Jason Manning

THE TEXAS FRONTIER-A WILD COUNTRY RULED BY THE FAST GUN AND THE QUICK BLADETrue Bowen was out hunting when the Comanche warriors attacked. Quicker than death they killed his folks, burned their West Texas homestead, and kidnapped his sister. With every shovelful of rich red earth he threw on the shallow graves of his folks, Bowen swore he would get her back and make the savages pay for their murderous ways. Armed with an old Hawken single-shot rifle and a belly full of bitter hate, the son of a sodbuster heads west on a vengeance trail. Tracking the war party by the bloody string of massacres they leave behind, Bowen ends up in an old Spanish mission turned trading post that Texans call Helltown. Run by the ruthless Comanchero leader Rodrigo Shay, life was as cheap as rotgut whiskey there, and the closest thing to law was how fast a man could kill another. Backed by a trail-tough gang of frontier mustangers with their own score to settle, Bowen takes on Shay and his Comancheros, hungry for payback, and with just one chance to save his sister-or die in the bloody streets of the Texas Helltown.

Falsely branded an outlaw, mountain man Gordon Hawkes has spent years hiding out in the Colorado Rockies with his wife and daughter. But suddenly he finds his peace disturbed by old enemies and new dangers. There's trouble brewing between the United States Army and his friends, the Cheyenne. The white man has broken one treaty after another and the Cheyenne have finally had enough and are preparing themselves for war. Approached by the man who first forced him to become a fugitive, Hawkes agrees to serve as peacemaker between the two warring nations-until he realizes that the Army high command has no intention of stopping short of total extermination, and his Indian friends are going to be led to slaughter It's a situation complicated by the love affair between the mountain man's daughter and a young, brave and principled army lieutenant. Now Hawkes has to pit his daughter's happiness and his freedom, if not his life, in a desperate effort to save his Cheyenne friends-and restore his honor. THE FIFTH EXCITING ENTRY IN JASON MANNING'S POPULAR SIX-BOOK MOUNTAIN MAN EPIC

An American saga of danger, daring, passion and betrayal.A wet-behind-the-ears youngster when he came west with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, Zach Hannah will become a legend of courage, skill and honesty among other mountain men. To the Crow Indians he is a trusted friend and ally. To the Blackfoot he is their most hated foe. And to former friend Sean Devlin, who lusts after Zach's beloved wife Morning Sky, he is a rival to be destroyed.The American Fur Company seeks to destroy the Rocky Mountain trappers who stand in the way of its scheme to monopolize the fur trade. With a hardbitten crew under his command and treacherous enemies shadowing his every move, Zach faces the most brutal brigade of hostile trappers ever to make the high country a killing ground.THE SECOND IN THE MAGNIFICENT MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES THAT BEGAN WITH HIGH COUNTRY AND CONCLUDES WITH BATTLE OF THE TETON BASIN.

After years on the move, hiding from those who falsely branded him an outlaw, Gordon Hawkes and his family at last have a real home the secluded Colorado Rockies.But everything changes when a prospector strikes it rich. Suddenly a Gold Rush hits the mountains, hard. The mining town of Gilder Gulch springs to life, teeming with greedy characters who can only mean trouble for Hawkes and his kin. But while Hawkes makes plan to move his family out of danger, his rebellious son Cameron, seduced by the dream of finding the mother lode, chooses to stay behind and stake a claim. Before long, Cameron is on the wrong side of a ruthless gang of men. And now Gordon Hawkes has to return to Gilder Gulch to wreak a terrible vengeance, and not even the U.S. Army can save the men he is out to kill. THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE GREATEST OF MOUNTAIN MAN SAGAS WHICH CONSISTS OF SIX VOLUMES AND OVER TWO THOUSAND PAGES OF COMPELLING FRONTIER DRAMA BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HIGH COUNTRY TRILOGY.

