The Dodge City Trail — Ralph Compton

From bestselling author Ralph Compton comes the spectacular saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier...

For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all...

Dodge City was a businessman's dream. And a cattle drive north -- with thousands of unbranded longhorns and a remuda of stolen Mexican horses -- was a dream of Texans like Dan Ember, who'd come home from the war to find a rich man's hired guns living on his land. Now Dan and his neighbors will risk everything on a drive across the Llano. Along the way, two bands of killers and the gunslinger Clay Allison will come to a draw, and Quanah Parker's Comanches will try to thwart them -- in a bold adventure fueled by the courage to face death and the pride to keep going...and the knowledge that there would be no turning back.