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.

Ralph Compton My Brother, My Killer

Ralph Compton My Brother, My Killer
Author: Jackson Lowry
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593334140

Two bothers face off in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse—one is out for justice...the other is out for blood, in this gripping new Western in Ralph Compton's bestselling Gunfighter series. They say blood is thicker than water and that family always comes first. But what if your family is the one that wants your blood? Sheriff Jacob Wilkinson loves his younger brother, William, but it's not easy when he's constantly trying to shoot him. Will blames his brother for the death of his young wife and has nothing left to live for—except vengeance. For his part, Jake is trying to do the right thing and track down the Collier gang, the ones actually responsible for the incident that robbed Will of his wife. But with Will sabotaging him at every turn, the odds that Jake will get justice for his brother seem nigh impossible. Jake has to find a way to get through to Will before it's too late and one of them ends up dead.

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.

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.

Ralph Compton The Sagebrush Trail

Ralph Compton The Sagebrush Trail
Author: Robert J. Randisi
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593334043

In this fast-paced new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton's Trail Drive series, a trail drive boss faces many challenges. Luke Ross is determined to drive his herd to the trailhead, but along the way he'll have to cope with rustlers, bandits, and warlike Indians.

Doomsday Rider

Doomsday Rider
Author: Joseph A. West
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781587246630

In order to avoid serving a 25 year sentence for a murder he didn't commit, Buck Fletcher must find Senator Falcon Stark's daughter Estelle who has joined a doomsday cult.