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Kate Coldane has sweated blood for this saloon, and she won't let it go down without a fight.

Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher.

From the author of the Giller Award - winning novel The Polished Hoe comes a new collection of 20 of his best short stories.

2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted 2016 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first

Gathered together are three extraordinary books by renowned storyteller and memoirist Austin Clarke.

The last days of the Civil War.

Across the West, bad men know his name.

Smoke Jensen travels from his peaceful Sugarloaf Ranch to Santa Clara, Colorado, where he wins an auction for a pureblood Hereford bull.

Mountain man Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but circumstance has plunged him into bloodbaths time and time again. Now Angus McDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge.

Framed for robbery and murder by a pack of low-life outlaws, Smoke Jensen is locked up and sentenced to the gallows. But no bars of iron or bonds of rope can withstand a vengeful Mountain Man.

As the Civil War draws to a close, Captain Jack Brant and his Union troops unleash hell on ranch owner Richard King.

Smoke Jensen is spending his days herding cows and enjoying his wife's legendary meals.But trouble is always around the bend.

Matt Jensen, reared by legendary mountain hero Smoke, is the last of a proud breed.

Following in the footsteps of his adoptive father Smoke, Matt Jensen has big boots to fill.

When "Preacher," the last gunfighter, catches wind that a lady from his past has been murdered in St. Louis, he is enraged.