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Updated 2026-07-11 / 155 books / 9 series
American author Ralph Compton is best known for his Trail Drive and Sundown Riders Western series. His books have sold over 10 million copies, cementing his legacy as a master of frontier fiction. This page provides the Ralph Compton books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.
Books by Ralph Compton in Publication Order
1992
The Goodnight Trail
POoTDB / 1
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1992
The Western Trail
POoTDB / 2
Buy
1993
The Chisholm Trail
POoTDB / 3
Buy
1993
The Bandera Trail
POoTDB / 4
Buy
1994
The California Trail
POoTDB / 5
Buy
1994
The Shawnee Trail
POoTDB / 6
Buy
1994
The Virginia City Trail
POoTDB / 7
Buy
1995
The Dawn of Fury
POoTotGB / 1
Buy
1995
The Dodge City Trail
POoTDB / 8
Buy
1995
The Oregon Trail
POoTDB / 9
Buy
1996
North To The Bitterroot
POoSRB / 1
Buy
1996
The Killing Season
POoTotGB / 2
Buy
1996
Autumn of the Gun
POoTotGB / 3
Buy
1997
The Border Empire
POoBEB / 1
Buy
1997
The Santa Fe Trail
POoTDB / 10
Buy
1998
Six guns and Double Eagles
POoBEB / 2
Buy
1998
Train to Durango
POoBEB / 3
Buy
1998
The Old Spanish Trail
POoTDB / 11
Buy
1999
Death Rides a Chestnut Mare
POoDDB / 1
Buy
1999
The Green River Trail
POoTDB / 12
Buy
1999
The Deadwood Trail
POoTDB / 13
Buy
2000
The Shadow of a Noose
POoDDB / 2
Buy
2000
Demon's Pass(By: Robert Vaughan)
POoSRB / 2
Buy
2001
Clarion's Call(By: Robert Vaughan)
POoRCWB / 1
Buy
2001
Riders of Judgement
POoDDB / 3
Buy
2001
The Dakota Trail(By: Robert Vaughan)
POoTDB / 14
Buy
2002
Runaway Stage(With: Robert Vaughan)
POoSRB / 3
Buy
2002
The Alamosa Trail(By: Robert Vaughan)
POoTDB / 15
Buy
2002
The Bozeman Trail(By: Robert Vaughan)
POoTDB / 16
Buy
2003
Doomsday Rider
POoBFB / 1
Buy
2003
Showdown at Two-Bit Creek
POoBFB / 2
Buy
2003
Do or Die(By: David Robbins)
POoSRB / 4
Buy
2003
Death Along the Cimarron
POoDDB / 4
Buy
2003
The Abilene Trail(By: Dusty Richards)
POoTDB / 17
Buy
2004
Blood and Gold(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 2
Buy
2004
Vengeance Rider
POoBFB / 3
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2004
Nowhere, TX(With: David Robbins)
POoSRB / 5
Buy
2004
Across the Rio Colorado
POoSRB / 6
Buy
2004
Trail To Fort Smith(By: Dusty Richards)
POoTDB / 18
Buy
2004
The Palo Duro Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
POoTDB / 19
Buy
2005
Navarro
POoTNB / 1
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2005
Bullet Creek
POoTNB / 2
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2005
For the Brand(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 3
Buy
2005
West of Pecos(By: David Robbins)
POoSRB / 7
Buy
2005
The Ogallala Trail(By: Dusty Richards)
POoTDB / 20
Buy
2005
The Ellsworth Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
POoTDB / 21
Buy
2006
Rio Largo(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 4
Buy
2006
Guns of the Canyonlands(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 5
Buy
2006
Texas Empire
POoRCWB / 6
Buy
2006
By the Horns(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 7
Buy
2006
Deadwood Gulch(By: John Edward Ames)
POoRCWB / 8
Buy
2006
The Tenderfoot Trail(By: Joseph A. West)
POoTDB / 22
Buy
2007
The Winchester Run
POoSRB / 8
Buy
2007
The Bloody Trail(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 9
Buy
2007
