J A Johnstone Books in Order

Duff MacCallister welcomes plans for a railroad through Chugwater until its developer begins forcing ranchers to sell valuable land. As hired gunmen bring violence to the town, Duff organizes resistance to protect the settlers' homes and livelihoods.

Coordinated attacks on American rail systems draw trucker and covert operative Barry Rivers out of hiding. Working through his FBI agent son, he pursues suspected government traitors while a runaway train threatens to cause another disaster.

Former Pinkerton agent Buck Trammel saves a Wyoming cattleman's life during a saloon shootout, killing two members of an outlaw family. Warned by Wyatt Earp to leave Wichita, he takes the cattleman west with enemies pursuing them.

Tiny McCoy's illegal whiskey operation in Choctaw territory has become a refuge for dangerous outlaws. When local lawman Jim Little Eagle requests help, Will Tanner arrives to confront a gang that has overwhelmed the local authorities.

After a wagon train ambush on the Santa Fe Trail, Preacher searches for stolen gold and a missing suspect. The suspect's fiancée has set out to prove his innocence, giving Preacher another person to find and protect.

Count Malatesta follows Denny Jensen from Europe to America with gambling debts and plans to extract money from her family. Denny must resist the swindler's pursuit as his scheme brings danger toward the Sugarloaf Ranch.

A barroom fight lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, where they are mistaken for army deserters. Sent to a brutal chain gang run for an officer's profit, the brothers must find a way to escape.

Perley Gates returns to Bison Gap after learning that Emma Slocum's brother-in-law has been murdered. With Possum Smith beside him, he investigates a suspicious sheriff and an outlaw gang whose control threatens everyone seeking justice.

The Jackals face separate dangers involving scalphunters, a prison escape, and bank-robbing twins. When their routes converge near Arizona's Dead River, Matt McCulloch, Sean Keegan, and Jed Breen must join forces against the enemies following them.

Red Ryan and Buttons Muldoon deliver a coffin to Luna Talbot's ranch, where a map promises access to a gold mine. Their search draws them into a range war and the path of a violent backwoods clan.

Ben Savage runs a saloon in Buzzard's Bluff, relying on his experience as a Texas Ranger to handle trouble. When released prisoner Malcolm Hazzard heads toward town to kill the sheriff, Savage must prepare to intervene.

Bo Creel and Scratch Morton become Silverhill's lawmen after delivering mail-order brides to the mining town. As wedding plans expose rustling, bandit connections, and dangerous suitors, they must protect the women from men with hidden motives.

Reformed robbers Slash and Pecos agree to escort three violent prisoners from Milestown to Denver. The men escape before the pair arrives, and a bounty on the escorts makes restoring custody only the beginning of a dangerous journey.

Jamie MacCallister is hired to clear a route through Mexican territory for a transcontinental railroad after an earlier patrol disappears. Facing a dangerous mission beyond his strength alone, he calls on mountain man Preacher for help.

Ace and Chance Jensen head to Death Valley to claim a silver mine won at poker. Discovering an outlaw co-owner, a murderous competitor, and an orphanage dependent on the mine, the brothers face a troubled Christmas.

Red Ryan guards a stagecoach carrying monks, a tutor, and a worn-out gunfighter through dangerous Texas country. Threats along the trail lead to further trouble in Fredericksburg, where the passengers' hidden motives complicate his protection duties.

Chuckwagon cook Mac Mackenzie defends a saloon girl in Harcourt City and angers the town's powerful ruler. Joining a cattle drive to help preserve her brother's ranch, he faces the hired men sent to stop them.

Former Pinkerton agent Stoneface Finnegan arrives in Idaho's Boar Gulch seeking a new livelihood. After the local saloon owner is murdered, he buys the business and finds himself using old law enforcement skills to confront boomtown violence.

A retired colonel asks the Jackals to rescue his daughter from a crime lord's guarded fortress in Texas. With other lawmen unable to reach her, the three partners undertake a mission complicated by mercenaries and unexpected resistance.

As Civil War tensions rise in Missouri, John Zachary persuades Emmett Braxton to take their families to Oregon. Joining a wagon train, they face physical hardship and divisions among travelers while seeking a more peaceful future.

Two businessmen plan to revive Big Rock's exhausted gold mines with hydraulic mining, drawing Smoke Jensen's suspicion. Rivalry over Denny and an armed force hired to guard the operation threaten to turn the venture into violence.

Slash and Pecos accept deputy badges to help Nebraska's Harveyville confront murderous outlaws. After killing the wrong man, they become targets themselves, discovering that the town's corruption may leave them without the help their assignment promised.

Grizzly attacks on a cattle ranch are interpreted as a curse directed at Hunter Buchanon. With his family and neighbors threatened, Hunter and his coyote companion Bobby Lee enter the wilderness to confront the dangerous animal.

