The third adventure in a brand new series from Mike Mackessy!

Jarod Walsh, former US Deputy Marshal and former Texas Ranger, known as the Range Rider, works as a Bounty Hunter. Jarod takes the warrants other pass on, running down the worst of the worst. Jarod rescues a young Irish couple. The husband dies of lead poisoning. Jarod rescues Mary Kate.

Fresh from Ireland, the lone survivor of her family made the crossing. Her American family decide to sell her rather than help her. Nowhere to go and no one to watch over her she accompanies Jarod as he serves warrants on the foulest outlaws.

She learns resilience, self-worth, and the value of personal freedom alongside of Jarod. Together they buy bare land in Texas. Slowly, they turn it into a large cattle ranch. The Rangers recruit Jarod during the Civil War. Mary Kate rides the bounty trail with him, as a partner.

Once a Ranger, always a Ranger. The pair take on every outlaw daring to ply their trade in Texas. Nature takes its course. They work together, now married, on their ranch and the warrants.

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A brand new epic Mountain Man western adventure from Mike Mackessy!

Ezekial, known in the Great Stoney Mountains as Zeke, left home at the age of 16 to make his fortune and a life for himself as a trapper, Indian trader, but most of all as a true mountain man. Living life on his own terms, he traps beaver with all the greats. He lives with the Crow and the Cheyenne. But life in the mountains is tough, and Zeke gets his share. Mauled by grizzly bears, defeated in battle and left for dead, and making a trek with what he has on his back, Zeke will not think of returning East. No pirates on the Missouri River, Indians, nor dangerous critters deter him. He earns his share of enemies—Indians, trappers, and ornery flatlanders—but Zeke always sees it through. Maybe too long. He sees the end of the beaver trade. He sees the new breed of trappers. Life in the mountains is changing. But not Zeke—he will stick through to the bitter end. Ever wonder what that life was like? Ask Zeke.

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The second adventure in a brand new series from Mike Mackessy!

On his ranch in New Mexico, Jarod and his wife-to-be, Carol Lynn, need to find a preacher. The only local is forted up in a saloon in Taos. The plan is to kidnap him, dry him out, and get married. The plan works better than envisioned. The preacher stays dry and becomes a fixture on the ranch. A large gang of organized rustlers breaks the peace. In the attack on the rancho, Carol Lynn and her pa are killed, and Jarod is shot up and left for dead. Nursed back to health, Jarod chases the rustlers to Texas, killing them along the way. In Texas, he falls in with the Rangers. The ranch goes on the offensive, whittling down the last of the rustlers. Except, as soon as one group is gone, others pop up. To Jarod it is not all bad. The new ones will keep him busy. In the middle of all this, a group of Prairie Flowers are rescued. Comanche Indians add to the troubles, but ranch life goes on. How can it not, with a man like Jarod Welsh watching over?

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The first adventure in a brand new series from Mike Mackessy!

In the premier story, Jarod is a drifter, trying to experience the West. Missing the shining times of the fur trade, he rides, just looking. After trying several jobs, he lands in a railroad camp digging rail-bed. He enjoys the labor until the Sioux raid the camp. The man hired as the guard runs, leaving the camp unprotected. Jarod stops the man, takes his weapons, and enters the fray. The railroad does not appreciate Jarod saving the camp. He finds himself drifting, again. He runs into a troubled young man, Cole. Together they hire on as scouts and hunters for a commercial wagon train heading for Santa Fe. Once again, his unappreciated actions send Jarod out on his own, except he and Cole made friends in the wagon train. After selling their loads in Santa Fe, the group of friends decide to start a ranch north of Taos, New Mexico. Jarod’s labor goes into something. He has a part of a cattle and horse raising ranch, but rustlers want to take it away.  

In this new series, Jarod fights against those outlaws fighting him and his friends. Join the journey as Jarod travels from New Mexico to Texas and along the way, fights against lawlessness on the side of the little guy.

