Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Compton, Ralph

Deadwood trail The Deadwood trail Ralph Compton - St. Martin's pbk. ed. - New York, N.Y. St. Martin's Paperbacks 1999. - 289 p. map ; 18 cm. - The Trail drive series bk. 12 .

For veteran ranchers Nelson Story of Montana, and Benton McCaleb of Wyoming, it was an opportunity a man didn't pass up. In gold camps of the Black Hills, miners were hungry for beef, at boomtown prices. but within the two outfits were Indians, gunmen, Texans, lovesick cowboys and high-spirited women. Worse, the drive would pass through Crow and Sioux territory, when Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn was just hours away. The drivers were tangled by violent grudges, stampeding herds, and dangerous deception. The two brawling outfits had one thing in common: a deadly surprise awaiting them at the end of the trail ..

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