Trek of the Mountain Man: The Mountain Man Series Review

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(More customer reviews)An old blood feud from when Smoke Jensen was just starting to become a legend erupts when a brother find out Smoke killed his brothers. He and his gang kills some friends and kidnaps Sally, Smokes' wife, to bring him out to even the score. " The Last Mountain Man" sets out to get his wife back and to end this feud once and for all. With his friends Pearlie and Cal he wittles down their numbers and makes them miserable then ends the blood feud in Mountain Man fashion.

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It didn't matter that the warrant was years old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges. A Texas bounty hunter believed he could still collect $10,000 for killing Jensen, and he intended to do just that. But when he and his men came calling, Jensen was nowhere to be found. So they took the next best thing -- Smoke's woman -- left a ransom note, and headed for the Rocky Mountains.

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

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(More customer reviews)I ENJOY SMOKE JENSON WHEN HE'S PARTICUARLY NASTY AND INVENTIVE IN WAYS TO GET THOSE WHO WOULD GET HIM. AND WHEN JOHNSTONE USES THE LANGUAGE THAT THESE HARD CASES WOULD HAVE REALLY USED UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES. THE STORY IS GOOD. ANOTHER GOOD BOOK IN THE MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES.

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Smoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But a cattle war has turned the landscape into a battleground, and a ruthless gang of rustlers is hot on Smoke's trail. The bullet-proof mountain man is determined to get what he wants--even if he has to blast every one of the dirty desperadoes back to hell! .

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

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(More customer reviews)Vengeance of the Mountain Man
By William W. JohnstonSmoke Jensen was at a town one day with some of his friends. They heard a shot and turned around to see one of their buddies, a famed gunfighter, drop to the boardwalk and die. So Smoke did something to Morgan Sundance so that everyone knows Sundance is a back shooter. Then Morgan hired guns to try to kill Smoke. But they were all dead before they knew it. So Morgan got a gang together and went up to the mountains to try to kill Smoke. But Smoke knew, so he was ready for them. You'll have to read the book to find out what happens.

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After years on the run, Sundance, a vicious, vengeful gunfighter, brings together a fearsome gang of cutthroats and sets out for the Sugarloaf, with the intention of seeking revenge on mountain man Smoke Jensen. Original."

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Heart Of The Mountain Man Review

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(More customer reviews)once again Smoke is off to help a friend. This time its to help his friend monte recover his kidnapped wife. Once again mr johnstone starts out fine with his character but uses too many flash backs it seems like hes writing too much or something and had to have many fill in flashbacks. Since lamour died he has been one of my favortie writers but im starting to get away from his series books and going for his new character books.

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

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(More customer reviews)If you have ever read any of these books (mountain man) you will know that they are very exciting. Smoke Jensen, Sally and all the rest at the Sugarloaf also Preacher, they make you feel how they do and you get to really know them. Mr.Johnstone is a great story teller and i truly enjoy his books.

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Smoke Jensen has a new mission: to help outlaw Joe Wales settle a score against the band of vaqueros who attacked his wife. Smoke is happy to strap on a brace of .45s to help out his friend, especially if he can do it by nailing some dirty renegades to the wall. Outnumbered or not, Smoke is going to take on the savage desperadoes one-by-one, and blow each and every hide back to hell! .

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Pride Of The Mountain Man Review

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(More customer reviews)Non stop action in the tradition of the dime store Western! Missouri bushwackers get their come uppance in the wake of a Dodge City bank robbery. After the Rebs lost the war they should have stayed the Hell out of Dodge!

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Rage Of The Mountain Man Review

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(More customer reviews)Great quick read, good to get lost, outside of the world great for adults and kids

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Smoke Jensen is the most powerful man on the Sugarloaf frontier - and he's all that stands between a greedy group of Eastern slickers and their schemes for a criminal empire in the Rockies. When Smoke heads back to Boston with his wife, it gives his enemies the opening they'd been waiting for: to kill the mountain man and take over the West. But even on the unfamiliar turf of back alleys and teeming docks, Smoke is more than most men can handle...until his wife is kidnapped. Now Smoke is in a fury and in this fight all the way from Boston back to Dodge City and up to Yellowstone, where a brutal showdown with a gang of hired guns awaits...and where, in a blazing hail of bullets and blood, the legend of the big man is about to grow even bigger...

