Ralph Compton

In the aftermath of the Civil War, a blacksmith from Missouri decides to travel to Texas to purchase a cattle herd. He hopes to sell the herd up north and turn a profit for his family to live on. However, the blacksmith had not reckoned on the dangers of the lawless plains, and is set upon and killed by a band of outlaws. When news of his death reaches his family, his eldest daughter straps on her father's colts and sets off on her father's chestnut...

Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of cattle for the long drive to Colorado. They'll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison.

A group of cowboys, coming back from the California Gold Rush, buys themselves a little piece of paradise in northern Utah, only to find a dangerous territory where death is always a possibility.

Nelson Story has money from his gold claim but is a marked man. The Plummer gang is after him for hanging the outlaw sheriff, Henry Plummer. So Story and his partners go to Fort Worth, buy cattle, and head for Illinois markets, but poor grass and high tolls turn them toward Montana and dangerous Sioux lands.

Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad.

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...

Mac Tunstall sets out to deliver a shipment of Winchesters to the U.S. Army and is joined by four courageous women as violence and betrayal are found at every turn.

A man embarks on a hazardous journey for both body and soul in this Ralph Compton western...
Ed Wright earned his reputation as a capable and principled man from years of driving cattle—and from wearing a Ranger’s badge. The Texan wants nothing more than to drown his memories in bottle after bottle of whiskey.
 
Unita Nance is the owner of the Bar U Ranch, having inherited the spread after her husband’s death....

Desperados enforce their own brand of justice in this novel in the USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series.
Bandit Gus McCord may have only one good eye, but his partner Doyle Hill has the nose for sniffing out a golden opportunity. And that’s just what he does when he discovers a black case guarded by the mysterious Mister Mason. But instead of a fortune, Gus and Doyle uncover scraps of fancy cloth smeared in blood. They...

Across rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born... Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph Compton tells the real story of the tough-as-leather men who first blazed the way into the untamed frontier. Texas! For the pioneers who streamed out of Missouri it was a land of dreams...