Battle Of The Mountain Man

Some people don't know when to leave bad enough alone . . . A gritty, action-packed Western in the New York Times bestselling series. Smoke Jensen had all but forgotten the vicious young gunfighter who called himself Sundance. Smoke had hoped to teach that twisted kid a lesson by shooting off his ear. But the lesson didn't take . . . Now, after years on the run, Sundance's ravenous hunger for revenge has pushed him over the edge. He's gathered a gang of the worst robbing, pillaging, raping scum from the Texas-Mexico border and is heading for the Sugarloaf ranch with the fool idea of nailing Smoke Jensen's hide to the wall. The problem for him is that Smoke Jensen doesn't believe in second chances . . .

USA Today bestselling author: A Colorado cattleman wages all-out war on a gang of ruthless rustlers . . . The kind of man for whom God created the gun, Smoke Jensen stands as a force of will in the brutal, lawless west . . . Nothing will stand in his way Smoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But a cattle war has turned the landscape into a battleground, and a ruthless gang of rustlers is hot on Smoke's trail. The bullet-proof mountain man is determined to get what he wants—even if he has to blast every one of the dirty desperados back to hell.

USA Today bestselling author: When a vicious cattle baron crosses him, Smoke Jensen aims to take the bull by the horns . . . Santa Clara, Colorado, is twenty-four hours by train from the land where Smoke Jensen found peace and prosperity on his Sugarloaf Ranch. But somehow, Smoke can't stay away from Santa Clara—and from an evil cattle baron hiding a murderous past. And where there's smoke—there's justice . . . For Smoke, it starts at a high-class auction for a pureblood Hereford bull. Smoke wins the bidding—and earns the hatred of Pogue Quentin, Santa Clara's leading citizen and a man living on bloodshed and lies. Then Smoke's friend Pearlie drifts to Santa Clara. And when Pearlie runs afoul of Quentin, all hell will break loose. Now Smoke Jensen is heading to Santa Clara to face a man who already wants him dead—but Pogue Quentin never met anything like the fire of a mountain man . . .

Smoke Jensen was buying cattle 100 miles away from his Colorado ranch when he got the horrible news: a pack of outlaws had struck his home in the dead of night, and shot his wife three times. Smoke knew the outlaws had come to kill him--and he wasn't going to give them a second chance.

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 chance to right the wrong that shattered his family and his soul… Smoke Jensen is a young man raised on loss and bitterness, nurtured by a mountain man named Preacher. Now, Smoke Jensen, with his, a new black horse and an old grudge, slips over the unmarked border into the turbulent Idaho Territory. Ahead is a town called Bury, built on stolen gold, and run by a band of ruthless men who had a hand in the murder of Smoke's brother in the Civil War. Smoke's father died in pursuit of those killers, but urged his son not to waste his life in vengeance… Swift, powerful, and poetic, Return Of The Mountain Man is an action-packed tale by William W. Johnstone, an American master—and a great chronicler of our harsh and often unforgiving last frontier.

A Mountain Man and the War Between the States follows the life of William Taylor (Billy T.) Ware. The son of a farmer in Western Virginia (now West Virginia), Billy T. was only 19 when he joined the Confederate States Army soon after the State of Virginia seceded from the Union in April of 1861. The first year of the war he fought in the mountains of Pocahontas County near his home in Randolph County. Fighting under General Robert E. Lee, he saw action led by Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and fought in other battles, including Antietam and Gettysburg. Captured at the Battle of the Wilderness in May of 1864, he was imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland. The last nine months of the war he was held at the notorious Elmira Prison in New York. Following his experiences during the war and his life after he returned home, the reader may come to understand why this mountain man fought for the South and the price he paid.

"Triumph of the Mountain Man" Robber baron Clifton Satterlee's plan is twofold and simple: wrest the timber-thick hills in New Mexico Territory from the Tua Pueblo and then populate the town with his own subservient labor force.

USA Today bestselling author: Smoke Jensen has taken on plenty of outlaws—but this time, it's personal . . . Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies—and then he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives. It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns . . . but Smoke didn't count on Big Max doing something as daring, desperate, and stupid as kidnapping his wife—and demanding the town of Barlow itself as ransom. Soon Big Max Higgins would look up and see the last mountain man riding down the middle of the street with reins in his teeth and both hands filled with .44s. Big Max had always wanted to make a name for himself. And he was going to get it, too—carved on his gravestone.