Ralph Compton North to the Salt Fork

Name: Ralph Compton North to the Salt Fork
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781470337490

Author: Ralph Compton, Dusty Richards

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/04/2013

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

The USA Today best-selling Ralph Compton novels embody the rugged terrain and never-say-die spirit of the Old West. In North to the Salt Fork, Dusty Richards pens a gripping tale of one man's fight for the life he's earned. Captain Jack Starr, a veteran Confederate soldier, looks to Lost Dog Creek as the place he'll find some measure of peace. But there are those who won't leave a man be, and Jack will once again have to test his mettle staring down the end of a rifle.

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

Pretty good story. A lot going on. The cattle drive was a little to drawn out and got a little boring, otherwise I enjoyed the story.......more

Goodreads review by John

"Western" novels have been here forever. Reading one is a good change of pace in the 21st century......more

Goodreads review by Michael

This book just tried to be too many things as a large number of western tropes were used. So many of them in fact that the book suffered from a lack of solid direction. There were Texas Rangers at the core of the story. Okay, that's fine, but then there were the ubiquitous attacks by Comanches steal......more