Ralph Compton
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm-the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman-arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime: loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates.
Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas brakes with a team...
Author
Series
Border empire volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The BORDER EMPIRE trilogy concludes, as Wes Stone's quest for revenge leads him to destroy the plot by the Golden Dragon gang to endanger US currency by switching counterfeit coins for real ones within the walls of four different mints in the southwest. Battling long odds and high stakes, Stone and his friends El Lobo and Byron Silver must solve a double kidnapping, face a mercenary army of renegades from the Sandlin gang who are assembling in Durango,...
3) By the Horns
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Description
A cattle drive turns bloody in this western in the USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series...
Luke Deal and his gang are murderers many times over. And Owen, the foreman of the Bar 40 ranch, has interrupted their depravities one time too many.
Now a business representative for some British cattle ranchers is buying one of the Bar 40’s best longhorns, and driving it from Texas to Wyoming. Owen and three of...
Luke Deal and his gang are murderers many times over. And Owen, the foreman of the Bar 40 ranch, has interrupted their depravities one time too many.
Now a business representative for some British cattle ranchers is buying one of the Bar 40’s best longhorns, and driving it from Texas to Wyoming. Owen and three of...
4) Blood Duel
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Description
In this Ralph Compton western, a gunslinger has to fight when his reputation gets spun into legend...
Jeeter Frost may look like a mouse, but he’s as murderous as a lion. Now he’s got reporters on his tail wanting to know who the “Missouri Man-Killer” really is. Jeeter learns the newshounds are painting him larger than life—literally. To get to the bottom of his newfound fame, he has to tackle his one weakness...
Jeeter Frost may look like a mouse, but he’s as murderous as a lion. Now he’s got reporters on his tail wanting to know who the “Missouri Man-Killer” really is. Jeeter learns the newshounds are painting him larger than life—literally. To get to the bottom of his newfound fame, he has to tackle his one weakness...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Description
Two men team up to take down a corrupt rancher in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series...
Chance Tyree never looks for trouble. But with his reputation as a lethal gunhand, trouble has a habit of finding him. In the Utah canyonlands, Chance ends up at the wrong end of a rope after he’s accused of being a hired killer—and is saved from the hangmen by Owen Fowler. Fowler knows what it’s like...
Chance Tyree never looks for trouble. But with his reputation as a lethal gunhand, trouble has a habit of finding him. In the Utah canyonlands, Chance ends up at the wrong end of a rope after he’s accused of being a hired killer—and is saved from the hangmen by Owen Fowler. Fowler knows what it’s like...
Author
Series
Publisher
High Bridge Audio
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Unfairly convicted of murder, gunfighter Buck Fletcher is given a last chance at freedom if he can rescue Senator Falcon Stark's daughter from an Arizona cult, a situation complicated by Apaches and someone intent on killing the girl.
Author
Series
Border empire trilogy volume 2
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Wes Stone was once a lawman. Then the Sandlin Gang shot down his father, known as The Gunfighter. Swearing vengeance, he takes up his father's guns. But little does he know that the odds are even more against him than he thinks--and that to get revenge for a dead man, he might have to die himself...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddlesore."-Publishers Weekly BLOOD TIES The life of a cowboy suits Thalis Christie just fine. A puncher for the Crescent H in Texas, he loves what he does and is damn good at it too. He doesn't even mind being away from his family-he's got good friends to keep him from getting too homesick. That is, until his folks write, imploring him to hunt down his brother, Myles, who's been...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
Nelson Story's dream of building a ranching empire in Montana is waylaid when he and his crew on the cattle drive to Virginia City are beset by outlaws, brutal weather, the Union Army, Sioux warriors, and a mortal enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all.
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million
maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them
north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.
The Dodge City...
Author
Series
Danny Duggin novels volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Danielle Strange straps on her father's Colts, saddles up his chestnut mare, and embarks on a mission of revenge when she receives word that he was murdered by outlaws while on his way to Texas to purchase a herd of cattle.
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
St. Martin's Pbks. ed.
Language
English
Description
On the wild frontier, Mac Tunstall and his band of Texans set out on a journey to deliver a shipment of Winchesters to the U.S. Army and are joined by four courageous women as violence and betrayal are found at every turn.
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
Benton McCaleb and his band of cowboys have braved over a thousand miles to drive a herd of longhorns from Texas to Wyoming, but they discover that their struggles are not over when a ruthless railroad baron tries to force them off the land.
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 6
Publisher
F.A. Thorpe
Pub. Date
1997, c1994
Language
English
Description
Stampedes, rustlers, and hostile Indians wouldn't slow them down. They were bound for Kansas, and a Texas-sized fight!
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maerick longhorns and the brains, brown and boldness to drive them north where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-blazing trail drives.
The Shawnee Trail
Long...
17) The Oregon Trail
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
Having sold half their herd to a wagon train heading west from Missouri, Lou Spencer, Dill Sumner, and their crew of Texas cowboys hire on to lead the pioneers across the dangerous frontier to Oregon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
And then there were more . . . Disguised as Danny Duggin, Danielle Strange hunted down the merciless cutthroats who murdered her father. Now the feared gunslick has hung up her trademark twin Colts - and given up her secret identity - to make something out of her Texas ranch. But then a passel of hardcases rides into town and all hell breaks loose. And when the vicious gunmen kill one of Danielle's old saddle pals, she knows it's time for Danny Duggin...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford brave the untamed land and its equally wild inhabitants when they join Charles Goodnight in rounding up thousands of unbranded cattle for a long drive to Colorado.
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. Across the Pecos, the Rio Colorado and La Panza mountains, the Texans and their longhorns kept charging-all the way to California gold! Between The Bandera Range And California, They Faced All The Challenges Of Man And God, But Nothing Could Ever Make Them Quit. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million...