Stampedes, rustlers, and hostile Indians wouldn't slow them down. They were bound for Kansas, and a Texas-sized fight! The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maerick longhorns and the brains, brown and boldness to drive them north 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. The Shawnee Trail Long John Coons, the Cajun son of a conjuring woman, was driving 2,000 head of cattle north from Texas to the railroad in Kansas--through Indian Territory and outlaw strongholds. At his side was a beautiful woman with a sordid past, three ex-cattle rustlers, some renegate Indians, Mexican vanqueros and a straight-laced young trail boss. And while Long John tried to keep his hot headed crew from killing each other before they reached the end of the line, the biggest dangers was waiting up ahead--where an all-out war in Kansas make the Texas fight together, or die at the same time.

Relive the early days of cattle drives. Learn the landmarks and remote areas of civilization during the 1860's along the eastern edge of Oklahoma. Learn about the cowboys' way of life and his importance to the development of the Indian Territories. Follow George Grinder and his brother as they travel the Shawnee Trail from the Red River to the Neosho River.

Jake Wetherby didn't survive the move from Tennessee to Texas and the loss of his parents for nothing. Thought there was little law and plenty of trouble, he aimed to keep his small family alive. It would take more than blood and bullets to bring his down.

The Old Chisholm Trail charts the evolution of the major Texas cattle trails, explores the rise of the Chisholm Trail in legend and lore, and analyzes the role of cattle trail tourism long after the end of the trail driving era itself. The result of years of original and innovative research—often using documents and sources unavailable to previous generations of historians—Wayne Ludwig’s groundbreaking study offers a new and nuanced look at an important but short-lived era in the history of the American West. Controversy over the name and route of the Chisholm Trail has persisted since before the dust had even settled on the old cattle trails. But the popularity of late nineteenth-century Wild West shows, dime novels, and twentieth-century radio, movie, and television western drama propelled the already bygone era of the cattle trail into myth—and a lucrative one at that. Ludwig correlates the rise of automobile tourism with an explosion of interest in the Chisholm Trail. Community leaders were keenly aware of the potential economic impact if tourists were induced to visit their town rather than another, and the Chisholm Trail was often just the hook needed. Numerous “historical” markers were erected on little more than hearsay or boosterish memory, and as a result, the true history of the Chisholm Trail has been overshadowed. The Old Chisholm Trail is the first comprehensive examination of the Chisholm Trail since Wayne Gard’s 1954 classic study, The Chisholm Trail, and makes an important—and modern—contribution to the history of the American West. Winner, 2018 Elmer Kelton Book of the Year, sponsored by the Academy of Western Artists​

The author produces another great action novel about Native Americans and the American Frontier. The book describes the trials and tribulations early settlers and Native Americans had to endure. A great read of the early years of America... a book you cannot put down. Lance Hawkins returns home to find his parents and little brother dead and their bodies mutilated. The marauding Shawnee Warriors with their ally the Frenchman St. Georges take his two sisters, Iona and May Lynn, captive. The trail of the raiders leads to the Trent Farm where his lifelong sweetheart is also taken captive. Lance makes an oath to his badly wounded brother Lucas; he will never quit the trail until every warrior and every Frenchman responsible for the atrocities are dead.