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Terry C. Johnston Books In Order

Plainsmen Books In Publication Order

  1. Sioux Dawn (1990)
  2. The Stalkers (1990)
  3. Red Cloud’s Revenge (1990)
  4. Black Sun (1991)
  5. Devil’s Backbone (1991)
  6. Shadow Riders (1991)
  7. Dying Thunder (1992)
  8. Blood Song (1993)
  9. Reap the Whirlwind (1994)
  10. Trumpet on the Land (1995)
  11. A Cold Day in Hell (1996)
  12. Wolf Mountain Moon (1997)
  13. Ashes of Heaven (1998)
  14. Cries from the Earth (1999)
  15. Lay the Mountains Low (2000)
  16. Turn the Stars Upside Down (2001)

Jonas Hook Books In Publication Order

  1. Cry of the Hawk (1992)
  2. Winter Rain (1993)
  3. Dream Catcher (1994)

Son Of The Plains Books In Publication Order

  1. Long Winter Gone (1990)
  2. Seize the Sky (1991)
  3. Whisper of the Wolf (1991)

Titus Bass Books In Publication Order

  1. Carry the Wind (1982)
  2. Borderlords (1986)
  3. One-Eyed Dream (1988)
  4. Dance on the Wind (1995)
  5. Buffalo Palace (1996)
  6. Crack in the Sky (1997)
  7. Ride the Moon Down (1998)
  8. Death Rattle (1999)
  9. Wind Walker (2001)

Titus Bass Books In Chronological Order

  1. Dance on the Wind (1995)
  2. Buffalo Palace (1996)
  3. Crack in the Sky (1997)
  4. Carry the Wind (1982)
  5. Borderlords (1986)
  6. One-Eyed Dream (1988)
  7. Ride the Moon Down (1998)
  8. Death Rattle (1999)
  9. Wind Walker (2001)

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Terry C. Johnston Books Overview

Sioux Dawn

No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the America West like award winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore. The Civil War was over, and a great westward march began. Settlers and soldiers poured out of the East along the Bozeman Trail, cutting deep into sacred Sioux hunting grounds. For Red Cloud and his warriors, there would be no choice but to fight for their ancestral rights. Seen through the eyes of gruff Sergeant Seamus Donegan, here is the historically accurate tale of a tragic opening to the war between two great civilization: the Fetterman Massacre of 1866.

The Stalkers

No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore. Entrenched on a poorly sheltered island, many of Seamus Donegan’s crack squad of Army scouts lie dead and many more are dying. Led by Colonel George Forsyth, fifty seasoned plainsmen had combed the Colorado Territory in search of Cheyenne. Along a fork of the Republican River, these brave men suddenly found themselves outnumbered twenty to one. Now Donegan, his fellow scouts, and his long lost uncle are trapped and under attack. As the battle rages, Donegan is stalked by a traitor who seeks revenge for old wrongs. Together the dwindling band awaits a heroic last minute rescue from the merciless nine day seige known today as the Battle of Beecher Island..

Red Cloud’s Revenge

Seven month of small reprisals since the Fetterman massacre had passed. Sergeant Seamus Donegan of the Army of the West had witnessed proud leaders both Indian and White steel themselves for the withering clashes to come. And on two consecutive summer days, battle erupted drowning the Dakota Territory in a damburst of bloodshed: the Hay Field Fight and Wagon Box Fight of 1867.

Black Sun

No one captures the glory, adventure, and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award winning author Terry C. Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles, and compelling historical lore. Grueling winter gave way to bloody spring as Seamus Donegan and his fellow Army scouts rode west with the Kansas Pacific Railway. Led by the legendary ‘Buffalo’ Bill Cody, they withstood blazing hit and run raids by Cheyenne Dog Soldiers while trailed by a skulking enemy from Donegan’s past. Then, in midsummer, the fleeing Cheyennes camped. And the 5th Cavalry mounted the brutal surprise attack that would give rise to a fierce new warrior leader named White Horse: t he Battle of Summit Springs, 1869.

Devil’s Backbone

The Modoc Indians and American officials had been flirting with war in the Oregon Territory for some time. When Modoc chief Keintpoos murdered a Civil War hero during negotiations, the U.S. Army launched a deadly offensive against the rebel tribe. Besieged in the natural stronghold of the Lava Beds near Tule Lake, the Modocs waged bloody war for seven long months. Sergeant Seamus Donegan, on the trail of his uncle, Ian O’Rourke, arrived at Tule Lake just as the conflict erupted. Soon Donegan and the brooding O’Rourke found themselves embroiled in what would be the costliest war in frontier history…

Shadow Riders

Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe would accept no more broken promises from the white man, so they left the Indian Territory reservations and crossed the Red River to the south. But heir last desperate attempt to regain the land of their ancestors meant dead white settlers, embattled soldiers, and shaken supply routes. general Sheridan’s seasoned forced were now on the move to stem the Indian tide. And crack Army Sergeant Seamus Donegan would soon find himself at the center of a vast and bloody war…

Dying Thunder

Newly freed from service with the 10th Cavalry, Seamus Donegan joins a party of buffalo hunters as they follow the shrinking herds into the ancient hunting grounds of the Kiowa and Comanche. The presence of the white men ignites a storm of Indian fury and the group is besieged. Donegan and some 27 men and one woman take shelter in a few sod shanties. They hold off over 700 braves for five days in the fight at Adobe Walls. From then on, the U.S. Army would not rest until the Indians of the Staked Plain returned to their reservations. Under the command of Colonel Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Seamus Donegan rides back to that embattled land as the U.S. Army tracks the tribes of Chief Quanan Parker to Palo Duro canyon for a bloody showdown that would forever change the face of the West.

Blood Song

Frontier Scout Seamus Donegan is heading for Montana Territory with his new bride when war erupts in the Black Hills of Dakota. Sitting bull and Crazy horse have defied the federal Government and refused to lead the wild tribes of the Northern Plains onto the reservation, and Washington decides to end the Indian problem once and for all. Donegan joins us with General George Cook who is leading the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry and a rough and tumble band of scouts and interpreters into the bloody battle. For Seamus Donegan and the men on the front lines, the long fight in the bitter cold of winter will be one of loneliness and fear a struggle for survival that will not end, even with the swift and successful assault one the enemy stronghold. For in the ashes on the snow, in the fury of defeated warriors, the seeds are sown for a new and even bloodier chapter in the Indian Wars.

Reap the Whirlwind

As the Sioux and the Cheyenne amass along the northern frontier, army scout Seamus Donegan heads north to Fort Fetterman and Brigadier General George C. Crook prepares to face off against Crazy Horse.

Trumpet on the Land

In the wake of the Little Big Horn, the U.S. Army declares war on the Sioux and Cheyenne and embarks on a long and arduous campaign of vengeance that tests the courage and strength of all those involved, including scout Seamus Donegan.

A Cold Day in Hell

1996 Bantam 1st Edition Paperback A Cold Day in Hell The Dull Knife Battle 1876 By Terry C. Johnston No. 11 in The Plainsmen Series VG Condition Collectible

Wolf Mountain Moon

Scout Seamus Donegan is not under the command of Col. Nelson A. Miles, who must lead his war weary troops up the Tongue River into butte country. There, amidst the snow covered bluffs, awaits Crazy Horse with a thousand strong force of Lakota braves. They are ready to engage Col. Miles and the Fifth U.S. Infantry, in the last battle Crazy Horse will ever fight against the white man’s army.