A Wolf In the Fold(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 10
Buy
2007
Bluff City(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 11
Buy
2007
West Of The Law(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 12
Buy
2007
Blood Duel(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 13
Buy
2007
Trail to Cottonwood Falls(By: Dusty Richards)
POoTDB / 23
Buy
2008
Death of a Bad Man(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 14
Buy
2008
Ride the Hard Trail(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 15
Buy
2008
Blood on the Gallows(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 16
Buy
2008
Bullet for a Bad Man(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 17
Buy
2008
The Convict Trail(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 18
Buy
2009
Bounty Hunter(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 19
Buy
2009
Rawhide Flat(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 20
Buy
2009
Outlaw's Reckoning(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 21
Buy
2009
The Man From Nowhere(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 22
Buy
2009
Fatal Justice(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 23
Buy
2010
Stryker's Revenge(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 24
Buy
2010
Death of a Hangman(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 25
Buy
2010
North to the Salt Fork(By: Dusty Richards)
POoRCWB / 26
Buy
2010
Rusted Tin(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 27
Buy
2010
The Shadow Of A Gun(By: Henry Clay Merritt)
POoRCWB / 28
Buy
2010
The Burning Range(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 29
Buy
2011
Whiskey River
POoSRB / 9
Buy
2011
Skeleton Lode
POoSRB / 10
Buy
2011
The Amarillo Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
POoTDB / 24
Buy
2011
The Last Manhunt(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 30
Buy
2011
The Stranger from Abilene(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 31
Buy
2011
The Ghost of Apache Creek(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 32
Buy
2012
The Omaha Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
POoTDB / 25
Buy
2012
Dead Man's Ranch(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
POoRCWB / 33
Buy
2012
Slaughter Canyon(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 34
Buy
2012
One Man's Fire(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 35
Buy
2012
Tucker's Reckoning(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
POoRCWB / 36
Buy
2012
Down on Gila River(By: Joseph A. West)
POoRCWB / 37
Buy
2013
Devil's Canyon
POoSRB / 11
Buy
2013
Brimstone Trail(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 38
Buy
2013
Straight Shooter(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 39
Buy
2013
The Hunted(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
POoRCWB / 40
Buy
2013
Hard Ride to Wichita(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 41
Buy
2014
The Cheyenne Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
POoRCWB / 42
Buy
2014
Double-Cross Ranch(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
POoRCWB / 43
Buy
2014
Comanche Trail(By: Carlton Stowers)
POoRCWB / 44
Buy
2014
The Dangerous Land(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 45
Buy
2014
Vigilante Dawn(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 46
