The Oregon Trail, Ralph Compton
The Oregon Trail, Ralph Compton
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The Oregon Trail
The Trail Drive, Book 9

Author: Ralph Compton

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Abridged: 3 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2011

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

They Risked Their Lives To Bring Cattle to Missouri. Now They Faced A Journey Twics As Dangerous...

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 Oregon Trail

Lou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their fourteen Texas cowboys briught a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer's men were running out of time to reach the wide-open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden in one of the pilgrims' wooden wagons-and outlaws circling like wolves-there were miles of shooting and dying still ahead.

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 Jay on December 29, 2022

Compton’s trail series is a good one. It has plenty of facts and you characters from history come alive. This story is set in 1843 and begins in Independence, Missouri and ends at the Willamette Valley , Oregon. They face weather, rustlers, crooks and just ornery people. They traverse the entire tra......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on November 19, 2017

I have read the 13 Trail Drive Series books by Ralph Compton. Excellent author.......more

Goodreads review by Jeffery on May 05, 2019

This book was definitely a so called page turner for me. I could have easily given it 5 stars.......more

Goodreads review by Peter on February 28, 2017

Comfortable western reading.......more

Goodreads review by Wayne on November 27, 2013

This was a fun book. Well written, with a great mystery of murder on the trail.......more

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