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When Fair Annie, a sheltered mountain girl, inadvertently strays into forbidden McFarr territory her life opens up to tragedy and to love.

Forced to spend a semester in his father's small hometown up in the mountains, seventeen-year-old Rob finds his feelings of alienation and self-hatred diminishing as he forges relationships with relatives and new friends.

Orphaned, fourteen-year-old Hambone accompanies the circuit-riding preacher, Old Blue Tilley, on his rounds high up in Ozark mountains and everywhere they go they find that Oxalee, Old Blue's sworn enemy, has been there before them.

Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s. This time out, however, he is searching for his lost love--the Indian maiden Meadowlark.

"For the greatest trapper in the country, there's no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl's savage screams. A gang of ruthless trappers has kidnapped a Crow woman, but before they escape with her, Preacher and Hawk burst out of the tree line, guns spitting fire. They drive the trappers off, only to find that she's not Crow, but white. Caroline has been...

Preachers old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies a band of Indians with the deadliest combination possible: whisky, guns and bullets, then directs them to try out their killing tools on the Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest of devastating death, bloodshed and helpless captives. Deaver is all the more delighted when he learns Preacher is among the fallen. But in the driving, drifting snow, with a handful of bloodied survivors by his side, Preacher is...

Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling. In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as do all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the world...

Contains two novels by William W. Johnstone, including "Journey of the Mountain Man," in which Smoke Jensen travels to Montana to aid his cousin Fae in a range war, and "The First Mountain Man : Cheyenne Challenge," about Preacher's encounters with Ezra Pease and his gang.