Ralph Compton The Ghost of Apache Creek

Name: Ralph Compton The Ghost of Apache Creek
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781490601243

Author: Ralph Compton, Joseph A. West

Narrator: James Jenner

Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/11/2014

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western

Synopsis

The only folk left behind in Apache Creek are ghosts, including Marshall Sam Pace. Three years of solitude have turned Sam into a phantom, but when a woman on the run stumbles into town, the former lawman must protect her and make use of gunslinger skills long out of practice...

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 Connlou

(c)2011 An awesome read from front to back. Post cholera, ghost town with one man still living in the past. Victim of rancher and others who feel he should be punished for their own problems. It is vivid, realistic, and very touching. Loved the book.......more

Goodreads review by David

Imagine a man tied to a Ghost Town by the fact that his wife and child are buried in the graveyard. Three years the town has been empty, but the hero cannot bring himself to leave. Not only is he tied because of his great sorrow for his wife, but the sad belief that people will return. Why is it a g......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

Easy read, unpredictable ending (Well maybe for someone who does not normally read this genre)......more

Goodreads review by Leo

Everyone in the town of Apache Creek died of cholera and the marshal was the only one left. The town had been renamed REQIEM. The marshal held his ground and saw six gunfighters die of cholera after they drank water from the well. Good western. Kept me going.......more