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Jack Garrett
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For the first time, an epic account of a boy born into a struggle for survival on the harsh and unforgiving American frontier, the story behind the legend of Smoke Jensen.... On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war.
Smoke Jensen, the Beginning follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood. William W. Johnstone chronicles the early years of Kirby Jensen - soon to be nicknamed Smoke - as he journeys from boyhood innocence into a manhood shaped by violence and a young man's thirst for justice. Filled with actual historical events and legendary characters, the story of Smoke Jensen's early years is a powerful, brutal and amazing American saga - the crowning achievement of America's most popular living Western writer.
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- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Hewey Calloway is between a rock and a hard place: The open range and simple life of his childhood are disappearing. He can't live a cowboy life whose time has passed and he's not ready yet for the new challenges of the 20th century, like automobiles, telephones, and barbed wire fences. He and his friends, all of them good old boys, must learn that even the best choices involve some kind of sacrifice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great cowboy fun
- By Charlotte on 02-21-24
By: Elmer Kelton
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Demon's Pass
- By: Robert Vaughn, Ralph Compton
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Parker Stanley's family had a dream: to start a new life in the Far West. But en route, a Cheyenne band slaughters his parents and abducts his sister. Then cowboy Clay Springer rides to the rescue - and comes up with an idea. He's got a team ready to deliver goods to the Mormons in Utah, but he's short on funds for supplies. He knows that Parker managed to hold on to his family's savings, so he suggests a 50-50 partnership. With a three-wagon, seven-man team, Parker and Clay will traverse the barren land, but out in the wilderness, Parker's sister needs saving - and he has vowed to find her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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DEMONS PASS
- By Danny Harr on 10-15-24
By: Robert Vaughn, and others
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Epitaph
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- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands.... That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26, when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest.
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SO GOOD!
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The Shopkeeper
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In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Though he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight.
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A well written western!
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A Man Called Justice
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Justice is a drifter with no fear and no memory, trailed by a violent past. Nora is a beautiful widow bravely raising her young son on an isolated New Mexican ranch. When a ruthless cattle baron pushes longhorns into the valley, Justice vows to protect Nora and her boy. But how can he succeed against thirty hired guns… including the four outlaws who left him for dead?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Home run!
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By: John Deacon
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A Braver Man
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 183
Hawk Haynes ruled from his heart, but stayed alive by using his instincts. Hawk was on his way to start a new life in Texas when he runs into burned out wagons. He finds families slaughtered, the men killed, the women raped, and killed. Hawk Haynes had just introduced himself to Southwest Texas. Hawk had been deeded land just northwest of Rawlins for his services in taking care of Ted Rawlins and his wife until their death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Over the top
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By: Royal Wade Kimes
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Hewey Calloway Trilogy Bundle (Dramatized Adaptation)
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Hewey Calloway is between a rock and a hard place: The open range and simple life of his childhood are disappearing. He can't live a cowboy life whose time has passed and he's not ready yet for the new challenges of the 20th century, like automobiles, telephones, and barbed wire fences. He and his friends, all of them good old boys, must learn that even the best choices involve some kind of sacrifice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great cowboy fun
- By Charlotte on 02-21-24
By: Elmer Kelton
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Gunsights
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4 out of 5 stars 73
Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and "the People of the Mountain" from their land.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Maybe The essential Elmore Leonard Western
- By Vales Tales on 08-20-15
By: Elmore Leonard
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Standing at the Scratch Line
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Raised in the steamy bayous of New Orleans in the early 1900s, LeRoi "King" Tremain, caught up in his family's ongoing feud with the rival DuMont family, learns to fight. But when the teenage King mistakenly kills two white deputies during a botched raid on the DuMonts, the Tremains' fear of reprisal forces King to flee Louisiana.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally one worth more than a credit
- By Richard on 03-19-10
By: Guy Johnson
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Flintlock
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- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 60
Busted out of prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a hunt for a fortune - a golden bell hanging in a remote monastery. But between the smouldering ruin of his former jail cell and a treasure in the Arizona mountains there will be blood at a U.S. Army fort, a horrifying brush with Apache warriors, and a dozen bloody showdowns with the schemers, shootists, madmen, and lost women who find their way to Flintlock's side.
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5 out of 5 stars
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interesting storyline
- By RFD Northwood on 03-12-24
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Death Rides a Chestnut Mare
- By: Ralph Compton
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws, Daniel Strange's lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope. Now, a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengeance trail, packing Strange's trademark twin Colts, and answering to the same name. With fiery green eyes and a temper to match, he won't stop until every last man who killed Strange shares the same fate. And as each bullet finds its mark, his victims will die never knowing the truth: that Daniel Strange may be dead and buried, but his daughter is alive - and killing....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent listen
- By Micah Balch on 01-22-19
By: Ralph Compton
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Hard Country
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- By: Michael McGarrity
- Narrated by: George Guidall
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,616
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National best-selling author and New Mexico native Michael McGarrity takes listeners to the wild territory of the late 19th-century American Southwest for this epic tale. After the deaths of his wife and brother, John Kerney gives up his West Texas ranch and heads south in search of a new home. Soon Kerney is offered work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory - a job that will forever change his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard Country lives up to it's title.
