Books written by Paul Colt

  • Friends Call Me Bat

    D&RG creditors refused to finance President W. J. Palmer's request for funds to develop the section. The creditors insisted D&RG lease the right of way to the AT&SF as a source of funds to repay the line's debt. Left with no choice, ...

  • All That Glitters

    "Cajun box man known as Duval blows a safe in San Francisco and makes off with sixty thousand dollars in diamonds and precious stones.

  • The Bogus Bondsman

    The work is carried out by a ruthless, ultra-secret crime syndicate using an enigmatic beauty hired to beguile unsuspecting bankers while passing the bogus paper.

  • Sycamore Promises: A Novel of the Great Civil War

    Finding refuge in the shelter of a mighty tree.

  • Friends Call Me Bat

    Friends Call Me Bat is his story and those of his friends as he might have told them, complete with an otherworldly twist at the end.

  • Bounty of Vengeance: Ty's Story

    A murderous drifter. A grieving husband. A range war about to explode. Bounty of Vengeance introduces Paul Colt’s sweeping Bounty Trilogy.

  • Grasshoppers in Summer

    In Grasshoppers in Summer, Paul Colt tells the epic story of the making and breaking of the Fort Laramie Treaty as seen through the eyes of opposing political, military, and tribal leaders.

  • Boots & Saddles: A Call to Glory

    ALSO BY PAUL COLT Boots and Saddles: A Call to Glory (2013) A Question of Bounty: The Shadow of Doubt (2014) ... War (2017) Sycamore Promises (2018) Friends Call Me Bat (2019) GREAT WESTERN DETECTIVE LEAGUE Wanted: Sam Bass (2015) The ...

  • Boots and Saddles: A Call to Glory

    The story follows a young George Patton, a junior cavalry officer and saber master before he became the war hero tank commander in the iconic image famously portrayed by George C. Scott.

  • Grasshoppers in Summer

    Grasshoppers in Summer tells the epic story of making and breaking the Fort Laramie Treaty as seen through the eyes of opposing political, military, and tribal leaders.

  • Bounty of Greed: The Lincoln County War

    Blatant Corruption. Murder Unpunished. And in the Middle, a Kid Named Billy. Bounty of Greed continues Paul Colt’s Bounty Trilogy capturing the epic story we know as the Lincoln County War.

  • A Question of Bounty: The Shadow of Doubt

    Skillfully conceived and masterfully written, A Question of Bounty: The Shadow of Doubt will make you question everything you thought you knew about the man known as Billy the Kid.

  • Lunger: The Doc Holliday Story

    ... of that film for the Earp brothers, Kurt Russell's Wyatt in particular. If Bat Masterson sounds something of the portrayal in my book Friends Call Me Bat, he should. —Paul Colt • SELECTED SOURCES Holliday Tanner , Karen , Doc Holliday.

  • Sycamore Promises

    A young couple leaves Ohio for the promise of a new life on the Kansas plains.