

The Goodnight Trail
The Trail Drive, Book 1
Author: Ralph Compton
Series: Trail Drive #1
Narrator: Scott Sowers
Abridged: 3 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: 05/24/2011
Author: Ralph Compton
Series: Trail Drive #1
Narrator: Scott Sowers
Abridged: 3 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: 05/24/2011
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.
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.
This author was recommended to me some years ago and I remember picking this up in the final days of Borders 90% off liquidation sale. Book 1 of the 'Trail' series, and I believe it was the authors first published book. That probably explains the faults I found with it. The writing was adequate but......more
This is one of those books that when you think it can’t possibly have more to one character something else comes around the bend. I did wish it went into more details as to how the actual trail drive went and more about Charles Goodnight. The latter could be because I picked it up expecting it to fo......more
Good audio book to listen to on the trip to Gettysburg. This was Book I in the "Trail Drive Series." I'll have to try some of these stories in print and see if they read as good as Elmer Kelton. My favorite character was "Goose", a Lipan Apache scout saved by the drovers from the Comanche. He carrie......more
Got better as it went on... but there was never any real sense of danger or anxiety. Sure there was a climactic point in the story, but no real "fear" that Bent wouldn't get out of it... He's probably too awesome of a cowboy, literally nothing is too complicated or dangerous for him to get out of it......more
“Lovers of Louis L'Amour–type Westerns will welcome [this] series.” —Nashville Banner
“A sweeping, historically accurate [series] that makes America's trail drives come alive.” —Artesia Daily Press (New Mexico)