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. ON THE DEVIL’S TRAIL, published by Wolfpack Publishing in July 2026, the sixth book in the Rocky Mountain Lawmen series, is his latest novel, joining Sheriff’s Blood, Blood in the Snow, Shoshoni Vengeance, Vigilante Coffin, and Hard Justice. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Western Fictioneers.
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
Rocky Mountain Lawmen Series
A WESTERN FICTION COLLECTION, STEAMING WITH WILD WEST ACTION.
Tough. Fearless. Relentless.
These dedicated men are all that stand between the worst outlaws in a wild, heartless land and the innocent people trying to make a life in the West’s unforgiving high country.
They’re more than lawmen… They’re Rocky Mountain Lawmen.
Get ready for a wild ride through the pages of this western adventure collection, packed with adrenaline-pumping action set in a lawless frontier.
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….
To Face a Savage Winter…
THE PREVIOUS TWO WINTERS WERE HELLACIOUS. THIS ONE IS SAVAGE...
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, Cooper follows the Crows as best he can but soon realizes that with winter laying its frigid hand on the land, he would never catch the warriors on foot.
Refused help by the Shoshonis, he gets a horse and heads out alone into the heart of winter again, searching the Bighorn Mountains hoping to find the Crows, bent on rescuing his wife—or avenging her death.
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.
Featured Book
Mountain Times: The Complete Western Series
He’s survived blizzards, grizzlies, and dozens of Blackfoot war parties. But the ghosts haunting Nathaniel Squire may be the one enemy he can’t outrun.
Squire is the biggest, hardest mountain man in the Rockies, and when a pack of raw greenhorns need guiding into the high country, he’s the only one crazy enough to take them. He’ll teach them to trap, to fight, and to survive, deep in Blackfoot territory where one mistake means death. But the lessons come fast and brutal, and not everyone will make it out whole.
When a traitor moves among them and old enemies rise from the past, Squire must lead his ragged crew headlong into another war with the Blackfeet. Some will find their courage. Some will find their graves. And Squire must decide how far down the vengeance trail he’s willing to go.
Mountain Times: The Complete Western Series includes Winter Rage, Blackfoot Dawn, and Mountain Rage.
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