Red Ryan guards a troupe of performers aboard a stagecoach notorious for its drivers' violent deaths. Across a long journey to El Paso, the passengers' pasts and a pursuing outlaw add human threats to the coach's reputation.

Newly married Smoke Jensen and Sally return to Colorado to build a life together while facing memories of his earlier losses. An attempted kidnapping puts Sally's developing gun skills to use and tests their hopes for a home.

Preacher returns from hunting to find a Crow village attacked and women and children taken prisoner. Joining Lorenzo and Tall Dog, he pursues their captors toward Wyoming's geysers and dangerous hot springs, with missing rifles complicating the rescue.

Bank robbers abduct waitress Becky Morris and head from Paris, Texas, toward the Red River. Perley Gates pursues them alone, but rescuing Becky leaves him facing surviving gang members determined to stop their return to safety.

Duff MacCallister learns that his banker friend supposedly stole customers' money and killed himself. Doubting that account alongside the widow, Duff obtains a territorial marshal's appointment to investigate corruption and recover the truth behind the missing funds.

Perley Gates leads a horse herd toward Texarkana with Possum Smith and Sonny Rice, expecting a routine trip. A trio of rustlers views them as easy targets, turning the drive into a confrontation over horses and survival.

Stoneface Finnegan is renovating his saloon when Giacomo Valucci arrives in Boar Gulch to kill him. Suspecting a bounty tied to his Pinkerton past, Finnegan must confront an attacker leaving a trail of murders behind him.

Sheriff Buck Trammel tries to keep order in Blackstone, where Charles Hagen controls much of the town. Hagen's son recruits criminals and hired gunmen to challenge his father's empire, threatening a feud that Buck cannot simply avoid.

Deliberately started wildfires spread across the Pacific Northwest as terrorists turn firefighting expertise into a weapon. Smokejumper Cory Cantwell leads firefighters against the attackers, trying to stop both the fires and the armed violence accompanying them.

Bo Creel and Scratch Morton escort four prospective brides to an Alaskan gold mining town. The journey brings unwelcome admirers and gunmen, while arrival reveals that both the grooms and the women have concealed important parts of themselves.

After years trapping for the American Fur Company, Luke Ransom considers working independently. A journey to the Green River rendezvous brings him to another trapper under attack, beginning a friendship and a new struggle through the frontier.

Preacher and Jamie MacCallister join an expedition investigating the disappearance of Prussian nobles in the American wilderness. Accompanied by foreign soldiers, they search for possible survivors while discovering that the supposed rescue mission carries dangers of its own.

Retired marshal Ty Brannigan has spent years building a ranch and raising his family. When enemies from his law enforcement past track him down and threaten his wife and children, he must take up his guns again.

Louis Jensen begins practicing law in Big Rock, where his first case involves ranchers disputing water rights. A con man's murder then forces him to defend his sister's boyfriend while a dangerous killer remains at large.

Matt McCulloch frees Apache prisoner Bloody Hand, hoping he can help locate a daughter abducted years earlier. The other Jackals follow into Mexico as soldiers, bounty hunters, and enemies across the border pursue the four wanted men.

Joseph Knox returns to help his parents after a developer targets their neighborhood for illegal evictions. He and his brother train residents to resist, facing investors, lawyers, and corrupt police determined to clear the homes for luxury construction.

In 1852, steamship owner Regis Royle sets out to build a ranch in South Texas with help from family and friends. Rival land claims, bandits and outlaws threaten the future he hopes to carve from the prairie.

Former Pinkerton agent Stoneface Finnegan leaves his saloon to help partner Pops Tennyson rescue his daughter from Deadwood's Al Swearengen. A young investigator goes undercover, while bounty hunters threaten to stop the rescue before they reach her.

Former lawman Ty Brannigan helps marshals pursue Smilin' Doc Ford's murderous gang near his Wyoming ranch. When the hunt puts his wife and children in danger, protecting his family becomes more urgent than assisting the law.

Preacher escorts Barnaby Cooper into Dakota Territory to establish a trading post. Sioux resistance complicates the journey, but a gold-seeking Englishman and his hired killers pose another threat to everyone hoping to settle or remain there.

An avalanche forces a wagon train onto the steep Nightmare Trail, where the Hardcastle gang preys on travelers. Duff MacCallister joins the Spencer family to guide them through dangerous terrain and defend them against the outlaws.

Chuckwagon cook Mac Mackenzie joins cowboys returning to Texas with money from a cattle sale. Their jailed former cook recruits an outlaw gang to steal the proceeds, leaving Mac to protect his companions from revenge and robbery.

Slash and Pecos are sent to bring showgirl Fannie Diamond in for questioning about an outlaw. She anticipates their pursuit and hires muscle to stop them, turning a seemingly simple assignment into a difficult battle of wits.

