Ralph Compton Navarro

Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Rider series, and the Trail Drive series, among others.

“The next Louis L’Amour.”—Roseanne Bittner, author of Mystic Dreamers “A natural born storyteller who knows the West.”—Bill Brooks, author of Deadwood and Leaving Cheyenne “A writer to watch.”—Jory Sherman, author of The Dark Land