The Shawnee Trail, Ralph Compton
The Shawnee Trail, Ralph Compton
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The Shawnee Trail
The Trail Drive, Book 6

Author: Ralph Compton

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Abridged: 3 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/11/2011

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

Stampedes, rustlers, and hostile Indians wouldn't slow them down. They were bound for Kansas, and a Texas-sized fight!

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

The Shawnee Trail

Long John Coons, the Cajun son of a conjuring woman, was driving 2,000 head of cattle north from Texas to the railroad in Kansas--through Indian Territory and outlaw strongholds. At his side was a beautiful woman with a sordid past, three ex-cattle rustlers, some renegate Indians, Mexican vanqueros and a straight-laced young trail boss. And while Long John tried to keep his hot headed crew from killing each other before they reached the end of the line, the biggest dangers was waiting up ahead--where an all-out war in Kansas make the Texas fight together, or die at the same time.

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 Mark on August 18, 2021

A quick, enjoyable "shoot 'em up" complete with rustlers, renegades, balky cattle, ferocious bulls and a couple of historical figures thrown in for good measure. Plus the buxom "soiled dove with the heart of gold." Leaves you picking cactus needles from your hide and spitting the tail dust from betwe......more

Goodreads review by Peter on February 14, 2017

Run of the mill western.......more

Goodreads review by Ross on May 22, 2015

I listened to the audio version, and was very entertained. I especially liked the Cajun accents! Nice, easy listening, I would definitely pick up other novels by this author!......more