Ralph Compton the Tenderfoot Trail

Ralph Compton the Tenderfoot Trail
Author: Ralph Compton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2006-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101177527

In this Ralph Compton western, even the most rugged trailsman has to watch his steps... It’s called the Whoop-Up Trail. It’s a two hundred mile stretch of rough terrain between Montana and Canada, littered with spiky brushwood, crawling with clawed and fanged critters of all shapes and sizes, and traversed by hostile Indians and vicious outlaws. But for Luke Garrett—framed for a murder he didn’t commit, saddled with five mail-order brides, driving what’s left of his cattle herd, and pursued by vigilantes—it’s the only chance for survival… More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

The Santa Fe Trail

The Santa Fe Trail
Author: Ralph Compton
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1997-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429903171

An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. They left Missouri and were headed to Santa Fe. Standing in their way was a parched desert, a land of outlaws and enemies-and one man's dangerous past. He was a wealthy englishman with two beautiful daughters. They were five dusty texans and a gambling man. And they were all on the ride of their lives. 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 Santa Fe Trail Gavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: 3,500 longhorns and not one buyer. That's where Gladstone Pitkin came in. A man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord's cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive from Independence to Santa Fe. But with an ill-fated gambler on the drive, the courageous, hardened riders weren't just a thousand brutal miles from Santa Fe-they were heading into a death trap.

The Goodnight Trail

The Goodnight Trail
Author: Ralph Compton
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1992-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429933437

Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they'll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish where the brave reach glory—or die hard.

Lonnie Gentry

Lonnie Gentry
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781410476906

Life has not been easy for young cowboy Lonnie Gentry. Lonnie and his mother live alone, working hard, raising cattle and horses on their remote Colorado mountain ranch. Now the thirteen-year-old must travel over perilous mountains to return money stolen by his mother's outlaw boyfriend to a deputy U.S. marshal.On Lonnie's journey, he's joined by young Casey Stoveville, daughter of a sheriff killed by the outlaws. The unlikely pair is attacked by an enraged grizzly, encounter a crazy ex-Confederate who may or may not be after the stolen money, and must battle the deadly outlaws shadowing their every move, intent on killing them and retrieving the loot.It's a man's job. And it's going to take a man ? and the woman the man loves ? to see it through.

Ralph Compton the Bloody Trail

Ralph Compton the Bloody Trail
Author: Marcus Galloway
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451221872

In this Ralph Compton western, a wagon train goes dangerously off course... Jeremiah Correy is leading his family in a wagon train to Oregon when his plans are waylaid by a group of bounty hunters led by Sam Madigan, who take a man from Correy's party—the quiet, unassuming Emmett Natham, who is actually a known fugitive. But Madigan also aims to nab the rest of the travelers and ransom them off. Now, Jeremiah must stop Madigan—and his greatest ally may be the mysterious and dangerous Emmett Natham, whose skills could save them all—or lead them to their deaths... More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

Ralph Compton Trail to Cottonwood Falls

Ralph Compton Trail to Cottonwood Falls
Author: Ralph Compton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110100763X

A man embarks on a hazardous journey for both body and soul in this Ralph Compton western... Ed Wright earned his reputation as a capable and principled man from years of driving cattle—and from wearing a Ranger’s badge. The Texan wants nothing more than to drown his memories in bottle after bottle of whiskey. Unita Nance is the owner of the Bar U Ranch, having inherited the spread after her husband’s death. She needs Ed to drive her stock from Texas to Newton, Kansas and won’t take no for an answer. Pulled out of his inebriated retirement against his will, Ed discovers that there are those who don’t want him riding herd any more than he does—and will stop at nothing to keep him off the trail… More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

The Western Trail

The Western Trail
Author: Ralph Compton
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429933461

In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some three hundred miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad... THE WESTERN TRAIL Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys traveled long and hard to drive thousands of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're in the midst of setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. Now, with the help of the Shoshoni Indian tribe and a man named Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men must vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they will wage the most ferocious battle of their lives—to win the right to call the land their own.

The O'Malleys of Texas

The O'Malleys of Texas
Author: Dusty Richards
Publisher: Center Point
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Cattle drives
ISBN: 9781683245889

"During the Civil War, Texas Rangers Harp and Long John O'Malley patrol a vast, unguarded range, protecting the families of soldiers off fighting at the front. At war's end, the Rangers are disbanded, and the O'Malleys sign on with a cattle drive across the most treacherous and deadly stretch of the American frontier from Texas to Sedalia"--