• Source: Ralph Compton

      • Ralph Compton (April 11, 1934 – September 16, 1998) was an American writer of western fiction.
      A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. Mr. Compton began his writing career with a notable work, The Goodnight Trail, which was chosen as a finalist for the Western Writers of America "Medicine Pipe Bearer Award" bestowed upon the "Best Debut Novel". He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. In the last decade of his life, he authored more than two dozen novels, some of which made it onto the USA Today bestseller list for fiction.
      Ralph Compton died in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 64. Since his death, Signet Books has continued the author's legacy, releasing new novels, written by authors such as Joseph A. West and David L. Robbins, under Compton's byline.


      Novels


      Autumn of the Gun
      Festival Of Spies
      Clarion's Call
      Devil's Canyon
      Navarro
      Bullet Creek
      Guns Of The Canyonlands
      By The Horns
      Rio Largo
      Deadwood Gulch
      The Killing Season
      Texas Empire
      The Bloody Trail
      Blood Duel
      Shadow Of The Gun
      Ride The Hard Trail
      Bullet For A Bad Man
      Outlaw's Reckoning
      Stryker's Revenge
      The Burning Range
      The Stranger From Abilene
      The Ghost Of Apache Creek
      Down On The Gila River
      Hard Ride To Wichita
      The Hunted
      Double-Cross Ranch


      = The Trail Drive Series

      =
      The Goodnight Trail
      The Western Trail
      The Chisholm Trail
      The California Trail
      The Shawnee Trail
      The Virginia City Trail
      The Dodge City Trail
      The Oregon Trail
      The Santa Fe Trail
      The Old Spanish Trail
      The Green River Trail
      The Deadwood Trail
      The Bandera Trail
      Trail Drive books written by other authors under Compton's byline:

      The Dakota Trail by Robert Vaughan (ISBN 0-451-20417-4)
      Bozeman Trail by Robert Vaughan (ISBN 0-451-20690-8)
      The Alamosa Trail by Robert Vaughan (ISBN 0-451-20582-0)
      The Abilene Trail by Dusty Richards (ISBN 978-0-451-21043-2)
      Trail to Fort Smith by Dusty Richards (ISBN 0-451-21123-5)
      The Palo Duro Trail by Jory Sherman (ISBN 0-451-21369-6)
      The Ogallala Trail by Dusty Richards
      The Ellsworth Trail by Jory Sherman
      The Tenderfoot Trail by Joseph A West
      Trail To Cottonwood Falls by Dusty Richards
      The Amarillo Trail by Jory Sherman
      The Badlands Trail by Lyle Brandt
      The Saltwater Trail by Jackson Lowry


      = Trail of the Gunfighter

      =
      The Dawn of Fury (ISBN 0-451-18631-1)
      The Killing Season (ISBN 0-451-18787-3)
      Autumn of the Gun (ISBN 0-451-19045-9)


      = Border Empire

      =
      The Border Empire (ISBN 0-451-19209-5)
      Sixguns and Double Eagles (ISBN 0-451-19331-8)
      Train To Durango (ISBN 0-451-19237-0)


      = Sundown Riders

      =
      North to the Bitterroot
      Across the Rio Colorado
      The Winchester Run
      Devil's Canyon (ISBN 0-451-19519-1)
      Whiskey River (ISBN 0-451-19332-6)
      The Skeleton Lode (ISBN 0-451-19762-3)
      Runaway Stage
      Do Or Die
      Bucked Out In Dodge
      West of Pecos
      Sundown Riders books written by other authors under Compton's byline:

      Demon's Pass by Robert Vaughan (ISBN 0-451-19763-1)
      The Trail's End by E.L. Ripley
      The Wolves of Seven Pines by E.L. Ripley
      Flames of Silver by Jackson Lowry
      Prairie Fire, Kansas by John Shirley
      Tin Star by Jackson Lowry
      Never Bet Against the Bullet by Jackson Lowry
      Calvert's Last Bluff by E.L. Ripley
      Seven Roads to vengeance by Carlton Stowers
      The Outlaw Hunters by D.B. Pulliam


      = Danny Duggin Series

      =
      Death Rides A Chestnut Mare (ISBN 0-451-19761-5)
      The Shadow of a Noose
      Death Along the Cimarron by Ralph Cotton (ISBN 0-451-20769-6)
      Riders of Judgment by Ralph Cotton (ISBN 0-451-20214-7)


      Books written by other authors under Compton's byline


      The following novels were written by a variety of authors under Compton's byline and published by the Ralph Compton Estate (not including the Trail Drive Series or Sundown Riders Series, which are already listed above). In every one of these books, the first chapter is preceded by Compton's five-paragraph eulogy to "The Immortal Cowboy" which begins with: "This is respectfully dedicated to the 'American cowboy.' His was the saga sparked by the turmoil that followed the Civil War, and the passing of more than a century has by no means diminished the flame."
      John Edward Ames:

      Deadwood Gulch
      Ralph Cotton:

      The Shadow of a Noose
      Riders of Judgment
      Death Along The Cimarron

      Marcus Galloway:

      One Man's Fire
      The Bloody Trail
      Straight Shooter
      Death of a Bad Man
      The Dangerous Man
      Brimstone Trail
      Rusted Tin
      Outlaw's Reckoning
      Straight to the Noose
      Hard Ride to Wichita
      Vigilante Dawn
      Tony Healey:

      Blood on the Prairie (The Gunfighter Series)
      Jackson Lowry:

      Lost Banshee Mine
      The Big Deal
      Shot to Hell (The Gunfighter Series)
      Matthew P. Mayo:

      Tucker's Reckoning
      Deadman's Ranch
      Shotgun Charlie
      Terrence McCauley:

      Ride the Hammer Down
      Robert J. Randisi:

      The Wrong Side of the Law (The Gunfighter Series)
      Ride for Justice (The Gunfighter Series)
      Dusty Richards

      North to the Salt Fork
      David L. Robbins:

      For the Brand
      A Wolf in the Fold
      Brother's Keeper
      Texas Hills
      Fatal Justice
      The Law and the Lawless
      West of Pecos
      Bluff City
      Nowhere, TX
      The Evil Men do
      Bucked Out in Dodge
      Jeff Rovin:

      Death Valley Drifter (The Gunfighter Series)
      Blood of the Hunters (The Gunfighter Series)
      John Shirley:

      Broken Rider (The Gunfighter Series)
      Carlton Stowers

      Comanche Trail
      Phantom Hill
      Dalton's Justice (The Gunfighter Series)
      Reunion in Hell (The Gunfighter Series)
      Return to Gila Bend (The Gunfighter Series)
      The Breckenridge Boys (The Gunfighter Series)
      Robert Vaughan:

      The Dakota Trail
      Joseph A. West:

      Bounty Hunter
      Rawhide Flat
      Showdown at Two-Bit Creek
      Doomsday Rider (The Buck Fletcher series)
      Vengeance Rider (The Buck Fletcher series)
      Slaughter Canyon
      Shadow of the Gun
      The Last Manhhunt
      The Man From Nowhere
      Blood on the Gallows
      The Convict Trail
      Blood and Gold
      West of the Law


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      The Tennessee Writers Project Contains mini-biography + bibliography

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