Ralph Compton Books In Order

Ralph Compton Western Books In Publication Order

  1. Blood and Gold (By:Joseph A. West) (2004)
  2. For the Brand (By:David Robbins) (2005)
  3. Rio Largo (By:David Robbins) (2006)
  4. Guns of the Canyonlands (By:Joseph A. West) (2006)
  5. Texas Empire (2006)
  6. By the Horns (By:David Robbins) (2006)
  7. Deadwood Gulch (By:John Edward Ames) (2006)
  8. The Bloody Trail (By:Marcus Galloway) (2007)
  9. A Wolf In the Fold (By:David Robbins) (2007)
  10. Bluff City (By:David Robbins) (2007)
  11. Blood Duel (By:David Robbins) (2007)
  12. Death of a Bad Man (By:Marcus Galloway) (2008)
  13. Ride the Hard Trail (By:David Robbins) (2008)
  14. Bullet for a Bad Man (By:David Robbins) (2008)
  15. The Convict Trail (By:Joseph A. West) (2008)
  16. Rawhide Flat (By:Joseph A. West) (2009)
  17. Outlaw’s Reckoning (By:Marcus Galloway) (2009)
  18. The Man From Nowhere (By:Joseph A. West) (2009)
  19. Bounty Hunter (By:Joseph A. West) (2009)
  20. Fatal Justice (By:David Robbins) (2009)
  21. Stryker’s Revenge (By:Joseph A. West) (2010)
  22. Death of a Hangman (By:Joseph A. West) (2010)
  23. North to the Salt Fork (With: Dusty Richards) (2010)
  24. Rusted Tin (By:Marcus Galloway) (2010)
  25. The Burning Range (By:Joseph A. West) (2010)
  26. The Last Manhunt (By:Joseph A. West) (2011)
  27. The Stranger from Abilene (By:Joseph A. West) (2011)
  28. The Ghost of Apache Creek (By:Joseph A. West) (2011)
  29. Dead Man’s Ranch (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2012)
  30. Slaughter Canyon (By:Joseph A. West) (2012)
  31. One Man’s Fire (By:Marcus Galloway) (2012)
  32. Tucker’s Reckoning (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2012)
  33. Down on Gila River (By:Joseph A. West) (2012)
  34. Brimstone Trail (By:Marcus Galloway) (2013)
  35. Straight Shooter (By:Marcus Galloway) (2013)
  36. The Hunted (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2013)
  37. Hard Ride to Wichita (By:Marcus Galloway) (2013)
  38. The Cheyenne Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2014)
  39. Double-Cross Ranch (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2014)
  40. Comanche Trail (By:Carlton Stowers) (2014)
  41. The Dangerous Land (By:Marcus Galloway) (2014)
  42. Vigilante Dawn (By:Marcus Galloway) (2014)
  43. The Evil Men Do (By:David Robbins) (2015)
  44. Straight to the Noose (By:Marcus Galloway) (2015)
  45. Shotgun Charlie (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2015)
  46. The Law and the Lawless (By:David Robbins) (2015)
  47. Brother’s Keeper (By:David Robbins) (2015)
  48. Texas Hills (By:David Robbins) (2015)
  49. Outlaw Town (By:David Robbins) (2016)
  50. Phantom Hill (By:Carlton Stowers) (2016)
  51. Ralph Compton the Hellbound Posse (With: Robert J. Randisi) (2021)

The Gunfighter Books In Publication Order

  1. Reunion in Hell (2020)
  2. Blood of the Hunters (2020)
  3. Broken Rider (2020)
  4. Return to Gila Bend (2020)
  5. Death Valley Drifter (2020)
  6. Ride for Justice (2020)
  7. Ride the Hammer Down (2020)
  8. Frontier Medicine (2021)
  9. Face of a Snake (2021)
  10. Dalton’s Justice (2021)
  11. Shot to Hell (2021)
  12. Hell Snake (2021)
  13. The Wrong Side of the Law (2021)
  14. Guns of the Greenhorn (2021)
  15. The Devil’s Snare (2021)
  16. Blood on the Prairie (2021)
  17. Die Trying (2021)

