Mountain Man Books in Order

After violence destroys his family, a Missouri farm boy travels west seeking revenge. Under the guidance of the mountain man Preacher, Smoke Jensen learns how to survive and fight while preparing to confront the enemies who left him alive.

Smoke Jensen enters Idaho Territory pursuing men involved in his brother’s murder. In Bury, a town built on stolen gold, he faces the criminals his father hunted, despite the warning that revenge could consume the rest of his life.

A gold strike brings gunmen and criminals to No-Name, Colorado, near Smoke Jensen’s home. Vastly outnumbered, he recruits twenty veteran frontier fighters to defend the town before greed turns its newfound prosperity into a struggle dominated by murder.

Smoke Jensen returns from a cattle-buying trip to find his wife critically wounded by gunmen. Realizing the attackers had come for him, he sets out to hunt them before they can return and finish what they started.

Smoke Jensen learns that his cousin Fae is caught in a Montana range war. He rides to help with four old friends, facing opponents who threaten both his family and his chances of surviving the fight.

An unknown enemy follows Smoke Jensen, drawing him toward Jud Vale and his dangerous gang. Caught in the middle of a battle, Smoke must decide where he stands before the conflict leaves him no choice.

Outlaw leader Max Higgins wants to expand his control into Barlow, where Smoke Jensen is visiting relatives. When Higgins kidnaps Smoke's wife and demands the town as ransom, the local struggle becomes intensely personal.

Smoke Jensen has put gunslinging behind him to raise a family, but Lee Slater's gang brings violence back into his life. After they shoot his wife Sally, Smoke takes up his guns to confront them.

German hunter Count Frederick von Hausen comes west to hunt Smoke Jensen rather than an animal. With ruthless gunmen tracking him into Wyoming's Rockies, Smoke must use his knowledge of the mountains to survive.

Smoke Jensen returns to Red Light, Montana, to settle his late sister's estate. Major Cosgrove controls the town and wants the gold beneath her land, putting Smoke between a powerful local enemy and his family's property.

Smoke Jensen brings a large cattle herd to Montana, upsetting rancher Clint Black's control of the region. Black's hired killers turn the business trip into a violent confrontation, forcing Smoke to fight back against the cattle baron.

Smoke Jensen travels to Mexico when two old friends need help dealing with an outlaw's crime spree. The gunfighter's loyalty draws him into their trouble, putting his frontier skills against a criminal threatening their lives.

Accused of a rancher's murder, Smoke Jensen faces a New Mexico jail cell and a lynch mob. To expose the killers, he must escape and win the trust of the widow whose land is at risk.

Smoke Jensen travels to Boston with his wife, giving enemies an opportunity to pursue plans for a criminal empire in the Rockies. When she is kidnapped, Smoke must fight on unfamiliar streets to protect her.

Smoke Jensen follows a troubling message to San Francisco, where a woman he once rescued has died. Investigating powerful interests in the goldfields, he gathers people threatened by their plans to seize control of valuable land.

Escaped convict Ralph Tinsdale assembles a large force to take revenge on Smoke Jensen. With a bounty on Smoke's head and his wife caught in a trap, the mountain man must confront enemies prepared for him.

Smoke Jensen stops in Muddy Gap while driving a valuable herd north and attracts a ruthless gang. Fleeing into Montana brings another threat, trapping him between pursuing outlaws and approaching Cheyenne warriors.

Clifton Satterlee plans to seize timber-rich land from the Tua Pueblo and build a town with a controlled labor force. Smoke Jensen stands between the robber baron's ambitions and the people threatened by his scheme.

Years after Smoke Jensen wounded him, the gunfighter Sundance returns seeking revenge. With a vicious gang assembled along the Texas-Mexico border, he heads for Sugarloaf to confront the mountain man whose lesson he never accepted.

Smoke Jensen wants a prized steer to improve his Colorado ranch, but a cattle war blocks the way. With rustlers pursuing him, his effort to build Sugarloaf becomes a battle against men determined to stop him.

Smoke Jensen helps his friend Joe Wales seek revenge against the men who attacked his wife. Outnumbered by the renegades they pursue, the two face a fight that tests their loyalty and determination to settle the score.

Smoke Jensen delivers longhorns to Dodge City and discovers a town terrorized by a powerful outlaw gang. With the local lawman outmatched, Smoke confronts Bloody Bill Anderson in a fight to break the gang's hold.

Smoke Jensen leaves Colorado for Wyoming's Johnson County, where vigilantes and rustlers threaten innocent people. Disputes over grazing land have become a private war, forcing him to confront men using violence to control the range.

Texas outlaw Lazarus Cain targets cattle and horses on Smoke Jensen's Colorado ranch. His theft puts him in conflict with a rancher whose skill with a gun makes Sugarloaf a dangerous place to practice his trade.

Sharpshooter Monte Carson returns stolen army money and earns outlaw Jim Slaughter's fury. When Slaughter holds Monte's wife hostage, Smoke Jensen rides into Jackson Hole to rescue her before the demand for repayment becomes a death sentence.

Marshal Bill Tilghman arrests Smoke Jensen for a murder committed after a confrontation with the Durango Kid. Facing a hanging judge, Smoke must escape custody and track down the thief to uncover who actually killed the victim.

More than thirty escaped prisoners cut a trail of violence through the high country, outrunning the cavalry. Smoke Jensen returns to familiar ground to stop them, unaware that their leader intends to kill him there.

A bounty hunter ignores Smoke Jensen's cleared charges and kidnaps Sally to collect an old reward. Smoke pursues the gang into the Rocky Mountains, racing to save his wife from men motivated by a worthless warrant and greed.

