01547cam a2200277 4500 1362733736 TxAuBib 20240703120000.0 140825s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780786044535 0786044535 TxAuBib Johnstone, William W, author. Smoke Jensen, the Beginning #1 / William W. Johnstone ; with J.A. Johnstone. New York, NY : Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing, 2015. 358 pages : paperback. Smoke Jensen Novel of the West ; 1 On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Smoke Jensen The Beginning follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood. William W. Johnstone chronicles the early years of Kirby Jensen--soon to be nicknamed Smoke-- as he journeys from boyhood innocence into a manhood shaped by violence and a young man's thirst for justice. 20240703. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Missouri Fiction. Western fiction. Johnstone, J.A. Smoke Jensen Novel of the West ; 1. TXHAM