Ralph Compton Books In Order
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Reunion in Hell | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood of the Hunters | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Broken Rider | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Return to Gila Bend | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Valley Drifter | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ride for Justice | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ride the Hammer Down | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frontier Medicine | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Face of a Snake | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dalton's Justice | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shot to Hell | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hell Snake | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wrong Side of the Law | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guns of the Greenhorn | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Snare | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hellbound Posse | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Prairie | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Die Trying | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Counterfeit Lawman | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen Bullets | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Brother, My Killer | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Guns of Wrath | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sundown Riders Books
North To The Bitterroot | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demon's Pass | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Runaway Stage | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Do or Die | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nowhere, TX | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Across the Rio Colorado | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
West of Pecos | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Winchester Run | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whiskey River | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Skeleton Lode | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Devil's Canyon | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tin Star | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ralph Compton Tin Star | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wolves of Seven Pines | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Never Bet Against the Bullet | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost Banshee Mine | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prairie Fire, Kansas | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calvert's Last Bluff | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prairie Fire, Kansas | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trail's End | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ralph Compton Lost Banshee Mine | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stagecoach to Hell | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Snake's Fury | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Outlaw Hunters | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flames of Silver | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Roads to Revenge | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Winter of Wolves | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Hollow Ranch | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Reluctant Lawman | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Robber Barons | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Snake Oil Justice | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Trail Drive Books
The Goodnight Trail | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Western Trail | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chisholm Trail | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bandera Trail | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The California Trail | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shawnee Trail | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Virginia City Trail | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dodge City Trail | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oregon Trail | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Santa Fe Trail | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Old Spanish Trail | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green River Trail | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Deadwood Trail | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dakota Trail | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Alamosa Trail | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bozeman Trail | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Abilene Trail | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trail To Fort Smith | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Palo Duro Trail | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ogallala Trail | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ellsworth Trail | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tenderfoot Trail | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trail to Cottonwood Falls | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Amarillo Trail | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Jake's Last Drive | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kelly Trail | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Drive for Independence | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Trail | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Empire Trail | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Too-Late Trail | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Trail | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terror Trail | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Saltwater Trail | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Border Empire Books
The Border Empire | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six guns and Double Eagles | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Train to Durango | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Buck Fletcher Books
Doomsday Rider | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Showdown at Two-Bit Creek | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vengeance Rider | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Danny Duggin Books
Death Rides a Chestnut Mare | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadow of a Noose | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Riders of Judgement | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Along the Cimarron | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of John McBride Books
West Of The Law | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow of the Gun | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Gallows | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Tom Navarro Books
Publication Order of Trail of the Gunfighter Books
The Dawn of Fury | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Killing Season | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Autumn of the Gun | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood of the Hunters | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Broken Rider | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Valley Drifter | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Ralph Compton Western Books
Clarion's Call | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood and Gold | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For the Brand | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rio Largo | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guns of the Canyonlands | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Texas Empire | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By the Horns | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadwood Gulch | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bloody Trail | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Wolf In the Fold | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bluff City | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Duel | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of a Bad Man | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ride the Hard Trail | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bullet for a Bad Man | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Convict Trail | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rawhide Flat | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Outlaw's Reckoning | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man From Nowhere | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bounty Hunter | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatal Justice | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stryker's Revenge | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of a Hangman | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
North to the Salt Fork | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rusted Tin | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Burning Range | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Manhunt | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stranger from Abilene | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ghost of Apache Creek | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Man's Ranch | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slaughter Canyon | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Man's Fire | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tucker's Reckoning | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Down on Gila River | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brimstone Trail | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Straight Shooter | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hunted | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hard Ride to Wichita | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cheyenne Trail | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double-Cross Ranch | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Comanche Trail | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dangerous Land | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vigilante Dawn | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Evil Men Do | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Straight to the Noose | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shotgun Charlie | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Law and the Lawless | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brother's Keeper | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Texas Hills | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Outlaw Town | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Phantom Hill | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hellbound Posse | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ralph Compton was born in the early 1930’s and died in nineteen ninety-eight. He stood 6 feet, 8 inches tall. He grew up in Alabama. Before having a full-fledged writing career, Compton had a number of jobs that involved using his writing skills, including musician, radio host, songwriter, and newspaper writer.
The subjects that Ralph Compton wrote about had a lot to do with the experiences he had in his life. Ralph Compton was a man who saw a lot in life and had a lot of questions about life. His stories depict real-life issues and he offered certain life lessons in his writings.
Ralph Compton was a finalist for the Medicine Pipe Bearer Award, which is awarded to writers with an outstanding first novel. This award earned him respect throughout the writing world, especially because he started his novel-writing career later in life. Mr. Compton has been the recipient of many other awards he is often considered one of the best novel writers of all time.
Mr. Compton has written some amazing books, such as Down On Gila River. Sam Sawyer is fifty years old. He has driven cattle all of his life, and he is at the point now where he wants to retire. He wants to live a relaxed life. This goes terribly wrong when Sam is ambushed and left to die in Gila River country. Here, Sam meets Hannah Stewart. Hannah runs a ranch in this area, but there is a sheriff in town that is causing Hannah problems.
Sam Sawyer wants to help Hannah, and he believes this is his next mission in life. However, Sam does not know what he is in for and he ends up on a path he did not expect. This path is beyond leading cattle, and Sawyer’s eyes are opened to a lifestyle he has never experienced.
Another book from Ralph Compton is Brimstone Trail. Paul was a man of past sins and he had no plans of becoming a better person until he received a call from the Lord, and he began to minister throughout the area. Paul has come to Pueblito Verde to preach. There are evil men that ride into Pueblito Verde, along with a ruthless bounty hunter, and there is gunfire every single day. Through all of this, Paul must stick to what he believes in and he must fight for his beliefs.
Another great book from Ralph Compton is The Hunted. Charlie Chilton has a temper that no one wants to test. However, an individual pushes his buttons with threats to expose his past. This causes Charlie to take action, but the man pushing buttons is friends with the town marshal. This causes nothing but problems for Charlie.
He is drafted into helping the marshal, but during the journey, fighting breaks out and Charlie is left for dead. Those who left Charlie for dead believe the war is over. However, the war is just beginning, because Charlie is alive and wants revenge.
Ralph Compton is author of two acclaimed books in the Strange Family series. In the first book, Death Rides A Chestnut Mare, Daniel Strange, the best gunsmith in Missouri, sells his shop and rides to Texas to buy cattle. He gets killed by outlaws during his trip and when news of his death reaches home, his daughter resolves to hunt down the killers.
In the second book, The Shadow of a Noose, Jed and Tim are two brothers that do not have much. They recently lost their father, who was killed by an outlaw, and their mother has died of an illness. With nothing to lose, Jed and Tim set out to find their sister, who left a year ago, seeking revenge for her father’s death. Jed and Tim are unaware of the dangers that await them, but the journey may lead them to their father’s murderer and they are willing to put their own lives on the line to discover the truth.
Ralph Compton is acknowledged to be one of the most inspirational writers ever. In fact, many careers began after reading his novels. There are also many writing groups, organizations, and even foundations that are named after Ralph Compton. Every day, his books are sold around the world, and his books are enjoyed by readers of all ages.
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It is a tragic loss that both Dusty and his wife were seriously injured in a December car accident and now both are deceased.
Just finished ‘Green River’, the story seems to continue .Which book continues this story ?
I have read all the Trail Drive Series and the Dakota Trail is the next one.
How can we find out which books were written by Dusty Richards?