"He was raised by the mountain man called Preacher, and he was said to be the fastest gun alive. Until he hung up his gun belts to raise a family. Smoke Jensen was the last mountain man and a force of nature. But Lee Slater and his gang of low-life desperadoes didn't know that. Stirring up a motherlode of trouble for the retired gunslinger was Slater's first mistake. Shooting Smoke Jensen's wife Sally was his second"--Page 2 of cover.

When Garrison Wade, who is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the Sante Fe, is brutally murdered by the Clinton clan, Falcon MacCallister vows to avenge the senseless death of his friend in a dangerous town that is bitterly divided.

The son of legendary gunman Frank Morgan, Conrad Browning goes by the name Kid Morgan -- the Loner -- and has forged a growing reputation of his own. But in the midst of a fight for his life, the Kid discovered that he too was a father -- of twins he'd never met. His ex-fiancée, Pamela Tarleton, had hidden his children from him, but she's dead now so he won't be getting any answers from her. The Kid heads back to Boston where the children were born...

"The story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery. Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thievery and murder. Still hoping to uphold the values of the Confederacy, Latch sets his sights on the wealth of resources pouring westward from the northern United States, putting together a band of ruthless misfits to help him stake his claim of the riches of the caravans....

"They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that local waitress Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, he rides alone to get her back. Problem is, the outlaws are heading toward the Red River--straight into Indian Territory. That's where...

"Tom Palding offers Ned Rippon $500 to impersonate him for five days to find out why Charles Barrett has summoned him back to Tyndal Valley which he fled twenty years ago after killing Sam Barrett. Rippon needs the money and agrees, but soon wonders if he'll survive the five days to collect it"--

It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves....

William W. Johnstone's Mountain Man series towers above the landscape of Western fiction, taking readers into the heart and soul of a man who once lived on the wrong side of the law--and now is willing to die for justice.

Smoke Jensen was once the fastest draw in the West. He was also tired of taking on every tinhorn upstart out to make a reputation. So Jensen hung up his .45s for good. Or so he thought. . .

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"There are two things a man can never escape: his past and his destiny. For Buck Trammel, that past includes a fatal mistake that ended his career as a Pinkerton-and a deadly shootout with the Bower gang in a Wichita saloon. Call it luck or call it fate, but the famous Deputy Wyatt Earp was there to give Buck some advice: Run for your life. Maybe it was Earp's warning that saved him from the gang's wrath. Maybe it was destiny that brought him to the...

After a Mexican revolutionary crashes the border, killing 22 innocent U.S. citizens and stealing livestock, including 200 of his horses, Smoke Jensen, going where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers cannot, wages war on the Colonel and his ruthless banditos.