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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
For the first time, an epic account of a boy born into a struggle for survival on the harsh and unforgiving American frontier, the story behind the legend of Smoke Jensen. . .
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. Filled with actual historical events and legendary characters, the story of Smoke Jensen's early years is a powerful, brutal and amazing American saga--the crowning achievement of America's most popular living Western writer.
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- Sales Rank: #199638 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-29
- Released on: 2015-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .94" w x 4.17" l, .1 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 352 pages
About the Author
William W. Johnstone is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of over 300 books, including Preacher, The Last Mountain Man, Luke Jensen Bounty Hunter, Flintlock, Savage Texas, Matt Jensen, The Last Mountain Man; The Family Jensen, Sidewinders, and Shawn O'Brien Town Tamer. His thrillers include Phoenix Rising, Home Invasion, The Blood of Patriots, The Bleeding Edge, and Suicide Mission . Visit his website at www.williamjohnstone.net or by email at dogcia2006@aol.com.
Being the all-around assistant, typist, researcher,�and fact checker to one of the most popular western�authors�of all time, J.A. Johnstone learned from�the master, Uncle William W. Johnstone. �
He began tutoring J.A. at an early age. After-school hours were often spent retyping manuscripts or�researching his massive American Western history library as well as the more modern wars and conflicts.�J.A. worked hard--and learned.
"Every day with Bill�was an adventure story in itself. Bill taught me�all�he could�about the art of storytelling. ‘Keep the historical facts accurate,'�he would say. ‘Remember the readers, and as your grandfather once told me, I am telling you now: be the best J.A. Johnstone you can be.'"
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
THIS BOOK WASN'T WRITTEN BY WILLIAM W. JOHNSTONE. It’s his niece’s attempt to rewrite the original story.
By Editors'Choice
The writer of this book is William W. Johnstone's niece, J.A. Johnstone. This is her attempt at writing her own story using her uncle's characters and set storyline. William Johnstone died in 2004, yet the publisher plasters his name across the cover of every book his niece submits for publishing because they know his name sells and his writing was good. Whereas William W. Johnson's tone of voice and smooth conversation between characters is obvious in his own series, J.A. Johnstone's attempt to create her own story with her uncle's name tells more than shows and seems to state events in a placid, uninterested tone of voice.
J.A Johnstone is claimed to be William W. Johnstone's original fact-checker in the brief biography at the end of the book, however, most of the "facts" in this book are clich�s from old Hollywood western films. The book combines two storylines, one of Smoke Jensen and the other of his sister, Janey. In the original series, Janey was never a central figure to the overall story and the author seems to have made her into a pet project in this book while adding dry recounts of Smoke Jensen's history from William W. Johnstone's published works--even going as far as quoting passages of text from the first book in William’s series, The Last Mountain Man.
The only parts of the book that seem to convey enthusiasm from J.A. is Janey’s storyline which focuses on her sexual encounters as a chronic prostitute. In the original series by William W. Johnstone, Janey ran away with a gambler and we do not hear about her life. J.A.’s scenes focusing on Janey are strangely detailed compared to Smoke’s storyline of “he rode here. He shot (insert name here) and won. He rode on to the next town.”
JANEY'S STORY:
Janey is a prostitute who seems to only care for herself and is apparently the most beautiful woman in the world, capable of luring every man in the western frontier who can afford it into her bed for $100-$500 a night. This is a ridiculous sum of money for back then, and was more common for the Madams running their parlor houses than the prostitutes who worked for them. While the author does not go into explicit sex, she does make the reading long by forcing the reader to learn how Janey changes her name and identity in every town she comes to in order to rise to the top of the ranks in every parlor house and saloon she is employed at. Some of her exploits include:
- Being raped by 30 men in one sitting, but she seems unaffected and unruffled a few hours later. Being raped once would indicate some psychological trauma, but Janey does not appear to have any.
- Running away from home to join a parlor house as a prostitute after being raped, although she had thoughts of becoming a "soiled dove" long before the rape ever happened.
- Running away from one town to the next and changing her identity multiple times because she thinks Smoke and their father will try to take her back home after she stole all of the family's money to make a life for herself the day she was raped. This plotline never goes anywhere because Smoke and his father do not ever make any attempt to find her and only refer to her as "white trash" at the end of the book.