Ashes of Heaven

2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Robert Foxworth’The author’s attention to detail and authenticity, coupled with his ability to spin a darned good yarn, makes it easy to see why Johnston is today’s bestselling frontier novelist. He’s one of a handful that truly knows the territory.’ Chicago TribuneTerry C. Johnston’s extraordinary series continues with the bold characters, vivid historical detail, and fierce battles that enthrall his millions of fans. They came from the fires of the Civil War, from the thrilling hills of the Eastern states, and some from out of the West’s rugged mountains. For two decades, they fought for an open land, and earned the name…
The PlainsmenThe U.S. Army’s goal: wipe out the remnants of scattered, starving people on the frontier’s Northern Plain. But before Colonel Nelson A. Miles, the Bear Coat, launched his campaign into the heart of Indian country, the commander took one last stab at negotiations and called on a Cheyenne woman and the famous half breed pony scout named Johnny Bruguier. Together, they traveled to urge the Sioux to surrender. But a personal grudge exploded in the ranks of the U.S. Army. Now, as a man and a woman risk their lives for peace, the culmination of the great Sioux War is set in motion, as the Bear Coat takes on the last of the fierce Lakota warriors…

Cries from the Earth

Blow for blow, blood for blood, a heart thundering account of the outbreak of the Nez Perce War, by America’s bestselling historical frontier novelist. With gripping, authentic detail, Cries from the Earth chronicles the lives of courageous men and women engaged in an ongoing chain of bloody skirmishes another breathtaking ride through a Western frontier rife with brutal conflict and astounding bravery. By mid 1877, trouble in the Northwest is brewing like a foul broth. Ill will is growing between white settlers and the Non Treaty bands of the Nez Perce. The American government is forcing the Indians from their homelands onto the reservation. Many go quietly, thinking more about their families than of the pride of their warriors. But for a few holdouts, there’s no room for compromise. Their history, their heritage and their ancestors are buried beneath that land. Although severely outnumbered and outgunned, a few brave warriors will heed the call of…
Cries from the Earth.

Lay the Mountains Low

America’s bestselling frontier writer combines his unique skills as both an acknowledged historian and a consummate storyteller, blending historical fact with powerful human emotions to vividly recreate the past for his millions of readers. In his most ambitious novel to date, Terry C. Johnston combines all the drama and gut wrenching tragedy to tell the story of the Nez Perce War as a whole cloth, a complex tapestry of deeply wrought emotions and bitter betrayal. Johnston breathes life into little known characters from this terrifying conflict that will leap out of the past with compelling urgency page after page, everyone you will meet were real people at the most crucial point of their lives. This is a story of individuals, knitted together in a compelling mosaic of emotions that will sweep you up and carry you along at a gallop. Despite one bloody skirmish after another, the Non Treaty bands of Nez Perce still believe they can leave all the turmoil and killing behind in Idaho, fleeing General O.O. Howard s army across the Lolo Trail into Montana Territory. Looking Glass and the fighting chiefs lead their people to the ‘Place of the Ground Squirrels’ there to rest a few days while the women cut new lodgepoles, the children play for the first time in many weeks, and everyone celebrates leaving the war behind, rejoicing that they are on their way to the buffalo country. But there in the Big Hole of southwestern Montana, a chill, misty dawn covered the advance of Colonel John Gibbon s Seventh U.S. Infantry as they stole down upon the sleeping, unsuspecting village…
. unleashing the bloodiest onslaught of the Nez Perce War!AUTHORBIO: TERRY C. JOHNSTON was born on the first day of 1947 on the plains of Kansas, and has lived all of his life in the American West. His first novel, Carry the Wind, won the medicine Pipe Bearer s Award from the Western Writers of America, and his subsequent books have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the country. He lives and writes in Big Sky country near Billings, Montana.

Turn the Stars Upside Down

Turn the Stars Upside Down is the compelling and little known story of Crazy Horse’s surrender in 1877 only months after his last fight with the U.S. Army at Battle Butte, his futile attempts to find peace for his warrior heart among the reservation Indians, and his eventual undoing at the hands of his own Oglala people. For all his life, this warrior has been a defender of the weak and helpless. But surrounded now on a tiny red island in a sea of white, he finds himself powerless against the forces arrayed against him in what will ultimately be his battle, waged against deceptive army officers, and even against Oglala leaders who whisper, connive, and conspire behind his back to bring about his fall. Even more disastrous will be those friends who once fought at his side against the encroaching white tide friends who now turn against him, joining his enemies in plotting against this last great hero of the Lakota people. Award winning and bestselling frontier author Terry C. Johnston brings all his talent to bear in this tragic tale of betrayal, with all the immediacy and emotion he has so skillfully created in thirty previous novels. No story of the Indian Wars would be complete without this final episode in the short life of Crazy Horse, a story of treachery and deception, but also ultimately of the victory of the human spirit.

