Ralph Compton The Amarillo Trail

Written by Ralph Compton and Jory Sherman

Narrated by Graham Winton

Spur Award winner Jory Sherman takes the reins for the next installment of Ralph Compton's long-running Trail Drive series. Doc Blaine has agreed to drive 3,000 head of cattle from Texas to Kansas, and the only help around are his sons Jared and Miles. But the boys are in love with the same woman, and their vow to kill each other on sight threatens to derail Doc's cattle drive faster than a speeding locomotive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9781470337483

Ralph Compton

Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, 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.

Reviews for Ralph Compton The Amarillo Trail

[lamour_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was another fast moving Compton style read with plenty of action about a cattle drive that was really two drives heading to the same place. Each drive led by a brother who detested the other brother because they had both wanted to marry the same woman. Turns out the woman was not worth it and the writer worked in the abuse of women theme while removing her from the novel.The author also worked in the issue of cattle drives and the conflict with agriculture as settlers moved west and planted crops.