Trail drive series
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Trail drive series volume 1
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Three former Texas rangers ride with Charles Goodnight as he herds cattle from the Trinity River to Denver as they battle Comanches and gunslingers.
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Trail drive series volume 2
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Benton McCaleb and his band of cowboys brave over a thousand miles of trail to drive cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley.They are setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne where a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land.
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Trail drive series volume 3
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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...
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Trail drive series volume 4
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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,...
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Trail drive series volume 5
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c1994
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Gil & Van Austin, two Texas brothers travel to California after years of hard ranching and cattle drives through Mexico and Texas. Gold fever was changing California and the brothers are soon a part of the gold boom and the changes that are happening.
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Trail drive series volume 6
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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...
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Trail drive series volume 7
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c1994
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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...
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Trail drive series volume 8
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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...
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Trail drive series volume 9
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1995
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Having sold half their herd to a wagon train heading west from Missouri, Lou Spencer, Dill Sumner, and their crew of Texas cowboys hire on to lead the pioneers across the dangerous frontier to Oregon.
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Trail drive series volume 11
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1998
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The ranchers riding with Rand Hayes cross the Mojave Desert to confront the hardships of a brutal land, a hostile Ute nation, and the mysterious territory of California in their attempts to drive the cattle to market.
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Trail drive series volume 13
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[1999]
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"The year is 1853. for a handful of cowboys turned Gold rushers, it's time to go home--until Western legend Jim Bridger informs them of lush graze along the Green River in northern Utah. It's a territory rich in minerals, with the largest open-pit copper mine in the country. It's a place where a humble man could build a ranch that would be the envy of the frontier. . . But with Indian trouble, law trouble, Mormon trouble, cattle trouble, and woman...
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Trail drive series volume 15
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c2002
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Gunslinger Clay Allison needs a few good men to rustle a herd up from Mexico into Colorado across the infamous Alamosa trail. Full of wanted desperadoes and hired guns, the Alamosa won't be an easy ride, and when the boys from the Trailback get mixed up with a gang of slave-selling bandits, the only way they'll live to see spring is by firing hot lead from cold steel.
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Trail drive series volume 17
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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.
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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.
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Trail drive series volume 18
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2004
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Hamp comes to the aid of his hot-tempered friend, Clint, after he is jailed for killing a cheating gambler, bribing the guards to let him go. But no sooner is Clint free than he kills a local rancher with vengeful friends who will do anything to see Clint hanged.
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Trail drive series volume 19
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2004
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Some think Felix Dagstaff is crazy for signing on to drive cattle from his ranch near Quitaque, Texas, to Cheyenne more than a thousand miles away. Even if the passage through the Palo Duro Canyon were flat, most men wouldn't want any amount of money to take on such a job. Dag will have to drive his cattle through blinding storms and across swollen rivers. Besides setbacks caused by Mother Nature, he'll have to deal with the treachery of his own crew....
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2005
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Despite his reluctance and still haunted by the events of his last drive, Sam Ketchum takes on the difficult challenge of bringing the cattle from Frio Springs to the markets of Nebraska, dealing with the hardships of the trail, renegade Comanche, and rustlers along with way, but now his task is further complicated when he finds himself in the middle of a deadly Texas feud. Original.
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Trail drive series volume 21
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2005
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After losing his family, faith, and fortune, Jock Kane finally gets a chance to exact bloody revenge when he comes face-to-face with his wife's killer, who is in cahoots with a Yankee carpetbagger to steal his friend's longhorns.
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Big Jake's last drive
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Drive for Independence
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The Kelly Trail
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2020.
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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...
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2021.
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"Andrew Buchanan has a problem. His modest ranch in Southern California is being pressured by an unscrupulous competitor and the encroaching wave of the future--orange growers. The only chance he has to sell his cattle for real money is to take them south into Mexico. The Empire Trail is five hundred miles of misery that crosses scorching deserts and clings to treacherous cliffs--and it's Andrew's job to find the best way across. But physical barriers...
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Terror trail
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2022.
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"After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighbouring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. The trail brims with hellish hardship: prairie fire, stampede, flooded rivers, hailstorms, rattlers,...