Cry of the Hawk

Forced to serve as a Yankee after his capture at Pea Ridge, Confederate soldier Jonah Hook returns from the war to find his Missouri farm in shambles. K.

Winter Rain

Jonah Hook was a man who had lost everything a man could lose but the iron will to reclaim what had been taken from him. Now he must confront the fiery religious heretic who has enslaved his wife and the fierce Comanche tribe who has raised his long lost sons. From Fort Laramie, land of Sioux and Cheyenne, to the empire of the Mormons in the shadow of tall mountains, and on to the Texas panhandle, where he will join the ranks of the Texas Rangers, the journey ahead will test Jonah’s courage, cunning, and endurance to the limit. On this bloody trail of rescue and revenge, nothing will stop him save success…
or death.

Dream Catcher

Ten years have passed since the close of the war that divided a nation and tore families asunder; a decade since battle scarred Confederate soldier Jonah Hook returned to find his wife and children gone kidnapped by a man of unspeakable brutality. Since then he has brought his two sons home, one still at his side, the other to rest in peace. But the climactic leg of his long, hard journey is just about to begin.

Long Winter Gone

In the first volume of this saga of George Custer, the infamous general takes a lover among the Indians captured in his long winter campaign against the Cheyenne, risking marriage, reputation, and career for her.

Seize the Sky

Never one to proceed cautiously when an impetuous move could win him glory, Custer marched his famed Seventh Calvary against the Sioux in June, 1876. He was thirty six, already a mythic hero to some, with the possibility of a presidential nomination looming in his future; while to others he was an arrogant and dangerous fool, misguided in his determination to subjugate the Plains tribes. What should have been his greatest triumph became an utterly devastating defeat that would ring through the ages and serve as a turning point in the Indian Wars.

Whisper of the Wolf

Few names of the American frontier resonate like that of George Armstrong Custer. His fiery temperament and grand vision led him to triumph in one season and tragedy in another. Now best selling chronicler Terry C. Johnston beings to life the Custer legacy as never before in a masterful new trilogy…
. For a youth of the Cheyenne in the years between Little Big horn and Wounded Knee, life was brutal and dangerous. For Yellow Bird, who saw his father, George Custer, die on a blood soaked field in 1876, survival is especially difficult, for despite his own white heritage he must live in the Cheyenne world. And so he grew to manhood, bound to his father by their warrior’s spirit, preparing to fight for his home, his wife, and his own son.

Carry the Wind

Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis, didn’t have much hope of survival. Winter was coming to the Rockies, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn’t kill him, grizzlies or Indians would. Then his luck tumed. He stumbled across the trail of Ol’ Scratch, a solitary mountain man eager enough for company to take the brash youngster under his wing. Pure chance brought Paddock to the old trapper’s camp, but it was skill with a gun and a knife that kept them both alive as they rode deep into the majestic land of Blackfeet and Crow, bible spouting pioneers and sensual woman where only the best and braves survived…
and only the luckiest rode back again. Carry the Wind is a gripping historical saga set in the Grand Tetons during a time when the horizon never ended and a nation was being born.

