J. A. Johnstone

Four Johnstone weddings - and a funeral. If anyone can get a shipment of brides to the church on time, it's Bo Creel and Scratch Morton. But this time, they'll have to cross hell and high water to escort four marriage-bound beauties to a remote gold-mining town in Alaska. The brides-to-be...

The first story in a fiery new series about the west's most dangerous boomtown, and the reformed outlaw who risks his life to keep it safe.... In the dark shadow of the Prophecy Mountains lies the ramshackle town of Rattlesnake Wells, where dreamers come to make their fortunes, and desperados...

The mountains are brimming with the lure of fortunes — from gold to a booming fur trade. A man at home in this once pristine wilderness, Preacher knows there’s no turning back civilization now. What he doesn’t know is that beyond the plans of some men is a deadly enemy with far more...

From America's greatest storytellers comes the first in an explosive series featuring a new hero of the Old West in an epic fight for justice that begins as so many legends do: in a hailstorm of bullets... After spending most of his young life driving cattle from Texas to Nevada, Will Tanner is...

A good man like Perley Gates knows that when you race with the devil, you'd better cross the finish line first - or you won't finish at all.... They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the...

In the bustling streets of St. Louis, two cousins have a dream: to travel west with a wagon train of supplies and make a fortune in trade. Preacher needs a job and is heading west anyway. But he doesn't bargain on the beautiful woman who sneaks her way into the wagon train and the trouble she...

The wild bunch known as the Jackals returns for another round of justice served cold, hard, and with as many bullets as it takes. Nationally best-selling authors William W. and J. A. Johnstone are at it again.... Some say bad luck comes in threes. And if you're a bandit, bank robber, or...

When innocent people are threatened, Preacher punishes the guilty, dispensing his own brand of justice—one bullet at a time . . . Johnstone Country. Where evil dwells . . . and justice awaits. In a North American British province, a group of Norweigan settlers have carved a life for themselves...

In this thrilling epic of the American West, New York Times best-selling authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone capture the human side of the frontier experience in all its glory, grit, and grandeur - through the eyes of one remarkable teenage boy. Leaving their Pennsylvania home to...

The Greatest Historical Western Writers of the 21st Century, William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, bring to life the harrowing journeys of the fearless pioneers who braved the Oregon Trail—and lived to tell the tale … Independence, Missouri, 1865. Seasoned wagon master Virgil Grissom...

The sight of a rotting corpse hanging from a noose is enough to stop any man in his tracks—and Luke Jensen is no exception. Sure, he could just keep riding through. He's got a prisoner to deliver, after all. But when a group of men show up with another prisoner for another hanging, Luke can't...

Johnstone Country. Where life is a gamble. The national bestselling authors of violent, bullet-riddled Old West yarns return to the Texas frontier town where Sheriff Buck Jackson and Deputy Flint Moran are quickly learning that enforcing the law means being fastest on the draw—or being killed...

Before he became known as “The Last Mountain Man,” Smoke Jensen and his bride Sally were hardworking ranchers on the Colorado frontier. This is a story of the early years. When times were hard, tensions were high, and guns were the law. For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is the...

Some call it the most dangerous stagecoach in the West. But the hard-driving owners of the Frontier Overland Company will get you where you want to go—if you don't mind a detour through hell.... The Civil War is over. But Wyoming Territory is still a battleground for the native tribes who live...

Former Pinkerton turned Wyoming Territory Sheriff Buck Trammel takes on the biggest, meanest criminal in Laramie County—and his equally corrupt lawyer—in his fifth action-packed historical western from national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone … PRISON BREAK! In...

Meet John Bannack. Jailed for a crime he didn't commit. Busted out of a Texas State Prison. Running for freedom and gunning for justice. They call him . . . THE MAN FROM WACO. As a young man, John Bannack worked hard on his brother's farm—until times got tough and his brother grew desperate...

Johnstone Country. Vigilante Justice. A thrilling new series from the legendary Western author William W. Johnstone where justice is very personal. It begins with a massacre. A crime so brutal and bloody, the local sheriff isn't smart enough to solve it. But when young deputy Dan Caine sees the...

The sixth action-packed historical Western from national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone featuring Buck Trammel, former Pinkerton turned Wyoming Territory lawman! Ben Washington and his gang of murdering prairie rats have been terrorizing Wyoming Territory for quite a...

Bordered by the Blackfeet Reservation to the north and mountain ranges to the east and west, Cutthroat County is seven-hundred glorious square miles of Big Sky grandeur. For generations, the Maddox and Drew families have ruled the county—often at odds with each other. Today, Ashton Maddox runs...

JOHNSTONE’S AMERICA. THE GOLD STANDARD. From the acclaimed chroniclers of the Old West comes a blazing new saga of the great American Gold Rush—and the boldhearted dreamers who made it all happen … THEY CALLED THEM THE FORTY-NINERS. In January of 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill...