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Across the Rio Colorado (The Sundown Riders Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Ralph Compton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
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Across rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born. . .

Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph Compton tells the real story of the tough-as-leather men who first blazed the way into the untamed frontier.

Texas! For the pioneers who streamed out of Missouri it was a land of dreams and freedom. Veteran wagon boss Chance McQuade, a man deadly with a pistol and Sharps, had signed on to take a hundred families there. But the man who hired McQuade was joining the wagon train, and turning it into a brawling, rolling city of sin and violence. Now, on the hard drive West, McQuade faces Kiowa, lightening storms, and killers behind his back-all to reach a promised land that's erupting into war.

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  1. Part of series
    Sundown Riders
  2. Print length
    352 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    St. Martin's Paperbacks
  5. Publication date
    November 25, 2004
  6. File size
    1.1 MB
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"A storyteller who may very well turn out to be the greatest western writer of them all...Very seldom in literature have the legends of the old West been so vividly painted." -Robert Dyer, The Tombstone Epitaph

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004SICIK0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Paperbacks (November 25, 2004)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 25, 2004
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.1 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 77 ratings

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  • Owen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent western novel written by Ralph Compton good storyline once ...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2014
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    Excellent western novel written by Ralph Compton good storyline once you start reading it it hard to
    put down. Would recommend.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Story
    Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2014
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    Great Story!!!
    I like Ralph Compton and this book seemed like a good read The Its a story about the transport of goods by wagon and all of the hardships and tragedies encountered along the trail.
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  • Mr. R. J. Bradley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Struggle for Statehood and a New Life
    Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2009
    In the spring of 1837 Chance McQuade was hired by Rufus Hook to oversee the drive of over 100 wagons and families from St Louis, Missouri to construct a new town to be named Hookville in central Texas near the Rio Colorado. Hook had promised each family a land grant plus cash once they had reached the Texas town site.
    Hook, though, intended to double cross them to ensure that all the land grants reverted to his name so that he would rule over his own central Texas empire.
    Along the way through Missouri and Indian Territory they were attacked by outlaws, kiowa, comanches, malaria and lightning and had to cultivate a wit and togetherness to overcome them. There was also conflict amongst the emigrants themselves especially from the Hook party who largely travelled separately sleeping off late the night's carousing from the mobile saloon of whisky, gals and gambling that Hook had brought with him.
    As well as having to deal with the ruthless Hook, the emigrants also knew that they would have to join up with Sam Houston's forces to fight the Mexican army for Texas statehood to be more certain of working their land grants in peace.
    `Across the Rio Colorado' is one of the `Sundown Riders' series and is full of human interest from start to finish and perhaps shows that the hardship comparatively absent today might have once helped to produce a closer knit community.
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  • Annah Furney
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2014
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  • Max Inman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pioneers
    Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2003
    The people from Missouri hope to go to Texas which they think is a land of freedom and the fullfilment of their dreams. But first they have to conquer the many hazards including, ragging rivers, indians, violent thunderstorms, etc. But Mr. Compton finds a way. a great read.
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