This second book in William W. Johnstone's classic Preacher series finds Preacher leading a wagon train of settlers into the Rockies--and through dangerous territory. Trapped on the Continental Divide by a blinding snowstorm, Preacher must fend off the gunfire of the wicked Pardee gang, and a band of marauding Utes.

During a trip back East, Preacher learns that even the civilized Midwest can attract a motherlode of trouble, especially when a gang of bully boys decides to pick a fight. Now a wealthy landowner lies dead and there's a reward on Preacher's head.

"In 1812, a boy filled with wanderlust and courage runs away from home, westward, into a vast, dangerous land. Along the way he learns the rule of the frontier: do whatever it takes to survive. By the time the boy-now a young man-is hired to lead a wagon train through the last leg of the Oregon Trail, he has acquired a nickname known throughout the West: Preacher. Armed with a long gun, he is as fierce as the land itself. For the brave pioneers...

In the wilds, Preacher has learned the rules of survival, and he has killed in order to live. But now something is forcing him out of his Rocky Mountain range for the so-called "civilized" world. In St. Louis, a girl from Preacher's past has been murdered. For the man whose heart she once touched, the time has come to leave the high wild country - for truth, justice, and a new reason to kill!

They call him Preacher. And they call him when they need help. Now, a Mexican brother and sister have asked the legendary frontiersman to accompany them into the Sangre de Cristo mountains to find a missing family fortune of gold and silver.

While leading a wagon train west, Preacher gets more than he had bargained for when a beautiful stowaway causes unrest among the passengers and a band of outlaws, sensing easy prey, attacks them.

A big city like St. Louis is the last place a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else will he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the western fur trade? Shaving his beard, posing as a greedy hayseed from Ohio, Preacher comes face-to-face with Shad Beaumont--who is leaving St. Louis with an army of hired gunmen...with Preacher on his tail. The odds couldn't be better, for the wild frontier...

"In the Montana Territory, a band of Assiniboine Indians gives Preacher shelter for the winter. But across the border Preacher's old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies another tribe with whiskey, guns and bullets--then directs them to tey out their killing tools on the Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest of death, bloodshed, and captives, and Deaver is delighted to learn that Preacher is among the fallen. But in the driving snow, with a handful of survivors,...

On a dangerous Rocky Mountain trail, Peacher must deal with Jebediah Druke and his ruthless band of killers and Crow warrior Blood Eye, who has been tracking Preacher with nothing but bad intentions.

When trappers in the Rockies are hunted down, murdered and then mutilated, their hearts carved out of their chests, Preacher must go up against a secret cult as old as the Aztecs to save his friends who have gone missing.

A fur trapper by trade, Preacher is ready to pass on his deadly survival skills to a boy named Hawk, who just might be his son. When they ride out of the Rockies to St. Louis loaded with furs, it's Hawk's first trip to civilization. The moment he lays eyes on Chessie Dayton, he's lost. And when she unwisely signs on for a gold-hungry expedition, Hawk convinces Preacher to trail the outfit -- which is headed to a land of no return.

"There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy Charlie uses to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kind that Charlie steps into-a trap set by a low-life gambler and his seductive partner in crime to swindle Charlie out of his fur money. Preacher hates to see a good friend get robbed. So he sets off after the grifters-on a riverboat bound for New Orleans. First, he infiltrates the criminal...

"A village is destroyed. A vengeance is born. And one man blazes a trail to hell and back to pay the devils their due--in bullets and blood. They call him Preacher... JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. It starts as a happy reunion between Preacher and his fellow trappers in a peaceful Indian village. But it ends swiftly in death and destruction when a rival tribe attacks the village, slaughters some of Preacher's Crow and mountain man friends,...

When logger Decker Galloway sets his sights -- and axes and saws -- on a lakeshore village inhabited by Norwegian settlers, Preacher and his friend, the warrior Tall Dog, remind the Norwegians of their Viking ancestry and declare war on Galloways' gang of bloodthirsty gunslingers.