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Ralph Compton western series

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Cotton, Ralph W
Ames, John Edward
Robbins, David, 1950
Galloway, Marcus
Robbins, David
Richards, Dusty
West, Joseph A
Compton, Ralph
Sherman, Jory
Mayo, Matthew P
Stowers, Carlton
Ripley, E. L
McCauley, Terrence
Randisi, Robert J
Healey, Tony
 
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1.  Death along the Cimarron: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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2.  Deadwood Gulch: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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Star rating for Rio largo
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The best-selling Ralph Compton novels evoke the American frontier at a time when heroes and villains settled disputes with the exchange of hot lead. In the Sweet Grass Valley, Kent Tovey's Circle T ranch and Dar Pierce's DP ranch sit on either side of the Rio Largo River. Tovey and Pierce have no beef with each other-until a no-good schemer instigates a bloody feud between the old friends.

4.  The bloody trail: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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5.  Bluff City: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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6.  Trail to Cottonwood Falls: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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7.  West of the law: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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8.  Blood on the gallows

 
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Star rating for Ralph Compton Bullet For a Bad Man
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Sibling rivalry turns deadly in this Ralph Compton western...
Boone and Eppley Scott are the sons of a prosperous Arizona rancher. Despite Boone’s talent for handling a six-shooter, he is content to raise cattle for the rest of his days. Eppley is another story. Dangerously dissatisfied, he secretly plots to take over the family ranch.
 
When Epp hires an assassin to kill his brother, Boone’s lightning-quick hands...
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Star rating for The convict trail

11.  Death of a bad man: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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12.  Ride the hard trail

 
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13.  Shadow of the gun: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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14.  Bounty hunter: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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15.  Fatal justice: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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16.  The man from nowhere

 
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17.  Outlaw's reckoning

 
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Star rating for Rawhide Flat
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Rawhide Flat is full of hard men with hard-earned cash from working the Comstock Lode. So when the bank is robbed and two civilians cut down, a posse delivers its own justice, leaving only Judah Walsh alive. Walsh offers to tell where the gang hid the money in return for a horse, a hundred bucks, and a free ride out of the state, but they'd rather torture it out of him. Lucky for Walsh, protection arrives in a hail of bullets from Deputy U.S. Marshal...
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Star rating for The burning range
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"Drill or be drilled. The streets of Green Meadow, Oklahoma, are flowing red with blood. At the scene of every grisly murder is a threatening message: Get out! A mysterious villian known as the Fat Man wants the black gold hidden beneath the town, and he's willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it..."--P. [4] of cover.

20.  Death of a hangman: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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21.  North to the Salt Fork

 
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Star rating for Ralph Compton Rusted Tin
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In Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series, every man has a breaking point...
Zeke Wolpert is sheriff of Keith County, Nebraska. He doesn’t keep the peace so much as turn a blind eye to the illegal activities of outlaws who pay him for the privilege. Most of his earnings are spent on liquor, and most of his days are spent hungover to the disgust of the county’s honest citizens—and to Zeke himself.
 
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Star rating for Stryker's revenge

24.  The Amarillo trail

 
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Star rating for The ghost of Apache Creek
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A broken man finds a reason to fight in this riveting Ralph Compton western.
Requiem, formerly known as Apache Creek, is a town that has seen better days. After a plague of cholera swept through the streets, the only folks left behind are ghosts, including Marshall Sam Pace. Even though he’s still living and breathing, three years of solitude have turned Sam into a phantom—a lonely man who’s more than a little touched in...
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Star rating for The last manhunt
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Star rating for The Stranger from Abilene
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In this thrilling Ralph Compton western, a rancher is on the hunt for a despicable bandit hiding in plain sight.
Bighorn Point appears to be a quiet town. But when a stranger comes looking for a murderer, it turns out that not all the respectable citizens are what they seem. 
Down-on-his-luck rancher Cage Clayton has been hired to track down and kill Lissome Terry—a man who years ago left a path of death, rape, and robbery...

