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Do or Die: A Ralph Compton Novel by David Robbins
Written by Ralph Compton and David Robbins
Narrated by Terry Evans
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To save his hometown, Civil War veteran Dick Hodson must lead a desperate cattle drive---with a trail party made up of raw, greenhorn children.
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Ralph Compton
Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1998.
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