Short, Luke 1908-1975

Overview

Works:	237 works in 799 publications in 7 languages and 28,795 library holdings
Genres:	Western stories Love stories Adventure fiction
Roles:	Bibliographic antecedent, Other, Adapter, Scenarist, Conceptor, Creator
Classifications:	ps3513.l68158, 813.54

Publication Timeline

1930 |

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Publications about Luke Short

Publications by Luke Short

Publications by Luke Short, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Luke Short

Luke Short by Robert L Gale ( Book )
Vengeance valley ( Visual )
Blood on the moon ( Visual )
Frederick D. Glidden papers, 1933-1976 by Luke Short ( )
Vengeance valley ( Visual )

Short, Luke ( Book )
The Short family of Lake View community in San Angelo, Texas : decades of history experienced in Texas beginning in 1856 by Noreine Holden Dodds ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Luke Short

Ambush by Luke Short ( Book )
15 editions published between 1948 and 2010 in English and held by 771 libraries worldwide
A contingent of overworked cavalrymen travel the arid mountain passes of New Mexico in search of the renegade chief Diablito and his band, hoping to rescue the woman they hold captive.

Play a lone hand by Luke Short ( Book )
16 editions published between 1950 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 734 libraries worldwide

The man on the blue by Luke Short ( Book )
14 editions published between 1936 and 1993 in English and held by 682 libraries worldwide

Marauders' moon by Luke Short ( Book )
14 editions published between 1937 and 1992 in English and held by 676 libraries worldwide
Webb Cousins was headed for a short trial and a long stretch in jail. A bounty hunter had him cuffed, covered, and brought back alive. But when the prisoner and his captor ride into Wagon Mound, death rides in with them. In a flash of rifle fire, Cousins finds himself shackled to a dead man and swept up in a desperate struggle. A murderous range war threatens to destroy everything and everyone in its path.

Blood on the moon by Luke Short ( Book )
15 editions published between 1941 and 2010 in English and held by 673 libraries worldwide
Riling had a plan -- he wanted to squeeze the Blockhouse spread between a bunch of land-hungry nesters and a crooked Indian agent. And he knew that if anyone could make it stick, it was his buddy Jim Garry. At first Garry was willing...but when he found out just how dirty a job his friend had given him, he began to have misgivings -- not only about the job, but about who his friends really were...

Sunset graze by Luke Short ( Book )
11 editions published between 1942 and 1991 in English and held by 657 libraries worldwide

Ramrod by Luke Short ( Book )
14 editions published between 1943 and 1992 in English and held by 650 libraries worldwide

Bounty guns by Luke Short ( Book )
15 editions published between 1939 and 1989 in English and held by 647 libraries worldwide

The guns of Hanging Lake by Luke Short ( Book )
4 editions published between 1968 and 1991 in English and held by 643 libraries worldwide

And the wind blows free by Luke Short ( Book )
13 editions published between 1945 and 1993 in English and held by 633 libraries worldwide

Last hunt by Luke Short ( Book )
10 editions published between 1962 and 1993 in English and held by 623 libraries worldwide
Judge Lillard rides off into a blizzard with the intention of hunting elk and instead finds himself on the wrong side of a gun, leaving his best friend Lee McPhail to bring the killer to justice.

First campaign by Luke Short ( Book )
8 editions published between 1965 and 1991 in English and held by 612 libraries worldwide

The branded man by Luke Short ( Book )
12 editions published between 1938 and 1989 in English and held by 605 libraries worldwide

Donovan's gun by Luke Short ( Book )
11 editions published between 1968 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 603 libraries worldwide
Burt Hethridge had ruled the townsfolk of Pitkin with an iron fist. When he died, the town exploded into a wild, blood-letting spree, until Jim Donovan came along.

Raiders of the rimrock by Luke Short ( Book )
17 editions published between 1939 and 1996 in English and held by 591 libraries worldwide
Story of range war between cattlemen and sheepmen.

Summer of the smoke by Luke Short ( Book )
10 editions published between 1958 and 1993 in English and held by 586 libraries worldwide

Desert crossing by Luke Short ( Book )
6 editions published between 1961 and 1992 in English and held by 576 libraries worldwide
Dave Harmon, a contract freighter for the Army, must deliver an important shipment of rifles across the desert to Fort Whipple. A small group of army officers accompany Harmon's wagon train to guard against Apaches and marauding outlaws. Harmon learns that one of the men, Brick Noonan, has arranged an ambush along the trail, so that the latter can sell the rifles for his own profit. Harmon eventually turns the tables on Noonan's waiting men, thereby thwarting the ambush and killing Noonan in the process. With this obstacle removed, Harmon successfully delivers the guns to Fort Whipple.

Trouble country by Luke Short ( Book )
10 editions published between 1976 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 572 libraries worldwide
This is the story of good and evil wrapped up in the lives of two brothers. One is determined to grow rich at all cost. The family name means nothing to him. The other is more concerned about clearing the family name than anything else. These brothers end up in a show down and the outcome is even better than expected.

Dead freight for Piute by Luke Short ( Book )
8 editions published between 1940 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 563 libraries worldwide
When Cole refused the dirty job offered him by the Monarch outfit, he knew that from now on it was him against the gang, but he was ready to pay for his freedom -- and if the price was his blood, so be it.

Paper sheriff by Luke Short ( Book )
8 editions published between 1966 and 1992 in English and held by 554 libraries worldwide
Sheriff Reese Branham was sworn to stop the Hoad clan's reign of terror, though his marriage to Callie Hoad complicated matters; would Callie stand by him?

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