Sundown Riders Books In Publication Order

  1. North to the Bitterroot (1996)
  2. Across the Rio Colorado (1997)
  3. The Winchester Run (1997)
  4. Devil’s Canyon (1998)
  5. Whiskey River (1999)
  6. Skeleton Lode (1999)
  7. Demon’s Pass (2000)
  8. Runaway Stage (By:Robert Vaughan) (2002)
  9. Do or Die (By:Robert E. Vardeman) (2003)
  10. Nowhere, TX (By:David Robbins) (2004)
  11. Bucked Out in Dodge (By:David Robbins) (2004)
  12. West of Pecos (By:David Robbins) (2005)
  13. Tin Star (By:Robert E. Vardeman) (2020)
  14. The Wolves of Seven Pines (By:E L Ripley) (2020)
  15. Never Bet Against the Bullet (By:Jackson Lowry) (2020)
  16. Lost Banshee Mine (By:Jackson Lowry) (2020)
  17. Prairie Fire, Kansas (By:John Shirley) (2020)
  18. Calvert’s Last Bluff (2020)
  19. The Trail’s End (By:E L Ripley) (2021)
  20. Stagecoach to Hell (By:Terrence McCauley) (2021)
  21. Snake’s Fury (By:Bernard Schaffer) (2021)
  22. The Outlaw Hunters (By:D B Pulliam) (2021)
  23. Flames of Silver (By:Jackson Lowry) (2021)
  24. Seven Roads to Revenge (2021)
  25. The Winter of Wolves (2021)
  26. Ghost Hollow Ranch (By:D.B. Pulliam) (2021)

Trail Drive Books In Publication Order

  1. The Goodnight Trail (1992)
  2. The Western Trail (1992)
  3. The Chisholm Trail (1993)
  4. The Bandera Trail (1993)
  5. The California Trail (1994)
  6. The Shawnee Trail (1994)
  7. The Virginia City Trail (1994)
  8. The Dodge City Trail (1995)
  9. The Oregon Trail (1995)
  10. The Santa Fe Trail (1997)
  11. The Old Spanish Trail (1998)
  12. The Green River Trail (1999)
  13. The Deadwood Trail (1999)
  14. The Dakota Trail (By:Robert Vaughan) (2001)
  15. The Alamosa Trail (By:Robert Vaughan) (2002)
  16. The Bozeman Trail (By:Robert Vaughan) (2002)
  17. The Abilene Trail (By:Dusty Richards) (2003)
  18. Trail To Fort Smith (By:Dusty Richards) (2004)
  19. The Palo Duro Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2004)
  20. The Ogallala Trail (By:Dusty Richards) (2005)
  21. The Ellsworth Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2005)
  22. The Tenderfoot Trail (By:Joseph A. West) (2006)
  23. Trail to Cottonwood Falls (By:Dusty Richards) (2007)
  24. The Amarillo Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2011)
  25. The Omaha Trail (By:Jory Sherman) (2012)
  26. Big Jake’s Last Drive (By:Robert J. Randisi) (2020)
  27. The Badlands Trail (By:Michael Newton) (2020)
  28. The Kelly Trail (By:Terrence McCauley) (2020)
  29. Drive for Independence (By:Lyle Brandt) (2020)
  30. Red Trail (By:John Shirley) (2020)
  31. The Empire Trail (By:Jeff Rovin) (2021)
  32. The Too-Late Trail (By:Matthew P. Mayo) (2021)
  33. Terror Trail (With: Lyle Brandt) (2021)
  34. Ralph Compton the Sagebrush Trail (With: Robert J. Randisi) (2021)

Border Empire Books In Publication Order

  1. The Border Empire (1997)
  2. Six guns and Double Eagles (1998)
  3. Train to Durango (1998)

Buck Fletcher Books In Publication Order

  1. Doomsday Rider (2003)
  2. Showdown at Two-Bit Creek (2003)
  3. Vengeance Rider (2004)

Danny Duggin Books In Publication Order

  1. Death Rides a Chestnut Mare (1999)
  2. The Shadow of a Noose (2000)
  3. Riders of Judgement (2001)
  4. Death Along the Cimarron (2003)

John McBride Books In Publication Order

  1. West Of The Law (2007)
  2. Shadow of the Gun (2008)
  3. Blood on the Gallows (2008)

Tom Navarro Books In Publication Order

  1. Navarro (2005)
  2. Bullet Creek (2005)

Trail of the Gunfighter Books In Publication Order

  1. The Dawn of Fury (1995)
  2. The Killing Season (1996)
  3. Autumn of the Gun (1996)
  4. Broken Rider (By:John Shirley) (2020)

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Ralph Compton Books Overview

Blood and Gold (By:Joseph A. West)

An inexperience cowpuncher with a solid work ethic, Dusty Hannah has earned the respect of his boss. Entrusted with $30,000 of the cattle rancher’s gold, he must take the fortune across Texas’s Red River by way of Indian territory, where the Apaches still reign. But the Apaches are the least of Dusty’s concerns once word of the money reaches the eras of every desperado in the Southwest. Saddled wit the gold, and suddenly responsible for protecting a father and daughter lost in hostile country, Dusty has to keep his wits about him and his aim steady if he hopes to see the trail’s end.

