Across the Rio Colorado
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A man protects settlers from frontier dangers in an adventure by "a storyteller who may very well turn out to be the greatest western writer of them all." - Tombstone Epitaph
Across rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born. . .
Texas! For the pioneers who streamed out of Missouri it was a land of dreams and freedom. Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land.
Veteran wagon boss Chance McQuade, a man deadly with a pistol and Sharps, had signed on to take a hundred families there. But the man who hired McQuade was joining the wagon train, and turning it into a brawling, rolling city of sin and violence.
Now, on the hard drive West, McQuade faces Kiowa, lightning storms, and killers behind his back-all to reach a promised land that's erupting into war.
"Very seldom in literature have the legends of the old West been so vividly painted." - Tombstone Epitaph
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Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, 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.
