Ralph Compton

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...

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.

"Andrew Buchanan has a problem. His modest ranch in Southern California is being pressured by an unscrupulous competitor and the encroaching wave of the future-orange growers. The only chance he has to sell his cattle for real money is to take them south into Mexico. The Empire Trail is five hundred miles of misery that crosses scorching deserts and clings to treacherous cliffs-and it's Andrew's job to find the best way across. But physical barriers...

Nathan Stone is a lawman, an outlaw, a gambler, and a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. And he has been ruthless. Now he is riding on a course that will test his rawhide nerves and lightning draw against the likes of Doc Holliday, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the fleeing James brothers, and John Wesley Hardin, as he heads toward a fateful standoff ... with his own teenage son. 

Returning to his ruined Virginia home after the Civil War, Nathan Stone is horrified to find his family members murdered and takes a blood oath to track down the seven renegades who are responsible.

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.

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.

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 ...

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....

On a cattle drive north, young gun Danielle Strange falls in love with one of the drovers, and now she must decide to let him, the last of her father's murderers, go free.