Sometimes a man has to risk all he cherishes for God and country. He had fought and bled for his country. He had been a war hero and a congressman. He had battled the southern Nullifiers to keep the young United States from splintering. He was the right-hand man of President Andrew Jackson. But now Timothy Barlow has put aside his uniform to lead an easier life on a sprawling Georgia plantation, married to a beautiful Southern belle. With his public service behind him, Barlow intends to spoil the woman he loves, raise a family, and live in peace and prosperity. But yet another war is brewing. Mexico, Britain and France have eyes on the fledgling Republic of Texas and U.S. President Polk will have none of that. The country needs its heroes once again, and Barlow reluctantly dusts off his uniform for one last hurrah. A ROUSING HISTORICAL NOVEL, THE FINAL ENTRY IN THE POPULAR BARLOW TRILOGY WHICH INCLUDES THE LONG HUNTERS AND WAR LOVERS.

Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Gordon Hawkes has spent more than thirty years as a fugitive in his mountain refuge. Hardened by time and grief-stricken over the death of his wife, Hawkes has one joy left in life: his daughter Grace, the recent bride of Captain Brand Gunnison of the Colorado Volunteers. When the army orders Gunnison to establish an outpost in hostile Cheyenne country, it puts Gordon's last surviving family member in grave peril. The legendary mountain man knows that the only way to ensure his daughter's safety is to join the campaign, even while he loathes the army's brutal and sometimes senseless dealings with the "Indian scourge". But the army had badly underestimated their Cheyenne foes, and as a whirlwind of bloody conflict descends upon the plains, Gordon Hawkes is faced with a grim choice: fight for what he knows is right, or for the life of his daughter THE SIXTH AND FINAL ENTRY IN THE EPIC MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES BY JASON MANNING, WHICH INCLUDES MOUNTAIN PASSAGE, MOUNTAIN MASSACRE, MOUNTAIN COURAGE, MOUNTAIN VENGEANCE AND MOUNTAIN HONOR.

Sam Bass is one of the largest outlaw legends of the Old West, an orphan turned wily criminal who has managed to elude Pinkerton detectives, U.S. marshals, and a special task force of manhunters led by the famous Captain June Peak. A Midwestern farm boy who lit out for Texas with dreams of becoming a cowboy, Bass ends up in Deadwood, South Dakota, a place that can turn even the best man bad. Once Sam Bass picked up a gun and robbed a stagecoach, there was no turning back. The law wanted him dead, fate wanted him in Texas, and the outlaw trail lay between. Bass tells one man the real story of his legendary life, a tale of lost dreams and dashed hopes, of how a good man ended up on the wrong side of the law-and now lies dying with a bullet in the back. THE TRUE STORY OF A TEXAS LEGEND, AND ONE OF THE BESTSELLING BOOKS IN THE WESTERNERS TRILOGY, ALSO FEATURING GUN JUSTICE AND GUNMASTER.

THE NOVEL THAT LAUNCHED ONE OF THE GREATEST MOUNTAIN MAN SERIESThe American West. A land wild and free and dangerous. Only a brave man dared accept the challenge of a harsh and unforgiving frontier. Gordon Hawkes was such a man. A man of courage. A man of strong will. A mountain man. This is his story.The promise of a new life draws Hawkes and his parents away from Ireland to seek a new beginning. But the sea claims his folks and leaves him alone to stake his claim. Befriended by a Scots adventurer, Hawkes heads west. But trouble has a way of finding him.Accused of murder in New Orleans and chased by bounty hunters in St. Louis, he is confronted with one harsh test of survival after another. In spite of the obstacles, he finds his true calling in the untamed western mountains. And it is here that his greatest adventure of all begins.THE FIRST OF SIX BESTSELLING NOVELS IN THE CLASSIC MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES BY THE POPULAR WESTERN WRITER WHO ALSO PENNED HIGH COUNTRY AND GREEN RIVER RENDEZVOUS.

