Before he became known as āThe Last Mountain Man,ā Smoke Jensen and his bride Sally were hard-working ranchers on the Colorado frontier, when times were hard, tensions were high, and guns were the lawā¦
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. BULLET BY BULLET.
For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is a glorious stretch of untamed land near the Colorado-Kansas border, the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. But when a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rockāwith a well-armed militiaāthe Jensensā dream becomes a living nightmare. Colonel Lamar Talbot claims thereās a war looming with the Cheyenne Indians. And only he can save them from a bloody massacreāby launching a bloody counterattackā¦
Smoke and Sally arenāt sure they trust him. They suspect the colonel and his men are nothing more than brutal vigilantes with a hidden agenda of their own. But the Cheyenne war parties are a very real threat. The tribeās charismatic leader, Black Drum, is launching raids on local ranches, farms, and the railroads, too. Every day, the violence gets worse and the war moves closerāuntil it reaches the Sugarloaf Ranch. Thatās when Sally gets attacked. Thatās when Smoke grabs his guns. Thatās when the shooting startsāand the final battle beginsā¦