• The Oregon Trail

  • Trail Drive, Book 9
  • By: Ralph Compton
  • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
  • Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Oregon Trail

By: Ralph Compton
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
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They risked their lives to bring cattle to Missouri. Now they faced a journey twices as dangerous....

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.

Lou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their 14 Texas cowboys brought a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer's men were running out of time to reach the wide-open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden in one of the pilgrims' wooden wagons - and outlaws circling like wolves - there were miles of shooting and dying still ahead.

Round 'em up: listen to more in the Trail Drive series.
©1994 Ralph Compton (P)2012 Macmillan Audio

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