• The California Trail

  • The Trail Drive, Book 5
  • By: Ralph Compton
  • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
  • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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The California Trail

By: Ralph Compton
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
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An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. Across the Pecos, the Rio Colorado, and La Panza mountains, the Texans and their longhorns kept charging - all the way to California gold!

Between the Bandera Range and California, they faced all the challenges of man and God, but nothing could ever make them quit.

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.

Gold fever had hit California, and suddenly, the land was full of hungry pioneers. For Gil and Van Austin, two Texas brothers, it meant the chance to sell well-grazed longhorns after years of hard ranching and a treacherous cattle drive up through Mexico. The only trouble was that California was on the other side of a searing desert, swollen rivers, a barrage of Indian attacks, and a whole passel of outlaw trouble. And while the Texans and their men were ready and willing to take it all on, there was one thing they weren't prepared for: the ultimate act of treachery and deceit in a land of schemers, dreamers, and gold!

Round 'em up: listen to more in the Trail Drive series.
©2011 Macmillan Audio (P)1994 Ralph Compton

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