American Westerns discussion

The fabled mountain man known as Preacher embarks on an adventure fraught with danger when he leads a wagon train down the Oregon trail while being chased by bloodthirsty Indians desperate for gold.

Edwin wrote: "The fabled mountain man known as Preacher embarks on an adventure fraught with danger when he leads a wagon train down the Oregon trail while being chased by bloodthirsty Indians desperate for gold."

Don't have this yet. I want this in the paperback format, not Kindle.
I have found that I prefer the original artifact. God knows why.
But I want to read this series.
If only I live long enough.
It's become a race.
Read or die!!

I just bought it on eBay. Been wanting to read this series for some time.

Have read it a couple of times, along with the Smoke series, definitely William W. Johnstone at his best, his legendary writing and hope his writing doesn't get tarnished by the crap his estate churns out.

Johnstone's estate has been putting out books every few months. Any idea who is writing them?

Edwin wrote: "Johnstone's estate has been putting out books every few months. Any idea who is writing them?" They are doing two or three a month, then you have the Walmart exclusive ones. Know Charles G. West is writing the Will Tanner series, the writing is way too close to his books, to not be him but also possibly The Range Detective series was also penned by him, believe Mean Pete writing some especially with him now writing for Kensington, and the late Dusty Richards might have written for them, the O'Malley Brothers first book has some similarities in writing with Firestick (current Walmart exclusive release). I have always thought that Robert Vaughan, Matthew Mayo, James Reasoner, Troy D. Smith, and Larry D. Sweazy are all favorites of mine and they aren't releasing a lot of new books. Really Vaughan is the lone exception he has been releasing new ebooks with Wolfpack publishing.

read jan. 2017, great read

Let's see what I got wrong here. The First Mountain Man is Preacher and the Last Mountain Man is Smoke? Smoke was trained by Preacher however the Smoke books were written first? Does the entire First Mountain Man series take place before Preacher met Smoke?

Think they overlap each other with Preacher being an old man being in the rate of late '70 to 80's, in the latter of the Smoke Jensen Series that William wrote, but meant to be prior to the two meeting, since Smoke isn't in the ones that I have read. Even more interestingly Preacher and Smoke also appear in the first book in the Eagles Series, then the newer series Matt Jensen, the Christmas Series, along with the Duff MacAllister series Preacher appears in. When they first meet Preacher is a little older than Smoke's dad, who was in his 50's probably. Plus several of the characters in the First Mountain Man being Preacher's fellow mountain man friends also appear in some of the above series, several are dying and want to go out in battle verse dying without honor.

Thanks Mike. That helps. Johnstone wrote a ton of books in a short time period.

The banter between Preacher and his mountain man friends were one of my favorites parts of the book, especially the teasing that Preacher got over Melody the missionary girl.