Ridge Calder: Books 1 - 4
(2026)(A book in the Ridge Calder Western series)
An omnibus of novels by Robert Hanlon and Paul L Thompson
In the raw, lawless years after the Mexican War, the New Mexico Territory is a place where old claims die hard and new blood is cheap.
Ridge Calder is a hard, solitary man who wants no part of other men’s wars. He’s content with his buckskin horse, his Hawken, and the quiet work of a line camp on the Arkansas. Then a territorial agent and a determined woman ride into his winter camp with news that can’t be ignored: a trapper’s family butchered on the upper Cimarron, the cabin burned, the man himself vanished.
What begins as a simple inquiry turns into a long, bloody trail that pulls Ridge across frozen mountains, down the Jornada del Muerto, and into the tangled politics of a territory still deciding what kind of law it will live under. Outlaws, hired guns, federal warrants, Mexican jurisdiction, and men with Philadelphia money all want him dead—or working for them.
Ridge doesn’t work for anyone. He only answers to the code he’s lived by since the beaver trade died: finish the job, protect the ones who stand with you, and leave no debt unpaid.
From the snow-choked Cimarron to the baking caliche of the San Andres and the Rio Grande crossings, these four novels follow one relentless man as he hunts justice through a land that has none to spare.
Genre: Western
Ridge Calder is a hard, solitary man who wants no part of other men’s wars. He’s content with his buckskin horse, his Hawken, and the quiet work of a line camp on the Arkansas. Then a territorial agent and a determined woman ride into his winter camp with news that can’t be ignored: a trapper’s family butchered on the upper Cimarron, the cabin burned, the man himself vanished.
What begins as a simple inquiry turns into a long, bloody trail that pulls Ridge across frozen mountains, down the Jornada del Muerto, and into the tangled politics of a territory still deciding what kind of law it will live under. Outlaws, hired guns, federal warrants, Mexican jurisdiction, and men with Philadelphia money all want him dead—or working for them.
Ridge doesn’t work for anyone. He only answers to the code he’s lived by since the beaver trade died: finish the job, protect the ones who stand with you, and leave no debt unpaid.
From the snow-choked Cimarron to the baking caliche of the San Andres and the Rio Grande crossings, these four novels follow one relentless man as he hunts justice through a land that has none to spare.
Genre: Western
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