The time of the mountain man is coming to an end...but some--like Titus Bass will not exit gently. A brilliantly exciting and thoroughly researched novel of the end of the dream that was the unmapped and virgin wilderness in the American West starring the king of the mountain men, Titus Bass. Fro...
In the wake of the Little Big Horn, the U.S. Army declares war on the Sioux and Cheyenne and embarks on a long and arduous campaign of vengeance that tests the courage and strength of all those involved, including scout Seamus Donegan.
In Buffalo Palace, the young Titus Bass sights, and then sets out into, the vast Rocky Mountain country, where he has his initial experiences with trapping beaver, surviving the freezing winter, fighting fierce Indians and even fiercer fellow mountain men, and celebrating at the hard-earned summe...
This book was a tough read, not only because the subject matter of the Nez Pearce War is such a sad and bitter story, but because the author would soon die after the work was completed. I have become an enormous Terry Johnston fan largely because of the magnificence of the Plainsmen Series. The...
Scout Seamus Donegan is not under the command of Col. Nelson A. Miles, who must lead his war-weary troops up the Tongue River into butte country. There, amidst the snow-covered bluffs, awaits Crazy Horse with a thousand-strong force of Lakota braves. They are ready to engage Col. Miles and the Fi...
The newest volume in this series recounts the outbreak of the Nez Perce War, featuring the beloved recurring character, the Irish scout Seamus Donegan. Johnston's fans will also welcome the return of Colonel Samuel Marr, an old Plainsmen hero who becomes involved in the friction between gold mine...
In the first volume of this saga of George Custer, the infamous general takes a lover among the Indians captured in his long winter campaign against the Cheyenne, risking marriage, reputation, and career for her.
Sixteen-year-old Titus Bass fears one fate more than any other: never to experience the great wilderness or the wildness inside himself. So late one night he snatches a squirrel gun and a handful of biscuits, flees into the woods, and doesn’t look back. From Louisville past the Chickasaw bluffs a...
As the Sioux and the Cheyenne amass along the northern frontier, army scout Seamus Donegan heads north to Fort Fetterman and Brigadier General George C. Crook prepares to face off against Crazy Horse.
With the end of the beaver trade at hand, free trappers like Titus Bass must somehow make their way on a changing frontier. Drawn by the promise of adventure and wealth, Bass joins an expedition to Spanish California, where the ranchos have horses and mules in abundance. Their plan is to steal th...
Jonah Hook was a man who had lost everything a man could lose--but the iron will to reclaim what had been taken from him. Now he must confront the fiery religious heretic who has enslaved his wife and the fierce Comanche tribe who has raised his long-lost sons. From Fort Laramie, land of Sioux an...
Veteran Indian fighter Seamus Donegan joins the hunt for Crazy Horse, the elusive Cheyenne warrior chief who's putting the cavalry to shame in this continuing saga of the Great Indian Wars. Johnston brilliantly recreates the Dull Knife Battle of 1876.
the old woman told those leaders gathered in council. “We had a good place to stay out of the cold, and the guards watched us so that nobody bothered us.” Johnny Bruguier looked from face to face of those ringing the fire here in Coal Bear’s lodge, eager for something that might betray what they ...
“I figger they’re ’bout out of cartridges, George,” the stocky civilian declared. “And it’s gonna take some before these soldiers are saddled up to ride out.” Shearer studied the look on his friend’s face a moment before saying, “Maybeso we ought’n give it a try on our own?” “I was hoping you was...
Here when it grew light enough for him to stir and muck about, but still well before sunup. The air had a special quality to it as the night was just beginning to relent and give itself to the day. These breathless moments were undeniably the best, no matter what season it was. In spring, you cou...
- the aftermath of the Custer Massacre Chapter 1917 July 1876 Dispatch from Crook—What He WillDo When Merritt Comes WASHINGTON, July 17—General Sheridan has forwarded the following dispatches to Sherman: I had already ordered General Merritt to join General Crook, but he will be delayed a few day...
“You fellas got to listen to this!” exclaimed trader Collins that chilly morning inside his store at Fort Laramie. “There’s been a heap of trouble down in the South.” Seamus watched Collins smooth out the newspaper with both hands atop the counter cluttered with a shipment of soaps and lilac wate...
Thomas Moore declared as he held out his hand to the tall Irishman before him. They shook. “Was hoping you would,” Seamus replied to the man who had been in charge of George Crook’s mule trains since the days of the first Apache campaigns down in Arizona. “Hell yes, Donegan! You was all Cap’n Mil...
Clouds had gathered through the night, blotting out the last shimmer of starshine as they stirred in the cold gloom, kicked life back into the fire, and went about seeing off one of their own. No longer were there ten. Joseph Little lay in a shallow grave scraped from the forest floor high in the...
Joseph cried at a small group pushing past him on their way out of camp by the time he and Ollokot reached the village at Tepahlewam. “No reason to be afraid—you have done nothing wrong!” “The soldiers will come looking for us!” White Bird wailed as he stepped up between the lodges. “All must joi...
mulatto Jim Beckwourth said as he leaned over, whispering to his old friend, “Big Throat” Jim Bridger. Together the two had trapped from the Marias and Milk rivers clear down to South Park in the Colorado country. When beaver was prime. Then years ago Beckwourth had parleyed his dark skin into a ...
FOREIGN War News and Rumors CONSTANTINOPLE, December 28.—The prevalent opinion is that the port will not accept Lord Salisbury’s proposals. LONDON, December 28.—A special from Paris says the sultan in answer to Salisbury’s representation, said his personal safety would be compromised if he conced...