C. Wayne Winkle

Sometimes he does look like the perfect owner of a general store waiting for his first customers after sweeping the front of his store. Winkle is a retired psychologist that grew up in Pennsylvania and spent much of his childhood watching some of our favorite Western heroes on television. Given C. Wayne Winkle’s love for Western fiction, it is no surprise that he still makes his home in Arkansas in the south of the United States.

The best place to start is the Timber: United States Marshal series, the earliest of C. Wayne Winkle's multi-book series: it opens with The Guns of Gray Buffalo (2019) and runs to 118 books across 2019–2026, ending with U.S. Marshal: 100 (2026). C. Wayne Winkle's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

C. Wayne Winkle has 505 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2011 and 2026. 485 of them belong to 47 named series — the largest being the Timber: United States Marshal series with 118 books — and 20 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. C. Wayne Winkle's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Timber: United States Marshal (2019–2026, 118 books), Branson Hawk (2019–2026, 8 books) and Nathan Gage (2020–2026, 5 books), plus 44 more.

This guide splits C. Wayne Winkle's 505 books into 47 named series and 20 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Timber: United States Marshal (118 books, 2019–2026); Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal (103 books, 2021–2026); Levi Johnson: Mountain Man Scout (35 books, 2022–2026); Reno Gates Western (27 books, 2023–2026); Elias Burrell (20 books, 2026), plus 42 further series.