For the Brand (By:David Robbins)

Willis Lander was the T Bar ranch’s best bronc buster until a stallion shattered his leg. Unable to work as a cowboy, Willis was forced to mind a line shack forty miles from the ranch, secluding himself in the Wyoming wilderness. But when the T Bar is sold, Willis wonders whether the new owner will want to keep him on. Laurella Hendershot is a Texan rancher grateful for the opportunity to build a new life for herself. And she just may be Willis’ last chance.

Rio Largo (By:David Robbins)

FEUDING FRI: S For years, the Circle T ranch and the D/P ranch have existed in Sweet Grass Valley. Separated by the Rio Largo river, both ranches have managed to prosper mostly due to the ranch owners Kent Tovey and Dar Pierce, who are the best of friends. But all that is about to be challenged. Two new ranch hands are fomenting a cycle of violence between the ranches with a ruthless gang waiting to pick their bones clean after they destroy one another. One loyal cowboy caught in the carnage knows the truth. And when the Circle T and the D/P can no longer be protected, they must be avenged.

Guns of the Canyonlands (By:Joseph A. West)

The Gunfighter series continues.

Gunfighter Chance Tyree never looks for trouble. But in the Utah hills, he unknowingly rides into a war between small landowners and local rancher Quirt Latham. Now, with Latham determined to take him down, and a cold blooded corrupt sheriff out for blood, Tyree’s lightning fast draw is the only chance of stopping a tyrant from taking over.

Deadwood Gulch (By:John Edward Ames)

New in the bestselling gunfighter series Bounty Hunter Cas Everett’s family was slaughtered by outlaws. He has followed their bloody trail to Deadwood the most lawless town in the West and will stop at nothing to see that justice is served.

The Bloody Trail (By:Marcus Galloway)

Jeremiah Correy is leading his family in a wagon train to Oregon when his plans are waylaid by a group of bounty hunters led by Sam Madigan, who take a man from Correy’s party the quiet, unassuming Emmett Natham, who is actually a known fugitive. But Madigan also aims to nab the rest of the travelers and ransom them off.

Now, Jeremiah must stop Madigan and his greatest ally may be the mysterious and dangerous Emmett Natham, whose skills could save them all or lead them to their deaths…

A Wolf In the Fold (By:David Robbins)

EVEN BAD MEN CAN DO GOOD. Lucius Stark is just about the meanest mongrel in West Texas. But when Stark grows too fond of a woman he is hired to kill in a range war, his client shoots him in the back. He is saved by the very ranchers he was paid to eliminate. But when they end up slaughtered, Stark finds himself out to deliver his own brand of vengeance free of charge.

Bluff City (By:David Robbins)

Bluff City is a prosperous silver mining town and a place of opportunity for those willing to exploit its hard working citizens. Harve Barker is the wealthiest man in the territory, offering irresistible vices to anyone willing and able to afford them. Outlaw Jesse Stark has grown fond of the town’s surrounding mining camps, leading a gang of desperadoes on a violent spree of robberies and staying one step ahead of the law at all times. Between the megalomaniacal entrepreneur and the brutal bandit stands the enigmatic Clay Adams. And he has a score to settle with both of them.

Blood Duel (By:David Robbins)

Unable to read about his bloody exploits in the newspaper, serial killer Jeeter Frost finds a teacher to help him, while the townsfolk of Coffin Varnish, hoping to cash in on his infamy, put his victims on display, to which he strongly and violently objects.

Death of a Bad Man (By:Marcus Galloway)

The USA Today bestselling sundown rider series continues when the student is ready, the outlaw will appear…
When Solomon Brakefield decides living the straight and narrow just doesn’t pay, he seeks out Nestor Quarles, known killer and train robber, to teach him the tricks of the outlaw trade. The old outlaw has plenty to teach the new outlaw, but there’s a price to be paid and the currency is Solomon’s soul…

Ride the Hard Trail (By:David Robbins)

A national bestselling PhenomenonWanted brothers Lin and Chancy Bryce are hiding out from the law as cowpunchers on a widow’s ranch only to find themselves in the midst of an encroaching range war against a greedy cattle baron and his band of vicious gunmen…

Bullet for a Bad Man (By:David Robbins)

Boone and Eppley Scott are the sons of a prosperous Arizona ranching family and they couldn t be more different. Boone has a talent for the six shooter, but is content to raise cattle. Eppley is far more ambitious and deadly.

When Epp sends a killer after his unsuspecting younger brother, Boone’s lightning quick hands leave six dead men behind.