After an old friend's family is massacred, Smoke Jensen enters a Colorado conflict between militia volunteers and Kiowa warriors. His investigation points toward outlaws profiting from illegal weapons and whiskey while encouraging both sides to fight.

A man seeking revenge for his son's death captures Smoke Jensen, intending a public hanging. Escaping with only a knife, Smoke faces twenty armed pursuers and approaching winter in the Colorado wilderness where he learned to survive.

Smoke Jensen brings fellow mountain men to protect a railway crossing the Canadian Rockies. An outlaw army attacks its tracks and workers, turning the ambitious construction project into a fight that requires every available defender.

Smoke Jensen leaves an injured friend with a small-town doctor, then discovers a corrupt sheriff has taken him hostage. The lawman uses the captive to lure Smoke into a trap, counting on his refusal to abandon a friend.

Released from prison, a former Union captain threatens the Texas ranch he once devastated during the Civil War. Smoke Jensen comes to help rancher Richard King defend his land against a killer intent on renewing an old campaign.

Robbers steal Smoke Jensen's identity and leave him facing execution for their crimes. To clear his name, he must survive the hangman and pursue a scattered gang that believes its stolen fortune and freedom are secure.

Smoke Jensen takes a contract to drive three thousand cattle, hoping to escape a run of bad luck. A blizzard, an attack on his cowboys, and killers seeking a bounty on his head turn the journey into a struggle.

An outlaw gang attacks Smoke Jensen's ranch, killing a ranch hand and his daughter and kidnapping two visiting women. Its leader demands a deal, but Smoke sets out to locate the captives and confront the killers.

Smoke Jensen outbids a powerful Colorado cattle baron for a prized bull and earns his hatred. When Smoke's friend Pearlie clashes with the same man, Smoke heads to Santa Clara to confront a rancher hiding a murderous past.

Smoke Jensen arrives in Nevada to save an old friend from hanging. Their escape draws them into a conflict between railroad robbers and the organization pursuing them, with deadly enemies on both sides blocking their path home.

Smoke Jensen's wife is critically injured when bank robbers strike a Colorado mining town. Armed with a badge and determined to pursue the gang, he follows a dangerous trail toward an ambush in remote Black Canyon.

Smoke Jensen's former neighbor leaves a Colorado ranch to an inexperienced heir, attracting a ruthless cattle baron. As the newcomer walks into a struggle over the land, Smoke intervenes to protect him from an increasingly violent range war.

Smoke Jensen travels to help his friend John Jackson, whose campaign against the Crow follows his wife's murder. Unsure how much of Jackson's brutal reputation is true, Smoke enters a dangerous conflict driven by grief and revenge.

Smoke Jensen travels to Texas to collect purchased horses, only to lose some in a murderous cross-border raid. Pursuing the thieves into Mexico brings arrest and an uneasy opportunity to help the authorities fight the same bandits.

Smoke Jensen discovers a rancher and his wife murdered during a visit to sell a bull. After captured killers are rescued in a violent raid, he pursues the Ghost Riders, an outlaw gang extending its reach into Colorado.

Saloon owner Kate Coldane faces pressure from a wealthy rancher, and her son's clash with one of his men makes matters worse. Smoke Jensen helps the family resist the rancher's large force of hired killers.

After stopping a stagecoach robbery, Smoke Jensen becomes the target of a vengeful outlaw whose brother he killed. News that Sally has been kidnapped sends Smoke east by train, with his enemies threatening the journey itself.

A Texas sheriff calls on Smoke Jensen when outlaws threaten to steal railroad money from the town bank. A bounty placed on Smoke draws more gunmen into the conflict, making his effort to protect the town increasingly dangerous.

Smoke Jensen supports his friend Sheriff Monte Carson against a corrupt senator seeking reelection. The campaign becomes a battle for survival when hired gunmen target Carson, forcing Smoke to protect an honest candidate from political violence.

This collection brings together Trail of the Mountain Man and Return of the Mountain Man. Smoke Jensen confronts violence spreading through frontier towns as gold fever attracts criminals, while threats from his past complicate his struggle for justice.

Smoke Jensen returns to Texas after thieves steal horses he delivered to a friend. When the same gang steals cattle and murders that friend, Smoke pursues its ruthless leader, known as the Professor, to stop further bloodshed.

An outlaw calling himself the King rules western territory through robberies and coercion, then plots to kidnap the president and General Sherman. Traveling with their entourage, Smoke Jensen must protect them from the would-be ruler's armed followers.

Smoke Jensen visits a dying lawman in Salt Lick, Texas, and agrees to become temporary marshal after a killing. As a large outlaw gang approaches with a blizzard, he must organize townspeople to defend themselves.

Grizzly attacks spread panic through Big Rock, and Smoke Jensen is asked to keep an amateur hunting party safe. Bank robbers, a hired hunter and a medicine man complicate the crisis, leaving Smoke unsure whose claims he can trust.

Smoke Jensen survives a head wound but loses his memory while the stagecoach robber who shot him assumes his identity. As the impostor’s crimes multiply and a bounty grows, Smoke must recover himself before the law catches the wrong man.

An ambitious cattle rancher moves near Smoke Jensen’s Sugarloaf spread as rustlers raid the surrounding valley. His vigilantes hang suspects without evidence, forcing Smoke to investigate the escalating violence before it ignites a range war across the territory.

Two sisters open a dress shop in Big Rock, drawing Smoke Jensen’s ranch hands into a romantic rivalry. A simultaneous wave of rustling and robberies makes Smoke investigate whether the newcomers’ arrival conceals a dangerous connection to an outlaw gang.