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Preacher: The First Mountain Man — by William W. Johnstone
Preacher: The First Mountain Man Series in Order: 33 books
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The First Mountain Man
Book - 1
Only one man can mete out justice on the unforgiving frontier. First in the Preacher series from the New York Times bestselling western author. He's known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he's as...
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Blood on the Divide
Book - 2
Preacher returns in this classic Western adventure from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The First Mountain Man. This second book in William W. Johnstone's Preacher series finds the legendary moun...
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Absaroka Ambush
Book - 3
PREACHER Veteran mountain men often spoke of a legendary figure who blazed trail through land never seen before by white men -- a twelve-year-old runaway who came to the Rockies and grew into manhood in the unforgiving country of the high lonesome. ...
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Forty Guns West
Book - 4
A FRIENDLY PLACE... During a trip back east for a family reunion, Preacher learns that even the civilized midwest can attract a motherlode of trouble...especially when a gang of local bully boys decide to pick a fight. Now wealthy landowner Elam Park...
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Cheyenne Challenge
Book - 5
BLOOD ON THE SNOW Mountain men are skilled at survival. Preacher, the greatest of all those warriors of the forest, will kill anything--beast or man--that threatens his survival. Ten years ago, he taught this violent lesson to gun-crazed Ezra Peas...
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Preacher and the Mountain Caesar
Book - 6
Preacher isn't going down without a fight in this classic Western novel from the New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author of Cheyenne Challenge. One Man And . . . No one remembered when he'd come to the mountains...
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Blackfoot Messiah
Book - 7
A MESSIAH SHALL LEAD THEM... In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by a legendary prophet promising victory in a war that will forever rid the plains of the white man. To legendary mountain man Preacher, ...
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Preacher's Peace
Book - 9
WALK LIKE A MAN Long before there was a mountain man called Preacher, a young adventurer set off with a team of fur traders from St. Louis for the time of his life. On a wild frontier, he sought a fortune. Instead, he found blood, betrayal, and the b...
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Preacher's Justice
Book - 10
HE FOUGHT FOR HIS FREEDOM In a land of towering mountains and howling winds, a man has found a home--away from other men and away from memories of the past. A trapper by trade, a fighter at heart, he has earned the name "Preacher," and a legend of hi...
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Preacher's Journey
Book - 11
He Was Looking For A Wilderness... Before he became a legend, he was a trapper peacefully plying his trade in the Rocky Mountains. But people needed a hero. And Preacher was the only one around... But What He Found Was A Bloody Battle... A wa...
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Preacher's Fortune
Book - 12
Their Fight Is His Fight... They call him Preacher. And they call him when they need help. Now, a Mexican brother and sister have asked the legendary frontiersman to accompany them into the Sangre de Cristo mountains--to find a missing family fortu...
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Preacher's Quest
Book - 13
THEY WERE PILGRIMS IN A PERILOUS LAND The harsh, unforgiving frontier is no place for innocents. And when an old friend of the Preacher's asks him to guide a gaggle of wide-eyed Easterners through the Rockies, Preacher responds with a polite: "Hell n...
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Preacher's Showdown
Book - 14
On A Journey For Dreamers In the bustling streets of St. Louis, two cousins have a dream: to travel west with a wagon train of supplies and make a fortune in trade. Since a rugged mountain man called the Preacher saved their bacon once before, they ...
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Preacher's Pursuit
Book - 15
DREAMS OF GOLD AND POWER The mountains are brimming with the lure of fortunes--from gold to a booming fur trade. A man at home in this once pristine wilderness, Preacher knows there's no turning back civilization now. What he doesn't know is that bey...
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Preacher's Fire
Book - 16
A MOUNTAIN MAN IN DISGUISE A big city like St. Louis is the last place where a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else will he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the Western fur trade? A...
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Preacher's Assault
Book - 17
On A Trail Blazed With Blood The Sante Fe Trail stretches from the Mississippi River to New Mexico Territory through the West's most savage lands. That's why a wealthy trader hires the mountain man called Preacher to keeps his trade goods safe -- ...
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Preacher's Fury
Book - 18
A WOMAN FOR THE WINTER Montana Territory and a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter. A beautiful woman named Raven's Wing makes the sheltering even better -- once he gets things straight with a jealous brave who wants to ...
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Preacher's Massacre
Book - 19
Preacher is on the move, joining a trail drive led by freewheeling adventurer Wiley Courtland. Wiley has good horses to deliver to the American Fur Company at Fort Gifford. An Indian war party, led by the cunning and ruthless Red Knife, has other pla...
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Preacher's Blood Hunt
Book - 20
It's fur trapping season and Preacher is about to discover the Rocky Mountain trail holds more than wild game--it's also infested with murderers and trail trash quick to deceive, steal, and hunt Preacher down. Among them are Jebediah Druke, his ruthl...
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Preacher's Slaughter
Book - 21
On the rolling Missouri River a riverboat of fur traders, a U.S. Senator and Prussian royalty are all heading to the Yellowstone from St. Louis. Preacher's onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won...
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Preacher's Bloodbath
Book - 22
Preacher takes on the last of the Aztecs in his biggest, bloodiest showdown yet. . . There are a million ways to die in the Rockies--and a million predators, natural or otherwise. But even a seasoned mountain dweller like Preacher is shocked by th...
