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The McCabe saga continues as the men of the ranch embark on a cattle drive. Charles is left in charge of the ranch, but when a would-be assassin takes the women captive, Charles finds he has to make some hard choices, and his life will never be the same.

From the best-selling novelist of the American West, comes a novel of romance, danger, and life along the trail.

Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, 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. For McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish where the brave reach glory - or die hard.

Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm—the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman—arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime: loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates.

The Long Trail is the first book in the best-selling series about the McCabes, a family building a ranch in the rugged wilderness of post-Civil War Montana, and of a young man seeking his family and his destiny.

For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all. 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.

2011 Winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Awards for Best Fiction Two Texas families. A blood feud. Prosperity and death. All found in a cowboy’s journal— After Mr. Charlie died in ’77, Pure took over the ranch and that’s when things began to change. Along the southern scrub, what old-timers called the brasada, the rustlers had banded into large outfits and the Gunn boys were the worst of the bunch. Some folks tell that Mr. Gunn went crazy after losing his oldest son, Ethan, at Antietam in ’62. And because none of Mr. Charlie’s sons fought during the war, terrible stories soon ...

In 1886 the West was still growing. Settlers were plagued by Indians and roaming outlaws. Lawlessness ran rampid even in the small Western towns that grew out of necessity to support settlers in the area. But still, the settlers came. They banded together to make their own laws. Until real lawmen came in to take over. The T-bar ranch located roughly 40 miles south of the rail line that ran through Kansas City Missouri was owned by cattle rancherThomas Tagget whose father settled the land. His father was killed by a renegade band of Indians over 20 years ago, Tagget and his wife Sarah and ...

Framed for murder and pursued by bloodthirsty killers, Luke Garrett's landed himself in a real fix this time. Popular Western author Joseph A. West continues the great Ralph Compton's Trail Driver series with The Tenderfoot Trail.

The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn, and boldness to drive themnorth 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.

Long John Coons, the Cajun son of a conjuring woman, was driving 2,000 head of cattle north from Texas to the railroad in Kansas - through Indian Territory and outlaw strongholds. At his side was a beautiful woman with a sordid past, three ex-cattle rustlers, some renegate Indians, Mexican vanqueros, and a straight-laced young trail boss. And while Long John tried to keep his hot headed crew from killing each other before they reached the end of the line, the biggest dangers was waiting up ahead.

Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys traveled long and hard to drive thousands of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're in the midst of setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. Now, with the help of the Shoshoni Indian tribe and a man named Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men must vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they will wage the most ferocious battle of their lives—to win the right to call the land their own.

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, cross the border after him and soon discover half of Mexico's army wants them dead. Taken prisoner by Santa Anna's soldiers, the brothers make a daring escape and head into Durango country, where they stumble on a valley full of longhorns—and a chance to build a future north of the border. All they have to do now is break Duval out of prison and drive the cattle to safety.

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!

With a dream of building a ranching empire in Montana, Nelson Story sets off on one of the most extraordinary journeys in frontier history. By his side was a bunch of misfits and renegades-hard-fighting, war-bitten Texans with nothing left to lose. On his tail as the worst kind of enemy-brutal outlaws fixing to bleed his trail drive dry. Pushing his way through four harsh territories and three brutal seasons, Story would defy the Union Army, get a hold of a hundred Remingtons, and take on a thousand riled-up Sioux warriors, before he reached Virginia City....

#1 - “A DEADLY TRAIL” IS BOOK ONE IN THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE DUSTY MCCOY ADVENTURE SERIES BY D. M. HAGGARD.Back in the days before refrigeration, moving beef cattle from Texas ranches to the stockyards of Dodge City and Wichita, Kansas was no easy task. It was hundreds of slow, hot, dusty and boring miles punctuated by moments of stark terror – from rustlers, storms, or stampedes. It took a special breed of cowboy to get this job done. Dusty McCoy fits the bill. He is nineteen, with dark eyes that turn pitch-black when he’s angry – and you don’t want to make Dusty angry! He’s a ...

Ethan Morgan was only seventeen years old when he stood at his Pa’s grave and swore to bring every one of his father’s six killers to justice, after they savagely robbed and murdered him on his return trip from a cattle drive. His quest would take him into four states, as far south as Santa Fe and north to Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming. Along the way he would meet some unlikely persons who would help him and a few who sought to stop him. Eventually he found himself in an outlaw hideout where he assumed the identity of an outlaw himself. To complicate matters even more, he found the love of ...

In this thrilling new installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's Trail Drive series, Toby Bishop and the drovers of the Circle K ranch will have to battle the elements, wild animals, rough terrain, and dangerous people to get their longhorn herd to their destination. The drovers of Circle K ranch have to drive the herd of beautiful longhorn cattle 500 miles northwest to Missouri if they hope to make it through the next year. On the trail, drovers must set aside their differences in favor of a common goal.

Clint and Hamp are saddle partners to the end. So when Clint winds up behind bars for sending a double-dealing card cheat to his reward, Hamp will do anything to raise money to bribe the guards to set him free - even marry the daughter of the man who'll help him get the cash. Hamp comes to the aid of his hot-tempered friend, Clint, after he is jailed for killing a cheating gambler, bribing the guards to let him go, but no sooner is Clint free than he kills a local rancher with vengeful friends who will do anything to see Clint hanged.

Doc Blaine must drive 3,000 head of cattle from Texas to Kansas, and needs his sons Jared and Miles to help. Unfortunately, his sons are in love with the same woman - and have vowed to kill each other on sight.