- By mar on 12-14-12
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It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Pepper Paige is tired of her life as a dance-hall girl, and tired of fearing Jordan Beckett, a violent patron who has turned his attentions on her. When a stagecoach wrecks and an injured woman dies in her room, Pepper assumes her identity and leaves town.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A western with a twist
- By Jean on 03-19-14
By: Stephen Bly
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- By: J.A. Johnstone, William W. W. Johnstone
- Narrated by: Bradley Foster Smith, Christopher Graybill, David Jourdan, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Smoke Jensen has met some down-and-dirty, murdering prairie scum over the years. But this time it’s personal and it’s bloody—and going to get bloodier. First, they stole fifty of the hundred horses Smoke delivered to his old friend Big Ben Conyers in Tarrant County, Texas. Then they stole two thousand cattle from Big Ben...and killed him just for the fun of it. Now they’re going to pay.
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TEXAS KILL. (SMOKE)
- By Danny Harr on 05-14-24
By: J.A. Johnstone, and others
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Hell Hath No Fury
- The John Hawk Westerns, Book 1
- By: Charles G. West
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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To start their new life together, Jamie Pratt and his young bride join a westward wagon train bound for the Rocky Mountains. They get as far as Helena when their unscrupulous wagon master deserts them, leaving them as good as dead in a godforsaken, blood-scorched land. The other settlers agree to set stakes where they are, but Jamie and his bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep into Sioux territory. They never come out the other side.
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Excellent Narration
- By ShopprX on 12-14-24
By: Charles G. West
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Luke Jensen 1-3 Bundle [Dramatized Adaptation]
- By: J. A. Johnstone, William W. Johnstone
- Narrated by: Bradley Smith, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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The last days of the Civil War. With Richmond under siege, Confederate soldier Luke Jensen is assigned the task of smuggling gold out of the city before the Yankees get their hands on it — when he is ambushed and robbed by four deserters, shot in the back, and left for dead. Taken in by a Georgia farmer and his beautiful daughter, Luke is nursed back to health. Though crippled, he hopes to reunite with his long-lost brother Smoke, but a growing romance keeps him on the farm.
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Luke Jensen Box Set
- By Danny Harr on 10-12-23
By: J. A. Johnstone, and others
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Will Tanner: U.S. Deputy Marshal
- Will Tanner Series, Book 1
- By: William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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After spending most of his young life driving cattle from Texas to Nevada, Will Tanner is ready to wash the trail dust from his throat. Maybe it was fate that brought him to the Morning Glory Saloon on the border of Indian Territory - or just plain bad luck - because right after his sits down three rough-looking characters walk into the bar with vengeance in their eyes, guns at their sides...and fingers on their triggers. The trio's target is the famous US Deputy Marshal Dove who arrested one of their kin - and who's sitting in the bar near Will Tanner.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- By Jean on 01-27-19
By: William W. Johnstone, and others
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- Anonymous User
- 12-12-18
to whom it may concern
very good story keeping you interested enjoyed alot going on to the next series .HAMMER THANKS U
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- Mark
- 12-31-19
Smoke initial appearance
The Johnston’s saga of the Jensens are all great. This establishes Smokes first elements of what made him and the individuals who helped!!
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- Jerald
- 08-28-23
Incredible Origin
This story had a ton of excitement and only enhanced my love of the Johnstone heroes. After Those Jensen Boys, this has to be one of favorite books and I can’t wait to hear more of Smoke’s tale. I’m really eager to see how he meets Sally.
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- Greg
- 07-02-21
Above average
I enjoyed this book mainly because I have read several Smoke Jensen books and enjoyed reading about his start and how he met Preacher.
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- Signalshifter
- 12-19-21
Excellent book but...
I enjoyed this book but I live 45 miles south of Chugwater, Wyoming. The land for the townsite was deeded over from The Swan Land and Cattle ranch in 1886, Chugwater was not incorporated until 1919. The glaring error in the book is it was a dry town. Chugwater did not get it’s first bar until the early 1970’s.
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- ST Tee
- 05-07-20
Not a bad read
I have enjoyed the Mountainman Series, both Smoke's and Preacher's. This book is a bit outside those with some differences in Smoke's history. Although they do not mesh completely, I have enjoyed this book.
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- Loretta Deaderick
- 08-08-16
I truly enjoyed this book
I love the characters in your books I can see everything your writing about I am a big western fan I love Luke and smoke Jensen and I also love the preacher character I am fascinated with the language and that there is no profanity in your books the action is exciting!!!!!!!
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- Danny Harr
- 02-14-21
Smoke
Another great book about Smoke. This book has a lot of information on the early year's of Smokes life. This is a very interesting book to listen to. I highly recommend this book. There is a lot of information about Smoke's father in this book and how he met up with Preacher. Jack Garrett does a great job narraiting this book. If my review is any help will you please click on the helpful link below. Thank you
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- Wesley B.
- 02-27-18
Great book
This book answers so many questions about Smoke’s life and how things came to be.
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- Calvin
- 12-16-23
Great plot excellent character development
Very Easily One of William w johnstone’s better story lines enjoyed it a must read
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