The Chisholm Trail

Trail Drive #3

by Ralph Compton

An Extraordinary Saga of the Trail-blazing Cowboys Who Made Their Fortune Driving Longhornes From Texas to the Great Frontier.Young Tenatse Chisholm, half-breed son of Indian scout Jesse Chisholm, is a hell-raiser with a Colt, a Henry rifle, a Bowie knife, and his fists. In New Orleans, Ten fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful Priscilla LeBeau. Her father hates him, manages to drive him from New Orleans with a price on his head. But Ten Chisholm vows to clear his name and win Priscilla from a father who has promised her in payment of his gambling debt.The only riches Texas had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and 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-blazing trail drives.Armed only with a Colt, a Henry rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm, the bold, half-breed son of Indian scout Jesse Chisholm, leaves New Orleans with a price on his head. His only crime -- loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates.When a team of battle-toughened cowboys and ex-soldiers, and a vow to return to Priscilla and make her his wife, Ten rides into the harsh Texas brakes and the heart of Comanche country. Now, he must round up wild longhorns and set off across the Red River, through a thousand miles of swollen rivers, angry Comanches and treacherous outlaw attacks -- on a brazen quest to open a new trail to Kansas on the savage frontier.

Genres: Westerns, Fiction

Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 1993

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.

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Reviews

[Saadia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I very much enjoyed reading about the wild longhorns and the efforts to gather and drive them to Abilene, Kansas as part of rebuilding livelihoods in Texas in 1865-67. I had no idea! The Jesse Chisholm heritage was fascinating.

[Sequoyah Branham · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have listened to the audiobook of the first two books in this series as I did this one. I struggled with the fact the characters are not the same as the first two, but the plot soon got me to keep reading.

While this plot has enough to keep me reading please don’t include it in a trail drive series when it only mentions a trail drive in passing. There is only one, or two at best, scenes that are on the trail.

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

average western I have read better

[Leonard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fun book to learn a bit of Western history. It covers some of the expansion of the railroads, steamboats on the major rivers and near extermination of the buffalo.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fun book to learn a bit of Western history. It covers some of the expansion of the railroads, steamboats on the major rivers

[Naoisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Peter Charleston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Relaxing reading adventure in the old west.

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[Jack · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yhe first 2 in this series were pretty good cowboy stories. #3 went downhill some I thought.

[Mark Luongo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great to listen to on that long drive to Gettysburg...

[Ludwig · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great western