to blame. Mannion had turned Frank’s brother, Billy, over to Claggett for safekeeping, setting off the chain of events that end his friend’s life. Mannion is the kill-crazy one now. Not realizing he’s being shadowed by Clagget’s beautiful, half-wild granddaughter, Justy, and an inscrutable saddle tramp, Mannion sets out on his vengeance quest.
In typical Bloody Joe style, he storms Lord’s gang single-handedly, which nearly proves to be his undoing—until he’s set upon by a mystery ‘Man of the Lord’ and given… something. Whether that something is good or bad Mannion has difficulty discerning.
Saints and Sinners is a crazy, dark, storm-ridden ride through the hell of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Whoever manages to ride out alive—saint or sinner, or maybe a combination—will be changed forever, baptized in gun smoke and blood.
In this second high-action volume in Peter Brandvold’s explosive new western series, Town Marshal “Bloody” Joe Mannion plays cat and mouse with an old enemy…
Joe believes the old regulator, “Long-Shot” Hunter Drago, who did twelve years' hard time because of Mannion, has moved to the town of Del Norte in the Colorado Territory to kill him. But, nearly everyone else in town believes that he merely moved to Del Norte to take over the Three-Legged Dog Saloon and to begin a new, peaceful life for himself.
Mannion, who doesn't believe in coincidences but does know the nature of “Long Shot’s” black heart, doesn’t buy a word of it.
The rest of the town, including his lover, Jane Ford, thinks Mannion’s just being his old, stubborn, bloody self—especially when he catches Drago palling around with his daughter, Evangeline, and beats the old killer half to death on Del Norte’s main street for all to see.
Bloody Joe has finally gone too far. The town’s powers-that-be believe it’s time for Joe to go.
As the game of cat and mouse continues, however, and Mannion finds himself dodging a veritable lead storm nearly everywhere he goes, he finally finds himself in a bloody showdown on the stone mountain called Burial Rock, where he finds that not only his own life hangs in the balance but Jane Ford’s life, as well.
He’s going to have to move fast and shoot straight to escape a blood bath…
Western action and adventure author Peter Brandvold’s iconic Lonnie Gentry series comes together like a stick of dynamite and a match to blow readers away!
In book one, Lonnie Gentry, life has not been easy for young cowboy Lonnie Gentry. He and his mother live alone, working hard on their remote Colorado mountain ranch. Now the thirteen-year-old must travel over perilous mountains to return money stolen by his mother's outlaw boyfriend. It's a man’s job. And it’s going to take a man – and the woman the man loves – to see it through.
In The Curse of Skull Canyon, everyone in the Never Summer Mountains knows about the ancient Indian curse on Skull Canyon in the highest, remotest reaches of the range, not far from the ranch young Lonnie Gentry shares with his mother and infant half-brother.
When a man’s agonized wail lures him into the canyon, he finds a youth only a few years older than himself dying from a gunshot wound. Later, when savage men pour into the remote canyon, apparently searching for something they’re willing to kill for, Lonnie learns the extent of Skull Canyon’s horror.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk gives some bounty hunters a lethal lesson in how reputations are made when a beautiful prostitute asks for his protection.
“Nobody writes this sort of hard-edged Western better than Peter Brandvold himself. Gideon Hawk is one of my favorite characters, and this novel is a fine addition to the Rogue Lawman series.” – James Reasoner
Ex-lawman Ben Stillman is enjoying the treacherous business of retirement, until the past comes knocking on his door and he learns: once a lawman, always a lawman.
“The Ben Stillman series is a top of the line western with lots of mystery and always a surprising ending.”
Get your blood pumping with seven hard-driving western adventures through the American old west. Back out on the vast, violent frontier, Stillman is determined to implement peace and his swift brand of justice wherever he can. It all begins when Stillman is called to catch rustlers who are stealing ranchers of their livelihood – from there the suspense never lets up!
“A natural born storyteller who knows the West.”—Bill Brooks, author of Deadwood
Ben Stillman: The Complete Series, Volume One includes – Once a Marshal, Once More With a .44, Once a Lawman, Once Late With a .38, Once Hell Freezes Over, Once a Renegade and Once Upon a Dead Man.
SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.
Gideon Hawk hunts the notorious depraved killer, Pima Miller, into the Superstition Mountains of Arizona Territory. Hawk inadvertently shot the killer’s Apache woman, orphaning the killer’s infant son. The killer himself doesn’t seem to mind. He leaves them both behind to save himself and head into the mountains with his beautiful young guide, Jodi Zimmerman, whom he’s kidnapped from the Superstition Stage Relay Station.Hawk, however, minds very much that his bullet meant for the killer, Miller, struck an innocent woman. He storms after Miller with his usual bloodlust…
A hunted man, Hawk has retreated to his remote cabin in the San Juan Mountains, hoping to simply disappear. But when young, beautiful Catherine McCormick comes to him alone in the rain from the mining camp over the mountain, he knows his respite is over.
A vicious gang raided the girl's camp, ravaging and brutalizing at will, and killing Catherine's brother. Catherine is willing to give Hawk anything, even herself, to hunt down the killers and serve up the brutal, decisive, and fitting justice the Rogue Lawman is known for.
SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.
Gideon Hawk shoots three men who try to rob the saloon he’s drinking in. One of those men is the spoiled son of a local rancher, Mortimer Stanley. The rancher doesn’t take kindly to Hawk killing his son despite the crime his son was committing.
When the rancher sends five men into town to kill Hawk, and Hawk turns them all toe-down, dead as stones, war clouds gather over the little prairie town of Cedar Bend.
Get your blood pumping with seven hard-driving western adventures through the American old west. Sheriff Ben Stillman rides through the mountains of Montana seeking justice wherever he can.
“Characters you know so well you want to hold them, marry them, sit down to dinner with them... and others ya just want to choke the life out of.”
From a war with a clan of zealous killers, tracking kidnappers, bank robberies and illegal whiskey peddlers, one thing remains true – when you mess with Stillman’s friends or his family, it’s damn well guaranteed you have all-out war on your hands.
Ben Stillman: The Complete Series, Volume Two includes – Hell on Wheels, Stillman’s War, Once More Into the Breech, Once More With a Vengeance, Rattlesnake Convention, Stillman’s Gun and Stillman’s Wrath.
RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER!
Hawk is holed up in an old prospector’s cabin high in the Idaho mountains when he learns that an innocent girl has been kidnapped by the notorious outlaw businessman, Quentin Burnett. Burnett erroneously believes he owns this entire corner of Idaho...and all the people in it, including the girls.Burnett has a history of kidnapping young women and marrying them. He gets away with it because he’s rich and he knows the most powerful men on the frontier. When Burnett’s girls get too old for him, or he just plain tires of them, he sends them down to the second floor of his New Canaan whorehouse and puts them to work on their backs.
That dark fate is not going to happen to Jennie Broyles. Not if Hawk can help it.
RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER!
The Tierney gang is spreading their terror throughout Trinity Ridge, and the town needs a temporary lawman to dole out justice – former deputy marshal Gideon Hawk. He won't rest until they're strung up from the gallows they once escaped.
“A storyteller who knows the West.”—Bill BrooksU.S. Marshal Flagg is not going to let Gideon Hawk, once deputy marshal, now Rogue Lawman, slip through his fingers. He follows Hawk to his hideout in Bedlam, determined to catch him. But he doesn't know that Hawk has the help of an old nemesis on his side, a woman who knows the feel of his touch-and the feel of a gun. And what he doesn't know could hurt him.
“Action-packed…for fans of traditional westerns.”—Booklist
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