One-Eyed Dream

One Eyed Dream is the final volume in Terry C. Johnston’s exciting trilogy of the rugged trappers and mountain men, Indian fighters, and hardy pioneers who battled for the future of this land and won. High in the Rockies lay the Bayou Salade, a lush beaver rich valley so untouched that the few white men who had seen it called it paradise. But for Scratch Bass, his young partner Josiah Paddock, and the two Indian women they loved, this paradise would open up a hell of violence. Pursued by a vengeful Arapaho raiding party, Scratch will lead his small band through a flurry of arrows all the way to Taos itself. Yet the trail of blood will not end there. For in St. Louis an old enemy waits, and the time is ripe for Scratch to settle a ten year score. Through the desert known as the Journey of Death to the rough and tumble town of St. Louis, Scratch and Josiah will defy the wilderness to bury the past and a blackhearted killer once and for all.

Dance on the Wind

The sequel to Dance on the Wind continues the saga of the adventures of Titus ”Scratch” Bass, a nineteenth century Kentucky farm boy who becomes a frontiersman along the Ohio River.

Buffalo Palace

In Buffalo Palace, the young Titus Bass sights, and then sets out into, the vast Rocky Mountain country, where he has his initial experiences with trapping beaver, surviving the freezing winter, fighting fierce Indians and even fiercer fellow mountain men, and celebrating at the hard earned summer rendezvous. Most memorably, we walk with Titus as he first sees the immense herd which originally fueled his wanderlust, and now feeds, clothes and houses the frontier’s pioneers, when he reaches the country lovingly called the ‘Buffalo Palace.’

Crack in the Sky

Crack in the Sky continues the development of the young Titus Bass as he gradually learns the lore of the mountain man. From a raucous rendezvous of trappers to a searing fight with Comanche, from a frigid winter’s chill to the angry heat of a chase with horse thieves, Titus Bass’s West comes alive in the pages of this remarkable novel and in its final scene, Titus Bass will meet young Josiah Paddock and form the deep friendship explored in the pagers of Carry the Wind. From the Paperback edition.

Ride the Moon Down

WIND WALKERThe wild and free world of the mountain man is quickly fading into the past. For Titus Bass, leading his family north to winter with the Crow people, the journey is a sad one. He must save an old friend from death and rescue his daughter Magpie from cutthroat traders. He will try to free a wagon train of innocents from its unscrupulous leader, and he will try to come to terms with his long lost daughter Amanda, bound for a new home in a faraway land Bass himself will never see. But when he arrives in the land of the Crow, he finds old friends and old ways dying out. Determined to live out his final years in peace, Bass comes to realize that on the changing frontier, survival is never a certain thing. Soon he will face his greatest lesson and hardest challenge of all one that might cost the last of the legendary mountain men his life.

Death Rattle

With the end of the beaver trade at hand, free trappers like Titus Bass must somehow make their way on a changing frontier. Drawn by the promise of adventure and wealth, Bass joins an expedition to Spanish California, where the ranchos have horses and mules in abundance. Their plan is to steal the livestock and drive it back east across the great Mojave Desert to sell to fur traders for top dollar. But pursuit by formidable Mexican soldiers and an attack by fierce Digger Indians take their toll on Bass and his fellow raiders. Arriving back in the Rockies, the mountain man discovers that even the famous Jim Bridger has abandoned trapping and settled down to trade with overland immigrants plying the Oregon Trail. Wondering where his own trail will lead him, Bass journeys south for a reunion with an old friend in Taos only to be caught up in the ‘Taos Rebellion.’ And in its tragic aftermath, Titus finds himself once again an outsider in a world he no longer recognizes.

Wind Walker

Wind WalkerThe wild and free world of the mountain man is quickly fading into the past. For Titus Bass, leading his family north to winter with the Crow people, the journey is a sad one. He must save an old friend from death and rescue his daughter Magpie from cutthroat traders. He will try to free a wagon train of innocents from its unscrupulous leader, and he will try to come to terms with his long lost daughter Amanda, bound for a new home in a faraway land Bass himself will never see. But when he arrives in the land of the Crow, he finds old friends and old ways dying out. Determined to live out his final years in peace, Bass comes to realize that on the changing frontier, survival is never a certain thing. Soon he will face his greatest lesson and hardest challenge of all one that might cost the last of the legendary mountain men his life.

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