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Preacher's Hell Storm
Book - 23
For the sake of the son he never knew, Preacher goes on the warpath. Long ago, the legendary trapper known as Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka, and fell in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty years later, he rescues a woman and...
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Preacher's Kill
Book - 24
A fur trapper by trade, Preacher can smell a bad deal from any direction no matter how well it's disguised. It wasn't always that way -- he's got the scars to prove it. Now he's ready to pass on his deadly survival skills to a boy named Hawk, who jus...
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Preacher's Rage
Book - 25
For the greatest trapper in the country, there's no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl's savage screams. A gang of ruthless trappers has kidnapped a Cr...
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Preacher's Frenzy
Book - 26
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE THE GOOD DIE YOUNG. AND THE BAD DIE SOONER. There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy, Charlie, use to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kind that Charlie...
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Preacher's Carnage
Book - 27
In the bloody aftermath of a wagon ambush, a suspect flees, a woman disappears, and a mountain man searches for truth, justice, and revenge. They call him Preacher... JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. STOP BY AND SAY HOWDY. Preacher is no hired killer. When a...
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Preacher's Inferno
Book - 28
A village is destroyed. A vengeance is born. And one man blazes a trail to hell and back to pay the devils their due -- in bullets and blood. They call him Preacher . . . JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. It starts as a happy reunion bet...
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Preacher's Purge
Book - 29
When greed overtakes men's souls, it falls to the righteous mountaineer known as Preacher to rain fire and brimstone upon them from the barrels of his guns . . . JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. THE SPIRIT OF COURAGE AND TRUE GRIT. Preacher has agreed...
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Preacher's Bloody Rampage
Book - 30
When innocent people are threatened, Preacher punishes the guilty, dispensing his own brand of justice -- one bullet at a time . . .JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE EVIL DWELLS . . . AND JUSTICE AWAITS. In a North American British province, a group of...
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Preacher's Strike
Book - 31
Preacher leads a search party for a missing woman -- and finds himself caught in the crossfire of cutthroat kidnappers, savage Sioux warriors, and one cunning captive . . . JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. SEEK AND YOU SHALL DIE. Preacher is heading home to the mo...
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Preacher's Hell
Book - 32
Legendary bestselling western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone return with the blazing new installment in their long-running series featuring Preacher, the First Mountain Man, in a classic showdown between Good and Evil, as he promises...
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Preacher The Legendary Mountain Man: How It All Began
An ordinary boy with extraordinary dreams. A man whose legend spreads across the frontier. Ride the epic saga of an American hero and the battles that forged his soul in these classic tales in the legendary Preacher series....
Series Premise
The series follows Preacher, a tough, solitary frontiersman who lives by his own code of justice on the untamed frontier. Each book features a self-contained adventure—such as guiding wagon trains, battling renegades, or seeking revenge—drawn from the harsh realities of the early 19th-century West. Later volumes explore his youth and origins as he transforms from a wandering boy into the mythic figure known across the mountains.
Preacher: The First Mountain Man Series Reading Order
🟡 Mostly Standalone · Start Anywhere
Mostly standalone stories with recurring characters in a shared setting.
The Preacher: The First Mountain Man series does not need to be read in order. Each book tells a complete story with its own resolution. Continuity is limited to recurring characters and the shared frontier setting. Reading the books out of order does not cause confusion, as there are no overarching plots or cliffhangers connecting the volumes.
Explanation of reading order types
Preacher: The First Mountain Man Series Characters
Preacher is the central protagonist throughout the series, a grizzled mountain man (and in later books, his younger self) renowned for marksmanship, tracking ability, and a no-nonsense attitude. Supporting figures vary by book but often include fellow trappers, settlers, Native American allies or adversaries, and occasional recurring acquaintances from the frontier community who recognize Preacher’s growing legend.
Setting of the Preacher: The First Mountain Man Series
The stories take place across the early American West in the 1820s–1850s, primarily in the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and frontier territories including areas that become Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and along the Oregon Trail. Vivid descriptions highlight remote mountain camps, trading posts, vast wilderness, and the dangers of untamed land.
Tone & Themes of the Preacher: The First Mountain Man Series
The tone is straightforward and action-driven with gritty depictions of frontier life and gunfights. Core themes include self-reliance, personal justice without formal law, survival against nature and man, and the forging of American legends through courage and resilience.
Is the Preacher: The First Mountain Man Series Worth Reading?
Yes, for fans of classic traditional Westerns who enjoy rugged individualist heroes and episodic frontier adventures. The repeatable formula and historical flavor make it accessible for readers new to the series.
Content Warnings and Heat Level
This is a classic Western series containing descriptions of violence, gun battles, scalping, and frontier warfare. Some books include mild language and references to death or hardship; sexual content is minimal or absent.
The Preacher: The First Mountain Man series chronicles the exploits of one of the West’s most enduring fictional mountain men. With its self-contained stories and consistent frontier world, it allows flexible reading while building a rich portrait of Preacher’s legend over time. William W. Johnstone’s direct style and detailed wilderness settings define this long-running Western series.
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