Terry C Johnston Books in Order

An aging Titus Bass leads his family north to winter with the Crow, hoping for peace as the fur trade fades away. Saving old friends, rescuing his daughter from traders, and helping a doomed wagon train, he faces how little room is left for men like him.

This novel follows Crazy Horse after his surrender, as he struggles to live on a reservation under watchful officers and jealous rivals. Misunderstandings and betrayal close in until his fatal arrest, tracing the quiet, tragic end of a Lakota war leader.

Fleeing General Howard's columns, non-treaty Nez Perce bands lead their families and herds over the Lolo Trail toward Montana. At the "Place of the Ground Squirrels" they pause to rest, unaware that Colonel Gibbon's infantry is stalking them toward the slaughter at Big Hole.

With beaver nearly trapped out, Titus Bass joins a risky raid into Mexican California to steal horses and mules for resale back east. Hounded by soldiers and hardship, he returns to a changing Rockies and is swept up in the bloody Taos Rebellion.

When tensions in Idaho's Wallowa country erupt into the Nez Perce War, soldiers and settlers are caught unprepared. Johnston follows officers, scouts, and Nez Perce families through the opening clash at White Bird Canyon, where a small band humiliates a larger U.S. column.

In the 1830s, veteran mountain man Titus Bass rides with his Crow wife and children through a West filling with traders and rival tribes. When Blackfoot raiders seize his family amid smallpox and fur company feuds, he fights to hold on to both kin and way of life.

Colonel Miles hopes one last peace mission will end the Great Sioux War, sending a Cheyenne woman and pony scout Johnny Bruguier to talk surrender along the Rosebud. When grudges inside the Army explode, the campaign hurtles toward the bitter Lame Deer fight.

Under Colonel Nelson Miles, Seamus Donegan pushes up the Tongue River into snow choked butte country. As Crazy Horse gathers a thousand Lakota warriors around Wolf Mountain, Donegan rides into the last great battle the famed war leader will ever fight.

Still learning the trade, young Titus Bass crosses the high plains to trap beaver, winter in brutal cold, and battle Comanche raiders and horse thieves. His wanderings lead him to fellow wanderer Josiah Paddock, binding two frontier lives together in friendship.

Leaving the settlements behind, Titus Bass finally reaches the Rocky Mountains he has dreamed about. He learns to trap beaver, ride out storms, survive rival trappers, and marvel at vast buffalo herds in the country he comes to call the Buffalo Palace.

With winter closing in, Seamus Donegan joins a harsh pursuit of Crazy Horse and Dull Knife across the northern plains. Ordered to strike village camps in snow and darkness, he wrestles with loyalty and survival during the punishing Dull Knife campaign.

After Custer falls at Little Bighorn, the Army unleashes a relentless 1876 campaign against Sioux and Cheyenne bands. Scout Seamus Donegan rides beside figures like Buffalo Bill as hunger, storms, ambush, and despair prove as deadly as any bullet.

Restless farmboy Titus Bass fears a small life more than any danger. At sixteen he slips away from Kentucky with a rifle and a flatboat crew, discovering river towns, bandits, and Indian attacks on a long run toward St. Louis and the beckoning West.

As Sioux and Cheyenne warriors gather in the north, Seamus Donegan leaves his pregnant wife to scout for General Crook. On Rosebud Creek he rides into a drawn out fight with Crazy Horse's fighters, where shifting tactics and exhaustion may cost the army everything.

Still hunting the fanatics who stole his family, Jonah Hook rides into Utah Territory and the strongholds of a renegade Mormon band. Facing desert, suspicion, and Indian country, he risks everything on one last, desperate bid to find his wife alive.

Jonah Hook has lost almost everything, but not his will to fight. Chasing the zealot who claimed his wife and the Comanche who now hold his sons, he ranges from Fort Laramie to Mormon country to Texas Ranger country on a grim trail of rescue and revenge.

In the bitter winter of 1876, Seamus Donegan scouts for General George Crook on a strike into Powder River country. Their surprise attack on a Northern Cheyenne village ignites the Great Sioux War, binding him to a long, freezing campaign against fierce resistance.

Newly freed from cavalry service, Seamus Donegan signs on with buffalo hunters heading into Kiowa and Comanche country. Their presence sparks the siege of Adobe Walls and a later campaign to Palo Duro Canyon, where the Army dismantles the tribes' last stronghold.

After serving first for the Confederacy and then as a galvanized Yankee on the frontier, Jonah Hook returns to Missouri to find his homestead empty and his family taken by a brutal raiding band. To reclaim them, he plunges back into a violent West.

Years after Little Bighorn, Yellow Bird, the son of Custer and a Cheyenne woman, grows up as an outsider among his mother's people. Carrying a dangerous legacy, he must choose what kind of man to become in a world shaped by his father's fate.

When Chief White Bear leads his Kiowa followers off their reservation and back into ancestral Texas homelands, raids flare across the frontier. Seamus Donegan rides with Sheridan's columns into the Southern Plains uprising, where revenge, broken promises, and hard choices collide.

This novel follows George Armstrong Custer in the months leading to Little Bighorn, from political ambitions to his final march with the Seventh Cavalry. As Sioux and Cheyenne warriors gather, his gamble for glory turns into a defeat that reshapes the Indian Wars.

Following rumors of a long-lost uncle, Seamus Donegan rides into northern California just as the Modoc War explodes. Amid volcanic crags and lava beds, he joins a hard campaign against Captain Jack's small band fighting the U.S. Army to a standstill.

Working with the Kansas Pacific Railway and scout Buffalo Bill Cody, Seamus Donegan helps protect track crews from relentless Cheyenne Dog Soldier raids. The campaign drives both sides toward the surprise attack at Summit Springs, where a new Cheyenne war leader rises.

After years of skirmishing on the plains, Seamus Donegan joins fifty scouts under Colonel Forsyth hunting Cheyenne raiders along the Republican River. When hundreds of warriors pin them on a sandbar, he must help a shattered band endure the siege at Beecher Island.

At the close of the Civil War, Seamus Donegan scouts along the Bozeman Trail as soldiers and settlers push into sacred Sioux hunting grounds. When Red Cloud strikes back in the Fetterman fight of 1866, he witnesses a disastrous clash neither side can easily forget.

Seven months after the Fetterman disaster, Seamus Donegan rides back into Dakota Territory as tension hardens on both sides. When the Hayfield and Wagon Box fights erupt, he watches Red Cloud's warriors and the U.S. Army trade brutal, costly blows.

During a harsh winter campaign against the Cheyenne, George Armstrong Custer takes a young Cheyenne woman as his lover. While his troops scour the plains, he risks his marriage, reputation, and future on a relationship that will echo through the rest of the trilogy.

In the beaver-rich Bayou Salade valley, Titus "Scratch" Bass, Josiah Paddock, and the women they love briefly find a mountain paradise. When a vengeful Arapaho war party and an old enemy close in, the trail leads from the high Rockies to bloody reckonings in Taos and St. Louis.

After settling a deadly score, Josiah Paddock and Scratch Bass limp back to a Crow village to heal and belong. A rivalry over a Crow woman tears them apart, sending Scratch alone into the wilderness until the friends meet again at Green River to face a new threat.

St. Louis clerk Josiah Paddock flees west after killing a rival, only to nearly die in his first winter in the mountains. Rescued by veteran trapper Titus Bass, he learns the brutal craft of survival and faces a murder that tests his loyalties on the high frontier.