{"product_id":"the-western-trail-the-trail-drive-book-2-9781250814609","title":"The Western Trail: The Trail Drive, Book 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom bestselling author Ralph Compton-an extraordinary saga of the hard-driving Texans who locked horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody battle for an untamed land.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some three hundred miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE WESTERN TRAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys traveled long and hard to drive thousands of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're in the midst of setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. Now, with the help of the Shoshoni Indian tribe and a man named Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men must vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they will wage the most ferocious battle of their lives-to win the right to call the land their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eTombstone Epitaph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Compton\u003c\/b\u003e stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, \u003ci\u003eThe Goodnight Trail\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525516955922,"sku":"9781250814609","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e353844a-68ce-4051-b540-1a06c46274c8.jpg?v=1731224729","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-western-trail-the-trail-drive-book-2-9781250814609","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}