<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From bestselling author Ralph Compton--an extraordinary saga of the hard-driving Texans who locked horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody battle for an untamed land.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>From bestselling author Ralph Compton-an extraordinary saga of the hard-driving Texans who locked horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody battle for an untamed land.</b> <p/> In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some three hundred miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad... <p/> <b><i>THE WESTERN TRAIL</i></b> <p/> Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys traveled long and hard to drive thousands of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're in the midst of setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. Now, with the help of the Shoshoni Indian tribe and a man named Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men must vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they will wage the most ferocious battle of their lives-to win the right to call the land their own. <p/> <b>Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted.</b><br> <b>-<i>Tombstone Epitaph</i></b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><b>From bestselling author Ralph Compton--an extraordinary saga of the hard-driving Texans who locked horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody battle for an untamed land.</b> <p/>In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some three hundred miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad... <p/><b><i>THE WESTERN TRAIL</i></b> <p/>Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys traveled long and hard to drive thousands of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're in the midst of setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. Now, with the help of the Shoshoni Indian tribe and a man named Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men must vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they will wage the most ferocious battle of their lives--to win the right to call the land their own. <p/><b>Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted.</b><b>--<i>Tombstone Epitaph</i></b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Lovers of Louis L'Amour-type Westerns will welcome [this] series." --<i>Nashville Banner</i> <p/>"A sweeping, historically accurate [series] that makes America's trail drives come alive." --<i>Artesia Daily Press (New Mexico)</i> <p/>"Compton may very well turn out to be the greatest Western writer of them all...Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted." --<i>The Tombstone Epitath</i> <p/>"Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not end up saddle sore." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/>"Compton has hit the bull's eye." --<i>The Birmingham News</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Ralph Compton</b> stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, <i>The Goodnight Trail</i>, 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.</p>
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