Nathan Stone was a living legend in the West as a lawman, as an outlaw, as a gambler, as a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, he played his cards and used his Colt .45s as best he could in games of chance, skill, and savagery, for stakes of life or death.Now he was riding on a course that would test his rawhide nerve and lightning draw against the likes of Doc Holliday, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the fleeing James brothers, and the incredible John Wesley Hardin – as he headed toward a fateful rendezvous with the number one gunfighter as fast and deadly as he: the teenage kid who killed like a man and was Nathan Stone’s son…

Nathan Stone was a living legend in the West as a lawman, as an outlaw, as a gambler, as a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, he played his cards and used his Colt .45s as best he could in games of chance, skill, and savagery, for stakes of life or death.Now he was riding on a course that would test his rawhide nerve and lightning draw against the likes of Doc Holliday, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the fleeing James brothers, and the incredible John Wesley Hardin – as he headed toward a fateful rendezvous with the number one gunfighter as fast and deadly as he: the teenage kid who killed like a man and was Nathan Stone’s son…

Four men–Jess Donner, a Rebel and Southern gentleman; Steve Ellsworth, a ladies man with a foul temper; Stu Wilkens, a Yankee; and Heck Myers, a teller of tall tales–find their friendship sorely tested by a dance hall girl and a gang of outlaws. The four friends have traveled to Dodge City to rest their saddle-weary bodies, but trouble erupts between them and some less than reputable characters over the attentions of a dance hall girl. If the boys can keep their wits about them and their hands steady, they might just make it out of Dodge…

A gunslinger is forced out of retirement in this western in Ralph Compton’s USA Today bestselling series. Tom Navarro, a hostler at the Bar-V Ranch, has retired his gun-slinging boots to find peace of mind. As much as he enjoys working for Paul Vannorsdell, owner and operator of Bar-V, Navarro has plans of moving up north with the woman he loves to open his own ranch and create a new life for himself. Vannorsdell, too, has big dreams: he wants to buy the Rancho de Cava from an old friend, Don Francisco, so he can become one of the largest landholders in Southern Arizona. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Don Francisco is found dead by Bullet Creek. His sons and the rest of the Rancho de Cava ranchers suspect Vannorsdell. Immediately, the boys from Rancho de Cava begin a war with the Bar-V hostlers. And Navarro soon finds himself smack in the middle of a torrent of lead.

In this brand-new Ralph Compton Western, a hard-bitten gambler and a hard-luck kid begin a treacherous
journey to new lives.

In Omaha, Tom Calvert boards a riverboat to play high-stakes poker, but accusations of cheating cause some
serious trouble, and a deadly gun battle ensues.

Tom is injured and knows that his enemies will be looking for him, so he reluctantly accepts a bargain from young
stowaway Asher. In exchange for Calvert teaching him gunslinging skills, Asher will guide him to a possibly mythical
town of peace and plenty called Friendly Field. To get there they just have to battle assassins, dangerous Shoshone, and
the rough wilderness of the Oregon Trail.

A woman sates her lust for vengeance in this Ralph Compton western… 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. With fiery green eyes and a temper to match, he won’t stop until every last man who killed Strange shares the same fate. And as each bullet finds its mark, his victims will die never knowing the truth: that Daniel Strange may be dead and buried, but his daughter is alive-and killing…

WHERE THE LIVING IS HARD AND THE KILLING IS EASY…It’s in the lawless Indian Territory that Daniel Strange meets his demise. Riding his chestnut mare to Texas to buy himself some cattle, the best gunsmith in St. Joseph, Missouri, gets waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws. His lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope — robbing his family of a loving husband and father….DEATH CAN’T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWNNow, a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengeance trail — packing Daniel Strange’s trademark twin Colts, riding the same chestnut mare, and answering to the same name. With fiery green eyes and a temper to match, he won’t stop until every last man who killed Daniel Strange shares the same fate. And as each bullet finds its mark, his victims will die never knowing the truth: that Daniel Strange may be dead and buried, but his daughter is alive — and killing….

Willis Lander was once the T-Bar ranch’s best bronc buster. Then came the day when a stallion as black as pitch and as mean as a rattler shattered his knee. Unable to perform the duties required of a cowboy, Willis took the only job he felt capable of handling-minding the line shack forty miles from the ranch-and secluded himself from the pity of his peers in the Wyoming wilderness. Now, the T-Bar is being sold, leaving Willis to wonder whether the new owner will want to keep a broken bronc buster on the payroll. Laurella Hendershot is a Texan rancher grateful for the opportunity to leave the Lone Star State behind and build a new life for herself. And she just may be Willis’ last chance.

A ruthless rancher crosses the wrong man in this western in Ralph Compton’s USA Today bestselling series… Haunted by memories of the Civil War, Coy Jennings just wants to find work as a ranch hand and to begin saving for a small farm where he could finally enjoy peace and quiet. Arriving in the Texas settlement of Phantom Hill, Coy soon befriends a damaged but likable stable hand by the name of Ira Dalton and hopes for a future with a lovely widowed mother and her eight-year-old daughter. In order to make the Hill a decent place to settle down, Coy must wage a new kind of war and take a stand against ruthless ranch owner Lester Sinclair, his sadistic sons, and the murderous band of cattle rustlers who work for them. And after the Sinclairs turn on innocent Ira, Coy is driven to seek justice for his trusted friend…cost what it may. More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

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.

