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Former Confederate soldiers-turned-outlaws Mark Rogers and Bill Harder are given a choice between serving a prison sentence or infiltrating a dangerous gang of whiskey runners, with the return of their confiscated lands offered as a further incentive.

Two young gunslingers ride into the heart of evil in this Ralph Compton western.

Nathan Stone was a legendary gunfighter who did everything he could to be a father—while still following his own violent trail of honor. Now Wes Stone, barely eighteen, but full of the hard wisdom of the West, is being drawn into the kind of fight that cost his father his life.
A secret organization of criminals is replacing freshly minted gold...

In the USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series, sometimes a man has to leave his mark...
Willis Lander was once the T-Bar ranch’s best bronc buster. Then came the day when a stallion as black as pitch and as mean as a rattler shattered his knee. Unable to perform the duties required of a cowboy, Willis took the only job he felt capable of handling—minding the line shack forty miles from the ranch—and secluded...

A man embarks on a hazardous journey for both body and soul in this Ralph Compton western...
Ed Wright earned his reputation as a capable and principled man from years of driving cattle—and from wearing a Ranger’s badge. The Texan wants nothing more than to drown his memories in bottle after bottle of whiskey.
 
Unita Nance is the owner of the Bar U Ranch, having inherited the spread after her husband’s death....

A gunslinger is forced out of retirement in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.
Tom Navarro, a hostler at the Bar-V Ranch, has retired his gun-slinging boots to find peace of mind.  As much as he enjoys working for Paul Vannorsdell, owner and operator of Bar-V, Navarro has plans of moving up north with the woman he loves to open his own ranch and create a new life for himself.  Vannorsdell, too,...

There's a thin line between the law and the lawless in this Ralph Compton western...
Newspaper reporter Lester T. Booker traveled to Santa Fe to interview legendary gunfighter and dime novel hero Ransom March. But the quick-drawing “Prince of the Plains” Booker meets turns out to be little more than an old ex-lawman of questionable moral fiber who doled out death to unsuspecting—and sometimes unarmed—outlaws.
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In this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series, on the Alamosa Trail, anything goes...
After the merciless Blizzard of 1886, times are tough, but on the Trailback Ranch, the cowboys are tougher. From horse racing to train robbing, they'll survive on whatever schemes their wits can muster until a job comes their way...And infamous gunslinger Clay Allison needs a few good men to rustle a herd up from Mexico into...

Two men team up to take down a corrupt rancher in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series...
Chance Tyree never looks for trouble. But with his reputation as a lethal gunhand, trouble has a habit of finding him. In the Utah canyonlands, Chance ends up at the wrong end of a rope after he’s accused of being a hired killer—and is saved from the hangmen by Owen Fowler. Fowler knows what it’s like...

Two men on opposite sides of the Civil War make their new home on an even more dangerous battleground in this Ralph Compton western...
After the surrender of the Confederacy—and the death of his wife—Jed Adams stikes out for the west to find a new home and to build a new life for himself and his sons. 
 
Tom Waldron fought to keep the Union intact—and now believes the unsettled land of the West can be...

One man proves his worth in this Ralph Compton western...
When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the "respectable" townsfolk began hanging those who weren't. Town drunk Eddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill.
Oates never thought he was a survivor. But now, he's discovered a reason to go on—and he's about to unleash a raging fury upon those who would prey on the...