The Return of the Mountain ManFrom 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. |
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... Buck stood six feet, two inches, barefooted. He weighed one eighty: all hard-packed muscle and bone. His waist was ... Buck's packhorses continued to graze. High above, an eagle soared, pushing and gliding toward the 2 William W. Johnstone.
... Buck stood six feet, two inches, barefooted. He weighed one eighty: all hard-packed muscle and bone. His waist was ... Buck's packhorses continued to graze. High above, an eagle soared, pushing and gliding toward the 2 William W. Johnstone.
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... Buck's wife, Nicole; killed his baby son; and killed his best friend and mentor, the old mountain man, Preacher. And then they had done their cruel best to kill the man who now called himself Buck West. Stratton, Potter, and Richards ...
... Buck's wife, Nicole; killed his baby son; and killed his best friend and mentor, the old mountain man, Preacher. And then they had done their cruel best to kill the man who now called himself Buck West. Stratton, Potter, and Richards ...
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... Buck bought bacon and beans and coffee from a scar-faced clerk. The clerk smelled as bad as his store. Buck's eyes flicked over several wanted posters tacked to the wall. There he was. “Last one of them I seen had ten thousand dollars ...
... Buck bought bacon and beans and coffee from a scar-faced clerk. The clerk smelled as bad as his store. Buck's eyes flicked over several wanted posters tacked to the wall. There he was. “Last one of them I seen had ten thousand dollars ...
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... Buck said. The man's hands dipped down. Buck's right-hand .44 roared. The gunhand was dead before he hit the floor, the slug taking him in the center of the chest, exploding his heart. “I never even seen the draw,” the bartender said ...
... Buck said. The man's hands dipped down. Buck's right-hand .44 roared. The gunhand was dead before he hit the floor, the slug taking him in the center of the chest, exploding his heart. “I never even seen the draw,” the bartender said ...
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... Buck West. Buck's a bad one, boys. Coldeyed as a snake.” It would be almost exactly two and one half years later, on the afternoon of August 2, 1876, in Deadwood, South Dakota, when a cross-eyed, busted-nose wino named Jack McCall would ...
... Buck West. Buck's a bad one, boys. Coldeyed as a snake.” It would be almost exactly two and one half years later, on the afternoon of August 2, 1876, in Deadwood, South Dakota, when a cross-eyed, busted-nose wino named Jack McCall would ...
Contents
Section 14 | 107 |
Section 15 | 113 |
Section 16 | 123 |
Section 17 | 131 |
Section 18 | 139 |
Section 19 | 145 |
Section 20 | 153 |
Section 21 | 163 |
Section 9 | 61 |
Section 10 | 71 |
Section 11 | 79 |
Section 12 | 87 |
Section 13 | 97 |
Section 22 | 171 |
Section 23 | 179 |
Section 24 | 189 |
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