Violence of the Mountain Man
Mountain Man: Book #36
- By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
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USA Today best-selling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone capture the sordid underbelly of the Wild West with this gritty tale. Smoke Jensen believes he's seen every dirty trick a man could ever pull-and then his wife and his neighbor's daughter are abducted by a ruthless band of outlaws. But when the ransom demands come in, Smoke can only see one thing clearly through his blinding rage-any payment he forks over will be in the form of hot lead.
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Mountain Man Series

Lost on Purpose
By: Patrick Taylor
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Lost on Purpose is the nonfiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took leave of the real world to reinvent himself as a twenty-first century mountain man. In October-November 2013, Patrick Taylor crossed the Rocky Mountains alone on foot. He passed through one of the largest wilderness areas in the lower forty-eight to... Read more »
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The First Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
They called him . . . Preacher. He came west to the Rockies as a young runaway and grew into a legend among the already legendary frontier mountain men. They called him Preacher—a name that would become a monument to all who sought adventure in the savage wilderness of America's untamed west. The only man with the skills to lead a wagon train on... Read more »
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Timber
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
I've been called wild. Dirty. Untamed. I moved to the woods to get away from the bullsh*t of the city. People there don't understand a man like me. I work hard, and my hands are as calloused as my heart. And nothing’s gonna change that. Then I meet Harper. A storm brought her to my doorstep, and soon enough I take her in my arms. And on... Read more »
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Bucked
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
I want two things in life: a woman and a child. When I walk into the diner and see Rosie, I think my motherf*cking dreams have come true. We share one stolen afternoon, but then she’s gone. Eight months later she shows up at my cabin. Her belly swollen, her breasts full, and with the face of an angel. Still, she wants to keep on running. No way... Read more »
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Return of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In this powerful novel, William W. Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness—where he sees a chance to right the wrong that shattered his family and his soul . . . Smoke Jensen is a young man raised on loss and bitterness, nurtured by a mountain man named Preacher. Now, Smoke Jensen, with a new... Read more »
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Blood on the Divide
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This second book in William W. Johnstone's classic First Mountain Man series finds Preacher leading a wagon train of settlers into the Rockies—and through dangerous territory. Trapped on the Continental Divide by a blinding snowstorm, Preacher must fend off the gunfire of the wicked Pardee gang, and a band of marauding Utes. Read more »
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Absaroka Ambush
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The Price of Gold A wagon train winding through the remote reaches of the Rocky Mountain high country can attract plenty of scavengers—some of them human—like Vic Bedell and his gang of cutthroats. All he wants is the women, who can be traded for gold mine supplies . . . or used for whatever else he has in mind. But he didn't count on Preacher... Read more »
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Wilder
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The night I meet Stella, everything changes. Somehow in the course of an evening, this sexy city girl not only gets my mountain man c*ck, but she captures my heart. I have to have her. But the next day, it all comes to a crashing halt. Literally. My life isn’t just mine anymore—now I have my brother’s babies to think about. Our lives were... Read more »
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Trail of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
You can teach an old dog new tricks . . . with a six-gun! When gold is discovered near the little town of No-Name, Colorado, the citizens are overjoyed at their good fortune . . . until trouble gallops down Maine Street on a horse straight out of Hell. For gold's closest companions are greed and murder, and every two-bit gunslick from the... Read more »
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Honored
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
When my cousin Jax bails me out after a bar fight, I head to his middle-of-nowhere cabin.
I don't mind––I was made to be a mountain man.
I’m not the only person staying at Jax’s place.
His wife’s cousin, Honor, is here too.
Suddenly this mountain is looking a hell of a lot better.
When Honor tells me her life is complicated it’s the understatement of... Read more »

