Ralph Compton The Tenderfoot Trail

Luke Garrett was your typical farmer/Rancher, who only wanted to take his small herd on the trail to sell things went quickly wrong when he and his friend/ranch hand were bushwhacked and Luke was forced to kill his first man. He gets framed for murder and then the adventure begins. Nothing good hap......more

Luke Garrett would like to add a bull on his small spread along with an artesian well. To accomplish this he and his old hand gather up a few hundred of the cattle to drive to market. The problems they encounter along the trail provide an intriguing western reading adventure.......more

The first couple pages and it reads, Lake Garrett is 25 years old his hands were big and scarred from 20 years of working cattle. So, he was 5 years old when he started working with cattle? Luke isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. At times he is down right stupid with what he says and does.......more

Almost constant action and I could not put it down and I read it in 2 days.......more

I like Joseph West's stuff. This is not one of his better ones.......more