Former outlaw Taylor Callahan becomes a traveling preacher, hoping to atone for his past. In Falstaff, Texas, corrupt leaders exploit homesteaders, and their escalating violence tests his determination to deliver justice without reaching for his gun.

President Theodore Roosevelt's planned visit to Deadwood draws enemies seeking revenge and political control. When his daughter is kidnapped, Seth Bullock and gunfighters Frank and Conrad Morgan join the effort to stop a deadly conspiracy.

Outlaws rob wagon trains on the Oregon Trail and kill those who resist. Preacher and Jamie MacCallister volunteer to escort the next group, facing severe weather, attacks and an unexpected connection between Preacher and their pursuers.

Texas rancher Sean O'Neil refuses to surrender his land to an expanding cattle empire. Joined by his prizefighter brother Johnny, he faces violent intimidation and rival outfits whose ambitions threaten to ignite a range war.

After Charles Hagen's death, his children fight over the empire he built in Blackstone, Wyoming. A rival crime boss sends gunmen to seize control, leaving lawman Buck Trammel to protect a town caught between competing ambitions.

Newly married deputy marshal Will Tanner leaves his bride to confront Texas rustlers attacking Oklahoma Territory ranches. An escaped convict seeking revenge for his brother's death adds a personal threat to an already dangerous pursuit.

Smoke and Sally Jensen hope to build a family at their Colorado ranch, but escalating violence threatens their plans. A self-proclaimed colonel offers protection against Cheyenne attacks, while the Jensens suspect his armed militia has another agenda.

A wagon train of religious followers arrives near the O'Neil brothers' Texas ranch carrying gold for their leader. When ruthless outlaws converge on the riches, Sean and Johnny face a battle against fanatics and gunmen.

Captain Peter Joseph Kellerman commands an Arizona fort staffed by criminals who chose military service over execution. When bandit Santiago Lozado raises an army to avenge his son's death, the troubled captain and his men must defend themselves.

In 1854 South Texas, Regis Royle joins other cattlemen to stop rustlers and develop a railroad. Feuds with the Texas Rangers and the Valdez family's claim to his land threaten both his ranch and his family's safety.

Fiddler and Dougal Shannon take their moonshine on the road as a medicine show, only to be attacked by a rival distiller. Pike Shannon rides to avenge his relatives and confronts a town held under outlaw control.

Escaped outlaw Cullen Brice kidnaps Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch's daughter and other women, planning to sell them in the Texas Panhandle. McCulloch rides with fellow Jackals Jed Breen and Sean Keegan to stop Brice and free his captives.

Army veteran Gus Fuller wins a mayoral election in a South Carolina town undergoing rapid change. When his wealthy rival disputes the result and unrest turns violent, Gus and his former comrades prepare to defend their community.

Hack Long's gang escapes a Mexican prison after a failed gold robbery. Scattering across a dangerous landscape, the outlaws try to reclaim their loot in Texas while lawmen, bandits, and other enemies close in.

Young deputy marshal Colton Gray earns sudden fame by claiming to have killed two notorious bank robbers. His superiors celebrate a rising lawman, but the story that creates his reputation conceals a dangerous lie.

Prospectors Charlie and Clem flee a posse after a disastrous mining deal and hide in San Francisco. A job recovering a valuable golden spike promises money, but rival hunters pull them into the city's criminal world.

Returning from Afghanistan, Bryan Branch finds his Iowa hometown overwhelmed by crime and conflict. As violence spreads and a billionaire buys its farmland, he gathers fellow veterans to confront the forces threatening the community.

Forced from his family's Ozark farm, Cord Bennett joins his brothers on the journey to California's goldfields. The dangers of the trail give way to ruthless prospectors and powerful men who control a supposedly promising mining town.

Trappers Luke Ransom and Jug Sartain head into dangerous mountain territory with Luke's wife, Willow. Beyond the hazards of the wilderness, a vengeful pursuer stalks them, turning the 1834 trapping season into a fight for survival.

Preacher and his friends head into Canada's snowy woods to visit a warrior whose wife is expecting a baby. Their Christmas gathering is threatened by a murderous raider seeking Viking treasures and terrorizing nearby villages.

Sheriff Mack Armstrong confronts a stranger seeking revenge for his father's wartime past. Before he can settle the threat, a devastating hurricane strikes his Texas town, forcing him to protect residents while the gunman closes in.

Retired outlaw Clay Carson receives a request to reunite the Dirty Creek Gang and recover its hidden fortune. With most members living respectable lives and another awaiting execution, their final ride requires a dangerous return to crime.

Former deputy Logan Trent left Three Forks after being blamed for a murder he never faced in court. His brother's death brings him back, where old enemies threaten his search for justice and a chance to clear his name.