Ralph Compton
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 3
Language
English
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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
Danny Duggin novels volume 2
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
Border empire volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Nathan Stone, The Gunfighter, lies dead in the street, a victim of the ruthless Sandlin gang. Behind him he leaves his guns and the son he had hardly known--a former lawman named Wes is about to teach these killers just what it means to be his father's son. 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
Series
Trail drive series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 4
Language
English
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The only riches Texans has 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-blazing trail drives. Set on rescuing their old friend Clay Duval who is trapped inside war-torn Mexico, Gill and Van Austin, nephews of Texas founder Stephen Austin,...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 2
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Border empire trilogy volume 2
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2013]
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
Series
Trail drive series volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Author
Series
Trail of the gunfighter) volume 1
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Seeking vengeance on the rebel renegades who murdered his family, Civil War veteran Nathan Stone sets out on an odyssey that will take him throughout the United States and across the paths of the West's most famous-- and infamous-- characters, including Frank and Jesse James, "Wild Bill" Hickok, and Roy Bean.
Author
Series
Trail of the gunfighter volume 2
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Gunfighter Nathan Stone finds no peace or safety after avenging the murders of his parents as he is forced to defend his reputation against some of the most feared and famous gunfighters of the 1870s wild west.
Author
Series
Trail of the gunfighter volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Audio
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Seeking vengeance on the rebel renegades who murdered his family, Civil War veteran Nathan Stone sets out on an odyssey that will take him throughout the United States and across the paths of the West's most famous-- and infamous-- characters, including Jesse James, 'Wild' Bill Hickok, and John Wesley Hardin.
Author
Series
Trail of the gunfighter volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Seeking vengeance on the rebel renegades who murdered his family, Civil War veteran Nathan Stone sets out on an odyssey that will take him throughout the United States and across the paths of the West's most famous-and infamous-characters, including Jesse James, 'Wild' Bill Hickok, and John Wesley Hardin.
Author
Series
Border empire trilogy volume 3
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Wes Stone, son of The Gunfighter, has pursued his father's murderers, the Sandlin Gang, throughout the Sierra Nevadas. But in his quest for revenge, he has now uncovered their nefarious plan to loot four United States mints. The odds are long and the stakes are high as Stone must hunt down and face a mercenary army guarding a mysterious train, which is already seven hundred miles ahead of him...and headed straight for the Denver mint!
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A towering legend among chroniclers of the Old West, Ralph Compton penned searing tales of the highest entertainment. In this fast-paced actioner, Detective Sergeant John McBride gets while the gettin's good when a New York gangster puts a price on his head. But after landing in High Hopes, Colorado, McBride quickly finds that his troubles with the criminal sect are just beginning.
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The proud tradition of Ralph Compton's epic Westerns carries on with the scintillating work of bestseller Joseph A. West. Blood on the Gallows features John McBride, a former New York City lawman who's moved west to pursue a more peaceful existence. But easy living just isn't in the cards. And when a town sheriff with a Texas-size chip on his shoulder decides to make trouble, McBride knows that one way or another, somebody's headed for an early grave....
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Language
English
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"Zeke Wolpert is sheriff of Keith County, Nebraska. But he turns a half-drunk blind eye to outlaws who pay him for the privilege. Now the outlaws have set their sights on a Wells Fargo shipment. It's a chance for Zeke to get enough money to retire from this unsavory business once and for all. But it's also an opportunity for him to honor the badge he wears one last time--"--Author's website.