William W Johnstone
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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It's fur trapping season and Preacher is about to discover the Rocky Mountain trail holds more than wild game--it's also infested with murderers and trail trash quick to deceive, steal, and hunt Preacher down. Among them are Jebediah Druke, his ruthless band of killers, and most terrifying of all, the barbaric renegade Crow warrior known as Blood Eye. When Preacher shows up and gets on their bad side, he stirs up a clash that could lead to a brutal...
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English
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$10,000. That's bounty on the head of the most hated man in Texas--the man that Flintlock has been hired to guard. The crime was the brutal murder of a young schoolteacher. The verdict was not guilty for lack of evidence. And the suspected killer's first guard was murdered by a shotgun blast. What makes Flintlock believe in this man's innocence? Call it a gut instinct. Or maybe just a hankering for a fight. Because Flintlock knows that some...
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English
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Duff MacCallister fled the Scottish Highlands for a new world in Wyoming Territory. Betrothed to a good woman, Duff has the bad luck to be standing in the Chugwater Bank when a violent robbery explodes around him. With one man dead by Duff's gun, and another under arrest, a team of bandits swarms outside of town. As witnesses, Duff, a banker, and a beautiful barmaid are whisked into the hotel for safe-keeping as the outlaws threaten the defenseless...
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Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a town like Chugwater, Wyoming, you know who your friends are, who your enemies are, and who your kill-crazy maniacs are. For Duff MacCallister, the last category belongs to Johnny Taylor and his gang. Duff has wrestled with this polecat before, and knows that his bite is worse than his smell. But when Taylor's gang tries to rob a bank--and Duff manages to shoot one and arrest Taylor's brother--the outraged outlaw raises a stink straight out of...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
375 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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There are a million ways to die in the Rockies--and a million predators, natural or otherwise. But even seasoned mountain dweller Preacher is shocked by the latest horror lurking in the hills. Trappers are being hunted down like animals. Captured. Murdered. Mutilated. Their hearts carved out of their chests. Some were Preacher's friends, and now two others have gone missing. Preacher is determined to track them down before they end up on the...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Montana Territory and a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter. But across the border Preacher's old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies another tribe with whiskey, guns and bullets - then directs them to tey out their killing tools onthe Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest of death, bloodshed, and captives, and Deaver is delighted to learn that Preacher is among the fallen. But in the driving snow, with a handful of survivors,...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Long ago, legendary trapper Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka and fell in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty years later, he rescues a woman and her son from an ambush by the hated Blackfoot. The woman is Birdie, and the valiant young warrior is Hawk That Soars--Preacher's son. Now the greatest fighter on the frontier is about to go to war to protect a family he never knew he had. Hopelessly outnumbered by vicious warriors,...
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Publisher
Wheeler Pub./Gale Cengage Co
Pub. Date
2018, c2015.
Physical Desc
373 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Jess Casey and his oddball band of sidekicks have pulled off the impossible, taming Hell's Half Acre, the most lawless town in Texas. But now the no-good politicians in Austin have decided it's cheaper to dump hordes of criminals on Jess Casey's town than hanging 'em. And in one dreadful week it seems as if the gates of Hell have burst open. Freed outlaws, gunslingers, bandits, rapists, desperados, drifters and miscreants are roaming Hell's...
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Publisher
Wheeler Pub./Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
367 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Smoke Jensen's brother Luke was reported killed in the Civil War. But Luke is very much alive, tracking down the worst outlaws. Accused of murdering her wealthy husband back east, Gloria Jennings went on the run. Luke finds her when she's accused of killing her new rancher husband in West Texas. But instead of bringing her in--he actually helps her. Luke doesn't believe Gloria is a killer. But others do. And when they show, Luke is going to...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy, Charlie, use to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kind that Charlie steps into--a trap set by a low-life gambler and his partner in crime to swindle Charlie out of his fur money. Preacher hates to see a good friend get robbed. So he sets off after the grifters--on a riverboat bound for New Orleans, where he's enslaved on a pirate ship. There's...
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Publisher
Wheeler Pub./Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
465 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After surviving a brilliantly plotted murder attempt, the richest man in San Francisco is looking to hire the best protection money can buy. Enter Matt Jensen, who agrees to escort millionaire John Gillespie and his very fetching daughter on a rail journey from Frisco to Chicago. In Provo, an assassin pursues Jensen across the top of the train. In Cheyenne, a ruthless pair of hired guns climbs on board. And in Omaha, three more cutthroats join...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Co
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
481 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Duff MacCallister sees smoke rising from his neighbor's ranch, he knows that something is very wrong. But he isn't prepared for what he finds: smoldering buildings, a rancher and his wife brutally slaughtered, and a 14-year-old survivor who could not save her parents. Now, Duff is going after the killers--and his only companion is the headstrong girl who refuses to be left behind. Duff and his new companion head into the towering Gore Range....