Some called him a Texas hero. Some called him the Devil himself. But on one point, they all agreed. While he was alive, John Wesley Hardin was the deadliest man in Texas. A novel of uncompromising depth and power from western master James Carlos Blake, called one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" by Entertainment Weekly, The Pistoleer narrates the life of John Wesley Hardin, exposing the many different sides of a man...

Smoke Jensen: the beginning -- In 1861, shots were fired in Charleston Harbor, and Kirby Jensen's father and brother went off to war. From raging Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood, Kirby Jensen journeys into a manhood shaped by violence and a young man's thirst for justice. Filled with actual historical events and legendary characters, the story of Smoke Jensen's early years...