Ralph Compton By the Horns

Name: Ralph Compton By the Horns
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781440796883

Author: Ralph Compton, David Robbins

Narrator: Pete Bradbury

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/16/2008

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

National best-selling phenomenon Ralph Compton's legacy lives on with By the Horns. A greenhorn-an Englishman, no less-arrives in Whiskey Flats to purchase one of the Bar 40's best longhorns. Owen, the ranch foreman, must escort the tenderfoot on the drive from Texas to Wyoming. But Luke Deal and his gang of ruthless cowboys have been hankerin' to get even with Owen, and this seems like the perfect time to settle an old score.

About 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

Goodreads review by Nolan

Alfred Pitney, a representative of the BLC, some British cattle ranchers, arrives in Texas to buy a bull from four Bar-40 ranch by the name Big Blue and four young cows. One of them called Emily. Pitney intends to take the bull and cows to Wyoming with four Bar-40 cattle hands and a cook. There is s......more

Goodreads review by Jay

The English are running a spread in Wyoming. The overseer, a man from Bristol, England, wants to improve the hardiness of his heard by introducing longhorn blood. He finds a ranch in Texas and buys a bull, payment due on delivery. Four cowhands and the Brit take the bull and four cows to Wyoming. Th......more