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 Dodge City Trail
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 would risk everything on a drive across the Llano. Along the way, two bands of killers would fight over them, the gunslinger Clay Allison would join up with them, and Quanah Parker's Comanches would try to thwart them-in a bold adventure fueled by the courage to face death, the pride to keep going, and the knowledge that now, there was no turning back.
Texan Dan Ember returned home from the Civil War to find a rich man's hired guns living on his land. When Ember and his Texas neighbors are offered a small fortune to drive a herd of 10,000 longhorn cattle north to Dodge City, they don't have to think twice. But they haven't counted on attacks by hired outlaws, stampedes, high river crossings, or a confrontation with Quanah Parker's Comanches.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Westerns
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Edition: Abridged
- Language: English
- Format: audioCD
- Release Date: December 6, 2011
- Date Published: December 6, 2011
- Author: Ralph Compton
- Narrator: Scott Sowers (Narrator)