Ralph Compton Drive for Independence

Spur Award-finalist Lyle Brandt is the author of Lawman series, including The Lawman: Reckoning, The Lawman: Blood Trails, and The Lawman: Avenging Angels.

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.