Ralph Compton
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Four men--Jess Donner, a Rebel and Southern gentleman; Steve Ellsworth, a ladies man with a foul temper; Stu Wilkens, a Yankee; and Heck Myers, a teller of tall tales--find their friendship sorely tested by a dance hall girl and a gang of outlaws. The four friends have traveled to Dodge City to rest their saddle-weary bodies, but trouble erupts between them and some less than reputable characters over the attentions of a dance hall girl. If the boys...
82) Outlaw town
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There's trouble on the trail drive in this Ralph Compton western... Chancy Gantry and Ollie Teal are honest cowpunchers, riding herd on fifteen hundred longhorns from Texas to Kansas. Their trail boss, Lucas Stout, is tough but fair. He's never lost a hand on a drive and doesn't aim to start now. So when a cowhand needs a sawbones bad, Stout sends Chancy and Ollie to escort the man to a town called Prosperity, which none of them has ever heard of....
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A towering legend among chroniclers of the Old West, Ralph Compton penned searing tales of the highest entertainment. In this fast-paced actioner, Detective Sergeant John McBride gets while the gettin's good when a New York gangster puts a price on his head. But after landing in High Hopes, Colorado, McBride quickly finds that his troubles with the criminal sect are just beginning.
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Rancher Ty Farraday's hunt for stray cattle takes a turn for the worse when he discovers a shallow grave and the body of wealthy Alton Winstead, the owner of the Double Cross Ranch. Ty's first frantic thoughts are of Winstead's widow, Sue-Ellen, who picked Alton over him. Unfortunately, she chose poorly. Alton masterminded a crime and left his helpers to swing for it. Hungry for revenge, the murderous hard cases have overrun the Double Cross and are...
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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1999
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Lonnie Kilgore and his fellow Texans, headed for home after the scramble of the California Gold Rush, change direction when they hear about a lush range waiting to be claimed in northern Utah, but they do not realize the land along the Green River comes equipped with trouble from Indians, the law, and women.
86) Skeleton Lode
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Sundown Riders volume 6
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Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck - until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine - and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival ...
87) Whiskey river
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Former Confederate soldiers-turned-outlaws Mark Rogers and Bill Harder are given a choice between serving a prison sentence or infiltrating a dangerous gang of whiskey runners, with the return of their confiscated lands offered as a further incentive.
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Trail of the gunfighter volume 2
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Nathan Stone, having developed a taste for vengeance while seeking out and killing the men who murdered his family, goes on to fight for survival against some of the most feared outlaws of the wild West.
89) The dawn of fury
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Trail of the gunfighter volume 1
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Signet
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1995
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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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91) Devil's Canyon
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Sundown Riders volume 4
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Signet Book
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c1998
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Four soldiers of fortune risk life and limb to deliver a cargo of dynamite from Santa Fe to southwestern Utah, where they hope to tear open a mountain of gold, while an undercover outlaw lurks within their ranks.
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Trail of the gunfighter volume 3
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Signet
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c1996
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As gunfighter Nathan Stone tries to live out his days in peace, the discovery of a son he never knew he had may force him to strap on his six-shooters and take once more to the vengeance trail.
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Trail drive series volume 12
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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1999
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The story of a town without laws, where hundreds of hungry miners arrive to claim the beef they have paid for, follows these courageous men as they must take justice into their own hands, or prepare themselves to die.
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Trail drive series volume 10
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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1997
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Gavin McCord and his cowboys came to Missouri with 3,500 longhorns. A man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord's cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive down to Santa Fe. But with an ill-fated gambler on the drive, the courageous riders were heading into a death trap.
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Trail drive series volume 11
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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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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Border empire volume 2
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c1998
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Young Wes Stone rides out onto the frontier with guns ablaze in a quest to revenge the murder of his father, a legendary gunfighter, by the men behind a counterfeiting ring stretching from New Orleans to California.
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Sundown Riders volume 2
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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c1997
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Trail drive series volume 4
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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c1993
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English