The Oregon Trail: The Trail Drive, Book 9
Written by Ralph Compton
Narrated by Scott Sowers
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They Risked Their Lives To Bring Cattle to Missouri. Now They Faced A Journey Twics As Dangerous...
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-making trail drives.
The Oregon Trail
Lou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their fourteen Texas cowboys briught a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer's men were running out of time to reach the wide-open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden in one of the pilgrims' wooden wagons-and outlaws circling like wolves-there were miles of shooting and dying still ahead.
Ralph Compton
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.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Lou Spencer and Dillard Sumner arrive in Independence, Missouri with 1000's of Longhorn cattle and discover another herd beat them and thus there is no one to sell them to, they are offered the chance to sell the cattle to the settlers of a huge wagon train heading to Oregon. The caveat is they must accompany the settlers and manage the cattle. With little choice plus the added attraction of many young women in the settler families, the cowboys decide to go to Oregon too. Soon they face division in the settler camp, outlaws seeking to steal the settlers gold and the cattle herd plus attacks by angry Mormons who fear the huge influx of non Mormon settlers. Interestingly there is no Indian trouble on this trip.The author supplied a map of the route that helps the reader see where in the west the settlers are facing their many trials. Jim Bridger makes an appearance in the narrative. Following the advice of Louis L'Amour, there is action on the first page of the novel to hook the reader and it rarely lets up. The reader also learns a great deal about life in a wagon train heading west which is reminiscent of the novel, The Way West by A.B. Gutherie, Jr. The train in this novel is one of the first on this route so they were really breaking the trail for those who followed. A great read.