Johnstone Country. Cross at Your Own Risk. On the lawless frontiers of the American West, there is one rule every outlaw should remember: Never cross a mountain man like Matt Jensen. Not if you want to keep breathing. DIE WITH THE OUTLAWS No gun. No horse. No water or food. And worse yet: No idea how he ended up in the middle of a desert with a bullet in his leg and a bump on his head. That’s … his leg and a bump on his head. That’s the sorry situation Matt Jensen wakes up to—dazed and confused—until he slowly pieces together what happened. The last thing he remembers: He agreed to help out a friend of Duff MacCallister’s. A pretty lady and her husband at a horse ranch. He also recalls their cross-country trip through hell to deliver the horses safely to market. That’s when the outlaws showed up. That’s when the shooting began. That’s when everything went dark . . .
But now Matt Jensen is alive and well and living for revenge. No time to lose. No holding back. And before it’s all over, no trigger-happy horsethief left standing . . .
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Good shootemup, lots of violence but our heroes are on the righteous side. Fast-moving. Thinking not required
Matt Jensen is a man without a home who can usually be found helping folks solve one problem or another. Matt is fast with a gun, tries like anything not to get into a gunfight and has learned how to live in the western regions by Smoke Jensen himself. In the newest installment in the series with Matt Jensen, we see how two men with shady pasts come to attempt to throw a wide loop. Their aim isn’t just owning cattle, but also swallowing up all the little ranchers thereby enlarging their own land holdings.
The town of Rongis located in Sweetwater, Wyoming is about to be clamped down hard, losing their rights and threatened by killers. Apparently, some men who are known as the Regulators are supposed to be stopping the rustling and upholding the law. When Matt rides into town after being asked to go to the assistance of the Conway family, who own a horse ranch, things really start to get tense as smoke fills the air!
In the Matt Jensen series: The Last Mountain Man, readers get to enjoy the various adventures and dangerous situations that Matt finds himself in. While not related to Smoke Jensen, another famous gunfighter, Matt is like family and at times can be found at Smoke’s Sugarloaf Ranch. In this book, we the see familiar characters of Duff MacCallister, Meghan Parker, and others for a brief time before the action takes off!
I enjoyed reading the novel with characters from the Johnstone library and series that I look forward to opening with eagerness. There are hazards to living in the west and Matt, along with other players, faces the danger men with nefarious motivations bring. In this book, there is some romance that goes unrequited, but some unlikely people find a bright future as well. I, at times, got lost in the pages, enjoying the tension that is quite palpable throughout the story!
Read all the books in the series such as Matt Jensen, Deadly Trail, Purgatory, Savage Territory, Snake River Slaughter, Dakota Ambush, Massacre at Powder River, The Eyes of Texas, Torture Town, and The Great Train Massacre. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself rooting for the evil to be tramped down by the man, Matt Jensen!
I love westerns and this was one of the best I’ve read.
Okay story. Simple, easy read.
Just a good old fun to read western.
Not as good as some Johnstone books, but I’ve never read a bad one. For the Western genre, no one does it better.
Great western adventure!
Thoroughly enjoyed this read! Lifelong lover of GREAT WESTERN books! Would recommend to anyone who would like to learn more about the west as history actually shows it to have been like!
I enjoyed the book. Action packed with a great ending.
Standard western fare, any one of a thousand writers could keep the series going and you’d never notice.
Very good book.
Wow! I’ve just finished this great western. It’s the wild west in it’s rawest form. Cattle rustling, guns blazing, dishonest Judge, and, stolen ranches. Those that take the law into their own hands by taking lives, steeling land and hiring the lawless, finally meet Matt Jensen. The old days of the 1800’s were harsh and this story gives detailed accounts of how wild it was. As I read this book, it brought tears to my eyes and those of you who read this historical western, will understand why.
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My favorite western writer, doesn’t disappoint oint with this one!
Great Western