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Ralph Compton
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
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National best-selling phenomenon Ralph Compton's legacy lives on with By the Horns. A greenhorn-an Englishman, no less-arrives in Whiskey Flats to purchase one of the Bar 40's best longhorns. Owen, the ranch foreman, must escort the tenderfoot on the drive from Texas to Wyoming. But Luke Deal and his gang of ruthless cowboys have been hankerin' to get even with Owen, and this seems like the perfect time to settle an old score.
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Four men--Jess Donner, a Rebel and Southern gentleman; Steve Ellsworth, a ladies man with a foul temper; Stu Wilkens, a Yankee; and Heck Myers, a teller of tall tales--find their friendship sorely tested by a dance hall girl and a gang of outlaws. The four friends have traveled to Dodge City to rest their saddle-weary bodies, but trouble erupts between them and some less than reputable characters over the attentions of a dance hall girl. If the boys...
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Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
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The life of a cowboy suits Thalis Christie just fine. A puncher for the Crescent H in Texas, he loves what he does and is damn good at it too. He doesn't even mind being away from his family -- he's got good friends to keep him from getting too homesick. That is, until his folks write, imploring him to hunt down his brother, Myles, who's been shot while prospecting in the Black Hills. Thalis sets out to do his family duty and find his little brother...
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Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2008
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"The son of a prosperous Arizona rancher, Boone Scott is content to raise cattle for the rest of his days. His brother, Eppley, is another story. Dangerously dissatisfied, he secretly plots to take over the family ranch. When Epp pays an assassin to kill his brother, Boone's lightning-quick hands leave a fistful of dead men behind. Unaware of his brother's treachery, Boone flees and soon faces danger from hired gunmen, horse rustlers, and wild Apaches....
8) Outlaw town
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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There's trouble on the trail drive in this Ralph Compton western... Chancy Gantry and Ollie Teal are honest cowpunchers, riding herd on fifteen hundred longhorns from Texas to Kansas. Their trail boss, Lucas Stout, is tough but fair. He's never lost a hand on a drive and doesn't aim to start now. So when a cowhand needs a sawbones bad, Stout sends Chancy and Ollie to escort the man to a town called Prosperity, which none of them has ever heard of....
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In a lawless, godless territory known as No Man's Land, Black Jack Shelton and his gang have the run of the new town of Nowhere, until Chick Storm and his riders are called in to take a stand. Chick knows right from wrong well enough to understand that sometimes a man has to let his guns speak for themselves.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
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The literary legacy of best-selling author and Medicine Pipe Bearer Award nominee Ralph Compton lives on in Ride the Hard Trail. Hiding from the law, brothers Lin and Chancy Bryce hire on as cowpunchers at a widow's ranch. But soon they're embroiled in a range war with a nefarious cattle baron who has a small army of hired guns protecting his interests.
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