Ralph Compton Trail to Cottonwood Falls

Name: Ralph Compton Trail to Cottonwood Falls
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781436133845

Author: Ralph Compton, Dusty Richards

Series: Trail Drive #23

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/20/2008

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

With over four million Ralph Compton books in print, the grand Western tradition is not being put out to pasture any time soon. After years of driving cattle and wearing a ranger's badge, disaffected Texan Ed Wright retires-intent on drowning his sorrows with whiskey. But widowed rancher Unita Nance has one last job for him, and she won't take no for an answer.

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 December 06, 2022

Ed Wright was a broken man who had turned into the town drunk. Unita Nance wanted Ed to lead her Cattle drive to Cottonwoods trail. She basically kidnaps him. sobers him up and after a lot of trials and tribulations, she gets him to agree to help her make the drive. There are so many sub-stories in......more

Goodreads review by Nolan on June 05, 2021

Ed Wright is a drunk. Self-centered, self-pity whiner. Not sure why Unita Nance cares so much for him. Lots of good guys and bad guys killed in this story. Not overly fast paced, very slow in some areas. The cattle drive part of the book isn’t very long and towards the end. Most of the book is of ot......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on April 29, 2022

Good story. A bit slow at first, but picks up.......more

Goodreads review by Rob on December 22, 2016

A very good book. love the characters.......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on February 07, 2016

More. Than a trail drive Good man rescued from himself. When that works out every one benefits. Sometimes all it takes to see his worth.......more