-Running away from her fianc�e who is a rich man, giving her everything she wants in life. She runs away after she has his baby because "she doesn't want their daughter to know she was a prostitute," leaving him to raise it alone. She then goes back into prostitution.
SMOKE'S STORY:
Smoke Jensen, also known as Kirby, is given some extra scenes not originally in the series by William W. Johnstone. Smoke Jensen’s scenes in this book are either cut-and-paste Hollywood material or just plum ridiculous, including:
-Shooting at pecans for several pages to prove his skill as a gunman.
-Shooting holes through a painting of a woman's genitals and breasts to prove his skill as a gunman.
-"Kirby/Smoke shot (insert name here) and he did it lightning quick and with perfect aim" in every fight scene to prove his skill as a gunman.
-Using a train to pull down a stone jailhouse wall with chains tied to the bars. When the Mythbusters actually tried to pull the bars from a jailhouse wall with 4,000 lbs of force using a chain and a construction vehicle, the bars didn’t budge on a wooden jail wall standing by itself. I doubt the 1800’s train in this book could actually rip off the wall of a stone jailhouse just by hooking it to the bars and the back of the last car without the chains breaking. Wouldn’t that wall start to drag on the train tracks after a while if it actually did work? And why, if the wall came tumbling down would the jailer just shout from the first room, “What’s going on back there?” and not go check it himself right away? Why would Smoke have enough time to crawl out of the rubble, get on his horse, get his gun from his father and then ride off before the jailer could see what happened, pull out his gun and shoot them through the hole in the wall?
-A courthouse session where the entire town present were unrealistically favorable towards defending two complete strangers as gunfighters "of the Ol' West."
Other Things Wrong With This Book:
- Every man who Smoke/Kirby faced was described as "evil" or "he wore an evil smile."
- Complete strangers praised Smoke for his skills as a gunmen and gave him free drinks and meals almost wherever he went just because they were impressed with his guns and his values.
- All women in the book are either prostitutes or completely naive and soon to become soiled by other prostitutes (except for Smoke's mother; she dies from a gunshot wound instead of sickness as in the original book by William W. Johnstone.)
- Janey never has to face any consequences for the choices she makes. No matter what she does (steal, lie, cheat, etc) she always gets the richest men, the best clothing, and everything she could ever want. If she makes too many mistakes, she just starts over by running away from her problems to the next town. She's a stagnant character. The book carries an undertone of "if you judge Janey, you're a horrible person," due to the support she receives from other characters who defend or justify her actions.
- Janey works as a prostitute in a saloon; this is not historically accurate. Dance hall girls inhabited saloons, and they did not dabble in prostitution; it only happened very rarely and in the shabbiest, most run-down saloons. It was the parlor houses where prostitutes worked in the 1800's.
- Several key scenes are skipped and long years of time pass between chapters.
- The dialogue is short and dry.
I'm surprised no one has figured it out sooner that THIS ISN'T THE SAME AUTHOR as the original series. J.A. should write her own stories and not use her uncle’s fame as a way of earning her living as an author. If you want to read the original series, read only the books published before 2004, and avoid those stating “Written by William W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone.” It is a shame that the author's family and the publishing company chose to take a man’s written legacy and hand it over to a more inexperienced writer for the sake of instant exposure in the publishing industry and financial gain.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Another excellent book about Smoke Jensen
By Jerry R. Blackerby
Another excellent book about Smoke Jensen. This one begins when Kirby Jensen is a young pre-teen about the beginning of the Civil War and brings him up to adulthood and his name of Smoke Jensen. W.W Johnstone developed a great character and trained his nephew, J.A. in the historical research to make the stories accurate and write in the style that makes them interesting books. J.A. Johnstone is doing a great job of keeping the stories going. I love all of them.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A declining Series
By Amacmanes
This book was not very good in my opinion. The character of Some Jensen is different.If this was new story it would be better. I think that to write a whole series of books about a character and then come up with a whole new story line is not good. I think that it is obvious that the books have been not nearly as good in the last series of books produced. The early Mountain man and Smoke Jensen books were great..
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