Two old ranch hands lead one last trail drive but they can’t escape death along the way in a brand new thrilling western in Ralph Compton’s trail drive series.

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 cowboys put together a crew.

The trail to Kansas is fraught with dangers both natural and man made, but when Chance is killed by rustlers, Big Jake has one more task in before him, extract vengeance for his old friend.

USA Today best-selling author David Robbins’ searing Western tales capture all the thunder and lightning of Ralph Compton’s extraordinary legacy. In Blood Duel, Jeeter Frost is targeted by reporters seeking insider details of the “Missouri Man-Killer.” Jeeter knows he’s done his share of killin’, but his inability to read the so-called true accounts of his exploits makes his trigger finger burn worse than ever.

In this compelling new installment of bestseller Ralph Compton’s The Gunfighter series, a man driven by
the destruction of his family seeks to protect a woman and her children from a band of desperados.

John Stockbridge was once a peaceful man of medicine. Now, he’s better known as Dr. Vengeance, a man who is as
fast with a shotgun as any other gunfighter is with a six-gun. The murders of his wife and child left him with an aching
hole where his soul once was. His only solace comes from wandering the West.

Along the way, he encounters a woman and her two children searching for their missing fur-trapper husband/
father in the Rockies. In the process, they run afoul of some foul former Confederates who have amassed money and
local power by robbing those traveling west through a mountain pass. While searching for the missing trapper–and
aided by a Mexican mountain man and an independent woman who works at the local hotel–Stockbridge must take
down the vicious highwaymen one by one.

The proud tradition of Ralph Compton’s epic Westerns carries on with the scintillating work of bestseller Joseph A. West. Blood on the Gallows features John McBride, a former New York City lawman who’s moved west to pursue a more peaceful existence. But easy living just isn’t in the cards. And when a town sheriff with a Texas-size chip on his shoulder decides to make trouble, McBride knows that one way or another, somebody’s headed for an early grave.

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.

With works that embody the soaring spirit and gritty allure of the famed Ralph Compton novels, Joseph A. West captures the full flavor of the West with his hard-hitting tales. John Tone is a ruthless bounty hunter willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. Once he’s set his sights on someone, that fugitive’s as good as caught. But when he encounters a cunning criminal from the Barbary Coast, the tables are turned.

GOD HELP HIM Before hearing the call of the Lord, Paul had seen more than his share of sin– mostly his own. But since he came to minister to the small town of Pueblito Verde, most of what he sees are tamer transgressions. Knowing his own past, Paul believes the occasional mistake doesn’ t make someone truly evil. But some men are more evil than others. When the brutal Jack Kerrigan and his band of ruffians hit town, Paul’ s new life starts to go bad. Then things go from bad to worse when ruthless bounty hunter Dave Sprole arrives with money and murder on his mind. Now, the town is caught in the crossfire between two cold-blooded killers– and Paul knows that it’ s time for him to stand up for what he believes in

In this exciting new Ralph Compton western, a man without a memory meets an unforgettable ally: the one and only Bat Masterson.

Riding into the town of Smoky River on a mangy mule, Dane looks as broken down as his old mount. His Stetson
is ragged, his boots are tied together with leather thongs, and he wears a Colt Army revolver with exactly three bullets.
He wouldn’t know what to say if you asked him where he got the gun, or how he learned to shoot it so well. He
doesn’t know if Dane is his first name or his last. Something happened that cost him much of his memory, and he
can’t remember what that something was. For three years he’s been traveling the West as a cowboy, a buffalo hunter, a
farmhand. Smoky River looks to be a fine place to settle down. If only his past didn’t decide to catch up to him here …

“Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddlesore.”-Publishers Weekly BLOOD TIES The life of a cowboy suits Thalis Christie just fine. A puncher for the Crescent H in Texas, he loves what he does and is damn good at it too. He doesn’t even mind being away from his family-he’s got good friends to keep him from getting too homesick. That is, until his folks write, imploring him to hunt down his brother, Myles, who’s been shot while prospecting in the Black Hills. Thalis sets out to do his family duty and find his little brother-still alive, he hopes. Thalis has got his partner, Ned Leslie, by his side, as well as some other surprising travel companions, including the famous Wild Bill Hickok. But as he follows his brother’s wandering trail across the country, leading him to encounter deadly obstacles from Texas to Blood Gulch, he begins to wonder if he can ever return to the comfortable life he used to lead-or if he even wants to..

Ralph Compton created a distinct brand of Western that lives on in the epic tales bearing his name. Bullet for a Bad Man features brothers Boone and Epp, who have little in common besides a God-given ability to draw steel with eye-searing speed. Happy raising cattle, Boone wonders at his brother’s lawlessness. But he never thought Epp’s ambitions would turn brother against brother-nor imagine he’d face the prospect of sending his own kin to the next world.

National best-selling phenomenon Ralph Compton’s legacy lives on with By the Horns. A greenhorn-an Englishman, no less-arrives in Whiskey Flats to purchase one of the Bar 40’s best longhorns. Owen, the ranch foreman, must escort the tenderfoot on the drive from Texas to Wyoming. But Luke Deal and his gang of ruthless cowboys have been hankerin’ to get even with Owen, and this seems like the perfect time to settle an old score.

FAMILY MATTERS Thad Taylor is no one’s idea of a fine man. Usually drunk and shiftless, he’s disapproved of by most-especially his father. But when his father doesn’t return from a trip across the Kansas plains, Thad is the only one who can search for him. And he’s far from ready for the ordeal. Because his father is already dead. He has fallen victim to the bloody Benders-a demented family who lures travelers into their cabin way station only to rob and brutally murder them. Now, for his father’s memory, Thad must hunt the Benders down and deliver them either to the law-or to the grave.

Brian Middleton left his father’s ranch long ago to make his own way. But now, he’s returned to claim the land his late father left him — and learns the hard way that if you want to keep something in the wild West, you have to fight for it. With local lowlifes and shady con-men after the Dancing M ranch, Middleton has no choice but to make a stand….

An icon in the Western genre, Ralph Compton’s legacy continues with his USA Today best-selling novels. Solomon Brakefield has been wronged one too many times after doing the right thing. He’s so fed up with leading a noble life that he seeks out legendary killer and train robber Nestor Quarles to learn the ways of the outlaw. Nestor is willing to oblige, but the price may be more than Solomon cares to pay.

In this thrilling new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton’s The Gunfighter series, a man wakes
with no memory of who he is–or why someone wants him dead.

A gunman without a gun wakes up in Death Valley. He has no recollection of how he got there or even his own
name. He’s a dead man walking until his luck turns. He stumbles upon the homestead of a widow and her young son
who nurse him back to health.

In the desert good deeds come at a cost. The amnesiac is being trailed by hard men who want answers he doesn’t
have. First a group of gunslingers then a troop of soldiers threaten the innocent family. Their only hope of rescue is the
very man who got them in this predicament.

But how can he help them when he doesn’t even know who he is? At least the men who want to kill him seem to
know his name. Maybe they’ll put it on his gravestone.

LET THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD. 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 a crime and left his helpers to swing for it. Hungry for revenge, the murderous headcases have overrun the Double-Cross and are holding Sue-Ellen prisoner. They believe she’s harboring some very important information. Ty boldly rescues her from the ranch–to find their troubles are only beginning….

At fifty, cattle driver Sam Sawyer thinks he can finally dust off and retire, maybe open an eating house. But after a pack of Apache ambushes him and leaves him to die in Gila River country, he barely makes it to a remote ranch. The owner, Hanna Stewart, has worked the desert spread with her young daughter ever since her husband went for a ride and never returned. For years, she’ s been victimized by the corrupt sheriff of Lost Mine, Vic Moseley. Turns out, Moseley’ s evil intentions don’ t stop with Hannah Stewart. And things are fixing to get downright bloody. After a lifetime in the saddle, Sam’ s about to ride not only the hardest trail of his life– but possibly the last….

In this brand-new Ralph Compton Western, the drovers of the Bar X ranch will face sandstorms, renegades, and outlaws along the historic Cimarron trail.

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 will need to use all of the skill and knowledge he’s acquired over his long and violent career.

Ralph Compton’s USA Today best-selling Westerns draw praise for their hard-hitting plots and rough-hewn characters. His legacy carries on through the talented pen of Joseph A. West. Passing through Crooked Creek, Utah, Chance Tyree runs afoul of the law, and soon finds himself on the wrong end of a hanging rope. Only Owen Fowler can help him. But is Owen a friend or is he the harbinger of even greater trouble for Chance?

Their friendship started with a schoolyard tussle. Now, the need for revenge is what binds Luke Croft and Red Connover together. When Luke taught himself how to fire a Colt, he never imagined he’d turn into a gunman. But when his stepfather’s dodgy business dealings turn his life upside down, Luke asks Red to help him destroy the man who murdered his kin. The road to vengeance is long and hard, and the two friends who are barely out of boyhood will need all the help they can get if they want to catch a cold-blooded killer.

Two struggling miners may have just found their ticket to fortune–if they can keep it–in this riveting new Ralph Compton Western.

England Dan Rutledge and his partner John Cooley have worked their claim for a year and are barely eking out a living. When Cooley shows up with a map of the abandoned Irish Lord Mine he drunkenly bought off a shady cowboy, England Dan is sure it’s a complete fraud. After all, no one knows what happened to the most valuable gold mine in the Superstition Mountains after a banshee frightened off the last owner.

But when England Dan gets a good look at the map, details start clicking into place. Maybe they have the key to a fortune after all! But soon an infamous bank robber shows up looking for this mysterious map he claims is his. Now England Dan and his partner will have to fight off hostile Indians, miners, and a dangerous felon to find the cache of gold and strike it rich.

