Trail to Cottonwood Falls

Trail Drive #23

by Dusty Richards, Ralph Compton (Series Creator)

Ed Wright has one last chance to prove himself. The former cowboy and Ranger gets back on the horse to drive a herd of cattle from Texas to Kansas-but must contend with a rival outfit who will stop at nothing to see him fail.

Genres: Westerns, Novels

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 3, 2007

About the author

Author of over 85 novels, Dusty Richards is the only author to win two Spur awards in one year (2007), one for his novel The Horse Creek Incident and another for his short story “Comanche Moon.” He is a member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the International Professional Rodeo Association, and serves on the local PRCA rodeo board. Dusty is also an inductee in the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame. He currently resides in northwest Arkansas. He was the winner of the 2010 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for his novel Texas Blood Feud and honored by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2009.

Reviews

[David Burnworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ed Wright was a broken man who had turned into the town drunk. Unita Nance wanted Ed to lead her Cattle drive to Cottonwoods trail. She basically kidnaps him. sobers him up and after a lot of trials and tribulations, she gets him to agree to help her make the drive. There are so many sub-stories in this one before the drive evens gets started, with Ed in the middle of it. For some reason Unita will stick by his side and before all is said and done there will be some death and a beautiful love story that Ed has trouble understanding.

[Ellen · Rating 3 out of 5]

With George Guidall narrating, the flaws of the genre and the book seemed minor. It really is an old-fashioned genre. The good guys win. The bad guys get killed. The details along the way are interesting as are some of the characters. Guidall does a great job at narrating the speech of strong women!

[Nolan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ed Wright is a drunk. Self-centered, self-pity whiner. Not sure why Unita Nance cares so much for him. Lots of good guys and bad guys killed in this story. Not overly fast paced, very slow in some areas. The cattle drive part of the book isn’t very long and towards the end. Most of the book is of other things leading up to it. Okay read.

[Aaron G · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good story. A bit slow at first, but picks up.

[Shauna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ed Wright has been kidnapped/dried out/hired, by Uinta Nance, to take her herd of cattle to Kansas to be sold. But first, Ed has to find the killers who gunned down his friend.

Good cowboy story!

[Jerry · Rating 5 out of 5]

More. Than a trail drive

Good man rescued from himself. When that works out every one benefits. Sometimes all it takes to see his worth.

[Violet · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It's refreshing to have a hero that is haunted by his gunslinging life and a nice little romance bit thrown into the mix. It also ends right - he gets the bad guys.

[Rob Sobieck · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book. love the characters.