Ralph Compton
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Series
Danny Duggin novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Civil War, a blacksmith from Missouri decides to travel to Texas to purchase a cattle herd. He hopes to sell the herd up north and turn a profit for his family to live on. However, the blacksmith had not reckoned on the dangers of the lawless plains, and is set upon and killed by a band of outlaws. When news of his death reaches his family, his eldest daughter straps on her father's colts and sets off on her father's chestnut...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of cattle for the long drive to Colorado. 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.
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Series
Trail drive series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Benton mcCaleb and his band of cowboys brave more than 1000 treacherous miles to drive 2,4000 head of cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley, encountering a ruthless railroad baron along the way.
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Series
Trail drive series volume 4
Language
English
Description
Trying to rescue their friend Clay Duval who is trapped inside war-torn Mexico, brothers Gil and Van Austin are taken prisoner by Santa Anna's soldiers and must make a daring escape.
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Series
Trail drive series volume 7
Language
English
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Nelson Story has money from his gold claim but is a marked man. The Plummer gang is after him for hanging the outlaw sheriff, Henry Plummer. So Story and his partners go to Fort Worth, buy cattle, and head for Illinois markets, but poor grass and high tolls turn them toward Montana and dangerous Sioux lands.
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Series
Sundown Riders volume 3
Language
English
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Mac Tunstall sets out to deliver a shipment of Winchesters to the U.S. Army and is joined by four courageous women as violence and betrayal are found at every turn.
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Series
Language
English
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Ralph Compton's USA Today best-selling Westerns draw praise for their hard-hitting plots and rough-hewn characters. His legacy carries on through the talented pen of Joseph A. West. Passing through Crooked Creek, Utah, Chance Tyree runs afoul of the law, and soon finds himself on the wrong end of a hanging rope. Only Owen Fowler can help him. But is Owen a friend or is he the harbinger of even greater trouble for Chance?
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Series
Trail drive series volume 17
Language
English
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The long and winding trail . . . Ben McCullough was once an officer in the Confederate Army. Now he's a rancher in the Texas hill country, hoping to earn enough money to settle down and marry. With eight hundred head of cattle to drive north, Ben McCullough is relying on the help of his ex-sergeant, Hap. These young cowboys have their work cut out for them as they confront the dangers of cattle driving. But stampedes, raging rivers, and nature's worst...
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Series
Trail drive series volume 11
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English
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Description
The ranchers riding with Rand Hayes cross the Mojave Desert to confront the hardships of a brutal land, a hostile Ute nation, and the mysterious territory of California in their attempts to drive the cattle to market.
12) Devil's Canyon
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 4
Language
English
Description
Four soldiers of fortune risk life and limb to deliver a cargo of dynamite from Santa Fe to southwestern Utah, where they hope to tear open a mountain of gold, while an undercover outlaw lurks within their ranks.
13) Skeleton lode
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 6
Language
English
Description
Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck-until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine-and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival ...
14) Whiskey River
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 5
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
They came back from the war, and their land was gone. The Texas soil they’d nourished with years of backbreaking work had been snatched away. And in a moment of fury at this Yankee plunder, Mark Rogers and Bill Harder cut down a pair of tax collectors…and wound up behind bars in Fort Worth...
Author
Series
Border empire volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nathan Stone was a legendary gunfighter who did everything he could to be a father while still following his own violent trail of honor. Now his son, Wes Stone--barely eighteen but full of the hard wisdom of the West--is being drawn into the kind of fight that cost his father his life. A secret organization of criminals is replacing freshly minted gold with counterfeit coins, threatening to plunge the growing nation into crisis. Called upon to penetrate...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 12
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The true story of a town without law, where hundreds of hungry miners arrive to claim the beef they have paid for, follows these courageous men as they must take justice into their own hands, or prepare themselves to die.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Daniel Strange is robbed and murdered by a gang of outlaws, his gunslinging oldest daughter embarks on a determined quest for vengeance, stalking and killing the men responsible for the death of her father, and a year after their sister rode off seeking revenge for their father's death, Tim and Jed Strange head out to look for their sister and find a heap of their own trouble instead.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
At the EJ Ranch the Bryce brothers have found good, honest work. A widow with two young children has a herd of cattle that needs grazing. But the widow and her property are coveted by a cattle baron. As the Bryce brothers find themselves in the crosshairs of a looming range, a trio of merciless bounty hunters arrives to collect the prices on their heads.