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The Abilene Trail: A Ralph Compton Novel by Dusty Richards
Written by Ralph Compton and Dusty Richards
Narrated by Terry Evans
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Young orphans Jed and Tim Strange are hounded by a posse for a murder they didn't commit.
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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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