Pursuit Of The Mountain Man (The Last Mountain Man) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the first Mountain Man (Smoke Jensen) novel that I've read.Johnstone is an excellent storyteller and a real craftsman at writing a fast paced ,well constructed book.I read a lot of westerns and as far as I am concerned they don"t come any better.I don't know if it was ever a movie,but it would make a doosie!I make notes as I read a book to keep track of the characters ,localities,dates,etc;and it came in handy.I often follow on a map and Johnstone is one of the best I've read on making it crystal clear about who,where,when and why things unfold.
Although fiction,it is very historical without being boring.That's what historical fiction should be.Johnstone makes the reader feel like he is right there and seeing it all happen.As a matter of fact I think I even smelled the campfires and coffee,and I know I heard the wolf calling.
Johnstone also has a lot of wisdom buried in his writing;for example:

"Animals don't kill for sport,just man."
"I have to laugh when I hear fools say,wolves is savage
creatures."

"The law is good for finding lost horses and runaway kids
and the like."
"Victims don't often get a second chance."
"I'm just a man who believes in saddling his own horses and
stomping on is own snakes."
For a novel with at least 50 characters,it is a very easy story to follow and I'm looking forward to another in this fine series.
Oh yeah,for the rest of my review title ,check out page 88.

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The trouble with being the fastest gun alive was having to prove it to all the trigger-happy gunmen who scoured the West itching for a challenge. Some travelled even further - Count Frederick von Hausen sailed across the Atlantic from Germany to hunt the most dangerous game of all - Smoke Jensen. Gathering together a hunting party of the toughest, most ruthless hard cases in the West, von Hausen shadowed Smoke into Wyoming's high Rockies - the odds were worse than 50 to 1. But Smoke Jensen was the last mountain man, and he knew the country like the back of his hand. As he thumbed back the hammer of his Colt.45, Smoke reflected that these doomed back trailers couldn't have picked a prettier place to be buried.

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