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. The townspeople pool their money so Newcombe can enter the big poker game in Golden Junction, and as much as he wants to leave his past life behind, the whole town is counting on him. Winning the big pot will burnish his reputation, but his goal is simple: Get the money and get out alive. His opponents include wealthy ranchers, tinhorn gamblers, and men who are outright criminals–and many of them will stop at nothing to make their fortune, even if they have to cheat, drug, or kill to do so….

The USA Today best-selling Ralph Compton novels embody the rugged terrain and never-say-die spirit of the Old West. In North to the Salt Fork, Dusty Richards pens a gripping tale of one man’s fight for the life he’s earned. Captain Jack Starr, a veteran Confederate soldier, looks to Lost Dog Creek as the place he’ll find some measure of peace. But there are those who won’t leave a man be, and Jack will once again have to test his mettle staring down the end of a rifle.

Eli had always led the life of an outlaw. Cutting corners and breaking the law, he knows how to get away with pretty much anything– until he’ s caught red handed attempting to rob a wagon set out as a trap. Imprisoned and alone, Eli is unsure whether the members of his gang have made it out alive, or if the men behind the disguised wagon are after his life. But he is sure about Lyssa– the beauty who selflessly takes care of him in prison. As Eli struggles to reform his law breaking ways, he is forced to come into terms with the man he has become and who he wants to be

Popular author Marcus Galloway continues the tradition of the legendary Ralph Compton with Outlaw’s Reckoning-a classic Western tale with an intriguing twist. Outlaws Gus McCord and Doyle Hill aren’t exactly model citizens, so when they happen upon the kidnapping of a shipping mogul’s daughter, every instinct in their thievin’ bones says to walk away. But this time is different, and the ruthless duo vow to do whatever it takes to save the girl.

In this roller-coaster new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton’s Sundown Riders series, a young cowhand faces a trial by fire on his way to a new home and an old love.

Fresh from a successful trail drive, cattle hand Seth Coe is feeling flush, especially after a lucky streak at the poker table. But his good fortune earns him a dangerous enemy, notorious tinhorn gambler Hannibal Fisher, who is none too happy about being cleaned out.

The innocent Coe starts the long ride back to Texas with big plans to buy his own ranch. All he needs now, he figures, is a wife. To his amazement, in tiny Prairie Fire, Kansas he meets the perfect woman, his childhood love Josette Dubois. But she is under the thumb of her brutal father, who will stop at nothing to prevent her happiness, including killing Coe–that is, if Fisher doesn’t get there first…

The grit and glory that became a trademark of Ralph Compton’s best-selling Westerns is on full display in this thrilling tale. Here Deputy U.S. Marshal Augustus Crane rides to Rawhide Flat to collect accused robber Judah Walsh for a trial in Virginia City. But Crane gets more trouble than he bargained for when the townsfolk decide Walsh can’t leave unless he reveals where he hid the loot.

A cattle drive faces long odds in this exciting new installment in Ralph Compton’s Trail Drive series.

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 obstacles thrown up by Mother Nature, cattle rustlers and crooked lawmen. But even their safe arrival in Wichita will offer no relief if he can’t make it home in time to save his ranch from the bank–and his wife from the predations of their rapacious neighbor. . .

In this breathless new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton’s The Gunfighter Series, an ex-con
fights to free his hometown from the clutches of a greedy land baron.

When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he
walks into the sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn’t commit.

His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which
he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he’d
known since boyhood–and of one special girl, Darla Winslow.

What he finds instead is a town dramatically changed. Once a happy and carefree place to live, it is now populated
by people who are angry and afraid. One man, Captain Archer Ringewald, has taken control of the town, and he’s
turning the townspeople, even Darla, against Taylor. Can one ex-con single-handedly save an entire town?

A farmer is pulled into the world of outlaws when his estranged brother turns up dead in this new Ralph
Compton Western.

Brothers Clay and Cal Breckenridge, sons of a hardscrabble East Texas farmer, never did see eye to eye. Clay, the
eldest, returned home after the Civil War to help his father run the family farm; Cal deserted his military post and
disappeared into a new life with a new name. Everyone knew who was the good son and who was the bad.

Clay had almost forgotten his wayward brother until the morning a limping horse approaches the farm with young
Cal Breckenridge’s body slumped in the saddle, shot in the back.

Vowing to avenge Cal’s death, Clay sets off on a perilous journey across the West to find the man responsible and
bring him to justice–and take down an outlaw enterprise in the process.

When an ex-lawman is released from prison, he hopes to put his past behind him; but that might not be an
easy task in this fast-paced new entry in bestseller Ralph Compton’s Gunfighter series.

Matt Wheeler was a legend in the West. His fast gun and dedication to justice made him a sought-after lawman
for hire, but all of that promise vanished one sunny day when his wife was shot down in cold blood by a heartless
bank robber.

The thirst for vengeance sent Wheeler on a quest to find the killer. For taking the law into his own hands, the
former lawman was convicted and sent to prison.

