Compton, RalphOverview
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Ralph Compton
Death rides a chestnut mare
by Ralph Compton
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11 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in English and held by 1,380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The pistol-packin' daughter of a man brutally murdered by outlaws rides the range exacting a savage revenge
The ghost of Apache creek : a Ralph Compton novel
by Joseph A West
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12 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 910 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Keeping the peace is no trouble at all in a town of one. The only folks left behind in Requiem are ghosts - and after three years of solitude, Marshal Sam Pace has turned into a phantom of sorts. Sam is sure that actual people - rather than the ghosts he sees in his mind - will return and bring the town to life again. But when a woman on the run stumbles into town, Sam turns his attention to what he must do as caretaker of the town, and dons the mantle of Town Marshal. The girl is bringing a pile of trouble with her, and though it's fair to say that Sam has the skills to best a man in a gunfight, they're just a little rusty
The Goodnight Trail
by Ralph Compton
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12 editions published between 1992 and 2002 in English and held by 879 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Rounding up unbranded cattle with Charles Goodnight, former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford battle flooded rivers, parched desert, and Comanches
The Western Trail
by Ralph Compton
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14 editions published between 1992 and 2002 in English and held by 871 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Benton McCaleb and his band of cowboys brave more than one thousand treacherous miles to drive 2,400 head of cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley, encountering a ruthless railroad baron along the way
The burning range : a Ralph Compton novel
by Joseph A West
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13 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 843 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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 the Fat Man a steady diet of hot lead -- or Green Meadow will run red
The Abilene Trail : a Ralph Compton novel
by Dusty Richards
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14 editions published between 2002 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 824 WorldCat member libraries worldwide While driving cattle up north, former Confederate Army officer-turned-rancher Ben McCullough and his ex-sergeant Hap encounter such perils as stampedes, raging waters, nature's fury, and a gang of vicious rustlers. Original
The Chisholm Trail
by Ralph Compton
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15 editions published between 1993 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 814 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Ten Chisholm, having left New Orleans with a price on his head and a vow to return to claim Priscilla for his wife, must first round up a herd of wild longhorns and drive them north on a quest to open a new trail to Kansas
The Shawnee trail
by Ralph Compton
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16 editions published between 1993 and 2003 in English and held by 796 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad
The last manhunt : a Ralph Compton novel
by Joseph A West
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6 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 776 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Newspaper reporter Lester T. Booker sets out to interview legendary lawman, ex-gunfighter Ransom March. But the dime novel hero turns out to be little more than an old ex-lawman of questionable moral fiber who doled out death to unsuspecting-- and sometimes unarmed-- enemies. One criminal who escaped Rance's brand of justice is the man known as the Gravedigger-- a man who earned his moniker for buryng his victims alive. Rance comes out of retirement so he can put that murdering desperado six feet under once and for all. For Booker, it's the story of a lifetime-- and an education in learning just how the West was really won--Jacket
Blood and gold : a Ralph Compton novel
by Joseph A West
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11 editions published between 2002 and 2005 in English and held by 774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A young cowhand-entrusted with $30,000 of his employer's money-must traverse hostile Indian territory while avoiding bandits who are pursuing the fortune
Ralph Compton : By the horns : a Ralph Compton novel
by David Robbins
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11 editions published between 2002 and 2006 in English and held by 760 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Owen and three of the Bar 40's toughest cowhands must escort a British cattle rancher on a cattle drive from Texas to Wyoming, a dangerous adventure that pits them against Luke Deal and his murderous gang, who are looking for revenge
The Bandera Trail
by Ralph Compton
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12 editions published between 1993 and 2002 in English and held by 760 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The nephews of Steve Austin, the founder of Texas, must ride into a hostile Mexico to aid a longtime friend in a cattle and horse drive
The Dodge City trail
by Ralph Compton
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20 editions published between 1994 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Returning home after the Civil War, Texas rancher Dan Ember and his neighbors find that their only chance of survival is a dangerous cattle drive north across the Llano, an area overrun with killers, gunslingers, and Quanah Parker's Comanches
West of Pecos : a Ralph Compton novel
by David Robbins
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10 editions published between 2002 and 2006 in English and held by 749 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two Civil War veterans-from opposite sides of the conflict-settle on the same land. They must put aside their differences not only for the sake of their families, but in order to fend off a gang of rustlers who want the land for themselves
The border empire
by Ralph Compton
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6 editions published between 1997 and 2009 in English and held by 749 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Taking up the custom-made Colts of his late father, who was murdered in the streets of El Paso by Mexico's notorious Sandlin gang, Wes Stone trades his aspirations of becoming a lawman for his thirst for vengeance
The California trail
by Ralph Compton
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15 editions published between 1993 and 2003 in English and held by 748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An extraordinary saga of the trailblazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the great Frontier
The Oregon trail
by Ralph Compton
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13 editions published between 1994 and 2003 in English and held by 745 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Lou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their fourteen Texas cowboys briught 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
Ralph Compton's The shadow of a noose : a novel
by Ralph Compton
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9 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 721 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A year after their sister rode off seeking revenge for their father's death, Tim and Jed Strange head out to look for their sister and find a heap of their own trouble instead. Original
Slaughter canyon : a Ralph Compton novel
by Joseph A West
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6 editions published in 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 704 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles is being blackmailed by President Chester A. Arthur. The commander in chief needs someone to discover why Hatfield J. Warful is gathering every notorious gunslinger in the West at his home in Slaughter Canyon. Thanks to a falsified news report planted by the Secret Service, Battles is wanted for robbery and murder, leaving him no choice but to infiltrate Warful's gang by posing as an outlaw on the run"-- Cover verso
West of the law : a Ralph Compton novel
by Joseph A West
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6 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 702 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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 more
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