On the run, facing peril from all sides, Boone must fight to survive if he s ever going to make it to the final showdown with his own flesh and blood.

The Convict Trail (By:Joseph A. West)

Transporting six cold blooded convicts caged in a prison wagon across hard country, Deputy Marshal Logan Kane needs to watch his back and keep his Colt close at hand. There are rustlers, lynch mobs, and a New Orleans gang to contend with not to mention the convicts cronies looking to bust them loose.

Kane is about to have his own cage rattled as he tries to keep this ride from being his last…

Rawhide Flat (By:Joseph A. West)

U.S. Deputy Marshal Augustus Crane must escort convicted bank robber Judah Welsh to Virginia City. But the townsfolk of Rawhide Flat still want their $30,000 back from Welsh even if it means taking on Marshal Crane…

Outlaw’s Reckoning (By:Marcus Galloway)

When bandits Gus McCord and Doyle Hill stumble on the kidnapping of a shipping mogul’s daughter, they decide to do the unexpected the right thing.

The Man From Nowhere (By:Joseph A. West)

National bestselling Phenomenon When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the ‘respectable’ townsfolk began hanging those who weren’t. Town drunk E ddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill. Oates never thought he was a survivor. But now, he’s discovered a reason to go on and he’s about to unleash a raging fury upon those who would prey on the helpless, the hopeless, and those who others think aren’t worth fighting for…

Bounty Hunter (By:Joseph A. West)

Bounty hunter John Tone is good at his job. Some would say ruthless. If there’s killing to be done, he shows no mercy. In another time, far across the ocean, Tone lost the only person he’s ever loved — and he’s been dead inside ever since. That’s the hand fate dealt him, and he’ll play it out. But then a powerful criminal from San Francisco’s notorious Barbary Coast makes him an offer he can’t refuse, and Tone has to draw out six of his client’s worst enemies.

Fatal Justice (By:David Robbins)

Years ago Marshal Asher Thrall shot mad dog killer Ben Sharkey. And he’s just repaid the favor in spades. With a bullet still in his chest, Ash knows he’s a walking dead man. But he’s going to make sure Sharkey takes his last step first…

Stryker’s Revenge (By:Joseph A. West)

USA Today Bestselling Phenomenon Lieutenant Steve Stryker has a score to settle with Rake Pierce, who’s running guns to the Apaches. Pierce left him a scarred man and ruined his life. Now it’s payback time…

Death of a Hangman (By:Joseph A. West)

USA Today bestselling Phenomenon Charlie Pike is fulfilling Judge Henry Dryden’s dying wish by escorting him to Texas. But an outlaw out for revenge is on their trail, determined that they will never reach their destination…

North to the Salt Fork (With: Dusty Richards)

USA Today bestselling phenomenon Captain Jack Starr served the Confederate cause with honor for four years. The town of Lost Dog Creek promised an opportunity for the war veteran to rebuild his life and a woman to share it with. But not everyone is willing to roll out the welcome wagon…

Rusted Tin (By:Marcus Galloway)

Lawdog or Lapdog? 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…

The Burning Range (By:Joseph A. West)

A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town and the black gold beneath it and he’s willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake, and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. Together they’ll need to force feed the Fat Man a steady diet of hot lead, or Green Meadow will flow red.

The Last Manhunt (By:Joseph A. West)

Reporter Lester Booker joins legendary gunfighter Rance March on the trail of a dangerous outlaw to learn how the West was really won.

Slaughter Canyon (By:Joseph A. West)

Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles has to discover why Hatfield J. Warful is gathering every notorious gunslinger in the West at his home in Slaughter Canyon. And if his mission fails, it could result in a second Civil War.

North to the Bitterroot

Between Kansas City and Montana Territory were a thousand ways to die and a few bold men who would never turn back. Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph Compton tells the real story of the touch as leather men who carried supplies, guns and gold into the untamed frontier. Dutch Siringo rose from modest beginnings and proved his skill with a team of horses and a gun. Betrayed by a woman, hunted by a desperate man, Dutch led a group of hard fighting teamsters where no other shippers would go through the heart of the Sioux territory, into the teeth of winder along the murderous Bozeman Trail. Now, between Fort Kearny and the mining camps in the Bitterroot Mountains, Dutch and his teamsters faced Montana blizzards, hungry wolves and the kind of enemies you have to bury to outrun.