Seven and a half years have passed, and Wheeler has completed his sentence. One question remains: Will he ride
for vengeance or for justice?

Fighting against overwhelming odds, a lawman seeks to save the town he’s sworn to protect from a dangerous gang.

Marshal John Beck was the law in the dangerous town of Mother Lode, Arizona. On his own, he’d managed to keep bandits, rustlers, and desperados at
bay. It was a tough job for one man to handle, but he made it work … until the day Bram Hogan and his Brickhouse Gang got the drop on the lawman.

They beat Beck to within an inch of his life and dropped him in the desert, where nothing but a slow, painful death awaited him. But the gang
underestimated Beck. At his lowest point, he found a way to survive. Now he’s coming back, and anyone who stands against him is going to ride the hammer down to the grave.

The literary legacy of USA Today best-selling author and Medicine Pipe Bearer Award nominee Ralph Compton lives on in Ride the Hard Trail. Hiding from the law, brothers Lin and Chancy Bryce hire on as cowpunchers at a widow’s ranch. But soon they’re embroiled in a range war with a nefarious cattle baron who has a small army of hired guns protecting his interests.

The best-selling Ralph Compton novels evoke the American frontier at a time when heroes and villains settled disputes with the exchange of hot lead. In the Sweet Grass Valley, Kent Tovey’s Circle T ranch and Dar Pierce’s DP ranch sit on either side of the Rio Largo River. Tovey and Pierce have no beef with each other-until a no-good schemer instigates a bloody feud between the old friends.

With tales of rugged heroes and gun-barrel justice, Ralph Compton became a beacon for aspiring Western authors. Marcus Galloway maintains this legacy with Rusted Tin. Sheriff of Keith County, Nebraska, Zeke Wolpert wears a tarnished badge – taking bribes from criminals and turning a blind eye to their misdeeds. But with a shipment from Wells Fargo on its way into town, Zeke is torn between visions of setting himself up for life or finally living up to his job’s mandate.

The USA Today best-selling Ralph Compton series drives forward with this tale of a man looking to abandon his past and carve himself an honest future. John McBride purchases a restaurant in the eerily named town of Suicide. But marauding Apaches, rampaging outlaws, and even the townsfolk are driving tensions sky high-and McBride isn’t exactly a welcome newcomer.

ODD MAN OUT The Prequel to THE HUNTED! Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks and ne’er do wells who sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie. But Grady Haskell, ambitious ruffian with a shady past, soon joins the gang, convincing Charlie’s friends to pursue a big score. Charlie fails to thwart the crime and the heist turns bloody. As the only gang member caught alive, Big Charlie will soon swing for the crimes. He makes a daring escape, determined to track down Haskell and the gang and prove his innocence. Hot on Charlie’s heels, a mysterious marshal and a posse of angry townsmen track him into the High Sierras, far to the north. Weaponless and with a vicious winter storm closing in, Big Charlie must find the killers and thieves before the seething posse turns vigilante and hangs him high.

GOOD MONEY AND BAD MEN Outlaw Wes Cavanaugh knows that crime doesn’ t always pay– at least not much. That’ s why he and his partner, Mose, are willing to pay Jimmy Stock for information on a job that’ s guaranteed to pay off big. Jimmy’ s made a career of selling tips to bandits, but the job he sells Wes– a payroll train about to leave Omaha– requires more than information. It requires a straight shooter who can hit targets from a long distance awayand in the outlaw business, even a straight shooter can’ t be trusted.

KEEP YOUR HEAD ABOVE WATER Mississippi charmer Abner Mason is a professional gambler and a regular on the Delta Jack, a luxurious riverboat. But luck hasn’t exactly been going Mason’s way. After a disastrous loss at the tables, he owes an impossible debt to the most powerful man on the ship: mysterious, ruthless Cam Greeley. And Greeley’s willing to do whatever it takes to get his fortune back-even threaten Mason’s life. Now Mason has a single night to raise all the funds to pay off his debt by completing whatever ominous jobs Greeley has waiting for him. He just has to make it through alive…

USA Today best-selling author Joseph A. West writes in a style befitting the literary legacy of legendary Western author Ralph Compton. In Stryker’s Revenge, Lieutenant Steve Stryker is bound and determined to settle an old score with Rake Pierce, who left him a scarred and broken man. Now Rake is running guns to the Apaches, and Stryker sees an opportunity for payback that he just can’t pass up.

Spur Award winner Jory Sherman takes the reins for the next installment of Ralph Compton’s long-running Trail Drive series. Doc Blaine has agreed to drive 3,000 head of cattle from Texas to Kansas, and the only help around are his sons Jared and Miles. But the boys are in love with the same woman, and their vow to kill each other on sight threatens to derail Doc’s cattle drive faster than a speeding locomotive.

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 jack-of-all-trades and drifter, will have to
work with the mixed group of drovers, whether they are white, black, Hispanic, lifelong cowboys, drifters, or shamed
preachers. On the trail, drovers must set aside their differences in favor of a common goal.

