The classic, Golden Spur Award-winning novel of a man, a family, and a nation He came off the frontier: a buffalo hunter, a gambler, a loner. In Abilene he won a saloon at cards and earned the fear of a lawless town. From then on, Ja...

Josey Wales was the most wanted man in Texas. His wife and child had been lost to pre-civil War destruction and, like Jesse James and other young farmers, he joined the guerrilla soldiers of Missouri—men with no cause but survival a...

Book by Carter, Forrest

Paperback with 211 pages. Historical Western Novel: Sequel to The Outlaw Josey Wales.

SUNDOWN RIDERS  They are four hired guns who haul freight for a price into the treacherous, untamed wilderness. Having already risked their lives for the Confederacy, now they’re fighting for themselves—and for a stake in the futu...

"Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddlesore."—Publishers WeeklyBLOOD TIESThe life of a cowboy suits Thalis Christie just fine. A puncher for the Crescent H in Texas, he loves what he do...

Ride the long path of vengeance in this thrilling double installment of bestselling Western author Ralph Compton’s Rough Justice series. DEATH RIDES A CHESTNUT MARE by Ralph Compton: Waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws...

There's trouble on the trail drive in this USA Today bestselling series...Chancy Gantry and Ollie Teal are honest cowpunchers, riding herd on fifteen hundred longhorns from Texas to Kansas. Their trail boss, Lucas Stout, is tough but ...

A ruthless rancher crosses the wrong man in the USA Today bestselling series...Haunted by memories of the Civil War, Coy Jennings just wants to find work as a ranch hand and to begin saving for a small farm where he could finally enjo...

SHOTGUN CHARLIE (prequel to THE HUNTED!)Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks and ne'er do wells who sees something of himself in kindly, waywa...

DEADLY DRIVEOwen Burnett's needs are small. All he's ever wanted is his wife's affection, his children's health, and a little plot of land which he can farm. Still, he's no fool. So when his neighbor Gareth Kurst makes him a business ...

OLD FRIENDS Chip Chippendale met Ransom Barnes after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from Texas together. But when Chip first laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was home, and the two friends split off on...

The USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series continues...When a bunch of ruffians rob a bank in the sleepy town of Alpine, it's only natural for the locals to be alarmed. But this gang and its leader, Cestus Calloway, are not commo...

The only riches Texans has left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to lif...

Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm—the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman—arrives in the heart of Comanche coun...

For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all.The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five millionmaverick longhorns and the brains, brawn a...

An all new Western in the USA Today bestselling seriesEVIL IS AS EVIL DOES If things are quiet in the little town of Sweetwater, Marshal Fred Hitch sees no reason to make waves. But when Tyree Johnson shows up, Fred's relaxed nat...

Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they'll bat...

Stampedes, rustlers, and hostile Indians wouldn't slow them down. They were bound for Kansas, and a Texas-sized fight!The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maerick longhorns and the brains, brown and b...

When young Jarret Pekoe aims to bring a band of violent border-jumpers to justice, his sister hires rifleman Lem Beauchamp to scare some sense into him. But when trouble arrives, they must work together to defeat the outlaws once and ...

SOUTH-OF-THE-BORDER SHOWDOWN  Trouble follows horse trader Will Summers as soon as he sets foot in Dark Horses, Mexico. A party of men is intent on hanging Summers, believing him to be a horse thief, but not before they take him to t...

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has something of a reputation for finishing what he sets out to do-usually with a shot from his Winchester. He'd been on the trail of five gunmen for days. Then there was four. And he doesn't plan on sto...

No one outruns Fast Lawrence Shaw-especially when he runs with them. In the delirium of a mysterious head wound, Shaw stumbles upon the Dexter Lowe Boys on their way to steal some U.S. armament in the badlands. But in his weakened con...

A new Western adventure from the USA Today bestselling author of Golden Riders A TOWN ON THE EDGE  When Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack arrives in Mesa Grande with a few outlaws in tow, he finds the town in chaos. The sheriff's just...

From the USA Today bestselling author of Showdown at Gun Hill comes a tale of outlaws and order in the Old West.A FATHER'S FURYArizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack knows all too well that criminals don't concern themselves with conseq...

no good deed... When four drovers stumble upon the bloody aftermath of a stagecoach robbery, they discover a cache of money belonging to the most powerful man in the county. They decide to do the right thing and return the cash. But t...

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SONArizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack rides the border badlands to Iron Point hoping to capture Ozzie Cord, a mercenary who killed a sheriff back in Mesa Grande. Cord escaped jail once, but won't get away this time...

Only one walks away...BR> Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has spent the winter healing up after being shot in the back. Now he's going to meet Memphis Beck, a member of the notorious Hole-in-the-Wall gang—and the man who saved his life. ...

Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s, seven stories celebrate the soul and spirit of the American West, from a newly sworn deputy who risks his life and reputation to help a wanted man, to a frontier doctor who must choose betw...

Buried Confederate treasure, a suspicious death and the fate of a little girl's birthright conspire to lure a drifting cowhand on an unwanted journey through post-Civil War Texas. It is a journey marked by danger, death, and mystery. ...