Across the Rio Colorado

Across rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born…
Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph Compton tells the real story of the tough as leather men who first blazed the way into the untamed frontier. Texas! For the pioneers who streamed out of Missouri it was a land of dreams and freedom. Veteran wagon boss Chance McQuade, a man deadly with a pistol and Sharps, had signed on to take a hundred families there. But the man who hired McQuade was joining the wagon train, and turning it into a brawling, rolling city of sin and violence. Now, on the hard drive West, McQuade faces Kiowa, lightening storms, and killers behind his back all to reach a promised land that’s erupting into war.

The Winchester Run

On a frontier torn by war and renegades, they carried a cargo more valuable than gold…
Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph Compton tells the real story of the tough as leather men who blazed the way into the untamed frontier. Once they drove longhorns. Now Mac Tunstall and his band of Texans must take a shipment of Winchesters by rail and wagon all the way to the U.S. Army in Austin. But from the moment the wagoneers set out, violence and treachery stalk their trail. From Dodge to the Brazos, half the outlaws on the frontier are aiming to get hold of an arsenal that could blow the West wide open. And Mac and his men don’t see one danger until it’s too late four beautiful, headstrong women determined to share a trail of courage and tears all the way to the end.

Devil’s Canyon

The Sundown Riders gallop into thier fourth adventure, Devil’s Canyon, which finds the four mercenaries on a mission delivering dynamite through the desert to a Utah Gold Mine. But a treacherous undercover outlaw within thier ranks will make their journey that much more dangerous…

Whiskey River

Mark Rogers and Bill Harder return to their Texas spreads only to find the properties repossessed. In a moment of rage, the pair gun down two Yankee tax collectors. Sentenced to an agonizing existence at Fort Worth, they are then offered a deal by an Army captain break out of jail and infiltrate a deadly gang of whiskey runners and their lands and lives will be returned to them. The pair escape and find work as drivers for the gang, all the while looking to bring them down and save the two fair ladies being held hostage.

Skeleton Lode

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…
‘If you likeLouis L’ Amour you’ll love Ralph Compton.’ Quanah Tribune Chief Praise for the Sundown Riders:’Thrilling.’ Huntsville Times The Sundown Riders series includes:Devil’s Canyon 5/98 & Whiskey River 1/99 Also by Ralph Compton: The Tremayne series, including Train To Durango 9/98, Six Guns And Double Eagles 1/98, Border Empire 7/97

Demon’s Pass

The first book of a brand new Western trilogy, Ralph Compton’s Demon’s Pass begins with the brutal attack of a family at the hands of the Cheyenne. His sister kidnapped and loved ones slaughtered, young Parker Stanley has nowhere to turn. But a smooth talking entrepreneur may be his salvation if they can make it to Utah in one piece…
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Runaway Stage (By:Robert Vaughan)

The lives of three people are intertwined with the journey of one stagecoach and the $100,000 cargo inside that can solve all their problems…
or create more.

Do or Die (By:Robert E. Vardeman)

To save his hometown, Civil War veteran Dick Hodson must lead a desperate cattle drive with a trail party made up of raw, greenhorn children.

Nowhere, TX (By:David Robbins)

In a lawless, godless territory known as No Man’s Land, Black Jack Shelton and his gang have run of the new town of Nowhere. Until Chick Storm, owner of the ‘Circle C’ ranch, and his troupe of riders are called in to take a stand. Chick is a paragon of virtue, and knows right from wrong well enough to understand that sometimes a man has to let his guns speak for themselves.

West of Pecos (By:David Robbins)

The Su0ndown Riders series continues…
Two Civil War veterans from opposite sides of the conflict settle on the same land. They must put aside their differences not only for the sake of their families, but in order to fend off a gang of rustlers who want the land for themselves.

The Goodnight Trail

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 is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish where the brave reach glory or die hard.

The Western Trail

The only riches Texans had 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. Benton McCaleb and his band of bold sprited cowboys brave over a thousand treacherous miles to drive 2400 head of ornery cattle into Wyoming’s Sweetwater Valley. They’re setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. With the help of Shoshoni Indian tribe and Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they’ll wage the most ferocious battle of their lives to win the right to call the land their own.

The Chisholm Trail

Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ted Chisholm, the bold, half breed son of Indian scout Jesse Chsiholm, leaves New Orleans 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.

With a team of battle toughened cowboys and ex soldiers, and a vow to return to Priscilla and maker her his wife, Ten rides into the harsh Texas brakes and the heart of Comanche country. Now, he must round up wild longhorns and set off across the Red River, through a thousand miles of swollen rivers, angry Comanches and treacherous outlaw attacks on a brazen quest to open a new trail to Kansas on the savage frontier.

