J. A Johnstone
61) North of Laramie
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Buck Trammel westerns volume 1
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English
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Buck Trammel was a Pinkerton agent with a promising future. But after a tragic incident in a case gone wrong, he struck out for the wide-open spaces of Wichita, Kansas. Working as a bouncer at The Gilded Lily Saloon, he hopes to stay out of trouble. But soon enough, his gun skills are put to the test. The Bowman gang shows up, turning a friendly card game with a Wyoming cattleman into a killer-takes-all shooting match. Buck saves the cattleman’s...
62) Bury the hatchet
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Buck Trammel westerns volume 2
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English
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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...
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In his younger days, Taylor Callahan didn’t know right from wrong—and didn’t much care either. As a Confederate bushwhacker, renegade outlaw, and all-around hellraiser, he gave the devil himself a run for his money. Most folks figured Taylor would end up swinging from a noose or shot dead in poker game. But somewhere along the road to perdition, he decided to change his wicked ways. To atone for his sins. And to fight the good fight—against...
65) Shooting iron
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"JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE VIOLENCE IS NEVER THE ANSWER. UNTIL IT IS. The latest novel in a thundering new western adventure series centering on one man's battle to carve out justice one bullet at a time in the untamed territories of Colorado. One of the deadliest, crime-infested towns in Colorado Territory, Devil’s Gulch needed more than a sheriff. They needed a gunslinger. So they pinned a badge on hardcase lawman John Holt. And the rest is...
66) Mean and evil
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"When the vicious Smilin' Doc Ford and his kill-crazy gang leave a trail of bodies near Ty Brannigan's Powderhorn spread in Wyoming's Bear Paw Mountains, he and his kin take justice into their own hands--and deliver it with a furious, final vengeance"--
"As a man who traded his tin star for a cattle ranch and a family,Ty Brannigan loves his wife and children. And may Lord have mercy on those who would harm them—because Ty Brannigan will show...
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"From the Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century, the 10th chapter in the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling series featuring Luke Jensen, the long-lost brother of Mountain Man Smoke Jensen. A legend among bounty hunters, Luke Jensen joins a posse of misfits and greenhorns on a murderous manhunt that’s doomed from the start—and there’s no turning back . . . Someone is terrorizing the Arizona border. Burning down ranches. Butchering...
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Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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When Duff MacCallister journeys to Texas to deliver 100 head of Angus cattle, he finds a land on fire. Unruly, lawless teams of fence cutters, branded Blue Devils by the locals, are rampaging across grazing land and cutting fences in the name of an eastern land company. The ranchers are fighting back, and Duff joins the fray. But the fight leads to Austin, and into an even deadlier mission. The governor's daughter has been kidnapped by Blue Devils....
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THE FIRST FAMILY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER The national bestselling novels of William W. and J.A. Johnstone bring the American West to crackling life. Now together in one omnibus for the first time, three epic sagas of the fearless—and ever-growing—Jensen clan—pioneers willing to fight for justice. THOSE JENSEN BOYS Ace and Chance are as reckless and wild as the frontier itself. Their father is Luke Jensen, thought killed in the Civil War....
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Flintlock (William W. Johnstone) volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
72) Cutthroats
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Slash and Pecos volume 1
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English
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After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, though not completely by choice. Sold out by their old gang, Slash and Pecos have to bust out of jail and pull one last job to finance their early retirement. The target is a rancher's payroll train. The catch is: the train is carrying a Gatling gun and twenty deputy U.S. marshals who know they're coming. Caught...
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Luke Jensen volume 5
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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While escorting a violent man charged with murdering a preacher's daughter to jail, Luke Jensen discovers that the man is innocent of this crime as they both battle for their lives in a storm of bullets, betrayal and blood as they attempt to bring the real killer--the son of a cattle baron--to justice.
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Slash and Pecos volume 2
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English
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"Johnstone Country. Where it’s never quiet on the Western front. Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy 'Slash' Braddock and Melvin 'Pecos Kid' Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They’ve managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. 'Bleed-’m-So' Bledsoe—recruits them...
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Perley Gates western volume 6
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Leading a small herd of horses to the Double-D ranch near Texarkana, Perley Gates, his old sidekick Possum Smith and young Sonny Rice face a trigger-happy trio of horse thieves who believe they are easy targets, until Perley Gates proves otherwise.
77) Shot in the back
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1942—Granbury, Texas. A ninety-five-year-old man walks into a recruiting office with the crazy idea to enlist—and an even crazier story. He claims to be the one and only Jesse James, the infamous bank robber allegedly shot by Robert Ford sixty years earlier. Using another man’s corpse to collect the reward, Ford allowed James to slip away and start a new life. Changing his name to Dalton, Jesse worked as a cattle broker in Fort Worth and fathered...
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2013.
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Asking the question "What if Butch Cassidy wasn't killed in the infamous Bolivian shootout in 1908?," an exciting novel of the Old West follows Butch as he, after fleeing South America, is pulled into the most dangerous train robbery he's ever attempted along with a new Wild Bunch.
80) Colter's journey
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Tim Colter novels volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The year is 1845. Leaving their Pennsylvania home to forge a new life in the untamed Oregon Territory, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill crazy gang of cutthroats on the Oregon Trail. Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter manages to escape and hide-- only to return and find his parents butchered, his sisters Nancy and Margaret missing, and one last killer waiting for his return. Forced to fight for his life, the young Colter embarks on a perilous journey...