01840cam a2200289 4500 610823307 TxAuBib 20221129120000.0 221129s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780786048946 0786048948 TxAuBib Johnstone, William W. Cruel Winter of the Mountain Man. Pinnacle Books, 2022. 304 pg. Last Mountain Man, The ; 50 Jonas Madigan is dying. He spent his life taming towns and upholding justice across the west with no regrets. Along the way, Madigan took the measure of good men like Smoke Jensen, who has traveled to Salt Lick, Texas to pay his respects to the lawman. But when bandits gun down the small town's current marshal--and Smoke sends the killers to Boot Hill--Madigan asks his friend to wear the badge and keep the peace until a permanent replacement is sworn in. Turns out the bandits were members of Bishop's Mauraders, a twenty-man gang of trigger-happy thieves led by the vicious and venomous Snake Bishop--and they've set their sights on Salt Lick. They're due to arrive at the same time as a monstrous blizzard that's covering up the countryside. Now, it's up to Smoke to turn the townspeople into a posse to defend their lives and land from both mother nature and man's worst nature . . . A cold day in hell descends upon Texas when mountain man sharpshooter Smoke Jensen pins on a tin star to tackle a wild bunch of bloodthirsty outlaws. 20221129. Jensen, Smoke. Outlaws. Winter. Texas. Western fiction. The Last Mountain Man ; 50.