Trail To Fort Smith

Trail Drive #18

by Dusty Richards, Ralph Compton (Series Creator)

New from the USA Today bestselling author

Clint's wild streak will be the death of Hamp. But a good man stands behind his friend-and steps up when the bullets start flying.

Genres: Westerns, Historical Fiction

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 6, 2004

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

[Beau Pennington · Rating 4 out of 5]

I did not expect to like this book as much as I did! I haven’t read many westerns to compare this to though. I feel like it was basically a bunch of side quests as a cattleman brought a herd from Texas to fort smith. Hamp was kinda baddie and could get his business done. Clint was always causing too much trouble. Hamp and Junior were so sweet too!

[David Burnworth]

Clint and Hamp are long-time partners they drive a herd they bought down in Mexico and slowly drive them to Fort Smith. The adventure brings a wife to Hemp as payment for the help he was seeking for Clint. As with so many westerns, two strangers marry and it becomes the love of a lifetime that we do not seem to have in this world we have today.

Besides the love story, which takes a back seat to the cattle drive brings a boatload of adventure with many mishaps and a sadness that cuts deep.

[Peter Charleston · Rating 3 out of 5]

Relaxing western to read.

[Randy Grossman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is supposedly based on the "Trail Drive" concept of Ralph Compton. The story isn't CLOSE to the style of Compton. It was told in a rather simplistic way...and really did not have much suspense or build up when it got to the "action" scenes. And there were to many stupid "cuss" words throughout the story that were a distraction IMO as well. Not really all that vulgar, but kinda silly. I'd give it a 2.5 if I could. If another book has Compton on it, but is written by Richards I will pass on it.