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  • Published: 10 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780593100790
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $19.99

Ralph Compton Drive for Independence



In this brand-new Ralph Compton Western, the drovers of the Bar X ranch will face sandstorms, renegades, and outlaws along the historic Cimarron trail.

In this brand-new Ralph Compton Western, the drovers of the Bar X ranch will face sandstorms, renegades, and outlaws along the historic Cimarron trail.

After a child is accidentally killed in a shootout, Art Catlin decides to give up his life of bounty hunting and finds a new career as a drover, working for the Bar X ranch. The trail is 770 miles from Santa Fe to Independence, Missouri, and Art isn't fool enough to think it'll be an easy journey.

As they head east, they seem to come upon countless threats, from environmental to personal. If they're to make it all the way with the herd intact, Catlin will need to use all of the skill and knowledge he's acquired over his long and violent career.

  • Published: 10 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780593100790
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $19.99

Praise for Ralph Compton Drive for Independence

Praise for Ralph Compton.

"Compton writes in the style of popular Western novelists like Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey....Thrilling stories of Western legend."--The Huntsville Times (AL)

And this version of the Tombstone Epigraph: "The greatest Western writer of them all....Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted."--The Tombstone Epitaph

"If you like Louis L'Amour, you'll love Ralph Compton."--Quanah Tribune-Chief (TX)

"Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddle sore."--Publishers Weekly