Buy
2015
The Evil Men Do(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 47
Buy
2015
Straight to the Noose(By: Marcus Galloway)
POoRCWB / 48
Buy
2015
Shotgun Charlie(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
POoRCWB / 49
Buy
2015
The Law and the Lawless(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 50
Buy
2015
Brother's Keeper(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 51
Buy
2015
Texas Hills(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 52
Buy
2016
Outlaw Town(By: David Robbins)
POoRCWB / 53
Buy
2016
Phantom Hill(By: Carlton Stowers)
POoRCWB / 54
Buy
2020
Reunion in Hell
POoGB / 1
Buy
2020
Blood of the Hunters
POoGB / 2
Buy
2020
Broken Rider
POoGB / 3
Buy
2020
Return to Gila Bend
POoGB / 4
Buy
2020
Death Valley Drifter
POoGB / 5
Buy
2020
Ride for Justice
POoGB / 6
Buy
2020
Ride the Hammer Down
POoGB / 7
Buy
2020
Tin Star(By: Jackson Lowry)
POoSRB / 12
Buy
2020
The Wolves of Seven Pines(By: E. L. Ripley)
POoSRB / 13
Buy
2020
Never Bet Against the Bullet(By: Jackson Lowry)
POoSRB / 14
Buy
2020
Lost Banshee Mine(By: Jackson Lowry)
POoSRB / 15
Buy
2020
Prairie Fire, Kansas(By: John Shirley)
POoSRB / 16
Buy
2020
Calvert's Last Bluff(By: E. L. Ripley)
POoSRB / 17
Buy
2020
Big Jake's Last Drive(By: Robert J. Randisi)
POoTDB / 26
Buy
2020
The Badlands Trail(By: Lyle Brandt)
POoTDB / 27
Buy
2020
The Kelly Trail(By: Terrence McCauley)
POoTDB / 28
Buy
2020
Drive for Independence(With: Lyle Brandt)
POoTDB / 29
Buy
2020
Red Trail(By: John Shirley)
POoTDB / 30
Buy
2021
Frontier Medicine
POoGB / 8
Buy
2021
Face of a Snake
POoGB / 9
Buy
2021
Dalton's Justice
POoGB / 10
Buy
2021
Shot to Hell
POoGB / 11
Buy
2021
Hell Snake
POoGB / 12
Buy
2021
The Wrong Side of the Law
POoGB / 13
Buy
2021
Guns of the Greenhorn
POoGB / 14
Buy
2021
The Devil's Snare
POoGB / 15
Buy
2021
Hellbound Posse(By: Robert J. Randisi)
POoGB / 16
Buy
2021
Blood on the Prairie
POoGB / 17
Buy
2021
The Trail's End(By: E. L. Ripley)
POoSRB / 18
Buy
2021
Die Trying
POoGB / 18
Buy
2021
Stagecoach to Hell(By: Terrence McCauley)
POoSRB / 19
Buy
2021
Snake's Fury(By: Bernard Schaffer)
POoSRB / 20
Buy
2021
The Outlaw Hunters(By: D B Pulliam)
POoSRB / 21
Buy
2021
Flames of Silver(By: Jackson Lowry)
POoSRB / 22
Buy
2021
Seven Roads to Revenge(By: Carlton Stowers)
POoSRB / 23
Buy
2021
The Winter of Wolves(By: Royal Harding)
POoSRB / 24
Buy
2021
Ghost Hollow Ranch(By: D.B. Pulliam)
POoSRB / 25
Buy
2021
The Empire Trail(By: Jeff Rovin)
POoTDB / 31
Buy
2021
The Too-Late Trail(With: Matthew P. Mayo)
POoTDB / 32
Buy
2021
Terror Trail(By: Lyle Brandt)
POoTDB / 33
Buy
2021
Tthe Sagebrush Trail(By: Robert J. Randisi)
POoTDB / 34
Buy
2022
Counterfeit Lawman(By: Jackson Lowry)
POoGB / 19
Buy
2022
Thirteen Bullets(By: Sean Danker)
POoGB / 20
Buy
2022
My Brother, My Killer(By: Jackson Lowry)
POoGB / 21
Buy
2022
The Guns of Wrath
POoGB / 22
Buy
2022
Stagecoach Revenge(By: D.B. Pulliam)
POoGB / 23
Buy
2022
The Reluctant Lawman(By: Craig Barstow)
POoSRB / 26
Buy
2022
The Robber Barons(By: Craig Barstow)
POoSRB / 27
Buy
2022
Snake Oil Justice(By: Jackson Lowry)
POoSRB / 28
Buy
2022
The Saltwater Trail(By: Jackson Lowry)
POoTDB / 35
Buy
Complete Ralph Compton Series Reading Order /
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01
North To The Bitterroot
1996
Buy
02
Demon's Pass(By: Robert Vaughan)
2000
Buy
03
Runaway Stage(With: Robert Vaughan)
