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Peter Brandvold

aka Frank Leslie

Peter Brandvold is an American western fiction author, who has written more than thirty published novels.

Born and raised in North Dakota, Peter Brandvold spent much of his early life riding horses, reading western novels, and watching western movies.

Brandvold later attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, and graduated with a B.A. in English. He then wrote for several old west magazines such as Country Journal and True West Magazine, until 1995, when he decided to write adventure stories.

Peter Brandvold also writes under his Frank Leslie pen name, of which he has several published titles in the Yakima Henry series. He has also written two titles for Ralph Compton.

Genres: Western, Horror

Series

Ben Stillman
   1. Once a Marshall (1998)
   2. Once More with a .44 (2000)
   3. Once a Lawman (2000)
   4. Once Hell Freezes Over (2001)
   5. Once a Renegade (2002)
   6. Once Upon a Dead Man (2003)
   7. Once Late with a .38 (2003)
   8. Hell on Wheels (2006)
   9. Once More Into the Breech (2015)
   10. Once More with a Vengeance (2016)
   11. Once More Into the Fire (2018)
   12. Once a Lawmen (2019)
   13. Stillman's Gun (2019)
   14. Stillmans War (2014)
   15. Stillman's Wrath (2019)
   Rattlesnake Convention (2016)

Lou Prophet, Bounty Hunter
   1. The Devil and Lou Prophet (2002)
   2. Dealt the Devil's Hand (2002)
   3. Riding with the Devil's Mistress (2003)
     aka The Cost of Dying
   4. The Devil Gets His Due (2004)
   5. Staring Down the Devil (2004)
   6. The Devil's Lair (2005)
   7. The Graves at Seven Devils (2009)
   8. Helldorado (2010)
   9. The Devil's Winchester (2011)
   10. The Devil's Laughter (2012)
   11. Hell's Angel (2013)
   Killing Melvin Badthunder (2012)

.45-Caliber
   1. .45-Caliber Revenge (2004)
   2. .45-Caliber Fury (2005)
   3. .45-Caliber Manhunt (2006)
   4. .45-Caliber Deathtrap (2007)
   5. .45-Caliber Widow Maker (2009)
   6. .45-Caliber Firebrand (2009)
   7. .45-Caliber Desperado (2011)
   8. .45-Caliber Crossfire (2012)

Rogue Lawman
   1. Rogue Lawman (2005)
   2. Deadly Prey (2006)
   3. Cold Corpse, Hot Trail (2007)
   4. Bullets Over Bedlam (2008)
   5. Border Snakes (2010)
   6. Gallows Express (2011)
   7. Heed The Thunder (2022)
   8. Bloody Canaan (2015)
   9. Undertaker's Friend (2022)
   Thunder Over the Superstitions (2015)

Tom Navarro (with Ralph Compton)
1. Navarro (2005)
2. Bullet Creek (2005)

Yakima Henry
   1. The Lonely Breed (2007) (as by Frank Leslie)
   2. The Thunder Riders (2007) (as by Frank Leslie)
   3. The Wild Breed (2008) (as by Frank Leslie)
   4. The Killing Breed (2008) (as by Frank Leslie)
   4. Redemption Trail (2020)
   5. The Savage Breed (2009) (as by Frank Leslie)
   6. The Dangerous Dawn (2010) (as by Frank Leslie)
   7. Bullet for a Half-Breed (2011) (as by Frank Leslie)
   8. Revenge at Hatchet Creek (2011) (as by Frank Leslie)
   9. Dead River Killer (2011) (as by Frank Leslie)
   10. Dead Man's Trail (2012) (as by Frank Leslie)
   10. Dead Man's Trail (2021)
   11. Ambush at Apache Pass (2014)
   12. Blood of the Horsetooth Widow (2021)
   13. Bloody Arizona (2017)
   14. Wildcat of the Sierra Estrada (2017)
   15. Chiricahua Blues (2017)
   16. Canyon of Death (2021)
   17. Stripped and Branded (2021)
   The Canyon (2012) (as by Frank Leslie)

Colter Farrow (as by Frank Leslie)
   1. The Guns of Sapinero (2009)
   2. The Killers of Cimarron (2010)
   4. Bad Justice (2013)

Rusty Spurr
1. The Last Lawman (2012)
2. The Old Wolves (2013)

Bush Riders
1. High and Wild (2014)
2. Wild to the Bone (2014)

Lonnie Gentry
1. Lonnie Gentry (2014)
2. The Curse of Skull Canyon (2016)

Bear Haskell
   1. Gun Trouble at Diamondback (2016)
   2. The Jackals of Sundown (2016)
   3. Shoot-Out in Julesburg (2016)

Revenger (as by Frank Leslie)
Six In the Wheel (omnibus) (2018)

Bloody Joe Mannion
   1. Bloody Joe (2022)
   2. Revenge at Burial Rock (2022)
   3. Saints and Sinners (2022)

Novels

   Blood Mountain (1999)
   Dakota Kill (2000)
   The Romantics (2001)
   Bad Wind Blowing (2010)
   Dust of the Damned (2012)
   The Last Ride of Jed Strange (2012) (as by Frank Leslie)
   The Bells of El Diablo (2012) (as by Frank Leslie)
   Night of the Ghost Cat (2015)

Omnibus

   The Wild Ones (2016)
   Days of Thunder (2017)
   Revenger (2017) (as by Frank Leslie)
   Black Trails and Bloody Murder (2018)
   Death Wields a Henry .44 (2019) (as by Frank Leslie)
   The Revenger (2019)
   Blood on the Moon / Star (2019)
   The Saga of Colter Farrow (2020)
   Spurr Morgan (2020)
   Dakota Kill / The Romantics (2020)
   The Weird West Double (2020)

Collections

Brandvold / Leslie (2012)
The Shotgun Rider (2015)

Novellas

   Ghost Colts (2011)
   Bullet For A Virgin! (2012)
   Old Gun Wolf (2012) (as by Frank Leslie)
   Devlin And Johnny Forever (2012)
   Poison Mean (2012)
   The No-Account Girl (2012)
   Love and Bullets (2014)
   The Spurge War (2014)

Non fiction

Fill a Stein & Grab a Bloody Haunch (2017)

Peter Brandvold recommends

The Rattler Gang (1981)
(Klaw, book 3)
W L Fieldhouse
"Fieldhouse writes a gritty, violent, realistic action western."

A Bad Day to Die (2004)
(Lucius Dodge, book 1)
J Lee Butts
"One of the top writers of Westerns working in the genre today."

North of Forsaken (2017)
(Roamer, book 2)
Matthew P Mayo
"This is fiction writing at its best, and some of the best writing you'll find in the Western field."

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