Patrick Dearen

Halloween on the Butterfield Trail

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

Eleven-year-old twins Bird and Wiley Pulliam are riding the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach with their father, who is one of the drivers, in 1860 ...Read Review

The Big Dry

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2024

Genres:

AdventureWestern

1880s Texas:  Will Brite is in trouble with the law—his pregnant wife Jessie has mixed- race ancestry.  She can pass for white, ...Read Review

Grizzly Moon

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2023

Genres:

Western

During a hunting expedition in Texas in 1880, Wash Baker tragically and mistakenly kills his son in a shooting accident on a dark and ...Read Review

The End of Nowhere

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2022

Genres:

Western

An old fashioned—in the best sense of the words—Western tale of redemption and self-discovery, set in the volatile border territory between ...Read Review

Haunted Border

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2021

Genres:

Western

It is Christmas Day, 1917, on the Cross-C Ranch, owned by Jake Graves, a 63-year-old ex-Ranger. Jake learns that his daughter Drucilla is sweet ...Read Review

Apache Lament

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2019

Genres:

Western

This western novel is based upon the actual events of January 1881, when a small contingent of Texas Rangers tracked the last free group ...Read Review