Forty Guns West - First Mountain Man Author:William W. Johnstone He'd come west to the Rockies as a twelve-year-old runaway and grown into a man who'd blazed trails where no white man had gone before. A legend among the already legendary mountain men, he was known as Preacher - a name that would become a monument to all who sought adventure on America's untamed frontier! During a trip back East for a reunion ... more »with his aging ma and pa, Preacher quickly learned that a mountain man who finds himself in the civilized climate of midwestern Ohio can attract more trouble than a burlap sack full of bobcats.
A number of local bully-boys who took exception to Preacher's wilderness ways got bloodied for their troubles - but a wealthy landowner named Elam Parks ended up dead. Notwithstandin' the fact that Parks had died in a fair fight, $5,000 in gold was placed on Preacher's head, attracting an army of bounty hungers who trailed him back to his home in the high lonesome. Now, as he sighted down the barrel of his '33 Hall North breechloader, Preacher figgered that the bloody bunch of manhunters on his backtrail couldn't have picked a more scenic place in the world to get planted!« less