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Terence Newnes

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Terence Newnes is a historical Western novelist whose work centres on the nineteenth-century American frontier. Born in southern India, he left college and spent much of the 1970s and 1980s working in fabrication shops, machine shops and tool rooms, with a period working in Ethiopia. In his forties he retrained as a medical transcriptionist and worked in Toledo, Ohio, before later establishing a call-centre and data-entry business. After losing the business during the COVID-19 pandemic, Newnes turned to the ambition he had held since childhood and began writing fiction. His historical novels favour traditional Western subjects: cattle ranching, homesteading, gunfighters, family feuds, Civil War veterans and communities struggling to establish themselves in the unsettled West.

His principal historical sequence is the Bailey Clan Westerns, a twenty-book family saga beginning with The Legend of Jack Donovan and continuing through The Bailey Brothers, The Making of a Man, The Marshal of Two Forks, The Hired Gun, The Man from the Mountains, The Rustlers of Animas Forks, The Battle for Silver Creek, The Kid from Mexico, The Bailey Clan, The Stranger, The Homesteader, The Harlan Kid, The Warrior, The Orphan, The Soldier, The Farmer, The Gambler, The Maverick and The War of the Clans. The novels range across Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and other frontier regions, with many characters shaped by the American Civil War and its aftermath; The Farmer, for example, follows a former soldier trying to establish a Nebraska homestead after the war. Newnes also writes the Fast Gun Western series, including The Waco Kid, The Desert Born, To Tame a Town and The Drifter. His historical fiction is therefore primarily concerned with the post-Civil War American West, cattle country, frontier settlement, range conflict and the movement of families across the expanding United States.

Periods and events

American Civil War1861–1865 CE Apache Wars and Chiricahua Resistance1849–1886 CE Cattle Drives and Cowboy Era1866–1890 CE Emancipation and Reconstruction1863–1877 CE Old West and Frontier America1803–1912 CE Oregon Trail Migration1840–1869 CE Post-Civil-War U.S.–Mexico Borderlands1865–1880 CE Texas–Comanche Conflict1821–1875 CE Western Outlaws and Frontier Lawmen1865–1900 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Terence Newnes (3 series)

The Fast Gun Series in Order

by Terence Newnes 10 books 4.5(1,766)

The Fast Gun Series is a sequence of linked Western adventures about gunfighters, lawmen, cowboys and drifters trying to make new lives on the post-Civil-War frontier. Each novel introduces a different protagonist whose reputation with a gun draws him into a threatened ranch, lawless settlement, range dispute or…

Bailey Clan Westerns in Order

by Terence Newnes 20 books 4.4(6,114)

The Bailey Clan Westerns follows successive members and branches of the Bailey family as they try to build lives across the nineteenth-century American frontier. The sequence moves through wagon migration, the Civil War and its aftermath, cattle country, mining settlements, homesteads and isolated towns, with each novel centring…

David Joseph Mysteries in Order

by Terence Newnes 4 books 4.0(654)

The David Joseph Mysteries follows psychologist David Joseph as he assists police investigations in Tamil Nadu, India. His knowledge of criminal behaviour gives him a distinctive role in cases involving murder, predatory offenders, vigilante violence and mass attacks. Across the four novels, David works increasingly close to danger,…

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