Trail drive series
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Trail drive series volume 1
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English
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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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Trail drive series volume 2
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English
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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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Trail drive series volume 3
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From the Texas brakes to the Canadian river they blazed a trail. Armed with only a Colt rifle and a Bowie knife, Ten Chisholm leaves New Orleans with a price on his head. His only crime--loving the daughter of a powerful gambler. With a vow to return, Ten rides into the brakes.
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Trail drive series volume 4
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English
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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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Trail drive series volume 5
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English
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After hard years of ranching, Gil and Van Austin, two Texas brothers, are eager to sell their well-grazed longhorns in California, and they set out on their journey, encountering Indian attacks, outlaw trouble, and brutal Mother Nature along the way.
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Trail drive series volume 6
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English
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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.
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Trail drive series volume 7
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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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Trail drive series volume 8
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English
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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.
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Trail drive series volume 9
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"The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns--and the brains, brawn, and boldness to make the journey to Missouri, where further danger awaits ..."--Pg 4 of cover.
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Trail drive series volume 10
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1997.
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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 riders were heading into a death trap.
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Trail drive series volume 11
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English
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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.
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Trail drive series volume 12
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[1999]
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English
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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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Trail drive series volume 13
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[1999]
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English
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A group of cowboys, coming back from the California Gold Rush, buys themselves a little piece of paradise in northern Utah, only to find a dangerous territory where death is always a possibility.
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Trail drive series volume 17
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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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Trail drive series volume 18
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Hamp comes to the aid of his hot-tempered friend, Clint, after he is jailed for killing a cheating gambler, bribing the guards to let him go. But no sooner is Clint free than he kills a local rancher with vengeful friends who will do anything to see Clint hanged.
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2005.
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A rancher is banking on Sam Ketchum to drive his cattle to the markets in Nebraska. But the trail has only gotten tougher with cattle thieves, gunslingers and comanches, and a feud that Sam will have to settle before the trail finally ends.
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Trail drive series volume 21
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English
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Bad blood runs deep in this Ralph Compton western...
Jock Kane would do anything for his buddy Chad Becker—except drive the rancher’s longhorns to the Ellsworth railhead in Kansas. Having lost his fortune and his faith on the last trail, and his beloved wife, Twyla, to a killer, Jock’s not looking for adventure. What gets him off his tail is finding out who’s vying with Chad for the Kansas sale. It’s none other...
Jock Kane would do anything for his buddy Chad Becker—except drive the rancher’s longhorns to the Ellsworth railhead in Kansas. Having lost his fortune and his faith on the last trail, and his beloved wife, Twyla, to a killer, Jock’s not looking for adventure. What gets him off his tail is finding out who’s vying with Chad for the Kansas sale. It’s none other...
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2020
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In this thrilling new installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's Trail Drive series, Toby Bishop and the drovers of the Circle K ranch will have to battle the elements, wild animals, rough terrain, and dangerous people to get their longhorn herd to their destination. The drovers of Circle K ranch have to drive the herd of beautiful longhorn cattle five hundred miles northwest to Missouri if they hope to make it through the next year. Toby Bishop, a...
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2020.
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Big Jake Motley had been running the Big M spread in Texas for over 30 years. In that time, he's driven thousands of head of cattle to market in Kansas. Now, while both the Nineteenth century and the era of trail drive are coming to an end, Big Jake is determined to make one last drive to Kansas. The only thing is, he doesn't have the cowhands to move that much beef. He drafts his old friend, Chance McCandles, into service, and together, the two aging...
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2020.
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"After a child is accidentally killed in a shootout, Art Catlin decides to give up his life of bounty hunting and finds a new career as a drover, working for the Bar X ranch. The trail is 770 miles from Santa Fe to Independence, Missouri, and Art isn't fool enough to think it'll be an easy journey. As they head east, they seem to come upon countless threats, from environmental to personal. If they're to make it all the way with the herd intact, Catlin...
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Over the past twenty years, William "Bull" Kelly acquired a reputation as one of the best ramrods in Texas. He has led legendary cattle drives to almost every railhead in the middle of the country. Most impressive of all, he once drove his herd all the way up to Montana. But after years of working for other people, he decided to run cattle on his own, with his five sons. Everything starts off fine, but when a group of cattle thieves try to stampede...
27) Red Trail
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"An outbreak of hostilities with Comanches has disrupted the usual trail routes. But Mase Durst must get his cows from his Texas ranch to the railway up in Wichita, Kansas, or face losing his land, which the bank is fixing to foreclose on. He's forced to take his herd on a little-used route called the Red Trail--little used for good reasons. It's a tough trek: dangerous, narrow, and fraught with banditry. Along the way, Durst and his men face numerous...
28) The Empire Trail
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2021.
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"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...
29) Terror trail
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2021.
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With their father injured and their brother murdered, the Aguirre twins--Dolores and Yolanda--lead a crew of ranch hands and friendly members of the Mescalaro Apache tribe to recover their herd--a perilous journey that brings about swift justice.
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"After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighbouring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. The trail brims with hellish hardship: prairie fire, stampede, flooded rivers, hailstorms, rattlers,...