Ralph Compton Reading Order

3 books (1997–1998)

Start with The Border Empire and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Border Empire 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Six guns and Double Eagles 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Train to Durango 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2003–2004)

Start with Doomsday Rider and read in order.

#	Title
1	Doomsday Rider 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Showdown at Two-Bit Creek 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Vengeance Rider 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1999–2003)

Start with Death Rides a Chestnut Mare, the first of 4 books in the Danny Duggin series.

#	Title
1	Death Rides a Chestnut Mare 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Shadow of a Noose 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Riders of Judgement 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Death Along the Cimarron 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

23 books (2020–2022)

Start with Blood of the Hunters, the first of 23 books in the Gunfighter series.

#	Title
1	Blood of the Hunters 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Broken Rider 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Death Valley Drifter 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Return to Gila Bend 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Reunion in Hell 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Ride for Justice 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Ride the Hammer Down 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Blood on the Prairie 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Dalton's Justice 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Die Trying 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Face of a Snake 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Frontier Medicine 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Guns of the Greenhorn 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Hell Snake 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Hellbound Posse(By: Robert J. Randisi) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Shot to Hell 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Devil's Snare 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Wrong Side of the Law 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Counterfeit Lawman(By: Jackson Lowry) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	My Brother, My Killer(By: Jackson Lowry) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Stagecoach Revenge(By: D.B. Pulliam) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Guns of Wrath 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Thirteen Bullets(By: Sean Danker) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2007–2008)

Start with West Of The Law and read in order.

#	Title
1	West Of The Law 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Blood on the Gallows 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Shadow of the Gun 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

55 books (2001–2021)

Start with Clarion's Call(By: Robert Vaughan), the first of 55 books in the Ralph Compton Western series.

#	Title
1	Clarion's Call(By: Robert Vaughan) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Blood and Gold(By: Joseph A. West) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	For the Brand(By: David Robbins) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	By the Horns(By: David Robbins) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Deadwood Gulch(By: John Edward Ames) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Guns of the Canyonlands(By: Joseph A. West) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Rio Largo(By: David Robbins) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Texas Empire 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	A Wolf In the Fold(By: David Robbins) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Blood Duel(By: David Robbins) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Bluff City(By: David Robbins) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Bloody Trail(By: Marcus Galloway) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	West Of The Law(By: Joseph A. West) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Blood on the Gallows(By: Joseph A. West) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Bullet for a Bad Man(By: David Robbins) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Death of a Bad Man(By: Marcus Galloway) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Ride the Hard Trail(By: David Robbins) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Convict Trail(By: Joseph A. West) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Bounty Hunter(By: Joseph A. West) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Fatal Justice(By: David Robbins) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Outlaw's Reckoning(By: Marcus Galloway) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Rawhide Flat(By: Joseph A. West) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Man From Nowhere(By: Joseph A. West) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Death of a Hangman(By: Joseph A. West) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	North to the Salt Fork(By: Dusty Richards) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Rusted Tin(By: Marcus Galloway) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Stryker's Revenge(By: Joseph A. West) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Burning Range(By: Joseph A. West) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Shadow Of A Gun(By: Henry Clay Merritt) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Ghost of Apache Creek(By: Joseph A. West) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	The Last Manhunt(By: Joseph A. West) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Stranger from Abilene(By: Joseph A. West) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Dead Man's Ranch(By: Matthew P. Mayo) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Down on Gila River(By: Joseph A. West) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	One Man's Fire(By: Marcus Galloway) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Slaughter Canyon(By: Joseph A. West) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Tucker's Reckoning(By: Matthew P. Mayo) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Brimstone Trail(By: Marcus Galloway) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Hard Ride to Wichita(By: Marcus Galloway) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Straight Shooter(By: Marcus Galloway) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	The Hunted(By: Matthew P. Mayo) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Comanche Trail(By: Carlton Stowers) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Double-Cross Ranch(By: Matthew P. Mayo) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	The Cheyenne Trail(By: Jory Sherman) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	The Dangerous Land(By: Marcus Galloway) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Vigilante Dawn(By: Marcus Galloway) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Brother's Keeper(By: David Robbins) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Shotgun Charlie(By: Matthew P. Mayo) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Straight to the Noose(By: Marcus Galloway) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Texas Hills(By: David Robbins) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	The Evil Men Do(By: David Robbins) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	The Law and the Lawless(By: David Robbins) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Outlaw Town(By: David Robbins) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Phantom Hill(By: Carlton Stowers) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Hellbound Posse(By: Robert J. Randisi) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