2002
Buy
04
Do or Die(By: David Robbins)
2003
Buy
05
Nowhere, TX(With: David Robbins)
2004
Buy
06
Across the Rio Colorado
2004
Buy
07
West of Pecos(By: David Robbins)
2005
Buy
08
The Winchester Run
2007
Buy
09
Whiskey River
2011
Buy
10
Skeleton Lode
2011
Buy
11
Devil's Canyon
2013
Buy
12
Tin Star(By: Jackson Lowry)
2020
Buy
13
The Wolves of Seven Pines(By: E. L. Ripley)
2020
Buy
14
Never Bet Against the Bullet(By: Jackson Lowry)
2020
Buy
15
Lost Banshee Mine(By: Jackson Lowry)
2020
Buy
16
Prairie Fire, Kansas(By: John Shirley)
2020
Buy
17
Calvert's Last Bluff(By: E. L. Ripley)
2020
Buy
18
The Trail's End(By: E. L. Ripley)
2021
Buy
19
Stagecoach to Hell(By: Terrence McCauley)
2021
Buy
20
Snake's Fury(By: Bernard Schaffer)
2021
Buy
21
The Outlaw Hunters(By: D B Pulliam)
2021
Buy
22
Flames of Silver(By: Jackson Lowry)
2021
Buy
23
Seven Roads to Revenge(By: Carlton Stowers)
2021
Buy
24
The Winter of Wolves(By: Royal Harding)
2021
Buy
25
Ghost Hollow Ranch(By: D.B. Pulliam)
2021
Buy
26
The Reluctant Lawman(By: Craig Barstow)
2022
Buy
27
The Robber Barons(By: Craig Barstow)
2022
Buy
28
Snake Oil Justice(By: Jackson Lowry)
2022
Buy
01
The Border Empire
1997
Buy
02
Six guns and Double Eagles
1998
Buy
03
Train to Durango
1998
Buy
01
Death Rides a Chestnut Mare
1999
Buy
02
The Shadow of a Noose
2000
Buy
03
Riders of Judgement
2001
Buy
04
Death Along the Cimarron
2003
Buy
01
Reunion in Hell
2020
Buy
02
Blood of the Hunters
2020
Buy
04
Return to Gila Bend
2020
Buy
05
Death Valley Drifter
2020
Buy
06
Ride for Justice
2020
Buy
07
Ride the Hammer Down
2020
Buy
08
Frontier Medicine
2021
Buy
09
Face of a Snake
2021
Buy
10
Dalton's Justice
2021
Buy
13
The Wrong Side of the Law
2021
Buy
14
Guns of the Greenhorn
2021
Buy
15
The Devil's Snare
2021
Buy
16
Hellbound Posse(By: Robert J. Randisi)
2021
Buy
17
Blood on the Prairie
2021
Buy
19
Counterfeit Lawman(By: Jackson Lowry)
2022
Buy
20
Thirteen Bullets(By: Sean Danker)
2022
Buy
21
My Brother, My Killer(By: Jackson Lowry)
2022
Buy
22
The Guns of Wrath
2022
Buy
23
Stagecoach Revenge(By: D.B. Pulliam)
2022
Buy
01
Clarion's Call(By: Robert Vaughan)
2001
Buy
02
Blood and Gold(By: Joseph A. West)
2004
Buy
03
For the Brand(By: David Robbins)
2005
Buy
04
Rio Largo(By: David Robbins)
2006
Buy
05
Guns of the Canyonlands(By: Joseph A. West)
2006
Buy
07
By the Horns(By: David Robbins)
2006
Buy
08
Deadwood Gulch(By: John Edward Ames)
2006
Buy
09
The Bloody Trail(By: Marcus Galloway)
2007
Buy
10
A Wolf In the Fold(By: David Robbins)
2007
Buy
11
Bluff City(By: David Robbins)
2007
Buy
12
West Of The Law(By: Joseph A. West)
2007
Buy
13
Blood Duel(By: David Robbins)
2007
Buy
14
Death of a Bad Man(By: Marcus Galloway)
2008
Buy
15
Ride the Hard Trail(By: David Robbins)
2008
Buy
16
Blood on the Gallows(By: Joseph A. West)
2008
Buy
17
Bullet for a Bad Man(By: David Robbins)
2008
Buy
18
The Convict Trail(By: Joseph A. West)
2008
Buy
19
Bounty Hunter(By: Joseph A. West)
2009
Buy
20
Rawhide Flat(By: Joseph A. West)
2009
Buy
21
Outlaw's Reckoning(By: Marcus Galloway)
2009
Buy
22
The Man From Nowhere(By: Joseph A. West)
2009
Buy
23
Fatal Justice(By: David Robbins)
2009
Buy
24
Stryker's Revenge(By: Joseph A. West)
2010
Buy
25
Death of a Hangman(By: Joseph A. West)
2010
Buy
26
North to the Salt Fork(By: Dusty Richards)
2010
Buy
27
Rusted Tin(By: Marcus Galloway)
2010
Buy
28
