The Bandera Trail (The Trail Drive) | Ralph Compton

The Bandera Trail (The Trail Drive) | Ralph Compton | Two thumbs up!!

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	The Bandera Trail (The Trail Drive) Ralph Compton St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1993 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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The only riches Texans has 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.

Set on rescuing their old friend Clay Duval who is trapped inside war-torn Mexico, Gill and Van Austin, nephews of Texas founder Stephen Austin, cross the border after him and soon discover half of Mexico's army wants them dead. Taken prisoner by Santa Anna's soldiers, the brothers make a daring escape and head into Durango country, where they stumble on a valley full of longhorns--and a chance to build a future north of the border. All they have to do now is break Duval out of prison and drive the cattle to safety.

But faced with outlaws, soldiers and the cunning plans of a beautiful woman, the Austins are finding out that this isn't a trail drive, it's a war to reach the Bandera Range alive. And the only way to do it is the Texan way--figting for every bloody, dusty mile ahead.

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Fine work by a fine writer

Compton writes the traditional western the way they should be written. No sex, no profanity. Just good cowboy stories

Two thumbs up!!

This whole series has been very good. Just good clean reading. Nothing you would be ashamed for your mother to find out you had been reading.

A good clean story

The other reviewers are right. Compton writes a good clean story, and this is no exception. It's unfortunate that Compton died when he did, because I antipated a lot more from him. Fortunately, we have now Kirby Jonas, whom critics call the New Louis L'Amour. His books are clean, not graphically violent, and the swearing is minimal. Louis L'AMour would be proud to see his name applied to Kirby Jonas. If you read L'Amour, COmpton, and Jonas, you can't go wrong!

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Good effort