A bold adventure on the thundering trail, where old enemies prove the deadliest of all.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, a brave band of Texas pioneers set out to drive five million maverick longhorns north to where the money was. The Dodge City Trail brings this violent and magnificent time to life in Ralph Compton's extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.
Dodge City was a businessman's dream. For Texans like Dan Ember, who'd come home from the war to find a rich man's hired guns living on his land, a cattle drive north—with thousands of unbranded longhorns and a remuda of stolen Mexican horses—was a chance to risk everything on a drive across the Llano. Along the way, two bands of killers would fight over them, the legendary gunslinger Clay Allison would join their ranks, and Quanah Parker's Comanches would try to thwart them in a bold adventure fueled by courage in the face of death, the pride to keep going, and the knowledge that there was no turning back.