As they go north, Bishop finds himself tested: physically by the rigors of the trail; and mentally, by the grim
memories evoked by the violence necessary to protect the herd. But if they are to make it all the way to St. Louis, he’ll
have to call on every skill and ounce of knowledge he’s acquired in his checkered and violent past to overcome the
unexpected obstacles threatening the drive.

The nationally best-selling novels of Ralph Compton bare a distinct Western brand characterized by authentic period detail and thunderous action. In The Bloody Trail, Jeremiah Correy gets more than he bargained for when he and the members of his expedition are terrorized by Sam Madigan-a cold-blooded killer who’ll take anyone down without a single moment of remorse.

The legacy of legendary Western author Ralph Compton can be heard in the explosive tales penned by Joseph A. West. A ruthless murderer known as the Fat Man is terrorizing Green Meadow, Oklahoma, which sits over a massive store of black gold. The Fat Man will kill anyone who stands in his way. But gambler Chauncey Drake and Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers aren’t the kind to back down easy, and the stars are aligning for a showdown of epic proportions.

OLD FRIENDS Chip Chippendale met Ransom Barnes after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from Texas together. But when Chip first laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was home, and the two friends split off on different trails. NEW ENEMIES Each man went on to own his own ranch, but when Ransom’s home is attacked and burned by a marauding band of Cheyenne warriors, he is faced with ruin-and makes matters worse by gunning down the Cheyenne leader’s son. A target of the most vicious renegade on the high plains, Ransom turns to his old friend Chip. And Chip never forgets his friends-even if it means making a few enemies.

In the grand tradition of legendary author Ralph Compton comes this tense, thrill-a-minute Western. Deputy Marshal Logan Kane is in for one tough ride. He’s got six ruthless convicts caged in a prison wagon, and it’s his job alone to transport them safely across treacherous, unforgiving terrain. Holding off rustlers, outlaw gangs, lynch mobs, and the criminals’ free-riding cohorts will keep Kane-and his trusty Colt-plenty busy.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT Frontier life is hard enough without having kids to worry about-especially for a widower like Paul Meakes. Still, he’s settled where he is and resolved to stay in the small Colorado town his son and daughter call home. So when his daughter is hit by a seemingly poisoned arrow during an Indian raid, Paul is determined to track down the Comanche villains who hurt his little girl-and bring them to justice with the help of Indian hunter Hank Adley, a hired gun who’s got business of his own with the tribe. But when the trail leads from a close call with Indian warriors to a deadly intrigue, Paul discovers that the dangers of the West are far greater and more varied than he ever imagined. And to save his family, he has no choice but to take a stand against them all..

The only folk left behind in Apache Creek are ghosts, including Marshall Sam Pace. Three years of solitude have turned Sam into a phantom, but when a woman on the run stumbles into town, the former lawman must protect her and make use of gunslinger skills long out of practice…

DEAD MAN WALKING Big Charlie Chilton knows better than to lose his temper, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his long-buried secrets, he can’t help but teach the man a lesson about being quiet. Unfortunately, it turns out the man was about to make an important supply run for the town’s marshal, and Marshal Watt knows just enough about Shotgun Charlie’s past to draft him into service in his stead. The trek north would be treacherous enough with the snow and the threat of an Indian attack, but the ragtag drunkards running the freighting outfit put Charlie ill-at-ease. When bad blood springs up between them, Charlie is left for dead on the side of the mountain. But they should have made sure he was really gone–because the wounded bear of a man isn’t down for the count, and he’s ready to bring vengeance on those who did him wrong…

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…

BLOOD AND BANKERS Dane Kramer looks forward to the day when his sprawling Oklahoma cattle ranch will truly be his– no strings attached. With only one more bank payment to make, and a buyer in Omaha ready to pay top dollar for a herd of Herefords, he should finally have the banker Earl Throckmorton off his back. But Earl has a plan to keep the ranch for himself, and if he has his way, Dane’ s herd will never make it across the Omaha Trail– and Dane won’ t make it home alive Up against Earl’ s hired gang of outlaws, Dane must do whatever it takes to bring in the herd– but Earl has more than one trick up his sleeve. Planting one of his own men in Dane’ s newly hired team of cowhands could be just the insurance he needs

Rancher Cage Clayton has been hired to track down a man who years ago left a destructive path in his wake. Though he doesn’t know what Lissome Terry looks like, Clayton knows his target is in Bighorn Point, so finding him shouldn’t be too hard. But when the town Marshall only gives Clayton a week to find his man, catching him will be anything but easy…

In this brand-new, suspenseful Ralph Compton Western, a reformed gambler races to unmask a murderer.

After years as a professional gambler–and a deadly shootout on a riverboat casino–Tom Calvert and his young protege, Asher Smith, have survived an arduous journey across the frontier to Friendly Field, Idaho. The bucolic Quaker community welcomes them with open arms, and soon Tom is courting a widow and learning, to his surprise, to enjoy the quiet life.

