Smoke Jensen, The Beginning

An epic account of a boy born into a struggle for survival on the harsh and unforgiving American frontier from the greatest Western writer of the century. 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 are fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby’s father and brother go to war.  Smoke Jensen: The Beginning  follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to