Blood and Gold, Joseph A. West
Blood and Gold, Joseph A. West
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Blood and Gold
A Ralph Compton Novel by Joseph A. West

Author: Joseph A. West, Ralph Compton

Narrator: Terry Evans

Abridged: 4 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2004

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

An eighteen-year-old cowpuncher finds himself inheriting $30,000 in gold from his boss, an old Dodge City cattle rancher paralyzed from a drive, with the edict that he must return the money back home to the boy's mother, who lives just over the Red River in Texas. The problem is, word about such an obscene amount of money tends to draw hardcases like honey draws flies.

It doesn't help that he also must travel through the Gypsum Hills in Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, site of the biggest and most bloody Apache uprising ever seen this side of the Rio Bravo.

Saddled with the gold, desperados gunning for him on every side, and having to protect a young woman trapped with her father in the middle of the uprising, the young man gets a hard and fast education on life . . . and death . . . dealt in quick draws, fleet feet, and level aim.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nolan on April 21, 2021

Good story, although the author makes the main character, Dusty Hannah do some stupid things. Interesting little story brought in about Bass Reeves. Bass Reeves was a black deputy U.S. marshal. He worked mostly in Arkansas and the Oklahoma Territory. He had more than 3,000 arrests of dangerous crimi......more

Goodreads review by Jay on January 15, 2023

Dusty Hannah is 18 years old and has already driven three hearts north. Having delivered the herd, his boss is bed ridden due to a condition and his boss asks him to take the $30,000 to Texas. He is immediately robbed and left for dead. He seeks the money from a bad crew and also while Apaches are r......more

Goodreads review by Larry on April 17, 2025

My first Compton book. Looks like I’m in for a lengthy time reading the rest of his books if they’re as good as Blood and Gold. Lots of action. Great story line. If your into westerns here’s a great author!!!......more