Ralph Compton

In this thrilling new Ralph Compton Western, the fate of a small town rests in the hands of a gambler who's ready to risk more than money. The people of Meridian, Colorado, live and die by coal mining, and when the railroad bypasses them, their livelihood is in peril. However, they discover that for a hefty sum of money they can create a spur line and save the town. A hefty sum that the town does not have. Their only hope is former gambler Asa Newcombe....

A rancher fights to save the woman he loves in this action-packed Ralph Compton western.
Rancher Ty Farraday’s hunt for stray cattle takes a turn for the worse when he discovers a shallow grave and the body of wealthy Alton Winstead, the owner of the Double Cross Ranch. Ty’s first frantic thoughts are of Winstead’s widow, Sue-Ellen, who picked Alton over him. Unfortunately, she chose poorly. 
Alton masterminded...

The EJ Ranch in Wyoming may be Lin and Chancy's best opportunity to put their past behind them. But when the widow and her property are coveted by a cattle baron, the Bryce brothers find themselves in the crosshairs of a looming range war.

When fifteen-year-old bounty hunter Tyree Johnson catches a killer hiding in his town, Marshal Fred Hitch rides with Tyree and his prisoner all the way to Cheyenne--a dangerous journey that teaches them about evil and survival.

Popular Western author Joseph A. West continues the great Ralph Compton's Trail Driver series with The Tenderfoot Trail. Framed for murder and pursued by bloodthirsty killers, Luke Garrett's landed himself in a real fix this time.

Years ago, Charlie Pike witnessed the horrors of the War Between the States from the losing side. Now all he wants to do is work his cattle ranch and marry the spirited schoolmarm. But when his old commanding officer calls him to action, he cannot refuse. Brigadier General Henry J. Dryden was a blustery, demanding leader - and he saved Pike's life in the war. Later, he became a judge in the New Mexico Territory. Now he's dying, and he wants Pike to...

David Robbins continues the proud tradition of Ralph Compton's Western novels with enough hardscrabble heroes, blazing gun fights, and twisted villains to fill a corral. Bluff City is a booming silver mining town full of pigeons to pluck. When two of its wealthiest citizens devise plans to rob their neighbors legally and illegally, only Clay Adams stands in their way.

The Ralph Compton series of USA Today best-selling Westerns has garnered a well-earned reputation for hard-hitting tales sounding with thundering hooves and explosions of gunfire. In West Texas, Lucius Stark is regarded as a no-good killer with nothing to say in his favor. But when Stark goes tender for a woman he's hired to kill, he's shot in the back and left with a burning desire for revenge.

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.

Ben McCullough was once an officer in the Confederate Army and now a rancher in Texas hill country, hoping to earn enough money to settle down and marry. With eight hundred head of cattle to drive north, Ben is relying on his ex-sergeant, Hap, to watch over the bunch of greenhorns. But stampedes, raging rivers, and nature's worst element are nothing compared to the threat that awaits them, a gang of outlaws determined to rustle the herd.