The Shadow Of A Gun(By: Henry Clay Merritt)
2010
Buy
29
The Burning Range(By: Joseph A. West)
2010
Buy
30
The Last Manhunt(By: Joseph A. West)
2011
Buy
31
The Stranger from Abilene(By: Joseph A. West)
2011
Buy
32
The Ghost of Apache Creek(By: Joseph A. West)
2011
Buy
33
Dead Man's Ranch(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
2012
Buy
34
Slaughter Canyon(By: Joseph A. West)
2012
Buy
35
One Man's Fire(By: Marcus Galloway)
2012
Buy
36
Tucker's Reckoning(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
2012
Buy
37
Down on Gila River(By: Joseph A. West)
2012
Buy
38
Brimstone Trail(By: Marcus Galloway)
2013
Buy
39
Straight Shooter(By: Marcus Galloway)
2013
Buy
40
The Hunted(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
2013
Buy
41
Hard Ride to Wichita(By: Marcus Galloway)
2013
Buy
42
The Cheyenne Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
2014
Buy
43
Double-Cross Ranch(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
2014
Buy
44
Comanche Trail(By: Carlton Stowers)
2014
Buy
45
The Dangerous Land(By: Marcus Galloway)
2014
Buy
46
Vigilante Dawn(By: Marcus Galloway)
2014
Buy
47
The Evil Men Do(By: David Robbins)
2015
Buy
48
Straight to the Noose(By: Marcus Galloway)
2015
Buy
49
Shotgun Charlie(By: Matthew P. Mayo)
2015
Buy
50
The Law and the Lawless(By: David Robbins)
2015
Buy
51
Brother's Keeper(By: David Robbins)
2015
Buy
52
Texas Hills(By: David Robbins)
2015
Buy
53
Outlaw Town(By: David Robbins)
2016
Buy
54
Phantom Hill(By: Carlton Stowers)
2016
Buy
01
The Goodnight Trail
1992
Buy
02
The Western Trail
1992
Buy
03
The Chisholm Trail
1993
Buy
04
The Bandera Trail
1993
Buy
05
The California Trail
1994
Buy
06
The Shawnee Trail
1994
Buy
07
The Virginia City Trail
1994
Buy
08
The Dodge City Trail
1995
Buy
09
The Oregon Trail
1995
Buy
10
The Santa Fe Trail
1997
Buy
11
The Old Spanish Trail
1998
Buy
12
The Green River Trail
1999
Buy
13
The Deadwood Trail
1999
Buy
14
The Dakota Trail(By: Robert Vaughan)
2001
Buy
15
The Alamosa Trail(By: Robert Vaughan)
2002
Buy
16
The Bozeman Trail(By: Robert Vaughan)
2002
Buy
17
The Abilene Trail(By: Dusty Richards)
2003
Buy
18
Trail To Fort Smith(By: Dusty Richards)
2004
Buy
19
The Palo Duro Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
2004
Buy
20
The Ogallala Trail(By: Dusty Richards)
2005
Buy
21
The Ellsworth Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
2005
Buy
22
The Tenderfoot Trail(By: Joseph A. West)
2006
Buy
23
Trail to Cottonwood Falls(By: Dusty Richards)
2007
Buy
24
The Amarillo Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
2011
Buy
25
The Omaha Trail(By: Jory Sherman)
2012
Buy
26
Big Jake's Last Drive(By: Robert J. Randisi)
2020
Buy
27
The Badlands Trail(By: Lyle Brandt)
2020
Buy
28
The Kelly Trail(By: Terrence McCauley)
2020
Buy
29
Drive for Independence(With: Lyle Brandt)
2020
Buy
30
Red Trail(By: John Shirley)
2020
Buy
31
The Empire Trail(By: Jeff Rovin)
2021
Buy
32
The Too-Late Trail(With: Matthew P. Mayo)
2021
Buy
33
Terror Trail(By: Lyle Brandt)
2021
Buy
34
Tthe Sagebrush Trail(By: Robert J. Randisi)
2021
Buy
35
The Saltwater Trail(By: Jackson Lowry)
2022
Buy
01
Doomsday Rider
2003
Buy
02
Showdown at Two-Bit Creek
2003
Buy
03
Vengeance Rider
2004
Buy
01
The Dawn of Fury
1995
Buy
02
The Killing Season
1996
Buy
03
Autumn of the Gun
1996
Buy
Where to start with Ralph Compton
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