Ralph Compton
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Pub. Date
2011
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For a gambler locked in a claims war, the stakes are life or death. A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town--and the black gold beneath it. And the Fat Man is willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. The pair will have to work hard and work together to force-feed...
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Pub. Date
2009
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Rawhide Flat is bursting at the seams with hard men and their hard-earned cash from working the nearby 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 the people of Rawhide Flat would rather torture the information out of him. Lucky for...
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Ordered to head west when a New York gangster puts a price on his head for killing his son, Detective Sergeant John McBride ends up in High Hopes, Colorado--a lawless boomtown where McBride quickly runs afoul of corrupt saloon owner Gamble Trask and his vicious hired guns. When beautiful card dealer Shannon Roark asks for his protection, it's high time for one of New York's finest to dole out some frontier justice of his own.
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Pub. Date
2012
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Keeping the peace is no trouble at all in a town of one. The only folks left behind in Requiem are ghosts--and after three years of solitude, Marshal Sam Pace has turned into a phantom of sorts. Sam is sure that actual people--rather than the ghosts he sees in his mind--will return and bring the town to life again. But when a woman on the run stumbles into town, Sam turns his attention to what he must do as caretaker of the town and dons the mantle...
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Since losing his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. Now in Oregon's Rogue River region, he sees two men gun down a third. After they leave, he takes the dead man's pistol and goes to the next town, where he learns that Payton Farraday, a well-liked local rancher has been murdered -- and becomes a suspect in the shooting. But Emma Farraday, the victim's niece, believes in Samuel's innocence -- and...
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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....
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Pub. Date
2014
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Rancher Cage Clayton has been hired to track down a man who years ago left a destructive path in his wake. Though he doesn't know what Lissome Terry looks like, Clayton knows his target is in Bighorn Point, so finding him shouldn't be too hard. But when the town marshal only gives Clayton a week to find his man, catching him will be anything but easy.
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Pub. Date
2003
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Charley Pickett is cleaning up the West- working on a farm shoveling you-know-what. Then he teams up with Tony Fabrizio, pickpocket extraordinaire. In need of more money and more respect, they declare themselves bounty hunters - but the job is easier said than done. Going after one of the most wanted outlaws in the West - with a dollar value on his head bigger than they've ever seen - they'll have to learn the tricks of the trade in no time flat..or...
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Pub. Date
2009
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Bounty Hunter John Tone is good at his job. Some say ruthless. If there's killing to be done, he shows no mercy. In another time, far across the ocean, Tone lost the only person he 's ever loved and he's been dead inside ever since. That's the hand fate dealt him, and he'll play it out. But then a powerful criminal from San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast makes him an offer he can't refuse, and Tone has to draw out six of his client's worst enemies....
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Pub. Date
c2006
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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.
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Pub. Date
2007
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Best-selling author David Robbins' searing Western tales capture all the thunder and lightning of Ralph Compton's extraordinary legacy. In Blood Duel, Jeeter Frost is targeted by reporters seeking insider details of the "Missouri Man-Killer." Jeeter knows he's done his share of killin', but his inability to read the so-called true accounts of his exploits makes his trigger finger burn worse than ever.
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Pub. Date
2005
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Despite his reluctance and still haunted by the events of his last drive, Sam Ketchum takes on the difficult challenge of bringing the cattle from Frio Springs to the markets of Nebraska, dealing with the hardships of the trail, renegade Comanche, and rustlers along with way, but now his task is further complicated when he finds himself in the middle of a deadly Texas feud. Original.