The Chisholm Trail

Trail Drive #3

by Ralph Compton

Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm―the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman―arrives in the heart of Comanche country 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.

Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas brakes with a team of battle-toughened cowboys and ex-soldiers―and a vow to return to Priscilla and make her his wife―he must round up wild longhorns, ward off angry Comanches, and survive treacherous outlaw attacks as he crosses the Red River and sets off on a brazen quest to open a new trail to Kansas on the savage frontier.

Genres: Westerns, Fiction

366 pages, Paperback

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