Ralph Compton

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 Trail With a dream of building...

"Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife,a nd courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm--the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and Plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman--arrives in the heart of Comanche country 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. Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas brakes with a...

Danielle Strange disguises herself as Danny Duggin to track down and kill the men who murdered her father--with bounty hunters on her trail and a U.S. federal marshall pursuing her.

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.

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 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 Dodge City Trail....

In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some three hundred miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad…THE WESTERN TRAIL Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys traveled long and hard to drive thousands of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're in the midst...

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...

When Civil War veteran Nathan Stone returns home to Virginia, he learns that his father has been butchered and his mother and sister raped and slain. The seven renegades who perpetrated the crimes have ridden away into the West. Stone's vow for revenge takes him seven long years, across an untamed frontier and, along the way, he becomes one of the greatest gunfighters of them all.