John Legg

John Legg – Award-Winning Western Fiction Author

Explore thrilling Western adventures, full of courage, honor, and the open range

About Me

John Legg has published more than 70 novels, most on Old West themes. TO FACE A SAVAGE TRAIL, published by Wolfpack Publishing in October 2024, the fifth in the Savage Land series, is his latest novel in the field of his main interest — the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade. He first wrote of the fur trade in CHEYENNE LANCE, his initial work.

Alongside his fiction career, Legg earned degrees in Communications and Journalism and spent many years working as a journalist before retiring. He has written both historical Westerns and series novels under his own name and pseudonyms, as well as a nonfiction book on fur trade history. He remains deeply interested in the history of the American frontier and is a proud member of Western Fictioneers. He also occasionally explores other genres, including adventure, paranormal, and fantasy fiction.

Explore My Books

On the Devil’s Trail

In the West, a man could outrun the law, outshoot his enemies, and still lose his heart.

Walker Blackburn is a bounty hunter accustomed to life on his own. But after rescuing a boy and his dog from a bully, he finds himself with something he never expected a family, and one that needs his protection. Walker has spent his life drifting from one bounty to the next, never staying long enough to put down roots. But when trouble follows him to the people who have come to depend on him, he must decide….

Hard Land

FOR SOME MEN, TROUBLE IS A CONSTANT COMPANION . . .

No matter how much he tries to avoid trouble, bounty hunter Brodie Pike can’t just look away when it stares him in the face. In his business, friends are hard to find, and when they need help, Pike will always heed the call. Pike faces daunting odds when he rides to the aid of some newfound friends in the gold- and silver-mining towns of Colorado Territory—two marshals beset by outlaw gangs, and a woman ravaged by bestial men.

To Face a Savage Winter…

HIS PREVIOUS TWO WINTERS HAD BEEN HELLACIOUS .

The third winter in the Rocky Mountains was not the charm for mountain man Hawley Cooper. What started out as a prime beaver trapping season turned forbidding as another winter beckoned and settled into the Absaroka Mountains. A war party of Crows raided his camp and ran off with his wife, a Shoshoni named Black Moon Woman. Left without a horse,

Final Justice

A CHILD’S ABDUCTION SETS OFF A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN TWO TOUGH BOUNTY HUNTERS!

Jace Coppersmith, a marshal in a Colorado Territory town, makes the tough decision to hand in his badge and leave his fiancée to help a friend, Travis Van Horn, in Kansas. Van Horn, who trained Coppersmith in the ways of the bounty hunter, is being forced to commit crimes by an outlaw who has abducted Van Horn’s five-year-old daughter, a child he has never really known.

Good Words from readers

Final Justice is a page‑turner. I didn’t want to put it down. I would recommend this book to my friends and everyone looking for a good read.

Great characters and a wonderful storyline. Mr. Legg makes you feel like you’re right there in the story.

This is the best series I have ever read. I’ll definitely search out more of Mr. Legg’s books!

Definitely 5 stars. Great writing style and storyline. Looking forward to more.

Latest Book

Mountain Times: The Complete Western Series

Walker Blackburn is a bounty hunter accustomed to life on his own. But after rescuing a boy and his dog from a bully, he finds himself with something he never expected—a family, and one that needs his protection.

Walker has spent his life drifting from one bounty to the next, never staying long enough to put down roots. But when trouble follows him to the people who have come to depend on him, he must decide whether to keep riding alone or stand and fight for a future he never thought he wanted.

That kind of life was never meant for him. He was not made to be a townsman, a father, or a husband. He was a wanderer, with nothing to tie him to any one place, free to come and go as he pleased. That was the life he knew. Yet a small, persistent itch had begun to stir at the back of his mind.

Would protecting this newfound family change the course of Walker’s life? Or would the call of the open road prove too strong to resist?

Get ready for a wild ride through the pages of this western adventure collection, packed with adrenaline-pumping action set in a lawless frontier.

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