LOVE AND REVENGE ARE POWERFUL MOTIVES-POWERFUL ENOUGH TO MAKE A MAN OF THE LAW CROSS THE LINE. Ethan Payne has drifted across the rugged American West, aching to settle down. From the wilds of the Missouri to the jungles of Panama, he left his destiny to the gods, and left Gil Stark-his best-friend-turned-outlaw-to the devil. Now, acting as Abilene's fiercely respected marshal, Payne has finally found a place to stand tall. Until a woman in need of salvation triggers an impulse like a bullet to the heart. Addicted to life's sordid pleasures, Julie Cathcott has arrived, unwanted and unexpected, from Payne's past. To Payne, she's a woman worth saving. Even if it means crossing swords with the town fathers and being cast out forever from a place he called home. But the past isn't done with Payne. In the shadow of Miss Julie's own private hell, Gil Stark is waiting. Once fate plays these kinds of games, it can turn any man into a killer. THE SECOND IN A RIVETING OLD WEST TRILOGY THAT BEGAN WITH FRONTIER ROAD, BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OUTLAW TRAIL AND TEXAS HELLTOWN.

Sometimes, no matter how much you want to be left alone, trouble finds you...Ten years after leaving home to find his future in the West, Gordon Hawkes risks going back east to pick up a package his mother left him. Attacked by a posse looking to collect the bounty on his head, Hawkes hides out among Mormons and agrees to guide them to their own promised land.The Mormons led by Brigham Young are on the run, too-from persecution for their way of life. Thousands of settlers have trekked westward before them and much of the good land has been taken. The Mormons have to settle for harsh desert but even so find themselves in violent conflict with other land-seekers.Soon enough, federal troops are sent in to restore peace. But as with Hawkes, there is no place left to go for Brigham Young and his people. As the dreams of so many men and women collide around him, the mountain man finds that his untainted country has become a battleground SECOND IN THE EPIC SIX-BOOK MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HIGH COUNTRY AND AMERICAN BLOOD.

It may be the twilight of the Old West but the sun's not about to set on Ethan Payne. The tough-as-nails gunslinger is still holding strong to the traditions that made him notorious. A new trade is giving him the chance to prove it-as a regulator for a Wyoming cattleman's association. But when an innocent man is killed, Payne's spirit dies along with him. Now it's the fearless outlaw who needs to be rescued. And Buffalo Bill Cody is the man to do it. A U.S. scout who rode out the Civil War in glory, Cody has become the Wild West's greatest showman. Now that he's got Payne in the act, it's only going to get wilder. The biggest draw Cody ever bankrolled, Payne is riding high once again. Especially when the tour takes him back to Chicago, and back to his first true love. But the past-like vengeance-never dies. An enemy has a score to settle. And to keep his last chance at happiness alive, Payne has to face the greatest threat of all. THE FINAL EXCITING BOOK IN THE ETHAN PAYNE TRILOGY, FOLLOWING FRONTIER ROAD AND TRAIL TOWN, WRITTEN BY THE BESTSELLING WESTERN AUTHOR OF CLASSICS LIKE TEXAS HELLTOWN AND THE OUTLAW TRAIL.

SOME SAID HE WAS A BAD MAN, SOME SAID HE WAS A GOOD MAN, BUT ONE THING WAS CERTAIN-HE WAS THE LAST MAN YOU WANTED TO CHALLENGE.The first shots of the Civil War echoed opportunity to young Ben Thompson. The same traits that had earned him notoriety as a civilian-steady nerves and deadly aim-could win him respect as a soldier. For a while he found it, riding with the famous Second Regiment, Texas Mounted Rifles. But it was in the murderous gambling dens south of the Rio Grande that Ben Thompson made his reputation. That reputation would follow him for the rest of his life: as he stared down Wild Bill Hickok in the saloons of Abilene, Kansas; as he battled for control of Colorado's railroads alongside Bat Masterson; and as he cleaned up Austin's streets as a tough-as-nails lawman. He only wanted respect for himself and his family, but it seemed that every cowboy seeking to make a name for himself would go looking for Ben Thompson...and all those names ended up marking fresh graves. BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF ONE OF THE GREATEST GUNFIGHTERS IN THE OLD WEST, PART OF THE WESTERNERS TRILOGY THAT INCLUDES GUN JUSTICE AND THE OUTLAW TRAIL.