Then an elder of Friendly Field is found murdered, and the townsfolk start whispering about the work of the devil. Tom doesn’t believe in the devil, just the evil that men do, and he resolves to solve the gruesome crime before fear causes the people of peaceful little Friendly Field to turn against one another.

A man rides a path of vengeance in this all-new Ralph Compton Western in the Sundown
Riders series.

Luke Hadley never imagined he would be left for dead with a chest full of bullets on the day of his
wedding. All he wanted to do was tend to his farm with his new wife, Audrey, and begin their lives together.

But when the Rhodes Gang crashes his wedding party, they wreak havoc and abduct his bride, leaving
the lifeless bodies of his guests. Luke has only a sparse trail of clues to follow, but with help from a phony
Pinkerton badge and a mysterious woman with many skills–including breaking him out of jail–he finally
rides down those who’ve wronged him. …

With over four million Ralph Compton books in print, the grand Western tradition is not being put out to pasture any time soon. After years of driving cattle and wearing a ranger’s badge, disaffected Texan Ed Wright retires-intent on drowning his sorrows with whiskey. But widowed rancher Unita Nance has one last job for him, and she won’t take no for an answer.

Taking up the mantle from legendary Western author Ralph Compton, Matthew P. Mayo delivers a searing adventure that rockets along like a runaway stagecoach. In Tucker’s Reckoning, Samuel Tucker suffers the deaths of his wife and daughter, then takes to the bottle in paroxysms of grief. After drifting from his native Texas to Oregon, Tucker witnesses a murder, little knowing that the aftermath might give him a new reason to hope – if it doesn’t spell his doom.

A towering legend among chroniclers of the OldWest, Ralph Compton penned searing tales of the highest entertainment. In this fast-paced actioner, Detective Sergeant JohnMcBride gets while the gettin’s good when a New York gangster puts a price on his head. But after landing in High Hopes, Colorado, McBride quickly finds that his troubles with the criminal sect are just beginning.

The first three books in the Trail Drive series are now together in a special collection.

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

In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across Indian Territory, this was the only was to access the railroad.

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 of setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. Now, with the help of the Shoshoni Indian tribe and a man named Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men must vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they will 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, 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 team of battle-toughened cowboys and ex-soldiers–and a vow to return to Priscilla and make her his wife–he must round up wild longhorns, ward off angry Comanches, and survive treacherous outlaw attacks as he crosses the Red River and sets off on a brazen quest to open a new trail to Kansas on the savage frontier.

SHE’S PUT NINE MEN IN BOOT HILL….In her disguise 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 bu a U.S federal marshal….ONLY ONE REMAINS….Saul Delmano comes from a powerful family of cattle-men whose business stretches from the Southwestern territories into Mexico. He’s put a $2,000 reward on “Danny Duggin’s” head, tempting every outlaw and bounty hunter across the West to try to collect it. But the cry of vengeance has been shouted out — and only justice can silence it….

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 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…

A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands. . . . That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26 when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest. Thirty seconds and thirty bullets later, three officers were wounded and three citizens lay dead in the dirt.

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.

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.

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 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 California Trail

Gold 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!

Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and 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 team of battle-toughened cowboys and ex-soldiers–and a vow to return to Priscilla and make her his wife–he must round up wild longhorns, ward off angry Comanches, and survive treacherous outlaw attacks as he crosses the Red River and sets off on a brazen quest to open a new trail to Kansas on the savage frontier.

Nathan Stone returns to his Virginia home to discover that the horrors of the Civil War are not over; his family has been wiped out, and their home burned by seven renegades. Nathan swears an oath on his father’s grave to find and kill each of the men responsible. He begins a lonely journey that will take him south and west, on a vengeance trail that crosses the paths of some infamous figures, including “Wild Bill” Hickok, Roy Bean, and Frank & Jesse James. Along the way, Nathan Stone becomes one of the greatest gunslingers of the time, handing out bloody justice to the men who took his family.

Nathan Stone returns to his Virginia home to discover that the horrors of the Civil War are not over; his family has been wiped out, and their home burned by seven renegades. Nathan swears an oath on his father’s grave to find and kill each of the men responsible. He begins a lonely journey that will take him south and west, on a vengeance trail that crosses the paths of some infamous figures, including “Wild Bill” Hickok, Roy Bean, and Frank & Jesse James. Along the way, Nathan Stone becomes one of the greatest gunslingers of the time, handing out bloody justice to the men who took his family.

Nathan Stone returns to his Virginia home to discover that the horrors of the Civil War are not over; his family has been wiped out, and their home burned by seven renegades. Nathan swears an oath on his father’s grave to find and kill each of the men responsible. He begins a lonely journey that will take him south and west, on a vengeance trail that crosses the paths of some infamous figures, including “Wild Bill” Hickok, Roy Bean, and Frank & Jesse James. Along the way, Nathan Stone becomes one of the greatest gunslingers of the time, handing out bloody justice to the men who took his family.

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

Dodge 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.

