There's no such thing as safe passage in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.Ben McCullough was once an officer in the Confederate Army. Now, he’s 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, to watch over the bunch of greenhorns he’s recruited to help.These young cowboys have their work cu...

Two men brave the unforgiving frontier in this western in Ralph Compton's Sundown Riders series.Parker Stanley’s family had a dream: to start a new life in the Far West. But en route, a Cheyenne band slaughters his parents and abducts his sister, leaving him for dead.Then a cowboy named Clay Springer rides to the rescue—and comes up with an idea. He’s got a team ready to deliver goods to the Mormons in Utah, but he’s short on funds for supplies. He knows th...

In this Ralph Compton western, home is a battlefield....Buck Fletcher, infamous shootist, was once a boy raised in a cabin near Two-Bit Creek in Montana. Returning home to pay his respects at his parents' graves, Buck finds an unconscious woman in the woods—bleeding from a head wound. She might be the victim of a range war that’s brewing in the territory.Buck soon finds himself drawn into the escalating conflict—courted by one side, threatened by the other....

In this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series, on the Alamosa Trail, anything goes...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 in...

A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step in this Ralph Compton western...Some think he’s crazy. But Felix Dagstaff has signed on to drive 4,000 head of wild longhorns from his ranch near Quitaque, Texas, up the Palo Duro Canyon to Cheyenne, more than a thousand miles away. Even if the passage were flat, you couldn’t pay most men enough to take on such a job. But poor odds have never stopped Dag before…He’ll have to drive his cattle through blinding...

The trail to riches is lined with danger in this Ralph Compton western...The ranchers of Frio Springs are praying that Sam Ketchum will succeed in driving their cattle to the richer markets of Nebraska. Sure, there’s no one more reliable. But ghosts still haunt Sam from his last drive—and the road north has only become tougher. Comanches and cattle thieves lie hidden in the brush, poised to ambush, and notorious gunslingers lurk in every town along the way....

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: danger...

In this Ralph Compton western, even the most rugged trailsman has to watch his steps...It’s called the Whoop-Up Trail. It’s a two hundred mile stretch of rough terrain between Montana and Canada, littered with spiky brushwood, crawling with clawed and fanged critters of all shapes and sizes, 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...

Two money hungry bounty hunters bite off more than they can chew in this Ralph Compton western...Charley Pickett was cleaning up the West**—**working on a farm shoveling you-know-what. Then he met Tony Fabrizio, bar sweep extraordinaire. In need of more money and more respect, they declared themselves bounty hunters—but the job is easier said than done.Going after one of the most wanted outlaws in the West—with a dollar value on his head bigger than they’ve...

Bad blood runs deep in this Ralph Compton western...Jock Kane would do anything for his buddy Chad Becker—except drive the rancher’s longhorns to the Ellsworth railhead in Kansas. Having lost his fortune and his faith on the last trail, and his beloved wife, Twyla, to a killer, Jock’s not looking for adventure. What gets him off his tail is finding out who’s vying with Chad for the Kansas sale. It’s none other than Twyla’s cold-blooded killer himself—Jock’s own bro...

Justice casts a long shadow in this Ralph Compton western.James Cason…son of the owner of the Long Shadow ranch and head of a posse that tracked Mexican bandits across the border and killed their leader.Duke Faglier…wanted by both sides of the law for killing the men who murdered his family.Revelation Scattergood…suspected of being a rustler alongside her four brothers—and ready to start a new life for herself.Together they will drive a herd...

Welcome to Nowhere in this Ralph Compton western...It’s a small town that sits on the border of Texas and the Oklahoma territory. It’s a haven for cutthroats and thieves on the run and looking to raise some hell. It’s a hideaway where outlaws believe the law has no jurisdiction—and justice has no voice.But the citizens who’ve suffered under the boot heels of these desperadoes have had enough. Their unwanted guests have overstayed their welcome. Now it’s tim...