Terry C. Johnston

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1982
  • Latest Book:
    September 2001
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Full Series List in Order

Jonas Hook

1 - Cry of the Hawk (Aug-1992)
2 - Winter Rain (Sep-1993)
3 - Dream Catcher (Oct-1994)

Plainsman

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

Son of the Plains

1 - Long Winter Gone (Oct-1990)
2 - Seize the Sky (Mar-1991)
3 - Whisper of the Wolf (Sep-1991)

Titus Bass

1 - Dance on the Wind (Aug-1995)
2 - Buffalo Palace (Oct-1996)
3 - Crack in the Sky (Sep-1997)
4 - Carry the Wind (Sep-1982)
5 - Borderlords (Sep-1986)
6 - One-Eyed Dream (Sep-1989)
7 - Ride the Moon Down (Nov-1998)
8 - Death Rattle (Nov-1999)
9 - Wind Walker (Jan-2001)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Carry the Wind

    Titus Bass - 4

    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 turned. He s...

  • Borderlords

    Titus Bass - 5

    They had settled a bloody score and put the turncoat McAfferty to rest in the snowbound Rockies. Slowly, painfully, the wounded Paddock and Scratch found their way back to the Crow village, where they were welcomed as brother and son. The people of C...

  • One-Eyed Dream

    Titus Bass - 6

    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...

  • Hammett

  • Red Cloud's Revenge

    Plainsman - 2

    Seven months of small reprisals since the Fetterman Massacre had passed. Sergeant Seamus Donegan of the Army of the West had witnessed proud leaders--both Native and White --steel themselves for the withering clashes to come. And on two consecutive s...

  • Long Winter Gone

    Son of the Plains - 1

    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....

  • The Stalkers

    Plainsman - 3

    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.En...

  • Seize the Sky

    Son of the Plains - 2

    SON OF THE PLAINS 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 bestselling chronicler Terry C. Johnston brings t...

  • Sioux Dawn

    Plainsman - 1

    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. ...



  • Black Sun

    Plainsman - 4

    Black SunTerry C. Johnston No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamped the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and c...

  • Devil's Backbone

    Plainsman - 5

    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. Be...

  • Whisper of the Wolf

    Son of the Plains - 3

    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 C...

  • Shadow Riders

    Plainsman - 6

    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...

  • Dying Thunder

    Plainsman - 7

    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. ...

  • Cry of the Hawk

    Jonas Hook - 1

    Jonah Hook fought for the Confederacy at Pea Ridge and Corinth, where he was wounded, captured, and sent to the prison hellhole they called Rock Island. The only way out for the young Reb was to don a blue uniform and serve on the western frontier as...

  • Blood Song

    Plainsman - 8

    Blood SongTerry C. JohnstonFrontier 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 tr...

  • Winter Rain

    Jonas Hook - 2

    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 lo...

  • Reap the Whirlwind

    Plainsman - 9

    “This account of battle on the plains brings the period to life.” -- Publishers WeeklySpring, 1876. The war cry has sounded. The Sioux and the Cheyenne are massing along the northern frontier. And even while his wife awaits the birth of their chi...

  • Dream Catcher

    Jonas Hook - 3

    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....



  • Trumpet on the Land

    Plainsman - 10

    “Terry Johnston is an authentic American treasure.” -- Loren D. Estleman, author of EdselIt was a day that shocked a nation. June 25, 1876. The day General George Armstrong Custer fell at Little Big Horn. Now the U.S. Army is on the march. Vowing...

  • Dance on the Wind

    Titus Bass - 1

    Sixteen-year-old Titus Bass feared one fate more than any other: never to experience the great wilderness or the wildness inside himself. So late one night he snatched a squirrel gun and a handful of biscuits, fled into the woods, and never looked ba...

  • A Cold Day in Hell

    Plainsman - 11

    After a terrible summer of blood and fire, scout Seamus Donegan finally has reason to rejoice: his wife, Samantha, has given birth to his first son. But the time to celebrate new life is short . . . for the old business of death continues. Phil Sheri...

  • Buffalo Palace

    Titus Bass - 2

    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 mountai...

  • Wolf Mountain Moon

    Plainsman - 12

    As swirling snows fall from a leaden sky and a deadly winter approaches, two bitter enemies meet in a season of savage vengeance. Scout Seamus Donegan -- wondering whether he will ever return to Fort Laramie and the warm embrace of his wife and newbo...

  • Crack in the Sky

    Titus Bass - 3

    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 ...

  • Ashes of Heaven

    Plainsman - 13

    Ashes of HeavenTerry C. JohnstonThe U.S. Army's goal: to 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 spring campaign into the heart of Indian co...

  • Ride the Moon Down

    Titus Bass - 7

    The time of the mountain man is coming to an end, but some -- like Titus Bass will not exit gently. A brilliantly exciting and thoroughly researched novel of the end of the dream that was the unmapped and virgin wilderness in the American West starri...

  • Cries from the Earth

    Plainsman - 14

    Cries from the EarthTerry C. JohnstonBy 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 h...

  • Death Rattle

    Titus Bass - 8

    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 an...



  • Lay the Mountains Low

    Plainsman - 15

    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 mo...

  • Wind Walker

    Titus Bass - 9

    The saga of frontier mountain man Titus Bass was first chronicled by author Terry C. Johnston in the bestselling trilogy Carry the Wind, Borderlords, and One-Eyed Dream. In Dance on the Wind, Buffalo Palace, and Crack in the Sky, Johnston set down th...

  • Turn the Stars Upside Down

    Plainsman - 16

    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 ...

Award-Winning Books by Terry C. Johnston

Carry the Wind
1982 SPUR Award -- Medicine Pipe Bearer (First Novel)


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Terry C. Johnston has published 32 books.

Terry C. Johnston does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Turn the Stars Upside Down, was published in September 2001.

The first book by Terry C. Johnston, Carry the Wind, was published in September 1982.

Yes. Terry C. Johnston has 4 series.
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