01651cam a2200313 4500 249436251 TxAuBib 20160106120000.0 150821s2015||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2015032554 9781410476104 hardcover 1410476103 hardcover (OCoLC)919068379 TxAuBib Johnstone, William W. Smoke Jensen [Large Print] : the beginning / by William W. Johnstone ; with J.A. Johnstone. Beginning. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2015. ©2015. 445 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. 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. 20160107. Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Western fiction. Historical fiction. Johnstone, J.A.