An all new Western in the USA Today bestselling series EVIL IS AS EVIL DoeS If things are quiet in the little town of Sweetwater, Marshal Fred Hitch sees no reason to make waves. But when Tyree Johnson shows up, Fred’s relaxed nature is put to the test. At fifteen years old, Tyree is a tough-as-nails bounty hunter with no patience for anyone calling him “boy.” He’s come to apprehend a killer who escaped from Cheyenne and has been hiding in plain sight in Sweetwater. To save face and his town’s good name, Fred must ride with Tyree and his prisoner all the way to Cheyenne. The unlikely pair has a rough trail ahead of them, and as tough as Tyree is, he has some lessons to learn about the evil men do-and how to survive it.

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.

In this new Ralph Compton Western, William “Bull” Kelly brings his five sons onto the cattle drive, but
when rustlers stampede the herd and injure them, he’ll do anything to protect his own.

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 the herd, some of Kelly’s sons are hurt
in the melee. The rustlers quickly find out that Kelly isn’t called “Bull” because he insists on riding at the head of the
herd. He’s called “Bull” because of his skill with the harsh whip coiled on his belt

In the 1870s, as the country recovered from the War Between the States, the expansion of railroads and the discovery of gold opened the American west to both civilization and savagery. Men and women on both sides of the law were drawn by the chance to make a fortune, and there was often a big difference between Law and Justice. Into this whirlwind rode Nathan Stone, a man whose trail of vengeance gave him a reputation for speed with a gun. He tracked and killed the seven men who murdered his family after the war. Now, the first of those deaths has come back to haunt him. He finds unlikely friends among some of the famous gunfighters and adventurers who brought life – and death – to a land that once knew only the buffalo and the Indian. Only the strongest will survive The Killing Season.

In the 1870s, as the country recovered from the War Between the States, the expansion of railroads and the discovery of gold opened the American west to both civilization and savagery. Men and women on both sides of the law were drawn by the chance to make a fortune, and there was often a big difference between Law and Justice. Into this whirlwind rode Nathan Stone, a man whose trail of vengeance gave him a reputation for speed with a gun. He tracked and killed the seven men who murdered his family after the war. Now, the first of those deaths has come back to haunt him. He finds unlikely friends among some of the famous gunfighters and adventurers who brought life – and death – to a land that once knew only the buffalo and the Indian. Only the strongest will survive The Killing Season.

The USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series continues… When a bunch of ruffians rob a bank in the sleepy town of Alpine, it’s only natural for the locals to be alarmed. But this gang and its leader, Cestus Calloway, are not common criminals. In fact, Cestus is known as the Robin Hood of the Rockies, distributing his loot to those less fortunate, raining stolen money down on the townsfolk. As if that weren’t too good to be true, this gang holds to one important rule: steal but don’t kill. All Alpine’s Marshal, Boyd Cooper, wants is a nice retirement, not to get a posse together to track outlaws. However, when an altercation leads to the exchange of gunfire and the spilling of outlaw blood, he doesn’t have much of a choice. The outlaws fear their reputation might be at stake, so they declare revenge on the tin stars of Alpine. They’re mad enough to break their own no kill rule, and Boyd Cooper knows things could end as bloody as they started.

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 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 Oregon Trail

Lou 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.

In this Ralph Compton western, the Strange twins find themselves in double trouble… Young Jed and Tim Strange lost their father to an outlaw’s bullet, and now their mother has succumbed to a fatal illness. Unable to farm their land due to a lack of funds, the twins set out to find their sister-who left home to avenge their father’s death over a year ago. Farm life hasn’t prepared the twins for the rough-and-tumble cow towns west of Missouri. And before they even begin their search, they’re accused of a murder they didn’t commit. Just barely escaping a posse’s rope, the twins are on the run-wounded, hounded by the law, and desperately seeking the true killers…

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 Trail

Long 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.

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 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…

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 of setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. Now, with the help of the Shoshoni Indian tribe and a man named Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men must vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they will wage the most ferocious battle of their lives–to win the right to call the land their own.

A brand new, wild and thrilling Western in Ralph Compton’s Sundown Riders series!

His wife is gone to tuberculosis, his reputation was lost in the war, most of his life has already passed by, and now
even his horse has been taken by colic. All Carpenter has left are the men from his Army company. During the journey
to California to reunite with them, he strikes up a friendship with Rafael Silva, an educated man making for the same
town to start up a rifle factory.

When they arrive, Carpenter’s former brothers-in-arms actually try to run Silva out of town, despite the much
needed factory. There’s trouble afoot, and Carpenter has to choose between his new friend and the ones who stood
with him through the war. His old comrades just aren’t who they used to be but, then, neither is he

The BORDER EMPIRE trilogy concludes, as Wes Stone’s quest for revenge leads him to destroy the plot by the Golden Dragon gang to endanger US currency by switching counterfeit coins for real ones within the walls of four different mints in the southwest. Battling long odds and high stakes, Stone and his friends El Lobo and Byron Silver must solve a double kidnapping, face a mercenary army of renegades from the Sandlin gang who are assembling in Durango, and avoid the many young hotheads who seek to add to their own reputations by challenging Wes’ skill with a gun.