Ralph Compton The Kelly Trail

Informationen zum Autor 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 Riders series, and the Trail Drive series, among others. Terrence P. McCauley is an award-winning writer of westerns, crime fiction, and thrillers. His western Where the Bullets Fly  won the True West Magazine Award for Best Mass-Market Novel for 2019. He is the author of the acclaimed University Series, which includes The Fairfax Incident . He has also written two award-winning novels set in 1930s New York City: Prohibition and Slow Burn . Klappentext In this new Ralph Compton Western, William "Bull" Kelly brings his five sons onto the cattle drive, but when rustlers stampede the herd and injure them, he'll do anything to protect his own. Over the past twenty years, William "Bull" Kelly acquired a reputation as one of the best ramrods in Texas. He has led legendary cattle drives to almost every railhead in the middle of the country. Most impressive of all, he once drove his herd all the way up to Montana. But after years of working for other people, he decided to run cattle on his own, with his five sons. Everything starts off fine, but when a group of cattle thieves try to stampede the herd, some of Kelly's sons are hurt in the melee. The rustlers quickly find out that Kelly isn't called "Bull" because he insists on riding at the head of the herd. He's called "Bull" because of his skill with the harsh whip coiled on his belt. Leseprobe Chapter One   At that precise moment on that fine spring morning, William "Bull" Kelly figured he was probably the happiest man in Texas.   He had just made the last payment on the ranch that would forge his dynasty.   As of ten minutes earlier, the ranch he had spent years paying off was entirely and legally his. He had spent a fair portion of his life driving cattle to markets up north. Kansas. Nebraska. Even Montana on occasion. Cattle that had belonged to other men. Cattle that had made other men rich.   Kelly and his beloved Mary had been scrimping and saving every cent for decades to provide for their five sons and keep their own small ranch running. And now the day they had dreamed of together for so long had finally come. He only wished Mary had lived long enough to see it.   He looked up to toward the sky, where he expected his departed wife to be, and said, "We did it, girl. I only wish you were beside me to see it with your own eyes."   He blinked away a tear and dried his nose on his sleeve as the weight of it all finally hit him. Now the aging Irishman could finally make his lifelong dream a reality. He and his five sons could set about driving the three thousand herd of cattle he had amassed north to the market at Dodge City and sell it to the highest bidder. This early in the drive season-early April-and with cattle going for twenty-five dollars a head, he would make a tidy profit for his boys to start their new lives in the cattle business.   After all of those years of making other men rich, it was finally time to have something of his own. Free and clear of all debts.   With his beloved Mary now gone, his sons' future was all that mattered to him. He knew she would live as long as they did.   Jacob and James and Jeremiah and Joel and Joshua.   Their mother had named them all, as he had been on the trail when each boy came into the world. She had kept their names biblical, and in honor of her own father, John, back in the old country, ha...

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Terrence McCauley

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Compton, Terrence Mccauley
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781984803382
• ISBN: 978-1-984803-38-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 171 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The Trail Drive Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature