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Hurley Public Library

Trail drive series

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Compton, Ralph
Richards, Dusty
Sherman, Jory
West, Joseph A
Brandt, Lyle, 1951
Brandt, Lyle
McCauley, Terrence
Shirley, John
Rovin, Jeff
Mayo, Matthew P
 
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Book cover for "The Goodnight Trail".
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Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they'll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive

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Book cover for "The western trail".
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Benton McCaleb and his band of cowboys brave more than one thousand treacherous miles to drive 2,400 head of cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley, encountering a ruthless railroad baron along the way.
Book cover for "The Chisholm Trail".
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Ten Chisholm, having left New Orleans with a price on his head and a vow to return to claim Priscilla for his wife, must first round up a herd of wild longhorns and drive them north on a quest to open a new trail to Kansas.
Book cover for "The Bandera Trail".
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The only riches Texans has 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-blazing trail drives.
Set on rescuing their old friend Clay Duval who is trapped inside war-torn Mexico, Gill and Van Austin, nephews of Texas founder Stephen

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Book cover for "The California trail".
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An extraordinary saga of the trailblazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the great Frontier.
Book cover for "The Shawnee trail".
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Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad.
Book cover for "The Virginia City trail".
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Nelson Story has a dream, but he and his war-weary band of cowboys have to deal with brutal outlaws, angry Indians, the Union army, and severe weather to make their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier.
Book cover for "The Dodge City trail".
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For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all.
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

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Book cover for "The Oregon Trail".
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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...
Book cover for "The Santa Fe trail".
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Buying 3,500 head of longhorn cattle from Gavin McCord in Missouri, Gladstone Pitkin hires Gavin and his cowboys to drive the herd to his New Mexico ranch, and they accept the challenge, unaware of the death trap that awaits them.

11.  The Old Spanish Trail

 
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Book cover for "The Deadwood trail".
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For veteran ranchers Nelson Story of Montana, and Benton McCaleb of Wyoming, it was an opportunity a man didn't pass up. In gold camps of the Black Hills, miners were hungry for beef, at boomtown prices. But within the two outfits were Indians, gunmen, Texans, lovesick cowboys, and high-spirited women. Worse, the drive would pass through Crow and Sioux territory, when Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn was just hours away. The drives were...
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Book cover for "The Dakota trail".
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Book cover for "The Alamosa trail".
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Hired by gunslinger Clay Allison to bring a herd up from Mexico into Colorado across the dangerous Alamosa Trail, the cowboys of the Trailback Ranch must deal with a blizzard and a gang of slave-selling outlaws.
Book cover for "The Bozeman Trail".
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Justice casts a long shadow in this Ralph Compton western.
James Cason…son of the owner of the Long Shadow ranch and head of a posse that tracked Mexican bandits across the border and killed their leader.
 
Duke Faglier…wanted by both sides of the law for killing the men who murdered his family.
 
Revelation Scattergood…suspected of being a rustler alongside her four brothers—and ready...
Book cover for "The Abilene Trail".
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There's no such thing as safe passage in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.
Ben McCullough was once an officer in the Confederate Army. Now, he’s a rancher in the Texas hill country, hoping to earn enough money to settle down and marry. With eight hundred head of cattle to drive north, Ben is relying on his ex-sergeant, Hap, to watch over the bunch of greenhorns he’s recruited to help.
 
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Book cover for "Trail to Fort Smith".
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Book cover for "The Palo Duro trail".
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Some think Felix Dagstaff is crazy for signing on to drive cattle from his ranch near Quitaque, Texas, to Cheyenne, more than a thousand miles away. Even if the passage through the Palo Duro Canyon were flat, most men wouldn't want any amount of money to take on such a job. Dag will have to drive his cattle through blinding storms and across swollen rivers. Besides setbacks caused by Mother Nature, he'll have to deal with the treachery of his own...
Book cover for "The Ogallala Trail".
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Book cover for "The Ellsworth trail".
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After losing his family, faith, and fortune, Jock Kane finally gets a chance to exact bloody revenge when he comes face-to-face with his wife's killer, who is in cahoots with a Yankee carpetbagger to steal his friend's longhorns.
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Book cover for "The Badlands Trail".
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"In this thrilling new installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's Trail Drive series, Toby Bishop and the drovers of the Circle K ranch will have to battle the elements, wild animals, rough terrain, and dangerous people to get their longhorn herd to their destination. The drovers of Circle K ranch have to drive the herd of beautiful longhorn cattle five hundred miles northwest to Missouri if they hope to make it through the next year. Toby Bishop,...
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Big Jake Motley had been running the Big M spread in Texas for over 30 years. In that time, he's driven thousands of head of cattle to market in Kansas. Now, while both the Nineteenth century and the era of trail drive are coming to an end, Big Jake is determined to make one last drive to Kansas. The only thing is, he doesn't have the cowhands to move that much beef. He drafts his old friend, Chance McCandles, into service, and together, the two aging...

25.  Drive for Independence

 
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Over the past twenty years, William "Bull" Kelly acquired a reputation as one of the best ramrods in Texas. He has led legendary cattle drives to almost every railhead in the middle of the country. Most impressive of all, he once drove his herd all the way up to Montana. But after years of working for other people, he decided to run cattle on his own, with his five sons. Everything starts off fine, but when a group of cattle thieves try to stampede...

27.  Ralph Compton red trail

 
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"Andrew Buchanan has a problem. His modest ranch in Southern California is being pressured by an unscrupulous competitor and the encroaching wave of the future—orange growers. The only chance he has to sell his cattle for real money is to take them south into Mexico. The Empire Trail is five hundred miles of misery that crosses scorching deserts and clings to treacherous cliffs—and it's Andrew's job to find the best way across. But physical barriers...

29.  Terror trail

 
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"After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a deal with neighbouring rancher Corliss Bilks to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. Halfway to Montana, range pirates and a rogue Apache war party close in. But salvation in the form of a Basque sheepherder...