William W Johnstone
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Down on his luck, Smoke Jensen contracts to deliver 3000 head of cattle. Then a renegade Cheyenne warrior uses an early winter blizzard to attack Smoke and his crew. Too bad it's only the first step in journey built to test Smoke's mettle, because some people are hunting a payday of their own--for killing Smoke Jensen. Soon the streets of Laramie will run with blood.
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G.K. Hall
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[1998], c1984
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Johnstone-Keeping the West Wild
The Story that Started the Saga.
From his Missouri farm, the boy travels west. In his heart is vengeance. In his hand is a Navy Colt. By his side is the old mountain man named Preacher, who'll teach young Smoke Jensen everything he needs to know about fighting like the devil, and-when the time comes-dying like a man. Although Smoke Jensen's enemies have destroyed everything he's ever loved, they made one mistake:...
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In the bush country of South Texas, Captain Richard King built a sprawling ranch called Santa Gertrudis. But at the end of the Civil War, while King was in Mexico, his ranch was raided by Union troops led by a sadistic killer who burned Santa Gertrudis to the ground - and slaughtered everyone on it. Thirty years later, King's land is about to run with blood once more. Former Union Captain Jack Brant has gotten out of prison and is raring to pick up...
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There's Nothing A Man Won't Do To Clear His Name.
They called him fastest gun alive, but Smoke Jensen is determined to stay on the right side of the law. That is, until he's jumped by six low-life robbers who steal his shirt--and his identity. Smoke's tried for robbery and murder, and sentenced to hang in morning. Someone's out to frame the Mountain Man . . . someone who's made a big mistake.
Justice--Mountain Man Style.
Barely managing to escape...
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2015.
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On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861 shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Back at home, waves of violence crash over Kriby and his family, until the boy quickly becomes a man, riding with Brigg's Marauders, coming up against violent killers like Frank and Jesse James, and proving his own skill with...
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2016.
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At the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. On a mission of vengeance, an old trapper is rescued by Ace and Chance Jensen from ruthless outlaws and wanted by a driven bounty hunter named Luke Jensen. And, just released from prison, a criminal mastermind assembles a vicious gang of cutthroats to extract his final revenge against his...
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From the USA Today–bestselling author of The Last Mountain Man, an Old West gunfighter closes in on the men who killed his family.
William W. Johnstone's vivid, uncompromising novels stand as violent portraits of the rugged American frontiersman and the forces that forged him. In this powerful novel, Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness—where he sees a...Author
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A western hero whose adventures embody the spirit of the American frontier, Smoke Jensen is bestselling author William W. Johnstone's most beloved creation. In his powerful new novel, Johnston chronicles Smoke's early years. Before he went off in search of his father, long before he become a legend, Kirby Jensen was a young man trying to make a living with the gifts God gave him--courage, cunning, and lightning with a gun.
11) Purgatory
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Recorded Books
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p2009
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William W. Johnstone's breathtaking Mountain Man series set the standard for Western adventure. Now, the adopted son of Smoke Jensen takes his place on the unforgiving American frontier. . .
Sentenced To Die
Purgatory, Arizona, is the last place you'll ever cross the law. Because in this town, the law is the personal fiefdom of an evil man--as Matt Jensen discovered on his first day in town, when an unavoidable gunfight and a dead deputy landed...
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Kensington Books
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2020.
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Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are mighty proud of themselves. They managed to deliver five mail-order brides to the New Mexico mining town of Silverhill in one piece. The town is so grateful, they want to make Bo their marshal and Scratch his deputy. Since they don't have another cargo of brides to escort, Bo and Scratch are happy to accept the jobs - and even happier to attend the weddings of the fine young women they brought here ... As it turns out,...
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Pinnacle Books
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c2003
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Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but fate had other plans, and the Mountain Man has left plenty of blood, tears and fury in his wake. Angus MacDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge. Riding up to Big Rock, Colorado, MacDougal has decided that killing Smoke won't be enough. He intends to bring him back to Pueblo and hang him before a crowd. It's a bloodthirsty plan that might have worked, except for a beautiful young woman, and...
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Slash and Pecos western volume 3
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Not many men get a second chance at life. But thanks to a chief U.S. marshal who needs their help, the bank-robbing duo of Jimmy 'Slash' Braddock and Melvin 'Pecos Kid' Baker are on the right side of the law. As unofficial marshals, they've agreed to pick up three prisoners from a Milestown jail and escort them to Denver. Sounds easy enough, until they learn the prisoners are an unholy trio of sadistic cutthroat killers known as Talon, Hellraisin...
15) A hill of beans
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[2020]
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"Mac is back. Framed for a murder he didnt commit, Dewey Mac McKenzie is a wanted man on a cattle drive heading west, as a chuckwagon cook. Though he's never even boiled an egg, McKenzie has a natural gift for cobbling together good trail drive grub. Now, with two trail drives under his belt, McKenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He's good at serving up justice, too, with a side of hot lead."
Framed for a murder he didn't commit,...
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Mountain man volume 40
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Pinnacle Books
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A young man has inherited a ranch—and a whole lot of trouble—in this Western in the New York Times bestselling series.
In Colorado Territory, Smoke Jensen is trying to live at peace with the big, beautiful world around him. Then a tinhorn named Puddle enters his valley—and unleashes a hellstorm of a range war.
Then the shooting started
Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a twenty-one-year-old shipping clerk—from
17) Colter's journey
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1845, in the untamed Oregon Territory. Tim Colder escapes when his family is ambushed by a gang of cutthroats; his parents butchered, his sisters missing. Luckily he finds a friend in Jed Reno, a one-eyed trapper who's lived in the Rockies since the 20's-- and is looking for the same gang that attacked Tim's family. Colter has no choice but to grow up fast, face his fears, and fight back with everything he's got.
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Where's The Thunder, There's Fire. . .
Higbee Colorado, population 147, is booming. A visionary named Garrison Wade is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the Santa Fe. But a family named Clinton has its own selfish reasons for making sure these bands of steel go nowhere--and they've brought in a ruthless killer to derail Wade's plan. . .
Falcon MacCallister owes a debt to the would-be railroad man Wade--and has a score to settle with the Clinton's...
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Kensington Pub
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[2009], c1987
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The second book in Johnson's legendary series finds Smoke Jensen in No-Name, Colorado, where every two-bit gunslick has come to get in on the gold strike. Outnumbered 100 to one, Smoke recruits his own army of aging but lethal frontier legends to put a stop to the trouble.
20) Die by the gun
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Chuckwagon Trail volume 2
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Kensington Books
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2018.
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After completing a successful cattle drive as the chuckwagon cook, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie signs up for another one on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory. Pursued by a gang of ruthless killers hired by his enemies, with an ornery trail boss and the cattle owner's spoiled son as his crew mate, Mac sets off on a route overrun with kill-crazy rustlers and bloodthirsty Comanche. When the owner's son is kidnapped, the courageous cook...
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