Slocum (westerns) explained

Slocum Westerns are the longest running series of Westerns ever written, encompassing over 400 books, all of which are published under the pen name Jake Logan.^{[1] [2]} The books have been written by a number of authors, and all feature John Slocum as the protagonist.^[3]

Main character

John Slocum is among the toughest of gunfighters. He is a mostly decent man who will do whatever it takes to survive life in the Western Frontier. A Confederate soldier who lost his ancestral home to carpetbaggers after the Civil War, Slocum left the South, never to return.

He has been a soldier, slave, stagecoach driver, shotgun guard, bank robber, lawman, pioneer, cowboy, shepherd, poor man, rich man, gambler, and drifter. His adventures occur in most of the American West.

Target demographic

The books are claimed to be adult oriented, due to the presence of three explicitly described sex scenes in each of the numerous books; they were first published by Playboy Press.^[4]

Authors

• Robert E. Vardeman (Dead Man's Spurs)^[5]
• Martin Cruz Smith (Ride for Revenge)^[6]
• Ronald Kelly (Slocum and the Nightriders)^[7] and (Slocum and the Gold Slaves) ^[8]
• Robert Vaughan (Cheyenne Bloodbath) ^[9]
• Jory Sherman (Sixguns at Silverado) ^[10]
• James Reasoner (Slocum and the Texas Rose) ^[11]
• Marcus Galloway (Slocum and the Witch of Westlake) ^[12]
• Matthew P. Mayo (Slocum and the High-Rails Heiress) ^[13]

External links

• Books by Jake Logan fictiondb

Notes and References

1. Web site: Action Westerns . 2011-04-11 . Penguin.com . Penguin Books.
2. Web site: The Literary Hill . 2011-04-12 . Lyon . Karen . July 2009 . Hill Rag.
3. Web site: Jake Logan . 2011-04-12 . Penguin Books.
4. Web site: Slocum's woman by Jake Logan . 2011-04-12 . Playboy Press Paperbacks . WorldCat.
5. Book: Logan . Jake . Dead Man's Spurs . Slocum series number 247 . Robert Vardeman . . October 1, 1999 . 978-0-515-12613-6 .
6. Book: Logan . Jake . Ride for Revenge . Slocum series number 11 . . July 1980 . 978-0-86721-159-7 .
7. Slocum and the Nightriders 1994, Berkley – Slocum series number 174
8. Slocum and the Gold Slaves 1994, Berkley – Slocum series number 187
9. Cheyenne Bloodbath 1986, Berkley – Slocum series number 90
10. Sixguns at Silverado 1987, Berkley – Slocum series number 107
11. Slocum and the Texas Rose 1998, Jove Books – Slocum series number 229
12. Slocum and the Witch of Westlake 2009, Jove Books – Slocum series number 362
13. Slocum and the High-Rails Heiress 2012, Jove Books – Slocum series number 398