Legendary mountain man Hugh Falconer loved the high country, where he lived in splendid isolation. But when he has to save a wagon train of pioneers from slaughter at the hands of a half-breed killer and a marauding Pawnee war party, everything changes. The first blizzards of winter are sweeping down from the north as Falconer leads the people he has promised to protect-and a woman he can't help but want-into a secluded mountain valley to survive until spring. He thought it would be a safe haven. But he was wrong. A man had come before them, a man who ruled the valley as his own private kingdom-a mountain man whose prowess matches Falconer's own. Falconer has a choice to make: strike a devil's bargain or engage in a no-holds-barred fight with a man who is every bit his equal-if not better. ANOTHER EPIC ADVENTURE IN THE TRILOGY OF HUGH FALCONER NOVELS THAT INCLUDES FALCONER'S LAW AND AMERICAN BLOOD.

The price of peace is sometimes paid in blood...In his years living in the wild frontier, Gordon Hawkes has become a legend among mountain men. He has raised his family in seclusion, emerging only to visit trading posts and his adoptive tribe, the Crow. But his hard-won peace and happiness are about to be threatened by the dark clouds of war...While Hawkes is escorting the Crow tribe's yearly annuity from the United States government, their cunning enemies, the Sioux, stage an ambush. Captured and enslaved, Hawkes must decide whether to live as a slave, die as a prisoner, or renounce his past life and join the Sioux tribe.His only hope rests in the hands of his son Cameron, who must find the courage to face his father's captors and bring Gordon Hawkes back alive.THE THIRD BOOK IN THE GREATEST OF MOUNTAIN MAN SAGAS WHICH CONSISTS OF SIX VOLUMES AND OVER TWO THOUSAND PAGES OF COMPELLING FRONTIER DRAMA BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HIGH COUNTRY TRILOGY.

Clay Colbry has been a lot of things, some good, some bad. But now he's just a drifter who stumbles into the middle of a bloody Apache uprising. Not only had he been a scout for the U.S. Army, he had also been raised by Apaches, so he knows just how bad the situation is going to get. But things go from bad to worse when he finds out an outlaw gang led by the ruthless Bass Giles is stealing Sierra Stage Company stock and selling the horses to the outlaws. Giles and his cutthroats have taken over the town of Furnace Creek as a base of operations and are bleeding it dry. Colbry's job is to root them out. It's pretty much a suicide mission, but Colbry takes it on. He has an old score to settle with Giles and nothing-not the desert, not the Apache raiders, and not the small army of hardcases who follow Giles-is going to stop him from wreaking a terrible vengeance. THE CLASSIC WESTERN THAT LAUNCHED THE CAREER OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND PROLIFIC WRITERS IN THE GENRE, THE AUTHOR OF LOBO RILER, LAST CHANCE AND THE OUTLAW TRAIL.

THE DREAM OF WEALTH AND ADVENTURE COMES AT A HIGH COST...The recklessness of youth and the bravery of California Gold Rush dreams fueled the determination of Ethan Payne and his best friend Gil Stark to find wealth and glory out west. But somewhere on a journey that took them down the Missouri, across the Gulf of Mexico, and through the jungles of Panama, the two young men began to change. Ethan learned he had the heart of an outlaw. By the time they reached California, both had left their innocence and friendship behind-but they were destined to come face to face again.This saga of an authentic frontier adventurer vividly captures the life and times of a young man coming of age in a harsh world of unlimited possibility and swift, savage death. For Ethan Payne, the untamed West gave him a place to make a stand-with a gun, a fierce heart, and a dream that wouldn't die. THE FIRST NOVEL IN A GREAT NEW WESTERN TRILOGY BY THE AUTHOR OF SUCH BESTSELLING BOOKS AS PROMISED LAND, MOUNTAIN HONOR, AND WAR LOVERS.

