Ralph Compton
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Big Charlie Chilton knows better than to lose his temper, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his long-buried secrets, he can't help but teach the man a lesson about being quiet. Unfortunately, it turns out the man was about to make an important supply run for the town's marshal, and Marshal Watt knows just enough about Shotgun Charlie's past to draft him into service in his stead. The trek north would be treacherous enough with the snow and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Former cavalryman Dick Hodson returns to his Texas hometown following the Civil War. Finding the town destitute, and the few ranches that survived on the edge of ruin, Hodson plans to drive the remaining cattle north with a trail party made up of raw greenhorn children. But a gang of merciless cutthroats waits for them--and wants to stop them dead in their tracks.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ordered to head west when a New York gangster puts a price on his head for killing his son, Detective Sergeant John McBride ends up in High Hopes, Colorado--a lawless boomtown where McBride quickly runs afoul of corrupt saloon owner Gamble Trask and his vicious hired guns. When beautiful card dealer Shannon Roark asks for his protection, it's high time for one of New York's finest to dole out some frontier justice of his own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by memories of the Civil War, Coy Jennings just wants to find work as a ranch hand and to begin saving for a small farm where he could finally enjoy peace and quiet. Arriving in the Texas settlement of Phantom Hill, Coy soon befriends a damaged but likable stable hand by the name of Ira Dalton and hopes for a future with a lovely widowed mother and her eight-year-old daughter. In order to make Phantom Hill a decent place to settle down, Coy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet, published by New American Library, an imprint of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When a bunch of ruffians rob a bank in the sleepy town of Alpine, it's only natural for the locals to be alarmed. But this gang and its leader, Cestus Calloway, are not common criminals. In fact, Cestus is known as the Robin Hood of the Rockies, distributing his loot to those less fortunate, raining stolen money down on the townsfolk. As if that weren't too good to be true, this gang holds to one important rule: steal but don't kill... All Alpine's...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
For a gambler locked in a claims war, the stakes are life or death! A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town -- and the black gold beneath it. And Fat Man is willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. The pair will have to work hard and work together to force-feed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Forced by President Chester A. Arthur to infiltrate Hatfield J. Warful's gang by posing as an outlaw on the run, Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles finds himself being targeted by both lawmen and outlaws as he tries to complete his mission and avert a second Civil War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A gunman without a gun wakes up in Death Valley. He has no recollection of how he got there, or even his own name. He's a dead man walking until his luck turns. He stumbles upon the homestead of a widow and her young son who nurse him back to health. But in the desert good deeds come at a cost. The amnesiac is being trailed by hard men who want answers he doesn't have. First a group of gunslingers, then a troop of soldiers threaten the innocent family....
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Big Jake Motley had been running the Big M spread in Texas for over 30 years. In that time, he's driven thousands of head of cattle to market in Kansas. Now, while both the Nineteenth century and the era of trail drive are coming to an end, Big Jake is determined to make one last drive to Kansas. The only thing is, he doesn't have the cowhands to move that much beef. He drafts his old friend, Chance McCandles, into service, and together, the two aging...