The Western Trail: The Trail Drive, Book 2

Written by Ralph Compton

Narrated by Scott Sowers

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…
THE WESTERN TRAIL
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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: May 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9781427213471

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 The Western Trail

[Don Osborne · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This book appears to have been edited …grossly . Truly ruined the entire reading experience.

[Michael AP · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Storyline gets fragmented by quick changes of scenes
Making story difficult to follow
Re read is needed
Story is great just the delivery:-(