Forty Guns West
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A Friendly Place . . . During a trip back east for a family reunion, Preacher learns that even the civilized midwest can attract a motherlode of trouble . . . especially when a gang of local bully boys decides to pick a fight. Now, wealthy landowner Elam Parks lies dead—and there's a $5,000 reward on the head of the man accused: the first... Read more »
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Revenge of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Smoke Jensen—A One Man Judge and Jury
They struck in a pack, in the dead of night. They had crept in like thieves, like the cowards they were . . . but it wasn't robbery they had in mind.
It Was Something Much Darker . . .
Smoke Jensen was buying cattle a hundred miles away from his Colorado ranch when he got the news. Drawing two horses from... Read more »

Cheyenne Challenge
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Blood in the Snow Mountain men are skilled at survival. Preacher, the greatest of all those warriors of the forest, will kill anything—beast or man—that threatens his survival. Ten years ago, he taught this violent lesson to gun-crazed Ezra Pease when he ran the outlaw out of town. But Pease and his trail-scum gang are back—shooting up trouble... Read more »
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Journey of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Blood on the Range
Smoke Jensen couldn't have cared less that a range war had erupted in Montana. But his cousin Fae was stuck right in the middle of a hundred-gun showdown that was about to explode in bullets and blood.
When Smoke strapped on his Colts and went to Fae's aid, he knew the deck was stacked against him. Even when he was joined by... Read more »

Cherished
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A mountain brings us together but our past is determined to keep us apart. She may have been with another man but she belongs with me. She was my first and she’s going to be my last. Cherish is my one true love and I’m fighting for what’s mine. Dear Reader, Cherished is more than a filthy-sweet story with a HEA— this is a book with heart... Read more »
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Preacher and The Mountain Caesar
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
One Man And . . .
No one remembered when he'd come to the mountains—it seemed that Preacher had always been there. He'd seen a great deal in the unmapped mountains and forests of the grand North American frontier. In fact, he'd just told a friend that he wasn't surprosed by anything anymore. But Preacher hadn't seen Nova Roma yet . . .
. . .... Read more »

Law of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
When the Bullets Start to Fly Smoke Jensen sat in a cave and boiled the last of his coffee. He figured he was in Idaho—somewhere south of Montpelier—but he was certain about only two things: he was cold and he was being hunted by a small army of men. Smoke knew why he was cold—it was winter. He just didn't have a clear idea of why anyone was... Read more »
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Built
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
I pull into the diner of this small mountain town, knowing there’s only two things I want: To put down roots and find someone to build a life with. And when I slide into the booth, the woman who pours me a cup of joe is sweet as sugar and warm as apple pie. She serves me up a “Josie Special” and I know she’s made to order—the only woman for me.... Read more »
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Chiseled
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The woods are heating up with CHISELED!
It's Grace's turn to find her happily-ever-after ... but she's fallen for the reclusive mountain man named Bear!
When a shocking package arrives at the doorstep of her cottage, she knows her world has just turned upside down-- X 2! Read more »

Blackfoot Messiah
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In the seventh book in his bestselling Preacher series, William W. Johnstone gives his millions of avid fans exactly the kind of gritty, action-packed Western novel they look for from this prolific and hugely popular writer.
"A Messiah Shall Lead Them . . . "
In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by... Read more »

War of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Rocky Mountain Showdown
Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies . . . and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives.
It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry... Read more »

Code of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Lee Slater and his gang of lowlife desperadoes didn't know that Smoke Jensen had given up his gunslinger status to become a family man. Stirring up a motherlode of trouble was their first mistake. Shooting Smoke's wife Sally was their second. Chances are, they're not going to live to make a third. Contains mature themes. Read more »
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Preacher
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
He will Become a Legend . . .
Before the legend of Preacher there was a man, and before the man there was a boy. In this thrilling new novel, William W. Johnstone tells the story of a young man filled with wanderlust and raw courage—who will someday become a hero.
. . . If He Survives
On nothing more than a lark, he leaves his family and... Read more »

Homeward
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Idaho is the last place a man like me would ever expect to find the woman of his dreams.
But there she is, running a Bed & Breakfast, with her heart-shaped face and magnetic smile.
And she has no idea who I am.
Just like me, there is more to Laila than meets the eye--this girl has been broken more times than she can count. She's lost all... Read more »