The Bandera Trail

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, cross the border after him and soon discover half of Mexico’s army wants them dead. Taken prisoner by Santa Anna’s soldiers, the brothers make a daring escape and head into Durango country, where they stumble on a valley full of longhorns and a chance to build a future north of the border. All they have to do now is break Duval out of prison and drive the cattle to safety.

But faced with outlaws, soldiers and the cunning plans of a beautiful woman, the Austins are finding out that this isn’t a trail drive, it’s a war to reach the Bandera Range alive. And the only way to do it is the Texan way figting for every bloody, dusty mile ahead.

The California Trail

An extraordinary saga of the trail blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. Across the Pecos, the Rio Colorado and La Panza mountains, the Texans and their longhorns kept charging all the way to California gold!Between The Bandera Range And California, They Faced All The Challenges Of Man And God, But Nothing Could Ever Make Them Quit. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five millionmaverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive themnorth 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 making trail drives. The California TrailGold fever had hit California, and suddenly, the land was full of hungry pioneers. For Gil and Van Austin, two Texas brothers, it meant the chance to sell well grazed longhorns after years of hard ranching and a treacherous cattle drive up through Mexico. The only trouble was that California was on the other side of a searing desert, swollen rivers, a barrage of Indian attacks, and a whole passel of outlaw trouble. And while the Texans and their men were ready and willing to take it all on, there was one thing they weren’t prepared for: the ultimate act of treachery and deceit in a land of schemers, dreamers and gold!

The Shawnee Trail

Stampedes, rustlers, and hostile Indians wouldn’t slow them down. They were bound for Kansas, and a Texas sized fight!The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maerick longhorns and the brains, brown and boldness to drive them north 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. The Shawnee TrailLong John Coons, the Cajun son of a conjuring woman, was driving 2,000 head of cattle north from Texas to the railroad in Kansas through Indian Territory and outlaw strongholds. At his side was a beautiful woman with a sordid past, three ex cattle rustlers, some renegate Indians, Mexican vanqueros and a straight laced young trail boss. And while Long John tried to keep his hot headed crew from killing each other before they reached the end of the line, the biggest dangers was waiting up ahead where an all out war in Kansas make the Texas fight together, or die at the same time.

The Virginia City Trail

Through a thousand miles of dust, fists, and guns, they found the courage to keep on driving. The only riches Texans had 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 making trail drives. The Virginia City TrailWith a dream of building a ranching empire in Montana, Nelson Story sets off on one of the most extraordinary journeys in frontier history. By his side was a bunch of misfits and renegades hard fighting, war bitten Texans with nothing left to lose. On his tail as the worst kind of enemy brutal outlaws fixing to bleed his trail drive dry. Pushing his way through four harsh territories and three brutal seasons, Story would defy the Union Army, get a hold of a hundred Remingtons, and take on a thousand riled up Sioux warriors, before he reached Virginia City and came face to face with the man who wanted him dead…

The Dodge City Trail

For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five millionmaverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive themnorth 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 making trail drives. The Dodge City TrailDodge City was a businessman’s dream. And a cattle drive north with thousands of unbranded longhorns and a remuda of stolen Mexican horses was a dream of Texans like Dan Ember, who’d come home from the war to find a rich man’s hired guns living on his land. Now Dan and his neighbors would risk everything on a drive across the Llano. Along the way, two bands of killers would fight over them, the gunslinger Clay Allison would join up with them, and Quanah Parker’s Comanches would try to thwart them in a bold adventure fueled by the courage to face death, the pride to keep going, and the knowledge that now, there was no turning back.

The Oregon Trail

They Risked Their Lives To Bring Cattle to Missouri. Now They Faced A Journey Twics As Dangerous…
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five millionmaverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive themnorth 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 making trail drives. The Oregon TrailLou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their fourteen Texas cowboys briught a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer’s men were running out of time to reach the wide open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden in one of the pilgrims’ wooden wagons and outlaws circling like wolves there were miles of shooting and dying still ahead.

The Santa Fe Trail

An extraordinary saga of the trail blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. They left Missouri and were headed to Santa Fe. Standing in their way was a parched desert, a land of outlaws and enemies and one man’s dangerous past. He was a wealthy englishman with two beautiful daughters. They were five dusty texans and a gambling man. And they were all on the ride of their lives. The only riches Texans had 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 making trail drives. The Santa Fe TrailGavin 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 courageous, hardened riders weren’t just a thousand brutal miles from Santa Fe they were heading into a death trap.

