The Beginning [Dramatized Adaptation]
William W. Johnstone
Jun 2020 · Graphic Audio · Narrated by A Full Cast, Alyssa Wilmoth, Andy Brownstein, Andy Clemence, Bradley Smith, Casie Platt, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Scheeren, Colleen Delany, David Jourdan, Dylan Lynch, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, Gregory Wooddell, James Lewis, Joe Brack, Katy Carkuff, Ken Jackson, Kimberly Gilbert, Laura C. Harris, Lily Beacon, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Matthew Bassett, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nick DePinto, Patrick Bussink, Ren Kasey, Richard Rohan, Scott Graham, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Thomas Penny, Tim Carlin, Todd Scofield, and Tony Nam
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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.
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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William W. Johnstone was born in Southern Missouri on October 28, 1938. He quit school when he was fifteen to join a carnival, but went back and finished high school in 1957. He worked as a deputy sheriff, spent time in the army, and then went into radio broadcasting, where he worked for sixteen years. He started writing in 1970, but was his first book, The Devil's Kiss, was not published until late 1979. He wrote over 200 books during his lifetime including the Ashes series, Code Name series, Mountain Man series, The First Mountain Man series, and Eagles series. Two of his books, Eagle Down and Dagger, were written under the pen name of William Mason. He died on February 8, 2004 at the age of 65.
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