02125cam a2200349 i 4500 2828874132 TxAuBib 20260804120000.0 250915t20252023||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781420527384 hardcover alk. paper 142052738X hardcover alk. paper TxAuBib rda Johnstone, William W. Desolation Creek / William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich] : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2025. ©2023. 441 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Building a ranch takes heart and grit. Smoke and Sally Jensen are more than capable of meeting the challenges of shaping the land, raising the livestock, and establishing their brand. But Smoke wasn't always an entrepreneur. He's more apt to settle accounts with a fast draw than a checkbook. And when he learns his old friend Preacher has been ambushed by outlaws, he wastes no time saddling up and hitting the vengeance trail with his fellow mountain men Audie and Nighthawk. Preacher's attackers have taken over the town of Desolation Creek deep in Montana Territory. Their scurrilous leader, Vernon 'Venom' McFadden, has his men harassing terrified homesteaders and townsfolk to get his hands on nearby property that's rumored to be rich with gold. Smoke and his friends--and Sally, who refused to be left behind--drift into town one by one with a plan to root out Venom's gang of prairie rats and put the big blast on each and every one. Johnstone Country. Where Dying Ain't Much of a Living"--Provided by the publisher. 20260804. Jensen, Smoke Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life Fiction. Gunfighters Fiction. Outlaws Fiction. Western stories. large print books. aat Western fiction. lcgft Johnstone, J. A.,.