Preacher’s Peace
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Long before there was a mountain man called Preacher, a young adventurer set off with a team of fur traders from St. Louis for the time of his life. On a wild frontier, he sought a fortune. Instead, he found blood, betrayal, and the beginning of a legend. Armed only with a knife, surrounded by a fierce Blackfoot war party, the young man was... Read more »
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Pursuit of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Itching for a challenge, Count Frederick von Hausen sails from Germany to hunt down Smoke Jensen. And with a party of the toughest hardasses in the West, von Hausen shadows Smoke into Wyoming's high Rockies. But Smoke Jensen is the last mountain man, and he knows the country like the back of his hand. He also knows that these doomed backtrailers... Read more »
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Raised
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
I came to this mountain to move on.
I’ve been through enough, and so have my six kids.
They deserve a Christmas with new memories.
When I find a rental house that’s big enough for my brood, that comes with a live in cook, it feels too good to be true.
It’s an undertaking, but the owner Virginia doesn’t flinch. She’s a beautiful woman who has seen... Read more »

Faithful
By: Frankie Love
Narrated by: Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The moment I saw her I knew.
Knew that we would have a future, a family, a forever.
Her father says she's too young, too naive, too innocent.
But she is more than he knows.
She's the love of my goddamn life.
Then she's gone in the blink of an eye.
But this mountain was made for miracles, and I'm fighting for ours.
I have faith in the impossible.
Faith... Read more »

Courage of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Clint Black runs the biggest operation in Montana. He has his own personal army of cutthroats—and he doesn't like competition. The trouble begins when Smoke Jensen brings 3,500 head up from Colorado to sell to Black's neighbor. More bloodthirsty than businesslike, Clint sets up a roadblock, backed by the biggest guns in the territory. Then he... Read more »
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Preacher's Justice
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone has crafted nearly 200 thrilling books, including his popular Last Gunfighter series, which has sold more than 10 million copies. A gritty tale of retribution, Preacher's Justice captures the brutal violence of everyday life in the Old West. When "Preacher," the last gunfighter, catches wind... Read more »
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Blood of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Smoke Jensen never would have come back to the gold-mining town of Red Light, Montana, if it hadn't been for his sister Janey's estate. That isn't the only thing the Last Mountain Man has to settle, however. There's also the score between him and Major Cosgrove, the man who owns Red Light and who is trying to lay claim to Janey's land. All that... Read more »
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Fury of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Six-Gun Justice . . .
Smoke Jensen was the last mountain man and the quickest draw in the West. But he was tired of fighting every punk who wanted to make a reputation for himself, so he hung up his .45s.
It Didn't Last Long . . .
Like Jensen, the two Mexican gunfighters known as Carbone and Martine had put away their six-guns, married and... Read more »

