Ralph Compton

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...

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 Dodge City...

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.

Taking up the custom-made Colts of his late father, who was murdered in the streets of El Paso by Mexico's notorious Sandlin gang, Wes Stone trades his aspirations of becoming a lawman for his thirst for vengeance.

Gil & Van Austin, two Texas brothers travel to California after years of hard ranching and cattle drives through Mexico and Texas. Gold fever was changing California and the brothers are soon a part of the gold boom and the changes that are happening.

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

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...

When Victorio's Apaches surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, food and supplies became scarce. So the "respectable" townsfolk began hanging those they didn't feel were worth feeding. Town drunk Eddie Oates escaped the noose, but, along with three prostitutes and a simpleton, he was banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill.

Between Kansas City and Montana Territory were a thousand ways to die--and a few bold men who would never turn back.