J.A. Johnstone

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...

A blazing new series takes you back to the lawless frontier, where every stagecoach was a moving target. Where every passenger needed protection. And where every hired gun who rides along better be fast on the draw - or be dead on arrival.... If anyone knows the road to purgatory, it's Red...

Johnstone Country: The good die young. The bad die younger. From the best-selling masters of Western fiction comes two tough frontier detectives who solve the bloodiest crimes with bravado, brains, and bullets blazing.... Homicide on the range A killer is on the loose in the Arizona Territory...

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 into — a trap set by a low-life gambler and his seductive partner in crime to swindle Charlie out of his fur...

From the bestselling masters of the Old West comes the first in a blazing new series about a young deputy sheriff's coming of age—and trial by gunfire—in a small Texas town. This is the blistering saga of a hero in training, from first blood to final showdown . . . Flint Moran was fourteen...

Meet Hunter Buchanon, a towering mountain of a man who learned how to track prey in Georgia, kill in the Civil War, and prospect in the Black Hills of Dakota. Now he’s trying to live a peaceful gun-free life — but fate has other plans for him.... When Hunter Buchanon rescued a wounded coyote...

Preacher + MacCallister = Double the mayhem Two of the Johnstones' most legendary heroes - the rugged mountain man known as Preacher and the Scottish clan rancher, Jamie Ian MacCallister, here together for the first time - are forced to choose sides in a blood-soaked battle for the heart and...

Two of the Johnstones’ most legendary heroes—the rugged mountain man known as Preacher and the Scottish clan rancher Jamie Ian MacCallister, here together for the first time—are forced to choose sides in a blood-soaked battle for the heart and soul of a nation divided. As the father of a...

From the greatest Western writers of the 21st century, William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, the first in a brand new series featuring one of the most unique heroes of the lawless West—a mysterious man in black who rides from town to town, delivering the word of God and hard-fought justice...

Meet Hunter Buchanon, a towering mountain of a man who learned how to track prey in Georgia, kill in the Civil War, and prospect in the Black Hills of Dakota. Now he's trying to live a peaceful gun-free life - but fate has other plans for him.... When Hunter Buchanon rescued a wounded coyote pup...

When the Civil War ended, Hunter Buchanan and his coyote sidekick, Bobby Lee, forged a new life in the Black Hills, Dakota. Now they'll have to fight to the death to keep it.... There's coyotes in them there hills. Ex-Rebel tracker Hunter Buchanan is down on his luck. He lost his family's ranch...

In a thrilling new series set during the explosive Texas Whiskey Wars, a proud family of distillers faces off with a ruthless rival who’s trading shots of liquor with hot lead . . . The small but lively town of Glen Rose, Texas, is famous for its home-brewed whiskey—thanks to the Stark...

The Texas-loving, whiskey-brewing Stark family is back—in the crosshairs of an empire-building heiress with barrels of cash, buckets of bullets, and a personal army of killers . . . It’s been a year since the infamous Whiskey War ripped apart Glen Rose, Texas. After the dust settled, Jed...

WILL THIS BE . . . THE LAST WAGON TRAIN? A new railroad line is coming to Hansen's Bend—and the Old West will never be the same. Especially for the Callahans. They've been running the local wagon train outfit for years. But now a pompous rail boss named Arbuckle wants to put them out of...

Luke Ransom was just 18 years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed 100 enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River - the longest in North America - all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for...

Johnstone Country. Where Dying Ain’t Much of a Living. Smoke Jensen settled in Colorado to build a legacy for his wife Sally and their family. In the days before their Sugarloaf Ranch would become legendary across the western frontier, the Jensens fought not only to succeed but to survive in...

Johnstone country. Looking for trouble? Then look no further. As a Pinkerton agent, Stoneface Finnegan faced the deadliest killers in the West. But now that he runs a saloon, he serves them hard liquor - with a shot of harder justice... The devil walks into a bar. Stoneface Finnegan and...

Two legends of the American West, Preacher and MacCallister have always fought for justice. Even when all parties were guilty. When all hope was lost. And when all the killing started . . . WHEN ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE It's one of the great mysteries of the Old West. The unexplained disappearance...

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY: YOU’LL NEVER GET OUT OF THE WEST ALIVE. From national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, a pioneering journey into the raw beauty and untamed dangers of the unsettled West, where the legendary American spirit is fired in true grit and bold...

For the sake of the son he never knew, Preacher goes on the warpath. Long ago, the legendary trapper known as Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka, and fell in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty years later, he rescues a woman and her son from an ambush by the hated Blackfoot...