The twins have just returned from Europe where they did their schooling. The arriving Jensen clan will be the ranch’s last defense. There’s cattle rustlers and they are bloodthirsty and violent and always primed to strike again.

In the first installment, The Jensen Brand, Sally Jensen calls in the Jensen clan and they need to get in fast. Smoke gets injured in a gun fight with cattle rustlers.

At the dawn of the new century, the cattle business is still dangerous and deadly. It’s been over two decades since the infamous gunfighter Smoke Jensen and his wife Sally tamed their huge Sugarloaf Ranch. The Jensen Brand (a five book series), opens with the team of the Jensen twins, a brother and sister, Louis and Denise. The efforts he made with dedicated accurate research is woven through all his stories. His love and knowledge of animals, the knives and guns he collected is in his stories. Johnstone has infused his stories with the learning he got from the early frontier experiences he heard from his grandparents.

said “Every day with Bill was an adventure story in itself.” “Keep the historical facts accurate”, he would say. Her after school hours were spent at his elbow, researching and retyping his manuscripts. She literally learned from a master of story telling. Johnstone, niece and literary heir to William Wallace Johnstone began as the chief typist, researcher, fact checker, and all around assistant to her uncle. They are a combination of his much loved western ranch themed books, of which there are hundreds, and his horror and military/survivalist books were legend widely appreciated and accepted. Johnstone and his heirs have published over 60 different series of stories. In the early 1980’s he began writing full-time in earnest he had over two hundred books published with several popular and best-selling series including the Ashes series and the Mountain Man series until he passed away in 2004.

He started writing books in 1970 and eventually was published in late 1979 and became best known for for his western, survivalist, and horror novels. Working as a deputy sheriff, then a hitch in the army, he came back home and started a to work in radio broadcasting. Quitting school at the age of fifteen, he joined a carnival, later in 1957 he returned to finish high school. Johnstone was the youngest of four children. Born in 1938 in Southern Missouri, William W.

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