The year is 1837. The fur trade that bred a generation of daring mountain men is in decline. A trapper by the name of Hugh Falconer knows it's time to look for new horizons, and he looks westward.Organizing a brigade of fiercely independent mountain men is no easy task but Falconer pulls it off, and he keeps them together as he leads them on a trail of constant danger, across the worst desert in the West, over savage mountains, through hostile Indian territory, and into a California of wealth, women, and wine-and Mexicans who aren't fond of interlopers.The journey was an ordeal. Now Falconer and his brigade of hardcases have to survive in a hostile new land. Among them is the callow youth named Eben Nall, who was seeking adventure and found much more-a courage he didn't know he had, and a beautiful young Mexican woman he needed more than breath itself.THE FIRST NOVEL IN A NEW TRILOGY OF EPIC MOUNTAIN MAN TALES BY THE AUTHOR OF HIGH COUNTRY AND BATTLE OF THE TETON BASIN.

A FRONTIER HERO FIRES THE OPENING SALVO OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION... Drummed out of West Point, Christopher Groves goes home to Kentucky in disgrace, only to walk right into a feud with the murderous Vickers brothers. Now wanted by the law, Christopher heads for Texas, where American emigrants are chafing under the yoke of Mexican rule and are poised to fight for their independence. Flintlock Jones is an old man now, but Christopher is kin and he won't let his grandson make the long and perilous trek alone. Together, the two men get more action that they'd bargained for, running afoul of kidnappers, river pirates and bounty hunters. But that's nothing compared to the full-blown war that erupts between Texicans and their Mexican overlords, a war in which the legendary Flintlock Jones strikes one last blow for liberty.THE FINAL EXCITING ENTRY IN THE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY THAT BRINGS THE COURAGE AND CONFLICT OF THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER TO LIFE, WHICH BEGAN WITH FLINTLOCK AND THE BORDER CAPTAINS.

In 1806 the ambitious and charismatic Aaron Burr is plotting treason against the young American republic. He devises a scandalous plan to carve out his own private empire by detaching the western states from the Union.President Thomas Jefferson suspects Burr but needs evidence. Surrounded by political enemies, he turns to Flintlock Jones, a young but already famous Kentucky frontiersman. Enlisting the aid of a young naval officer, Lieutenant Jonathan Grove, Flintlock embarks on a perilous mission of epic proportions as he pursues Burr and the man's army of ruffians across the dark and bloody ground of Kentucky and down the deadly Natchez Trace.But before Flintlock and Groves can stop Burr, the frontiersman is confronted by a ghost from his past, who has his own very personal mission: to kill Flintlock Jones.AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL OF HIGH ADVENTURE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING HIGH COUNTRY NOVELS.

The epic clash that brought the mountain man era to a close All Zach Hannah wants is to be left alone, high in the mountains with his Indian bride, Morning Sky. But as long as Sean Devlin is alive, Zach will find no peace. Now Zach has to track down this man, the former friend who stole his wife and left him to die at the hands of his mortal enemies, the Blackfoot Indians.It's an odyssey of vengeance that will lead him from the Yellowstone to St. Louis, along the Santa Fe Trail and back to the high country, where the mountains echo with the gunfire of a cataclysmic war.As mountain men and Blackfoot braves clash in a final epic struggle that will change the course of history in the American West, Zach and Devlin square off in a final reckoning that only one of them will survive.THE THRILLING CONCLUSION OF THE ACCLAIMED HIGH COUNTRY TRILOGY OF MOUNTAIN MAN NOVELS BY THE AUTHOR OF CLASSICS LIKE MOUNTAIN HONOR, FALCONER'S LAW AND FLINTLOCK.