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Ambush Of The Mountain Man Review

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(More customer reviews)Don't read this book....unless you're prepared to read the ton of other
books in the "Smoke Jensen and Preacher" series. This author writes a book
before breakfast and another just before dinner. They're plentiful and
highly addictive. Suspend belief and enjoy.
Smoke Jensen, in particular, shoots or fist fights around a hundred
hard cases per book and they all highly deserve the mayhem he delivers.
In spite of this high fiction (most famous old West gunfighters only
killed 3 or 4 men in their entire lives) you'll soldier on with the
series because Smoke Jensen is the stuff heros are made of and the
writing is crisp and moving.
Just don't say you weren't warned when you find that you spent your whole
summer (or winter) in a comfy chair with 50 or so of these read books
strewn around you.


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Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but fate had other plans, and the Mountain Man has left plenty of blood, tears, and fury in his wake. Angus MacDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge. Riding up to Big Rock, Colorado, MacDougal has decided that killing Smoke won't be enough. He intends to bring him back to Pueblo and hang him before a crowd. It's a bloodthirsty plan that might have worked, except for a beautiful young woman, and the small knife she slips into Smoke's hand. Suddenly Smoke is on the run in the Colorado wilderness with no gun, no supplies, and twenty armed men in pursuit. Once, a man named Preacher taught Smoke how to survive in this wilderness. Now, as a brutal winter bears down, the Mountain Man will use those lessons well - not only to fight his way out alive, but also for vengeance of his own...

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Law of The Mountain Man (Mountain Man 5) Review

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(More customer reviews)This particular series of books featuring Smoke Jensen have fiercly dedicated fans. I"m only a casual reader but I buy these books as gifts for a family friend who is serving a prison sentence. I am rating these based on his reviews. He tells me these are the perfect escape books for people who are either incarcerated or perhaps disabled or elderly. The action is fast-paced and the descriptions of the Western frontier are authentically detailed. He appreciates that WWJ often refers to historic events of interest and will try and tie the story in with those happenings. Reading this series and the Preacher Series by the same author has motivated him to ask for non-fiction books about the Frontier and the Old West.
There are currently 34 books in this series and the first 28 or so were written totally by WWJ. The later books were collaborations with his niece Jo Johnstone. WWJ himself passed away a few years ago in 2004 or 2006 depending on your source, and Jo has taken over most of the continuing series. However, readers didn't even realize the man had died until his publisher 'fessed up so I would assume that the current writer is keeping with the same tried and true formula that fans expect when they buy one of these books.
If you know somebody who could use a little escape to this time period, you really can't go wrong with these books. The only thing I would say is to be aware that his politics are on the conservative side. This doesn't figure much in the westerns but in his Post-apocalypse series ASHES, it's front and center. Many fans of Westerns have never gotten around to that series but I'm just puttin' it out there for you so you know.

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Cinders & Smoke: A Mile by Mile Guide for the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased "Cinders' and Smoke" for an impending photography trip to SW Colorado. I specifically wanted to get pictures of the trains amid the aspens. I found the book extremely helpful in knowing where we were as we traveled up to Silverton. I hope to someday hike part of the trip with my camera and take pictures along the way. The details in this book are sufficient to make such a trip possible. There is now a newer version of this book which I also purchased. The route details are much less shown and described but the color photographs make it more of a "picture" book. Both books are really good. when talking with the workers employed by the owners of the train I was repeatedly told that they preferred the "Cinders and Smoke" book over the newer version. I think it depends on what you are looking for. I would personally recommend either one but really liked the detail in this book because of the maps that showed the route the whole way. The new version has very limited maps. If you like trains and especially an exciting ride then this book is for you. Just a suggestion, the trip is a long one and I would recommend perhaps taking the train up to Silverton and returning by bus. We were totally exhausted upon our return by train. Finally, buy some clear glasses at the station for $3 before boarding the train. the Cinders and Smoke can really irritate the eyes!

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