Fort Buzzard --5 stars *****

Just about any book with Preacher, a renowned Mountain Man, is good.  Add in his longtime pal Jamie MacCallister and you've got a blockbuster.  This book is no exception -- it is just great.

Jamie and Preacher have been tasked by the Army to find out what happened in a gruesome murder of some soldiers and a surveying crew in the mountains looking for a path for a new railroad.;  The two experienced Mountain men take the job and also take an inexperienced freshly minted lieutenant to teach the ropes.in the wild west. 

Two competing businessmen want to blame the other and it is up to the newly arrived group to determine who was behind the gruesome murders of the surveyors.  Could it have been the friendly Crows aggravated at the encroachment or could it have been white men dressed at Indians?  Or even something else.

Leave it to Jamie and Preacher to figure it out, which they do.  In so doing the Johnstones have a fine story to tell.. A definitely good read and highly recommended. It goes fast as it is hard to put down.