Rage of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Cunning of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Framed for the murder of a rancher, Smoke Jensen must escape the angry lynch mob out for his blood, win the trust of the widow of his supposed victim, and clear his name by exposing the land-hungry killers responsible for the crime. Contains mature themes. Read more »
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Power of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In the depth of a cruel High Lonesome winter comes a cryptic message for Smoke Jensen. The letter tells of skullduggery by gold barons, railroad magnates, and Chinese tongs in San Francisco. Smoke knows only one person in the city by the bay: the well-rounded, open-natured Francie, mistress of one of the town's most notorious pleasure... Read more »
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Spirit of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The Message Was Written In Blood: Bring Me The Head Of Smoke Jensen! A hard term in Yuma Prison gave Ralph Tinsdale and his gunhawk sidekicks time to nurse a deep hatred for Smoke Jensen—the man who put them there. A bloody escape gives them the chance to get even. Their posse is already forty strong, the price on Smoke's head is up to twenty... Read more »
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Ordeal of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Ordeal Of The Mountain Man Revenge On The Outlaw Trail . . . The Wyoming tinderbox of Muddy Gap is feeling none too friendly ever since the Grubbs gang tore through on a hellraising rampage. And it's far from over. Because what the vicious Utah Jack Grubbs would really kill for just rode into town: Smoke Jensen . . . and a small fortune in... Read more »
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Triumph of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Robber baron Clifton Satterlee is in greedy pursuit of a coveted piece of land in the New Mexico Territory. He plans to wrest the timber-rich hills from the Tua Pueblo and then populate the town with his own subservient labor force. Many will suffer as his thirst for blood equals his lust for wealth and power. But Saterlee has overlooked one... Read more »
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Vengeance of The Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The Mountain Man books are one of today's most popular Western series. USA Today best-selling author William Johnstone packs each adventure with plenty of action and danger. Rancher Smoke Jensen hoped he was through with Sundance years ago when he shot the the gunslinger's ear off. But now Sundance has gathered a bloodthirsty gang and is headed... Read more »
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Preacher's Slaughter
By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century On the rolling Missouri River a riverboat of fur traders, a U.S. Senator and Prussian royalty are all heading to the Yellowstone from St. Louis. Preacher's onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won't be easy. Two beautiful women make a play for... Read more »
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Preacher's Bloodbath
By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Preacher takes on the last of the Aztecs in his biggest, bloodiest showdown yet. There are a million ways to die in the Rockies-and a million predators, natural or otherwise. But even a seasoned mountain dweller like Preacher is shocked by the latest horror lurking in the hills. Trappers are being... Read more »
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Guns of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
William W. Johnstone is a USA Today best-selling author with over ten million books in print. From his popular Mountain Man series comes another rousing adventure featuring the unbeatable hero Smoke Jensen. A baleful blackcoat with a pistol in one hand and a Bible in the other, Lazarus Cain rides through the countryside claiming to carry out... Read more »
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Preacher's Rage
By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
For the greatest trapper in the country, there's no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl's savage screams. A gang of ruthless trappers has kidnapped a Crow woman, but before they escape with her, Preacher and Hawk burst out of the tree line, guns... Read more »
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Preacher's Frenzy
By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE THE GOOD DIE YOUNG. AND THE BAD DIE SOONER. 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 intoa trap set by a low-life gambler and his seductive partner in crime to swindle Charlie... Read more »
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Warpath of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone has over 10 million copies of his books in print. His Mountain Man series has become a favorite of listeners looking for the sweet taste of revenge in the Wild West. Legendary hero Smoke Jensen comes to the rescue once again when a crew of crooked outlaws attempts to rob the town's bank. After... Read more »
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Quest of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
With over 10 million books in print, the USA Today best-selling Mountain Man series is widely hailed for its explosive stories of Old West retribution and violence. Hard-as-nails mountain man Smoke Jensen and his band of friends have ventured into the remote regions of the Canadian Rockies to protect railroaders from deadly bandits. Soon,... Read more »
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Trek of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone delivers an exciting tale from his Mountain Man series. Smoke Jensen once sought revenge for the murder of his wife and child, but now he is a peaceful man. That won't stop Bill Pike, Texas bounty hunter, from collecting a reward for an old claim on Smoke's head. As for Smoke's woman, Bill has... Read more »
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Ambush of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone is one of the most popular Western writers in the world, with over 10 million copies of his books in print. Ambush of the Mountain Man is an action-packed Old West adventure story. Mountain man Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but circumstance has plunged him into bloodbaths time and time... Read more »
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Destiny of the Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone delivers double-barreled blasts of courageous heroes and unrepentant villains. Captain Jack Brant unleashes hell on rancher Richard King before being forced to cool his heels in prison. Now Brant's back for more of the same, but he didn't count on going up against Smoke Jensen. And he's soon to... Read more »
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Betrayal of The Mountain Man
By: William W. Johnstone
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Nobody double-crosses Smoke Jensen-not if he hopes to live, that is. USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone's Betrayal of the Mountain Man finds the rough and tumble hero fighting through one of his deadliest plights yet. Framed for robbery and murder by a pack of low-life outlaws, Smoke is locked up and sentenced to the gallows. But... Read more »
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