Zack Branson Texas Ranger - The Story Begins

The saga of the Branson family in law enforcement continues when Jesse’s son Zack Branson becomes a Texas Ranger. 

The Texas Rangers were Zack’s second choice, but once a Ranger he was glad it had worked out the way it did. 

Zack teams up with a grizzled old former mountain man to track a killer who chose the Palo Duro Canyon as a hiding place. The former mountain man wants the reward and Zack wants the fugitive. They struggle against a fierce Texas winter storm and bounty hunters to find the killer. 

When Zack goes after Klan members who killed two black men in Van Zandt County, Texas, the murderers decide the Ranger needs to die. The question becomes; can he find the killers before they kill him?

Texas Ranger Zack Branson is tasked with the job of going to Montague County and finding out who killed a deputy sheriff. 

Once he gets involved in the investigation, he discovers that there are lots of factors at work. Homesteaders are being forced off their property, and the foreclosures are being bought for a fraction of their value.  

Zack runs into a cousin who is a U.S. Marshal, and they team up to find stolen gold coins and a killer. Zack’s involvement causes an assassin to try to terminate his involvement in the investigation. 

The story has twists and turns. Just when Zack thinks he has it figured out, he is surprised by the final events.

The Zack Branson story continues when he gets tasked with the assignment of finding a cattle rustler who’s stealing cows in Coleman County, Texas. 

Ranger Branson leaves his young wife and child in Fort Worth, puts Blue Boy and Lil Hoss on a train, and goes to cattle country to catch an infamous rustler. 

The rustler, Jack Sully, had been rustling cattle for years and no one had ever been able to catch him and bring him to justice. 

Some of Sully’s gang members had met a violent death, but the leader seemed to have a charmed life. Catching Sully becomes a match of wits, who will eventually win the contest is the question.

The Train Robbers continues the Zack Branson story. Texas Ranger Zack Branson is ordered to Comanche County, Texas, to investigate the robbery of an express car on the Texas Central Railroad train. 

Zack’s Uncle Ike is also in Comanche to investigate the train robbery. They join forces, but get sidetracked when the bank in De Leon, Texas, is robbed. The trail of the bank robbers leads to Erath County where they come up against a cattle baron and a corrupt county sheriff. 

One of the train robbers vows to kill Ranger Branson, and the father of two of the bank robbers that Zack killed hires a professional assassin to kill the Ranger. 

The question becomes whether Ranger Branson will survive and solve the train robbery or if he will ride back to Fort Worth in a pine box. 

Bill Shuey is the author of several books. When he isn’t writing, he can be found traveling with his wife and fly rods.

The story of Texas Ranger Zack Branson continues when he is reassigned to El Paso, Texas. He collaborates with his cousin, U.S. Marshal Cal Branson, to try to control the rustling and banditry on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. 

Zack and Cal chase a group of Mexican bandits across the Rio Grande River, confront them in a cantina at a small pueblo, and get involved in a shootout. 

While Cal is honeymooning, Zack and El Paso County Sheriff White go after cattle rustlers that were busted out of jail. Sammy Blue Fox, an old Apache who tracked Geronimo, signs on to help them find the escapees and the man who killed the jailer during the escape. 

The chase ends in a stalemate. Who will walk away and who will die is uncertain until the last shot is fired. 

Bill Shuey is the author of several books and the ObverseView column.

The Zack Branson saga continues. After failing to get his pound of flesh, Walter Sampson hires another assassin to find and kill Zack. 

Zack and his cousin, Marshal Cal Branson team up to find the rustlers that are stealing cattle in Hudspeth County. 

Deputy Sheriff Sarah Branson gets selected to be the sharpshooter for the Bernalillo County, New Mexico, sheriff’s department, and proves she is up to the task. 

Texas Ranger Mike Branson is assigned to Odessa, Texas, and tracks down rustlers in Ector County.

Seth Wilkerson escapes from Huntsville Prison and heads west to find the man who captured him – Zack Branson. 

Bill Shuey is the author of several books. When he isn’t writing, he can be found traveling with his wife and fly rods.

The Zack Branson – Texas Ranger saga continues when his cousin, Sarah Jane Branson, becomes a deputy sheriff in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. 

She gets thrown into the fire early on and is forced to shoot a Methodist minister. 

Shortly thereafter, Sarah is forced to kill a man who holding a child hostage and threatening her father, U.S. Marshal Kenny Branson. 

Next Sarah, Lil Britches, is part of a posse that goes after bandits who robbed the Sunflower Bank in Albuquerque. She and two other deputies confront two of the bandits. One deputy is seriously injured, and she is forced to continue on with just one deputy to help, or turn back. 

Sarah and Deputy Neal Bush continue on after the bandits, whittle the number down one at a time, and get the arrested men in jail. They track the final two bandits, Walston Dailey and his henchman, to the Dailey ranch in Los Cruces. There she is joined by Texas Ranger Zack Branson and her uncle, Cal Branson, U.S. Marshal. 

The three lawmen and the one lawwoman lay siege to the ranch house and get involved in twists and turns before they arrive at a final resolution to the chase. 

Bill Shuey is the author of several books and the ObverseView column. He lives with his wife of many years and fishes when he isn’t writing.