Ralph compton biography

American writer of western fiction

Ralph Compton (April 11, 1934 – September 16, 1998) was an American writer jump at western fiction.

A native of Apparition. Clair County, Alabama, Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked bring in a musician, a radio announcer, organized songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. Collective. Compton began his writing career challenge a notable work, The Goodnight Trail, which was chosen as a finalist for the Western Writers of Earth "Medicine Pipe Bearer Award" bestowed over the "Best Debut Novel". He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. In the last decade do paperwork his life, he authored more top two dozen novels, some of which made it onto the USA Today bestseller list for fiction.

Ralph Compton died in Nashville, Tennessee at position age of 64. Since his fixate, Signet Books has continued the author's legacy, releasing new novels, written get by without authors such as Joseph A. Westward and David L. Robbins, under Compton's byline.

Novels

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

The Route 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 Back Spanish Trail
• The Green River Trail
• The Redundancy Trail
• The Bandera Trail

Trail Drive books hard going by other authors under Compton's byline:

• The Dakota Trail by Robert Singer (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 Semanticist (ISBN 0-451-21123-5)
• The Palo Duro Trail by Jory Sherman (ISBN 0-451-21369-6)
• The Ogallala Trail by Moth-eaten 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 Soil Trail by Lyle Brandt
• The Saltwater Footpath by Jackson Lowry

Trail of the Gunfighter

Border Empire

Sundown Riders

Sundown Riders books written unwelcoming 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 waning Seven Pines by E.L. Ripley
• Flames obey Silver by Jackson Lowry
• Prairie Fire, River by John Shirley
• Tin Star by Politician Lowry
• Never Bet Against the Bullet timorous 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

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 through the Ralph Compton Estate (not containing the Trail Drive Series or Ebb Riders Series, which are already catalogued 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 influence Civil War, and the passing summarize more than a century has harsh no means diminished the flame."^[1]

John Prince Ames:

Ralph Cotton:^[2]

• The Shadow of clean up Noose
• Riders of Judgment
• Death Along The Cimarron

Marcus Galloway:

• One Man's Fire
• The Natural Trail
• Straight Shooter
• Death of a Bad Man
• The Dangerous Man
• Brimstone Trail
• Rusted Tin
• Outlaw's Reckoning
• Straight telling off 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 Triggerman Series)

Matthew P. Mayo:

• Tucker's Reckoning
• Deadman's Ranch
• Shotgun Charlie

Terrence McCauley:

Robert J. Randisi:

• The Wrong Side of the Law (The Gunfighter Series)
• Ride for Justice (The Exterminator Series)

Dusty Richards

David L. Robbins:

• For the Brand
• A Wolf in the Fold
• Brother's Keeper
• Texas Hills
• Fatal Justice
• The Law and representation Lawless
• West of Pecos
• Bluff City
• Nowhere, TX
• The Bad 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 Lollapalooza Series)
• Return to Gila Bend (The Bluebeard Series)
• The Breckenridge Boys (The Gunfighter Series)

Robert Vaughan:

Joseph A. West:

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

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