Read-alikes and related books

Books like Gunfight at Cold Devil

If you loved Gunfight at Cold Devil by Ralph Cotton, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Westerns and Historical.

Westerns Historical Fiction

Top related books to Gunfight at Cold Devil

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Dead Time

William W. Johnstone

Themes: Westerns • Historical

Empty Saddles

Michael Kennard

Themes: Westerns • Historical

Ralph Compton Train to Durango

Ralph Compton

Themes: Westerns • Historical

The Stones of Peril

James C. Work

Themes: Westerns • Historical

Road to Reckoning A Novel

Robert Lautner

Themes: Westerns • Historical

Ralph Compton the Man From Nowhere

Joseph A. West

Themes: Westerns • Historical

Ghost Coach A Classic Western Adventure

Robert Vaughan

Themes: Westerns • Historical

The Man Called Noon (Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures) A Novel — Louis L’Amour

Louis L'Amour

Themes: Westerns • Historical

The Road to Montana Up the Bloody Bozeman (Book #7) — Rosie Bosse

ROSIE. BOSSE

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#10

Cade’s Revenge The Western Adventures of Cade McCall Book II

Robert Vaughan

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#11

Blood on the Trail

Terrence McCauley

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#12

Luke’s Gold

Charles G. West

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#13

Hot Lead, Cold Justice

Mickey Spillane

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#14

Brionne A Novel — Louis L’Amour

Louis L'Amour

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#15

Mountain Man A Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West

Vardis Fisher

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#16

Shane

Jack Schaefer

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#17

Shooting Iron

William W. Johnstone

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#18

Incredible Cowboy Stories Amazing Tales of Western Danger and Derring-Do

Veronica Alvarado

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#19

A Man Called Sunday

Charles G. West

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#20

Country of the Bad Wolfes A Novel

James Carlos Blake

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#21

Ralph Compton Tin Star

Jackson Lowry

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#22

Coyote Summer

W. Michael Gear

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#23

The Legend of Caleb York

Mickey Spillane

Themes: Westerns • Historical

#24

Ralph Compton The Kelly Trail

Terrence McCauley

Themes: Westerns • Historical

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Westerns, Historical — the same threads that run through Gunfight at Cold Devil by Ralph Cotton. Among the authors featured: William W. Johnstone, Michael Kennard, Ralph Compton, James C. Work, and others.