Lone Cone Library

After retiring his guns to raise a family and build a herd, legendary ex-gunfighter Smoke Jensen realizes he must leave retirement or die when he accidentally rides into the middle of the biggest range war of the decade.

In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off from Missouri for the Montana Territory. Leading them is wagon master Jamie Ian MacCallister, a giant of a man who swears he can get them there by Christmas. The journey is plagued by brutal storms and rugged terrain, outlaws and hostile Indians. Just when things look nearly hopeless, two unlikely saviors arrive: an old mountain man known as Preacher and legendary frontiersman Smoke Jensen....

Smoke Jensen already has a good woman by his side--now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best damned cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But getting Chisum's herd out of New Mexico territory takes a tough hide. A cattle war has turned the landscape hostile and a brutal high lonesome blizzard is threatening a frozen night's death. But the greatest danger is yet to come. Rustler Jesse Evans and his Mescalero half-breed gang are hot...

Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a 21-year shipping clerk from way back East. The Mountain Man's former neighbor, Humboldt Puddle, died and left his crumbling 600-acre ranch to his only living heir just as a greedy and ruthless cattle baron began circling it like a vulture. Smoke is not the pitying kind, but poor, unsuspecting Puddle is walking into a death trap. Any enemy of Smoke's neighbor is his enemy, too, and kill-crazy gunmen are threatening the...

In the town of Red Light to settle the estate of his late sister, Smoke Jensen discovers that Major Cosgrove has taken over the town and intends to mine the gold beneath Jensen's sister's lands.

"For most couples, the marriage vows end with "'Til death do us part." But when Smoke Jensen takes Sally Reynolds as his lawfully wedded wife, it's just the beginning. The tragic deaths of Smoke's first wife and child weigh heavily on his heart. Thankfully, Sally is there to give him the support he needs when they return to Colorado, where it all happened. She's ready to embrace her husband's past - for better or worse - and to welcome his friend...

Matt Jensen had promised his friend, slain by an outlaw named Pogue Willis, that he would deliver money to his brother in St. Louis. Matt's search leads him from St. Louis to Arizona Territory, and into the company of a rich Easterner and his beautiful young wife. The young woman is seized by renegade Apaches and it's up to Matt to save her. Soon, Matt is learning a lesson in courage, betrayal and fate (that brought this woman to his side) and is...

It didn't matter that the warrant was years old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges. A Texas bounty hunter named Bill Pike believed he could still collect a $10,000 reward for killing Jensen-and he intended to do just that. But when Pike and his men came calling, Jensen was nowhere to be found. So they took the next best thing-Smoke's woman-left behind a ransom note, and headed up into the Rocky Mountains. Now, Smoke is going after...

"Building a ranch takes heart and grit. Smoke and Sally Jensen are more than capable of meeting the challenges of shaping the land, raising the livestock, and establishing their brand. But Smoke wasn't always an entrepreneur. He's more apt to settle accounts with a fast draw than a checkbook. And when he learns his old friend Preacher has been ambushed by outlaws, he wastes no time saddling up and hitting the vengeance trail with his fellow mountain...

Legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen rescues his friend from hanging and finds himself riding into a war between cunning railroad robbers and the organization sworn to stop him.