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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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

"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...

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,...

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....

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.