Peter Brandvold
Peter Brandvold grew up in the great stat
e of North Dakota in the 1960’s and ‘70s, when television westerns were as popular as shows about hoarders and shark tanks are now, and western paperbacks were as popular as Game of Thrones.
Brandvold watched every western series on television at the time, which affected him so deeply that he often dreamt he was tall and uncompromising Matt Dillon or the lantern-jawed Virginian until Big Ben rattled to let him know it was time for school. He grew up riding horses and herding cows on the farms of his grandfather and many friends who owned livestock, and of just wandering, chewing on a brome grass stem, across the open prairie, often heading for a remote train bridge under which he’d flatten pennies and nickels on the iron-gray rails, and sneak puffs off a homemade corncob pipe.
When he was around eleven years old, his great-uncle Henry, a World War I vet, sent him downtown to Rexall Drug one hot summer afternoon to buy them each a western novel to read in the shade while Uncle Henry sipped a Miller High Life, and young Brandvold nursed an Orange Crush.
The writer-to-be came back with Fort Starvation by Frank Gruber and Hondo by Louis L’Amour, both books he’d picked at random from the spinner rack. He’s been reading and loving everything western ever since. His affinity for the old times was nurtured by a grandmother and great uncles like Henry who told him sometimes wonderful, sometimes harrowing stories of growing up in pioneer times on the Great Plains—of living in sod shanties through bone-splintering cold Dakota winters, of cutting and wrapping flax straws to burn for heat when they ran out of buffalo chips; of following the well-worn buffalo trails to go berry-picking, of swimming in buffalo wallows, and of having wash stolen from their clotheslines by wandering blanket Indians.
Brandvold’s imagination has always lived and will always live in the West. He is the author of over a hundred lightning-fast action westerns under his own name and his pen name, Frank Leslie–a moniker he cadged off the notorious western hardcase, “Buckskin” Frank Leslie, whom “Mean” Pete Brandvold, nasty as a stick-teased rattlesnake, often dreams he actually is so that he’ll find himself snarling through breakfast until his dog reminds him who’s really in charge.
Novels
Shotgun Rider: A Western Double – More Info | Purchase
The Revenger: Omnibus – More Info | Purchase
The Bells of El Diablo – More Info | Purchase
Blood Mountain – More Info | Purchase
Rogue Lawmen, Volume 1 – More Info | Purchase
Rogue Lawmen, Volume 2 – More Info | Purchase
The Saga of Colter Farrow Omnibus – More Info | Purchase
.45 Caliber Series, Volume 1 – More Info | Purchase
.45 Caliber Series, Volume 2 – More Info | Purchase
Spurr Morgan: A Western Double – More Info | Purchase
The Weird West: Dust of the Damned & Canyon of a Thousand Eyes – More Info | Purchase
Yakima Henry
The Lonely Breed – More Info | Purchase
The Thunder Riders – More Info | Purchase
The Wild Breed – More Info | Purchase
The Killing Breed – More Info | Purchase
The Savage Breed – More Info | Purchase
The Dangerous Dawn – More Info | Purchase
Bullet For a Half-Breed – More Info | Purchase
Dead River Killer – More Info | Purchase
Revenge at Hatchet Creek – More Info | Purchase
Dead Man's Trail – More Info | Purchase
Redemption Trail – More Info | Purchase
Yakima Henry Collections
Yakima Henry Collection (1) – More Info | Purchase
Yakima Henry Collection (2) – More Info | Purchase
Yakima Henry Collection (3) – More Info | Purchase
Sheriff Ben Stillman Western
Once a Marshal (#1) – More Info | Purchase
Once More With a .44 (#2) – More Info | Purchase
Once a Lawman (#3) – More Info | Purchase
Once Late With a .38 (#4) – More Info | Purchase
Once Hell Freezes Over (#5) – More Info | Purchase
Once a Renegade (#6) – More Info | Purchase
Once Upon a Dead Man (#7) – More Info | Purchase
Hell on Wheels (#8) – More Info | Purchase
Stillman's War (#9) – More Info | Purchase
Once More Into The Breech (#10) – More Info | Purchase
Once More With a Vengeance (#11) – More Info | Purchase
Rattlesnake Convention (#12) – More Info | Purchase
Stillman's Gun (#13) – More Info | Purchase
Stillman's Wrath (#14) – More Info | Purchase
Lou Prophet: The Complete Series
Volume 1 – More Info | Purchase