Ralph Compton
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Through a thousand miles of dust, fists, and guns, they found the courage to keep on driving.
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 Virginia City Trail
With a dream of building...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
Ten Chisholm, having left New Orleans with a price on his head and a vow to return to claim Priscilla for his wife, must first round up a herd of wild longhorns and drive them north on a quest to open a new trail to Kansas.
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
Returning home after the Civil War, Texas rancher Dan Ember and his neighbors find that their only chance of survival is a dangerous cattle drive north across the Llano, an area overrun with killers, gunslingers, and Quanah Parker's Comanches.
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad.
Author
Series
Danny Duggin novels volume 1
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
WHERE THE LIVING IS HARD AND THE KILLING IS EASY... It's in the lawless Indian Territory that Daniel Strange meets his demise. Riding his chestnut mare to Texas to buy himself some cattle, the best gunsmith in St. Joseph, Missouri, gets waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws. His lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope -- robbing his family of a loving husband and father. ...DEATH CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN Now, a mysterious gunslinger...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this Ralph Compton western, the Strange twins find themselves in double trouble... Young Jed and Tim Strange lost their father to an outlaw's bullet, and now their mother has succumbed to a fatal illness. Unable to farm their land due to a lack of funds, the twins set out to find their sister-who left home to avenge their father's death over a year ago. Farm life hasn't prepared the twins for the rough-and-tumble cow towns west of Missouri. And...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary saga of the trailblazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the great Frontier.
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
The nephews of Steve Austin, the founder of Texas, must ride into a hostile Mexico to aid a longtime friend in a cattle and horse drive.
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Lou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their fourteen Texas cowboys briught a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer's men were running out of time to reach the wide-open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden...
Author
Series
Border empire volume 1
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Taking up the custom-made Colts of his late father, who was murdered in the streets of El Paso by Mexico's notorious Sandlin gang, Wes Stone trades his aspirations of becoming a lawman for his thirst for vengeance.
11) Whiskey River
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 5
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Former Confederate soldiers-turned-outlaws Mark Rogers and Bill Harder are given a choice between serving a prison sentence or infiltrating a dangerous gang of whiskey runners, with the return of their confiscated lands offered as a further incentive.
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Lonnie Kilgore and his fellow Texans, headed for home after the scramble of the California Gold Rush, change direction when they hear about a lush range waiting to be claimed in northern Utah, but they do not realize the land along the Green River comes equipped with trouble from Indians, the law, and women.
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Buying 3,500 head of longhorn cattle from Gavin McCord in Missouri, Gladstone Pitkin hires Gavin and his cowboys to drive the herd to his New Mexico ranch, and they accept the challenge, unaware of the death trap that awaits them.
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 18
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Hamp comes to the aid of his hot-tempered friend, Clint, after he is jailed for killing a cheating gambler, bribing the guards to let him go. But no sooner is Clint free than he kills a local rancher with vengeful friends who will do anything to see Clint hanged.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
John Edward Ames takes the reins from the late Ralph Compton to ink a tale of Old West justice in the tradition of the great master. Deadwood Gulch stars bounty hunter Cas Everett, lightning fast on the draw and deadly as a nest of rattlers. When Cas returns home and finds his ma, pa, and siblings planted in fresh graves, he vows to call down the thunder on all those responsible.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet, published by New American Library, an imprint of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When a bunch of ruffians rob a bank in the sleepy town of Alpine, it's only natural for the locals to be alarmed. But this gang and its leader, Cestus Calloway, are not common criminals. In fact, Cestus is known as the Robin Hood of the Rockies, distributing his loot to those less fortunate, raining stolen money down on the townsfolk. As if that weren't too good to be true, this gang holds to one important rule: steal but don't kill... All Alpine's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet, published by New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Owen Burnett's needs are small. All he's ever wanted is his wife's affection, his children's health, and a little plot of land to farm. Still, he's no fool. So when his neighbor Gareth Kurst makes him a business proposition, one that could leave him richer than he's ever dreamed, he can't refuse giving the risky scheme a try. Rounding up cattle up in the Texas Hill Country is nothing to take on lightly. Between the Comanches roaming the countryside...