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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... wild and free. Nicole. He shook his head and pushed the face of his dead wife from his mind. He turned his unreadable, cold, emotionless brown eyes to the west. The midnight-black stallion he now rode stood steady under his weight. The ...
... wild and free. Nicole. He shook his head and pushed the face of his dead wife from his mind. He turned his unreadable, cold, emotionless brown eyes to the west. The midnight-black stallion he now rode stood steady under his weight. The ...
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... Wild bill; meaner than Curly Bill; when he was in the right, crueler than any Apache; as relentless in a hunt as any man who ever lived. The old mountain man, Preacher, who helped raise him from a lad, had taught him fistfighting and ...
... Wild bill; meaner than Curly Bill; when he was in the right, crueler than any Apache; as relentless in a hunt as any man who ever lived. The old mountain man, Preacher, who helped raise him from a lad, had taught him fistfighting and ...
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... wild and untamed land. The person or persons following him stayed back, seemingly content to have the young man in sight, electing not to make an appearance—yet. Midafternoon of his second day at Grays Lake, Buck watched 2 ...
... wild and untamed land. The person or persons following him stayed back, seemingly content to have the young man in sight, electing not to make an appearance—yet. Midafternoon of his second day at Grays Lake, Buck watched 2 ...
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... wild and woolly as the individual wanted to make it. It would be three more long, bloody, and heartbreaking years for the Nez Percé Indians before Chief Joseph would lead his demoralized tribe on the thirteen-hundred mile retreat to ...
... wild and woolly as the individual wanted to make it. It would be three more long, bloody, and heartbreaking years for the Nez Percé Indians before Chief Joseph would lead his demoralized tribe on the thirteen-hundred mile retreat to ...
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... Wild Bill, though,” Paul said. Jerry spat on the ground. “Wild Bill ain't crap!” “You don't say!” Carl turned on his friend. “I suppose you gonna tell us Wild Bill didn't clean up Abilene?” “He sure as hell didn't. I know. I were there ...
... Wild Bill, though,” Paul said. Jerry spat on the ground. “Wild Bill ain't crap!” “You don't say!” Carl turned on his friend. “I suppose you gonna tell us Wild Bill didn't clean up Abilene?” “He sure as hell didn't. I know. I were there ...
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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