The Goodnight Trail

A rancher and three ex-Texas Rangers embark on a dangerous cattle drive through the wilderness in this action-packed Western adventure.

"Lovers of Louis L'Amour-type Westerns will welcome [this] series." —Nashville Banner

The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-blazing trail drives . . .

Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they'll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison.

For big, brawling McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish the brave reach glory . . . or die hard.