28 books (1996–2022)

Start with North To The Bitterroot, the first of 28 books in the Sundown Riders series.

#	Title
1	North To The Bitterroot 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Demon's Pass(By: Robert Vaughan) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Runaway Stage(With: Robert Vaughan) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Do or Die(By: David Robbins) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Across the Rio Colorado 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Nowhere, TX(With: David Robbins) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	West of Pecos(By: David Robbins) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Winchester Run 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Skeleton Lode 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Whiskey River 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Devil's Canyon 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Calvert's Last Bluff(By: E. L. Ripley) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Lost Banshee Mine(By: Jackson Lowry) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Never Bet Against the Bullet(By: Jackson Lowry) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Prairie Fire, Kansas(By: John Shirley) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Wolves of Seven Pines(By: E. L. Ripley) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Tin Star(By: Jackson Lowry) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Flames of Silver(By: Jackson Lowry) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Ghost Hollow Ranch(By: D.B. Pulliam) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Seven Roads to Revenge(By: Carlton Stowers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Snake's Fury(By: Bernard Schaffer) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Stagecoach to Hell(By: Terrence McCauley) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Outlaw Hunters(By: D B Pulliam) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Trail's End(By: E. L. Ripley) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Winter of Wolves(By: Royal Harding) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Snake Oil Justice(By: Jackson Lowry) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Reluctant Lawman(By: Craig Barstow) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Robber Barons(By: Craig Barstow) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2005–2005)

Start with Bullet Creek and read in order.

#	Title
1	Bullet Creek 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Navarro 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

35 books (1992–2022)

Start with The Goodnight Trail, the first of 35 books in the Trail Drive series.

#	Title
1	The Goodnight Trail 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Western Trail 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Bandera Trail 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Chisholm Trail 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The California Trail 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Shawnee Trail 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Virginia City Trail 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Dodge City Trail 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Oregon Trail 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Santa Fe Trail 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Old Spanish Trail 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Deadwood Trail 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Green River Trail 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Dakota Trail(By: Robert Vaughan) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Alamosa Trail(By: Robert Vaughan) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Bozeman Trail(By: Robert Vaughan) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Abilene Trail(By: Dusty Richards) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Palo Duro Trail(By: Jory Sherman) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Trail To Fort Smith(By: Dusty Richards) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Ellsworth Trail(By: Jory Sherman) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Ogallala Trail(By: Dusty Richards) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Tenderfoot Trail(By: Joseph A. West) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Trail to Cottonwood Falls(By: Dusty Richards) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Amarillo Trail(By: Jory Sherman) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Omaha Trail(By: Jory Sherman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Big Jake's Last Drive(By: Robert J. Randisi) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Drive for Independence(With: Lyle Brandt) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Red Trail(By: John Shirley) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Badlands Trail(By: Lyle Brandt) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Kelly Trail(By: Terrence McCauley) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Terror Trail(By: Lyle Brandt) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Empire Trail(By: Jeff Rovin) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	The Too-Late Trail(With: Matthew P. Mayo) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Tthe Sagebrush Trail(By: Robert J. Randisi) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Saltwater Trail(By: Jackson Lowry) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1995–1996)

Start with The Dawn of Fury and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Dawn of Fury 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Autumn of the Gun 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Killing Season 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible