The Alamosa Trail

Trail Drive #15

by Ralph Compton (Series Creator), Robert Vaughan

The Trail Drive Series

After the merciless Blizzard of 1886, times are tough, but on the Trailback Ranch, the cowboys are tougher. From horse racing to train robbing, they'll survive on whatever schemes their wits can muster until a job comes their way . . . And infamous gunslinger Clay Allison needs a few good men to rustle a herd up from Mexico into Colorado across the equally infamous Alamosa.

Genres: Westerns

Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

Ralph Compton (April 11, 1934—September 16, 1998) was an American writer of western fiction.

A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton began his writing career with a notable work, The Goodnight Trail, which was chosen as a finalist for the Western Writers of America "Medicine Pipe Bearer Award" bestowed upon the "Best Debut Novel". He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. In the last decade of his life, he authored more than two dozen novels, some of which made it onto the USA Today bestseller list for fiction.

Ralph Compton died in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 64. Since his passing, Signet Books has continued the author's legacy, releasing new novels, written by authors such as Joseph A. West and David Robbins, under Compton's byline.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/ralphc...

Reviews

[David Burnworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jim Robinson was the oldest cowboy working on the Trailback ranch and when the ranch owners decided to sell the ranch because of the blizzard of 1886 the ranch hands all go on their way. Jim is hired by the infamous gunslinger Clay Allison to go to Mexico and bring back a herd of horses from Mexico. Through some gun shooting adventures, Jim and his former ranchhands make it down to Mexico but have to fight for their lives to make it back to Texas. I won't give anything else away bu will say this is worth your time.

[Nolan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story. Winter of 1880 kills off a lot of cattle and cowboys are out of a job. There is a horse race, stolen money, a attempted train robbery, three women kidnapped to be sold into sex slavery, a couple of cowboys are hired to go to Mexico and bring back 500 horses to Colorado. A lot goes on this is book.

[Anne Patkau · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good complications for plot, more than simple good-bad. Kincaid mom switches love too quickly. Jim and Texas pals are hired by Clay to bring horses from Mexico, but are mistaken by Mexicans for white slavers led by Shardeen who kidnap Kincaid girls.

[Peter Charleston · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nicely written western for a day of relaxed reading.

[August Luedecke · Rating 3 out of 5]

a simple plot but a fun read

Not much of a plot in that there is little that is unexpected. Light, fast reading for those of us who a busy life.