The Old Spanish Trail

An extraordinary saga of the trail blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the great frontier. Hard riding Texans were braving mountains, desert and Indian war for the promise of a golden land called California…
Over one million copies of Ralph Compton’s Trail Drive novels in print!Missouri was closed to Texas cattle. Santa Fe was closed by murder. Now, they had one choice: cross desert mountains and hostile Indian land to a place called California…
The only riches Texans had 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. For the ranchers riding with Rand Hayes, things had gone from bad to worse. The Santa Fe man who’d contracted five thousand head of cattle was dead murdered by renegades. Now the Texans had a herd of longhorns and only one choice: cross two mountain ranges and the Mojave Desert to the gold fevered market at Los Angeles. A trail blazed by ancient Spaniards, this was a route that would lead through a brutal, wondrous land, where a hostile Ute nation was only one danger the cattle drive faced, and California was a shooting war away…

The Green River Trail

The year was 1853. For handful of cowboys turned California Gold Rushers, it was time to go home. Then Lonnie Kilgore and his fellow Texans met Western legend and former mountain man Jim Bridger, who told them of a lush range waiting to be claimed in northern Utah. Now, the Texans have purchased land on the Green river and come to San Antonio to gather up some longhorns. But with Indian trouble, law trouble, and woman trouble along for the ride, the cowboys are finding out the truth about this paradise: to live on land you bought and paid for, you have to be willing to die…

The Deadwood Trail

They had beaten the harsh odds of the frontier. But for the two powerful ranchers, the most formidable trail lay ahead. There had never been a trail drive like this before…
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn, and boldness to drive them to market along treacherous trails. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary series based on the history blazing trail drives. For veteran ranchers Nelson Story of Montana, and Benton McCaleb of Wyoming, it was an opportunity a man didn’t pass up. In gold camps of the Black Hills, miners were hungry for beef, at boomtown prices. But within the two outfits were Indians, gunmen, Texans, lovesick cowboys, and high spirited women. Worse, the drive would pass through Crow and Sioux territory, when Custer’s defeat at the Little Big Horn was just hours away. The drives were tangled by violent grudges, stampeding herds, and dangerous deception. The two brawling outfits had one thing in common: a deadly surprise awaiting them at the end of the trail…

The Dakota Trail (By:Robert Vaughan)

Desperate to save his destitute hometown, ex cavalryman Dick Judson plans a cattle drive run by greenhorn children. But a gang of merciless cutthroats is waiting for them and wants to stop them dead in their tracks…

The Alamosa Trail (By:Robert Vaughan)

The Trail Drive Series After the merciless Blizzard of 1886, times are tough, but on the Trailback Ranch, the cowboys are tougher. From horse racing to train robbing, they’ll survive on whatever schemes their wits can muster until a job comes their way…
And infamous gunslinger Clay Allison needs a few good men to rustle a herd up from Mexico into Colorado across the equally infamous Alamosa.

The Bozeman Trail (By:Robert Vaughan)

The Trail Drive Series A Spur Award winning Author James Cason, Duke Faglier, and Revelation Scattergood will drive a herd of cattle from San Antonio, Texas, to the Dakota Territory for one large payoff. But as they head off on the trail that leads through Sioux country, the Civil War rages, gold fever strikes, deadly enemies lurk and they’re not sure if they can trust one another. Available in Western 8 & 14 Series.

The Abilene Trail (By:Dusty Richards)

A former Confederate Army officer, Ben McCullough is now 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 is relying on his ex sergeant, Hap, and a bunch of greenhorns he’s recruited to help. But the stampedes and raging rivers are nothing compared to the gang of outlaws waiting to rustle the herd.

The Palo Duro Trail (By:Jory Sherman)

A favorite of western fans. Dagstaff has to drive 4,000 longhorns over a thousand miles up the Palo Duro trail, facing furious storms, Comanches, treacherous rivers and a hired killer among his drivers.

The Ogallala Trail (By:Dusty Richards)

The ranchers of Frio Springs are praying that veteran cowpuncher Sam Ketchum will succeed in driving their cattle to the rich markets of Nebraska. But ghosts still haunt Sam from his last drive and the road has only become tougher. Comanches, cattle, and notorious gunslingers wait to strike along the way. To make matters worse, Sam finds himself caught up in a deadly family feud that he may have to settle before his own trail comes to an end.

The Ellsworth Trail (By:Jory Sherman)

A longhorn traildrive becomes a road to revenge for ramrodder Jock Kane, out to avenge the death of his bride by chasing down her killer Jock’s own brother, Abel.

The Tenderfoot Trail (By:Joseph A. West)

The Whoop Up Trail is two hundred miles of rough terrain between Montana and Canada, littered with spiky brushwood, crawling with clawed and fanged critters of all shapes and sizes, and traversed by hostile Indians and vicious outlaws. But for Luke Garrett framed for a murder he didn’t commit, saddled with five mail order brides, driving what’s left of his cattle herd, and pursued by vigilantes it’s the only chance for survival.

