In this action-packed western from national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, mountain man Smoke Jensen sets his sharpshooting sights on an unhinged outlaw who's carved out his own kingdom in the West--and declared war on the United States...Johnstone Country. Come visit. He calls himself The King. Once a respected professor, he was ruined by scandal. Now, he rules his own "country"--an area of western territory where an army of outlaws enforce his laws. Any town he claims as his own must pay "taxes," collected from bank, stagecoach, and train robberies. When he learns that President Rutherford B. Hayes and General William Tecumseh Sherman are venturing into the far west on a tour of the nation, The King devises a plan to kidnap America's leaders and expand his empire. But The King didn't reckon that Smoke Jensen had already staked his claim on the frontier. Traveling with the president's entourage, the mountain man is not about to let this bloodthirsty, evil
The citizens of No-Name, Colorado, are delighted when gold is discovered near their homes, until their town becomes overrun by every cutthroat in the West, and only mountain man Smoke Jensen and his b
Live by the West. Die by the West. Smoke Jensen has tried to make peace with the land—and the past. But trying to outrun a reputation as a fearless gunslinger in the wilds of Colorado can be life's t
Robber baron Clifton Satterlee is in greedy pursuit of a coveted piece of land in the New Mexico Territory. He plans to wrest the timber-rich hills from the Tua Pueblo and then populate the town with
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 kn
Kit Carson: Legendary Mountain Man is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.2.8 and Literacy.L.2.2a. Kit Carson's adventures in the West are the
Born during the American Revolution, Williams was a child of the early frontier. In his young manhood he became an itinerant preacher and appointed himself a missionary to the Osages, who soon conver
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURYDEAL WITH THE DEVIL Smoke Jensen has seen the worst that men can do on a lawless frontier. But even the mountain man is not prepared for what happens whi
