Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Rider series, and the Trail Drive series, among others.
<b>Praise for Ralph Compton</b> If you like Louis L'Amour, you'll love Ralph Compton. --<i>Quanah</i> <i>Tribune Chief </i>(TX) Compton writes in the style of popular Western novelists like Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey...thrilling stories of Western legend. --<i>The Huntsville Times</i> (AL) Compton may very well turn out to be the greatest Western writer of them all....Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted. --<i>The Tombstone Epitaph</i>