Ralph Compton The Amarillo Trail

Name: Ralph Compton The Amarillo Trail
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781470337483

Author: Ralph Compton, Jory Sherman

Series: Trail Drive #24

Narrator: Graham Winton

Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/04/2013

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Spur Award winner Jory Sherman takes the reins for the next installment of Ralph Compton's long-running Trail Drive series. Doc Blaine has agreed to drive 3,000 head of cattle from Texas to Kansas, and the only help around are his sons Jared and Miles. But the boys are in love with the same woman, and their vow to kill each other on sight threatens to derail Doc's cattle drive faster than a speeding locomotive.

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 Michael

Great story, with an unusual way to get into a trail drive, where even the bad guys are unusual creations. Though once again I wonder why it is called "a Ralph Compton novel," I like this book. It is generally well written, with lots of sub-plots and lots and lots of interesting characters. Author Jor......more

Goodreads review by David

Two Cow drives, one family, and two brothers who do not get along. The drives were destined to clash and what would happen next could lead to family fireworks. The clash happened thanks to some Kansas sodbusters who demanded the first drive pay a toll to cross a river. The 2nd drive learns about the......more