Author: Ralph Compton, Joseph A. West
Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/29/2013
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.
Fast paced. Not a happy ending for some no doubt. But I liked this story.......more
Another Compton book, this time finished by Joseph A West. Its all right, but the "easterner dork" stereotype is a bit too heavily written and the book is just unrelentingly miserable and dark. Everyone is terrible, every man is a greedy murdering thug, every woman is a whore, on and on it goes. Thi......more
A newspaper reporter interviews a legendary gunfighter. I was a bit disappointed with it.......more