They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But old cowboys? That’s a different story—especially when those cowboys are trail-hardened cattlemen like Casey Tubbs and Levi Doolin. When these longtime buddies learn that their bosses are getting out of the beef business, they figure it’s probably time to retire anyway. Nothing left to do now but deliver the last two-thousand cows to Albilene and collect their pay. There’s just one problem. Their bosses’ lawyer is skipping town with all the workers’ cash—which means Tubbs and Doolin have one last job to do. . . Purchase your next adventure today
Johnstone Legacy: Return of the Mountain Man
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Hard Road to Vengeance (Stoneface Finnegan #3)
StandardAllan Pinkerton believes Rollie “Stoneface” Finnegan was the best agent to ever wear the badge. So he’s sent dewy-eyed sleuth-in-training Tish Gray to convince the ex-lawman to get back on the horse for justice. As co-owner of Boar Gulch’s Last Drop Saloon, Stoneface is content slinging booze into guts instead of bullets. But when his partner Jubal “Pops” Tennyson needs help to rescue his daughter, Stoneface saddles up to take a hard ride into hell.
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When the Shooting Starts (A Smoke Jensen Novel of the West #4)
StandardFor Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is the American Dream come true. A glorious stretch of untamed land near the Colorado-Kansas border, it’s the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. But when a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rock—with a well-armed militia—the Jensens’ dream becomes a living nightmare. This stranger calls himself Colonel Lamar Talbot. He’s come to warn them about a looming war with the Cheyenne Indians. And only he can save them from a bloody massacre—by launching a counterattack that’s even bloodier. . . .
Johnstone Legend: The Loner
StandardWhen Conrad Browning’s wife disappears in the untamed frontier, Conrad finds himself assuming the identity of his famous gun-slinging father, Frank Morgan, to find her. But his hopes of rescuing Rebel are swiftly shattered–and now he’s burning for vengeance, the old-fashioned way. So he fakes his own death and starts calling himself The Loner, becoming the deadliest gunfighter this side of his own father–ready to settle the score in blood and bullets. . .
Stage Coach Mary
StandardMary Fields was born into slavery around 1832 & freed after the Civil war. She would go on to work at convents in Ohio & Montana, where she ran a tight ship & became notorious for drinking, smoking, & toting guns. In 1895, she became the first African-American female star route mail carrier & earned the nicknamed “Stagecoach Mary” for her speed of delivery. She was also known for being fearless in the face of stagecoach thieves & is rumored to have fought off a pack of wolves with a rifle.
When she was about 60 years old, Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. This made her the first African American woman to work for the U.S. Postal Service.
She drove the route with horses and a mule named Moses. She never missed a day, and her reliability earned her the nickname “Stagecoach”. If the snow was too deep for her horses, Fields delivered the mail on snowshoes, carrying the sacks on her shoulders.
She was a respected public figure in Cascade, and the town closed its schools to celebrate her birthday each year. When Montana passed a law forbidding women to enter saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted her an exemption.
In 1903, at age 71, Fields retired from star route mail carrier service. She continued to babysit many Cascade children and owned and operated a laundry service from her home.
Fields died in 1914 at Columbus Hospital in Great Falls, but she was buried outside Cascade.
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Johnstone Legacy: Alone in the Ashes
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A Lamb to Slaughter (Tinhorn Series #2)
StandardWelcome to Tinhorn, Texas. Now Go Home.
Tinhorn, Texas, is a small town, quiet and peaceful. Sheriff Buck Jackson and Deputy Flint Moran go to great pains to keep it that way. So when two drifters arrive in town—one nursing a bullet wound—the lawmen suspect trouble ain’t far behind. Bart McCoy and Roy Tate claim to be cattlemen and have more than enough cash to prove it. But Buck and Flint don’t believe Tate’s story of accidently shooting McCoy while cleaning his gun.
The Johnstone Family 