Mort Shelby

A legend is born ... and the saga begins. He'd come to the Rockies as a runaway twelve-year-old and grown into a living legend. He could out fight, out drink, out cuss, out dance, out ride and out lie any man alive. They called him Preacher ... All Preacher has on his mind is a hankering for some companionship at the annual mountain man rendezvous in Popo Agie. But his plans change when he rides down into Fort Hall and finds he's the only man knowledgeable...

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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Almost ten years ago, wild eighteen-year-old Colt McCrae was sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit. Now he's received grim news: His estranged father has been murdered -- shot in the back. His family needs Colt to come home. He returns to Whiskey Hill, Wyoming, but he's not welcomed by everyone. Colt means trouble because he thinks he knows who killed his father. But Colt is no longer a kid. He's a prison-hardened man with a mind for justice

Johnstone Country. Where Freedom Rings. Do unto others-before they do unto you With a brace of Colt.44s, a deadly aim, and a bullet-shredded Bible, Lazarus Cain has already made a name for himself in Texas. Bent on pilfering a herd of cattle and a team of horses, Cain makes a big mistake when he crosses Smoke Jensen beacuse Smoke's going to blow Cain back to his maker. But not before he gives him a flaming taste of Hell-Mountain Man style... Live...

Roy Blanton has raised his four boys in the family business since they were half-pints - and they've gotten away with murder. That is, until U .S. Deputy Marshal Casey Dixon had hot-headed Billy, the youngest, hanged for shooting a policeman. Now the Blantons have vengeance on their minds. Old Buck Avery, Dixon's partner, had been thinking of turning in his badge. And taking down the Blanton name sounds like a fine way to leave the law on a high note....

You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks . . .With A Six-Gun! When gold is discovered near the little town of No-Name, Colorado, the citizens are overjoyed at their good fortune. . .until trouble gallops down Maine Street on a horse straight out of Hell. For gold's closest companions are greed and murder, and every two-bit gunslick from the Atlantic to the Rockies is beating a path to the gold strike--which is practically on the doorstep of Smoke Jensen....

Johnstone Country. Frontier spirit lives here. THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY Smoke Jensen-A One Man Judge and Jury They struck in a pack, in the dead of night. They had crept in like thieves, like the cowards they were... But it wasn't robbery they had in mind. It Was Something Much Darker... Smoke Jensen was buying cattle a hundred miles away from his Colorado ranch when he got the news. Drawing two horses from the remuda,...

The Texas Panhandle of the late 1880s is America's last great open range. Into that wild unknown country ride two young cowboys: Nate Reynolds, the scion of a well-to-do family, in search of adventure and gold; and Billy Champion, a ne'er-do-well with a stubborn streak and an eye for the ladies. Together they aim to rid this violent territory of rustlers, horse thieves, and the rest of the devils who slaughter innocents with no remorse. But when the...

THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
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...

THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY The American West-bright with hope and possibility, ravaged by war and greed, and forged by the men and myths that defined the frontier. Men like renowned gunfighter Falcon MacCallister who risked his life to defend it . . . The Ballad Of Billy The Kid In Pecos Valley, New Mexico, a cattle war has erupted, pitting rancher against rancher across a once-peaceful land. It has thrust MacCallister...