From bestselling author Ralph Compton -an extraordinary saga of the hard-driving Texans who locked horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody battle for an untamed land.
He died in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1998..
Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns.
A native of St.
He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series.
His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail , was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. - Tombstone Epitaph About author(s): Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots.
Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted.
Outgunned and outmanned, they will wage the most ferocious battle of their lives-to win the right to call the land their own.
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.
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.
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.
Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some three hundred miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad...
In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows.
From bestselling author Ralph Compton -an extraordinary saga of the hard-driving Texans who locked horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody battle for an untamed land
