Cowboys on a rescue mission south of the border decide to liberate cattle, too, in this Western adventure from the USA Today –bestselling author.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 brothe...

A rancher and three ex-Texas Rangers embark on a dangerous cattle drive through the wilderness in this action-packed Western adventure."Lovers of Louis L'Amour-type Westerns will welcome [this] series." — Nashville BannerThe 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 thi...

From the bestselling series, a historical saga of the Texas cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle across the western frontier to 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 historic trail drives.For the r...

An extraordinary saga of cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier from the USA Today –bestselling author.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.The Santa Fe TrailGavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: ...

Cowboys encounter rustlers, hostile Indians, and stampedes on the trail in this Western adventure from the USA Today –bestselling author.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 where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-bl...

A gunslinger gets bloody payback in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton.Nathan Stone experienced the horror of Civil War battlefields. But the worst lies ahead. When he returns to Virginia, to the ruins of what was his home, he discovers his father butchered and his mother and sister stripped, ravished, and slain. The seven renegades who did it rode away to the West. Half-starved and afoot, he takes to their trail.Nathan St...

A gunfighter rides into legend in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton.It was the 1870s—Jesse and Frank James led daring raids on banks and trains. Doc Holliday’s name struck dread in the hearts of men, and Wild Bill Hickok played poker with bullets in the hole. A young killer named Billy the Kid was hunted by a determined lawman, and a General named Custer took the Seventh Cavalry into Dakota Territory.One man rides this un...

A band of cowboys turned California Gold Rushers set their sights on paradise, but trouble rides along on the trail to their new home.The year was 1853. For Lonnie Kilgore and his fellow Texans, it was time to go home. Then they met Western legend and former mountain man Jim Bridger, who told them of a lush range waiting to be claimed in northern Utah. The Texans have purchased land on the Green river and come to San Antonio to gather up some longhorns.But ...

A man sets out to Mexico to avenge his father's death in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton.Nathan Stone, the man they called The Gunfighter, lay dead in the dust of an El Paso street. The Sandlin gang kicked up that dust as they rode back laughing into Mexico, where the U.S. law couldn't touch them and local law didn't want to.Behind him Nathan Stone left his horse, his Winchester, his custom-made Colts, and his name. The...

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-...

Two young gunslingers ride into the heart of evil in this Ralph Compton western.Nathan Stone was a legendary gunfighter who did everything he could to be a father—while still following his own violent trail of honor. Now Wes Stone, barely eighteen, but full of the hard wisdom of the West, is being drawn into the kind of fight that cost his father his life.A secret organization of criminals is replacing freshly minted gold with counterfeit coins, threatening...

A man protects settlers from frontier dangers in an adventure by "a storyteller who may very well turn out to be the greatest western writer of them all." — Tombstone EpitaphAcross rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born. . .Texas! For the pioneers who streamed out of Missouri it was a land of dreams and freedom. Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. A...