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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.

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"A village is destroyed. A vengeance is born. And one man blazes a trail to hell and back to pay the devils their due--in bullets and blood. They call him Preacher... JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. It starts as a happy reunion between Preacher and his fellow trappers in a peaceful Indian village. But it ends swiftly in death and destruction when a rival tribe attacks the village, slaughters some of Preacher's Crow and mountain man friends,...

A memoir by an award-winning poet describes her retreats to a wilderness cabin to write in solitude and find answers to life's big questions, describing how a catastrophic fire forced her to reconcile her conflicting needs for isolation and community.

This collection includes the classic westerns Trail of the Mountain Man and Return of the Mountain Man.

Presents the intersecting stories of a boy's quest for independence during a stay with his grandfather in the Colorado Rockies, and the maturation of a bird that lives in the waterfalls of a mountain stream.

Clint Black ran the biggest cattle operation in Montana. His Circle .45 spread controlled the best water, the richest graze, and he had his own personal army of cutthroats. And he didn't like competition. Only a fool would fail to see trouble when Smoke Jensen brought 3,500 head up from Colorado to sell to Black's neighbor. Jensen was willing to talk to the man, but Clint Black was more hardheaded than sensible, more bloodthirsty than businesslike...

When an old friend's family is massacred, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen hits the vengeance trail. He's soon riding into a bloody Colorado war that has militia cavalry volunteers and Kiowa warriors stalking each other across the territory.

This edition was created from the clothbound edition of "Mountain Man: a Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West", which was published in 1965 by Opal Laurel Holmes, Boise, Idaho.

Life, Love, Struggle, and Laughter through the decades, from the 1880s to the 2010s, one short story for every ten-year span, bringing you true-to-life characters, their triumphs and tribulations, their journeys and lessons learned, all with humor and insight, pathos and cheer. Fourteen Short Stories that not only show the history of Silverton, Colorado — but the progress and spirit of its people, their hopes and dreams, and even, yes, their disappointments...

Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies ... and 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...