Ralph Compton

Nathan Stone, The Gunfighter, lies dead in the street, a victim of the ruthless Sandlin gang. Behind him he leaves his guns and the son he had hardly known--a former lawman named Wes is about to teach these killers just what it means to be his father's son. Swearing vengeance, he takes up his father's guns. But little does he know that the odds are even more against him than he thinks--and that to get revenge for a dead man, he might have to die himself....

The Goodnight Trail: Benton McCaleb, Will Elliott and Brazos Gifford served with Charles Goodnight as Texas Rangers, and when they learned he is planning a cattle drive to Colorado, they waste no time joining him. The Western Trail: Leaving Goodnight, Colorado, Texans Benton McCaleb, Brazos Gifford and Will Elliot drive their herd north, settling along Wyoming's Sweetwater River. But when gold is discovered along the Sweetwater, all hell breaks loose. The...

Willis Lander was once the T-Bar ranch's best bronc buster. Then came the day when a stallion as black as pitch and as mean as a rattler shattered his knee. Unable to perform the duties required of a cowboy, Willis took the only job he felt capable of handling-minding the line shack forty miles from the ranch-and secluded himself from the pity of his peers in the Wyoming wilderness. Now, the T-Bar is being sold, leaving Willis to wonder whether the...

After witnessing the murder of a well-liked rancher in Oregon, Samuel Tucker becomes a suspect and works with the rancher's niece to prove his innocence.

A former Confederate Army officer, Ben McCullough is now 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, and a bunch of greenhorns he's recruited to help. But the stampedes and raging rivers are nothing compared to the gang of outlaws waiting to rustle the herd.

"Riding into the town of Smoky River on a mangy mule, Dane looks as broken down as his old mount. His Stetson is ragged, his boots are tied together with leather thongs, and he wears a Colt Army revolver with exactly three bullets. He wouldn't know what to say if you asked him where he got the gun, or how he learned to shoot it so well. He doesn't know if Dane is his first name or his last. Something happened that cost him his memory. For three years...

"After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighboring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. The trail brims with hellish hardship: prairie fire, stampede, flooded rivers, hailstorms, rattlers, sickness,...