The Dodge City Trail, Ralph Compton
The Dodge City Trail, Ralph Compton
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The Dodge City Trail
The Trail Drive, Book 8

Author: Ralph Compton

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Abridged: 3 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/22/2011

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all.

The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million
maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them
north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.

The Dodge City Trail

Dodge City was a businessman's dream. And a cattle drive north-with thousands of unbranded longhorns and a remuda of stolen Mexican horses-was a dream of Texans like Dan Ember, who'd come home from the war to find a rich man's hired guns living on his land. Now Dan and his neighbors would risk everything on a drive across the Llano. Along the way, two bands of killers would fight over them, the gunslinger Clay Allison would join up with them, and Quanah Parker's Comanches would try to thwart them-in a bold adventure fueled by the courage to face death, the pride to keep going, and the knowledge that now, there was no turning back.

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.

About Scott Sowers

Scott Sowers has narrated numerous audiobooks, including books by Douglas Preston, Robert Ludlum, John Hart, and Nicholas Sparks. He was named the 2008 Best Voice in Mystery & Suspense by AudioFile magazine. AudioFile also awarded Sowers an Earphones Award for his narration of John Hart’s Down River, writing, “[providing] a bewitching rhythm and pace, expertly capturing and elevating this story of redemption. The combination of Hart and Sowers provides the perfect marriage of prose and voice. Together they enable the book to transcend genre fiction and become something exceptional.”  Sowers is also an accomplished actor of both stage and screen. His theater credits include roles in Inherit the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bus Stop, and A Few Good Men. His many television credits include guest roles on Law & Order, The Black Donnellys, Six Degrees, All My Children, and the Hallmark Channel’s Season for Miracles. He has also appeared in the films Trust the Man, The Village and The Ten.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on December 22, 2022

Ever wonder what a good old fashioned cattle drive was like in the late 1800s? This episode of the trail drive to Dodge City was an interesting read giving insight into the challenges of driving 20,000 long horns across the midwest with renegades, commanches, rain, sleet, snow, stampedes and lack of......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas Tello on March 30, 2025

It is a great telling of the hardships and triumphs of the American West. Set a few years after the Civil War, this book puts the reader into the time period quite well.......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on May 16, 2017

Good......more

Goodreads review by Peter on February 11, 2017

A nice western reading adventure with some historical facts.......more

Goodreads review by Ludwig on December 13, 2008

good , fast reading like his stories......more