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The seventh Mountain Man adventure with Rory: Mountain Man and Longhunter from Mike Mackessy has arrived!

Rory is the mountain man the Penny Dreadful has named Rory Yellowstone. He hates the name and refuses to use it. Cara is his third daughter, the one that takes after her pa the most. She also seems to attract the same kind of trouble Rory does. Like her pa, trouble and problems only make her stronger.

Rory sends her to take delivery of horses he bought in Texas. The crooked sheriff and mayor frame her for rustling. They do not know who she is nor who her pa is. When Rory, her brothers, and a group of ranch hands reach that town to escort Cara and the horses, well, Cara has handled the problem in her typical way—before Rory rides into town.

Cara needs a break. She and her favorite ranch hand retreat to the mountains for a year. She cannot evade problems; they follow her into the high lonesome. She returns to the ranch in time to help move a herd of horses Rory sold to the US Cavalry in time for the Mexican War. And of course, her problems follow her.

Cara uses grizzly bears, Cheyenne warriors, knuckle-headed immigrants, and a family of women who should have stayed in the East. Cara’s adversity is her apprenticeship to mountain life.

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The sixth Mountain Man adventure with Rory: Mountain Man and Longhunter from Mike Mackessy has arrived!

A visit from an old family friend, the Crow warrior Pale Horse helps Rory’s family battle the family’s enemy, another Crow warrior, Comes the Thunder. We learn the family history that makes one Crow warrior a family friend and the other an enemy.

Two brothers, Eli and Jessie, fight together against the enemies of the family ranch, rustlers. Jessie re-marries, making his life’s work revolve around the family ranch. Trouble on the ranch sees a 67-year-old Rory take on a trouble-making cowhand in a brutal fistfight and win.

Eli does not trust the troublemaker nor his two friends after firing them from the ranch, so he follows them. Meeting a Texas Ranger in a café, Eli decides to ride with the Rangers. He finds something different in the Rangers, besides the new Colt Patterson Revolver—purpose. Eli becomes a Ranger, receiving a new pair of Colts. In Texas, Eli fights rustlers, outlaws, and Comanche Indians.

We see a glimpse of an older Eli after an author of a Penny Dreadful writes a dime novel with Eli as the hero. We see his reaction as he leads a posse of Texas Rangers forward.

The fourth Mountain Man adventure with Rory: Mountain Man and Longhunter from Mike Mackessy has arrived!

New friends join Rory and his extended family. A gifted artist turns his back on a plush life to paint, draw, and sculpt life in the West. Taken under his wing, Rory brings the artist to Rendezvous, to a buffalo hunt, meets Indians both friendly and ornery, seeing the best and the worst of people. The artist chronicles the life of a mountain man until his and Rory’s family are forced to flee their home, the Yellowstone Valley. This is not an end to the saga; it’s a new beginning for a continuing story.

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The third Mountain Man adventure with Rory: Mountain Man and Longhunter from Mike Mackessy has arrived!

Rory’s family continues to grow and prosper in the depths of the Yellowstone Valley.  While visiting the trading post, a beaten and near-dead apparition appears, chased by Blackfoot warriors. Joshua, an orphan from the East, with his trapper partner, have been caught by the Blackfoot.  Ol’ Tom is killed and Josh, in the West for less than a year, is forced to Run the Arrow.  Running for a day and a half, Josh reaches the trading post where he meets Rory.  The Mountain Man removes the Blackfoot arrow in Josh’s back.  Rory, seeing something in the young man, takes him to the family compound in the Yellowstone Valley where Josh finds what family truly means.

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A brand new Mountain Man adventure sequel with Rory: Mountain Man and Longhunter from Mike Mackessy! 

This is the story of a US Marshal jailed after killing the murderers of his wife and young son.  After six months in a hellhole of a jail, Clay finds himself free.  With no job, no money, and no prospects, Clay and his brother head west for the Rocky Mountains.   

