Matt Braun is an author specializing in fictional stories of the American West. He has written fifty-six books, most of which are in the Western genre

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 and has over 40 million copies in print.

Braun is the winner of the Owen Wister Award

Owen Wister Award

Owen Wister Award is an annual award from the Western Writers of America given to lifelong contributions to the field of Western literature. Named for writer Owen Wister , it is given for "Outstanding Contributions to the American West".Originally given for "best book of the year", it was expanded...

 for lifetime achievement, the Western Writers of America

Western Writers of America

Western Writers of America, founded 1953, promotes literature, both fiction and non-fiction, pertaining to the American West. Although its founders wrote traditional western fiction, the more than five hundred current members also include historians and other non-fiction writers as well as authors...

 Golden Spur Award

Golden Spur

The Golden Spur Awards are literature awards given for distinguished western fiction about the American West by the Western Writers of America. The first Spur Awards were given in 1953.-Recent winners:*Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove...

, and the Festival of the West Cowboy Spirit Award. He has also been awarded the honorary title of Oklahoma Territorial Marshal by the Governor of Oklahoma.

His 1973 Black Fox, was made into a CBS miniseries.

Oklahoma

Born in Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

, Braun was raised in a rancher family among the Cherokee

Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...

 and Osage

Osage Nation

The Osage Nation is a Native American Siouan-language tribe in the United States that originated in the Ohio River valley in present-day Kentucky. After years of war with invading Iroquois, the Osage migrated west of the Mississippi River to their historic lands in present-day Arkansas, Missouri,...

 tribes. The state has been the setting of several novels, including Outlaw Kingdom, The Kincaids, and One Last Town.

Western Novels

• Black Fox
• Black Gold
• Bloodsport
• Bloodstorm
• Bloody Hand
• The Brannocks
• Buck Colter
• Cimarron Jordan
• Crossfire
• Dakota
• Deadwood
• Deathwalk
• A Distant Land
• Doc Holliday
• Dodge City
• El Paso
• The Gamblers
• Gentleman Rogue
• Hangman's Creek
• Hickok & Cody
• The Highbinders
• Indian Territory
• The Judas Tree
• Jury Of Six
• The Killing Touch
• The Kincaids
• Kinch
• The Last Stand
• Lords Of The Land
• The Manhunter
• Noble Outlaw
• One Last Town
• Outlaw Kingdom
• The Overlords
• Rio Grande
• Rio Hondo
• The Road To Hell
• Savage Land
• Shadow Killers
• The Second Coming Of Lucas Brokaw
• The Spoilers
• Tenbow
• Texas Empire
• A Time Of Innocence
• Tombstone
• Wages Of Sin
• The Warlords
• Westward Of The Law
• The Wild Ones
• Windward West
• Wyatt Earp
• You Know My Name

External links

• Matt Braun Official Web Site