Ralph Compton Drive for Independence, Ralph Compton
Ralph Compton Drive for Independence, Ralph Compton
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Ralph Compton Drive for Independence

Author: Ralph Compton, Lyle Brandt

Narrator: Brian Hutchison

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/24/2020

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

In this brand-new Ralph Compton Western, the drovers of the Bar X ranch will face sandstorms, renegades, and outlaws along the historic Cimarron trail.

After a child is accidentally killed in a shootout, Art Catlin decides to give up his life of bounty hunting and finds a new career as a drover, working for the Bar X ranch. The trail is 770 miles from Santa Fe to Independence, Missouri, and Art isn't fool enough to think it'll be an easy journey.

As they head east, they seem to come upon countless threats, from environmental to personal. If they're to make it all the way with the herd intact, Catlin will need to use all of the skill and knowledge he's acquired over his long and violent career.

About Ralph Compton

Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1998.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on April 17, 2024

Art Catlin decides to give up bounty hunting after a child was killed when he took down three outlaws. He signs up for a cattle drive headed to Independence, Missouri. The drive totals 770 miles from Santa Fe. Bliss Mossman is the trail boss and he has taken this same route before with little diffic......more

Goodreads review by jason carregal on May 07, 2021

Was ok The only reason I gave it two stars was because I felt there was way to much back story on the foes they faced along the trail. I read all the trail drive series books for the trail drive aspect of it. There were pages an pages of back story on how foes got their weapons or how they got their......more