Clay records his transition from unjustly imprisoned to joining the ranks of the Mountain Men.  From an encounter with a real mountain man, to employment on wagons to Santa Fe, to making friends with the Mountain Crow and enemies with the Blackfoot, Clay changes as the mountains remold him into a new man.

Rory, now older and a family man, finds, tends, and saves Clay’s life.  All Rory sees is a wounded mountain man and trapper.  Clay had been captured and offered a choice.  Wounded by a Blackfoot arrow in the shoulder, Clay refuses to give up.  As he limps off, the Indians expect an early catch and great entertainment, except it is a ruse.

Follow the changes an unjustly imprisoned ex-lawman learns about life on a vengeance trail.

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A brand new Mountain Man adventure from Mike Mackessy! 

In 1780s Ireland, sixteen-year-old Rory is the second son to a stable owner.  Rory breaks an unforgivable law; he kills an English officer.  The officer rides one of the family horses to death.  In a rage, Rory beats the officer to death.  Rory is rushed from Ireland across the sea to France, where he joins the Irish Brigade of the French Army. 

Rory, after fifteen years of fighting for France, is judged unfit for duty.  Having earned the nickname the Lead Mine, a doctor reckons Rory has reached his pinnacle in the French Army.  Rory sails for the New World.  In a twist of events, he meets John Colter.

Rory avoids the local Indians.  During a fall during a buffalo hunt, he is attacked by the buffalo wolves.  Hearing the shots and fearing trouble, a family of River Crow rescue Rory.  Nature runs her course; Rory falls in love with the oldest daughter.  Not understanding Crow traditions, Rory gifts her father and older brother horses.  In the Crow tradition, he’s paid the bride price for her sister as well.  A gift of horses earns Rory a second wife.  It’s time to learn Crow customs and language. 

With two Crow wives. Rory twice comes to the aid of lost American women.  They join the family as wife three and four.  Follow this extended family as they carve a home in the wilds of the Great Stoney Mountains.  Along the way, Rory fights Blackfoot, grizzly bears, cougars, outlaw trappers, and of course hunts his share of buffalo.

This is a story of a flawed man trying to find peace in turbulent times.  Along the way he finds love, four times.  With an expanding brood, Rory strives to learn life’s lesson.  He is helped along the way by both friends and enemies.

He lives by hunting and trapping in the Rocky Mountains, a Longhunter and one of the first of the Mountain Men. Grab your copy today!

The fifth Mountain Man adventure with Rory: Mountain Man and Longhunter from Mike Mackessy has arrived!

Rory leads his family out of the Yellowstone Valley, chased by a forest fire started by an enemy, Comes the Thunder.  In his hate of Rory and his family, the exiled Crow destroys thousands of acres of forest, rivers, and animals.  The family splits up at the cross trail to St. Louis.  They head in different directions to take care of family and personal business.  Through additional trials, the family regroups in Taos, New Mexico.  In order to make a living, they turn from trappers and Indian traders to ranchers.  The transition is not made easily, but the strong family bonds win out. This story is the beginning to a new phase in the life of Rory the Mountain Man and Longhunter and his extended family.

From author Mike Mackessy comes Mountain Man—a brand new adventure from one of the most popular Western authors of today!

Mountain Man Morgan is a name he adopts for himself after working around Morgan horses. At age 17, he heads west to the mountains. His journey is told through his meetings with both bad and good elements of typical Westerners of that time—Indians, mountain men, and outlaws. Reaching the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains in the company of seasoned mountain men, his goal is in sight—Rendezvous.

An encounter with a golden eagle, held sacred by the Crow people, wins favor with a party of Crow warriors returning from Rendezvous. Succeeding as a hunter and a warrior earns an invitation from the Crow warriors to winter over with their small band.

While living in the Crow village, we follow this band to summer and winter camps, buffalo hunts, horse stealing adventures, and with fighting their mortal enemies, the Blackfoot.

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