Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm-the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman-arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime: loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates. Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas brakes with a team...

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...

Benton McCaleb and his band of cowboys brave over a thousand miles of trail to drive cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley.They are setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne where a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land.

In this Ralph Compton western, the Strange twins find themselves in double trouble... Young Jed and Tim Strange lost their father to an outlaw's bullet, and now their mother has succumbed to a fatal illness. Unable to farm their land due to a lack of funds, the twins set out to find their sister-who left home to avenge their father's death over a year ago. Farm life hasn't prepared the twins for the rough-and-tumble cow towns west of Missouri. And...

Three former Texas rangers ride with Charles Goodnight as he herds cattle from the Trinity River to Denver as they battle Comanches and gunslingers.

Having sold half their herd to a wagon train heading west from Missouri, Lou Spencer, Dill Sumner, and their crew of Texas cowboys hire on to lead the pioneers across the dangerous frontier to Oregon.

Heading to Colorado Wes Stone follows a band or mercenaries from Durango to Dodge City who are planning to steal gold from four U.S. mints with an armoured train.

Disguised as "Danny Duggin," Danielle strange hunted down the merciless cutthroats who murdered her father.

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.

They are four hired guns who haul freight for a price into the treacherous, untamed wilderness. Having already risked their lives for the Confederacy, now they're fighting for themselves--and for a stake in the future--on the great frontier. Led by the poker-playing Faro Duval, these soldiers of fortune are about to take the biggest gamble of all: delivering an explosive cargo from Santa Fe to southwestern Utah. Their destination is Devil's Canyon...and...