28.  Dead Man's ranch

 
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Star rating for Down on Gila River
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At fifty, cattle driver Sam Sawyer thinks he can finally dust off and retire, maybe open an eating house. But after a pack of Apache ambushes him and leaves him to die in Gila River country, he barely makes it to a remote ranch. The owner, Hanna Stewart, has worked the desert spread with her young daughter ever since her husband went for a ride and never returned. For years, she's been victimized by the corrupt sheriff of Lost Mine, Vic Moseley....

30.  The Omaha trail: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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31.  One man's fire: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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32.  Slaughter Canyon: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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Star rating for Tucker's reckoning
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4 stars
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"Ever since he lost his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. Now, far from his native Texas in Oregon's Rogue River region, Tucker secretly watches as two men gun down a third. After they leave, he takes the dead man's pistol and makes it to the next town. There, he learns the identity of the murdered man: Payton Farraday, a well-liked local rancher-and the second Farraday shot to death within the last...

34.  Brimstone Trail

 
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35.  Hard ride to Wichita

 
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Star rating for The hunted
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"Big Charlie Chilton knows better than to lose his temper, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his long-buried secrets, he can't help but teach the man a lesson about being quiet. Unfortunately, it turns out the man was about to make an important supply run for the town's marshal, and Marshal Watt knows just enough about Shotgun Charlie's past to draft him into service in his stead. The trek north would be treacherous enough with the snow and...

37.  The Cheyenne Trail

 
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38.  Comanche Trail

 
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39.  The dangerous land: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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40.  Double-cross ranch: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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Star rating for Vigilante dawn
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"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 for all"--
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Star rating for The evil men do
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An all new Western in the USA Today bestselling series EVIL 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 nature is put to the test. At fifteen years old, Tyree is a tough-as-nails bounty hunter with no patience for anyone calling him "boy." He's come to apprehend a killer who escaped from Cheyenne and has been hiding in plain sight...

43.  The law and the lawless: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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Star rating for Shotgun Charlie

45.  Straight to the noose: a Ralph Compton novel

 
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Star rating for Texas hills
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"Owen 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 to farm. Still, he's no fool. So when his neighbor Gareth Kurst makes him a business proposition, one that could leave him richer than he's ever dreamed, he can't refuse giving the risky scheme a try. Rounding up cattle up in the Texas Hill Country is nothing to take on lightly. Between the Comanches roaming the countryside...
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Star rating for Outlaw town
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4 stars
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There's trouble on the trail drive in this Ralph Compton western... 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 fair. He's never lost a hand on a drive and doesn't aim to start now. So when a cowhand needs a sawbones bad, Stout sends Chancy and Ollie to escort the man to a town called Prosperity, which none of them has ever heard of....
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Star rating for Phantom Hill

49.  Calvert's last bluff

 
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50.  Ralph Compton ride the hammer down

 
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51.  Return to Gila Bend

 
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Star rating for Ralph Compton
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"A farmer is pulled into the world of outlaws when his estranged brother turns up dead in this new Ralph Compton Western. Brothers Clay and Cal Breckenridge, sons of a hardscrabble East Texas farmer, never did see eye to eye. Clay, the eldest, returned home after the Civil War to help his father run the family farm; Cal deserted his military post and disappeared into a new life with a new name. Everyone knew who was the good son and who was the bad....

53.  Ride for justice

 
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Star rating for Ralph Compton Dalton's Justice
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In this compelling new installment of bestselling author Ralph Compton's Gunfighter series, Marshal Ben Dalton travels to Fort Worth to prove an old friend innocent of murder.
It's been ten years since the worst day of Ben Dalton's life. After four grinding years of war, the Confederate veteran returned to his hometown of Aberdeen, Texas, to find that Mandy, the girl he loved, had run off with his best friend, John Rawlings. Dalton recovered...

55.  Ralph Compton blood on the prairie

 
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Star rating for The wrong side of the law
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Jake Polk is a wanted man. He's spent years on the wrong side of the law staying one step ahead of the marshals. His most recent stage robbery ends with a posse hot on his trail. He's opened up just enough room to take a breather when he stumbles upon something astonishing. It's the body of a man resting peacefully next to a burned-out campfire. It's clear the man died in his sleep of natural causes. This is the chance Jake has been waiting for. ...