Robert Vaughan

As an author, Vaughan won the 1977 Porgie Award for the Power and the Pride novel. He also received the Western Fictioneers Lifetime Achievement Award, Spur Award, the Porgie Award, and the Readwest President's Award for Excellence in Western Fiction. Vaughan created, produced, and been featured in Vietnam Homecoming documentary aired on the History Channel.

The best place to start is The War Torn series, the earliest of Robert Vaughan's multi-book series: it opens with The Brave and the Lonely (1982) and runs to 6 books across 1982–2021, ending with The Slaughter and the Terror (2021). Robert Vaughan's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Robert Vaughan has 256 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1971 and 2026. 201 of them belong to 22 named series — the largest being the Ralph Compton Western series with 55 books — and 55 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. Robert Vaughan's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Brandywine's War (1971–2015, 2 books), Power Brokers (1976–1987, 2 books) and The War Torn (1982–2021, 6 books), plus 18 more.

This guide splits Robert Vaughan's 256 books into 22 named series and 55 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Ralph Compton Western (55 books, 2001–2021); Sundown Riders (28 books, 1996–2022); Crocketts (14 books, 2021–2025); The American Chronicles (9 books, 1992–1996); Faraday (6 books, 2019–2025), plus 17 further series.