Trail to Cottonwood Falls (By:Dusty Richards)

Ed Wright has one last chance to prove himself. The former cowboy and Ranger gets back on the horse to drive a herd of cattle from Texas to Kansas but must contend with a rival outfit who will stop at nothing to see him fail.

The Amarillo Trail (By:Jory Sherman)

Doc Blaine needs to drive 3,000 head of cattle from Texas to Kansas, and needs his sons Jared and Miles to help. Unfortunately, his sons are in love with the same woman and have vowed to kill each other on sight…

The Border Empire

Taking up the custom made Colts of his late father, murdered in the streets of El Paso by Mexico’s notorious Sandlin gang, Wes Stone trades his aspirations to be a lawman for his thirst for vengeance.’

Six guns and Double Eagles

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 guhns. 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…

Train to Durango

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 700 miles ahead of him and headed straight for the Denver mint.

Doomsday Rider

Buck Fletcher, framed for a murder he did not commit, is presented with an intriguing offer that may stave his sentence and give him another shot at the freedom he rightly deserves. With a hardened bounty hunter on his tracks, Fletcher must rescue a senator’s disgraced daughter and make it out of Arizona alive, before the senator’s minions or the Apaches that have set the countryside to flames bring him down.

Showdown at Two-Bit Creek

Infamous shootist Buck Fletcher befriends a female victim of a range war and finds himself threatened by one side, courted by the other.

Vengeance Rider

When Buck Fletcher’s valuable racehorse is stolen by six vicious outlaws he goes after them alone until he teams up with frail, dying Doc Holliday. The two unlikely allies take to the vengeance trail, determined to write six epitaphs in lead.

Death Rides a Chestnut Mare

The national bestselling phenomenon Waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws, Daniel Strange’s lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope. Now, a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengeance trail, packing Strange’s trademark twin Colts, and answering to the same name. And he won’t stop until every last man who killed Strange shares the same fate…

The Shadow of a Noose

One year after their sister rode off to avenge their father’s death, Tim and Jed Strange are on the brink of losing the family farm. They head west hoping to find their sister, but find trouble instead. Accused of a murder they didn’t commit, they’re on the run, and seeking the true killers…
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thrilling stories of western legend.’ The Huntsville, Alabama Times ‘If you like Louis L’Amour, you’ll love Ralph Compton.’ Quanah TX Tribune Chief

Riders of Judgement

In her guise as ‘Danny Duggin’, Danielle Strange has spent the past two years hunting down the outlaws who murdered her father. Reunited with her brothers, the twins Tim and Jed, she plans to take her war across the border into Mexico unaware she’s being pursued by a U.S. federal marshall…

Death Along the Cimarron

On a cattle drive north, young gun Danielle Strange falls in love with one of the drovers. Now she must choose between letting him, the last of her father’s murderers, go free, and sacrificing her own life to send the bushwhacker to Hell.

West Of The Law

Ordered to head west when a New York gangster puts a price on his head for killing his son, Detective Sergeant John McBride ends up in High Hopes, Colorado a lawless boomtown where McBride quickly runs afoul of corrupt saloon owner Gamble Trask and his vicious hired guns.

When beautiful card dealer Shannon Roark asks for his protection, it’s high time for one of New York’s finest to dole out some frontier justice of his own.

Shadow of the Gun

John McBride purchased a restaurant in the town of Suicide, hoping to put his past behind him. But with marauding Apaches, vicious outlaws, and rising tensions amongst the townsfolk, Suicide is a powder keg waiting to explode and McBride’s presence just may be enough to light the fuse…

Blood on the Gallows

HIS GUN SPEAKS FOR THE OPRESSED Former big city detective John McBride is an easygoing man until a cold blooded town sheriff warns him to mind his own business, or face a lynching. Driven by his sense of justice, McBride takes on the sheriff, an evil mayor and his cruel psychotic son, and a small army of hired gunmen. Helped by a mysterious white haired, quick drawing preacher, McBride shoulders a task most men would flee from. But John McBride isn t most men

Bullet Creek

Retired gunslinger Tom Navarro is more than happy working at the Bar V Ranch while planning a future with the woman he loves. But when a local landowner is murdered, Navarro must strap on his six irons once mroe to stop an all out range war.

The Dawn of Fury

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.

The Killing Season

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.

Autumn of the Gun

The final installment of the Trail of the Gunfighter trilogy finds the legendary gunslinger, Nathan Stone, on a collision course with the one man as quick on the draw as he, the teenage son he never knew.

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