An account of the author's 1846 exploration of the American West, describing his traveling hardships, the region's landscapes and wildlife, others emigrating westward, and the daily lives of Plains Native Americans. Includes illustrations and historical and biographical notes.

A true-to-life narrative of the escapades and challenges of the frontier's legendary event: the cowboy cattle drive.
The Log of a Cowboy brings to life an important, yet short-lived, piece of the American Old West. It's here that the cowboy earned his reputation and admiration, and it's through protagonist Tommy Moore that we learn of some of the challenges of the legendary cattle drive. Run-ins with Indian tribes, cattle hustlers,...

Johnstone Country. Be Quick or Be Dead. In a twist of fate, Slash and Pecos are riding hard for the law, dispensing justice as they see fit, and determined to watch their final sunset as heroes... not outlaws. His wicked ways mostly behind him, reformed bank robber Jimmy "Slash" Braddock is, getting hitched to his sweetheart. But before the honeymoon, Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. "Bleed-'Em-So" Bledsoe needs Slash and his former partner-in-crime,...

Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it's the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too-and this book tells their stories. At first, female pioneers were indeed rare-when the town of Denver was founded in 1859, there were only five women among a population of almost a thousand. But the adventurers arrived, slowly...

Most writers are impressed by three things in the life of Clay Allison: That he had a tooth pulling bout with a dentist, that he rode the streets of Canadian, Texas, clothed only in a gun belt, and that he went back to Tennessee to marry his childhood sweetheart. Perhaps none of these incidents are hardly capable of exciting the imagination of the intelligent reader, but they do tend to set up a curiosity about this famous Western character. Eleven...

The New York Times bestselling Western author continues his Mountain Man series as a new generation takes the reigns.

William W. Johnstone's Mountain Man series featuring sharpshooter Smoke Jensen set the standard for Western adventure. Now a new saga begins as Jensen's adopted son takes his place on the unforgiving American frontier.
Matt Cavanaugh was nine years old when a band of outlaws slaughtered his family....