Trail Drive Books in Order

Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight on a cattle drive to Colorado, facing flooded rivers, desert, Comanches, and gunmen.

Benton McCaleb and his cowboys drive cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley, then try to build a ranch near Cheyenne. A ruthless railroad baron wants the land for himself.

Gil and Van Austin cross into war-torn Mexico to rescue Clay Duval and find a valley full of longhorns. Getting cattle home means fighting soldiers, outlaws, and treachery.

Ten Chisholm flees New Orleans with a price on his head and a promise to clear his name. His road leads into cattle country, danger, and the famed Chisholm Trail.

Brothers Gil and Van Austin see California gold fever as a chance to sell Texas longhorns. First they must cross desert, rivers, Indian attacks, and outlaw trouble.

Long John Coons drives two thousand cattle north from Texas toward Kansas with a volatile crew at his side. Rustlers, hostile country, and war ahead threaten the whole outfit.

Nelson Story dreams of building a ranching empire in Montana and starts a long drive with hard-bitten Texans. Outlaws trail the herd, hoping to bleed it dry.

Dan Ember comes home from war to find hired guns on his land, then risks everything on a cattle drive toward Dodge City. Killers and Comanches wait along the Llano.

Lou Spencer, Dill Summer, and fourteen Texas cowboys sell cattle to a wagon train, then guide greenhorn pioneers toward Oregon. Hidden gold and circling outlaws make the road deadly.

Gavin McCord reaches Missouri with 3,500 longhorns and no buyer. Gladstone Pitkin buys the herd and hires the Texans for a drive from Independence to Santa Fe.

After their Santa Fe buyer is murdered, Rand Hayes and his ranchers must drive five thousand cattle across mountain ranges, the Mojave Desert, Ute danger, and a shooting war.

A trail toward Deadwood promises money, but gold country draws predators as surely as cattle draw dust. The riders must guard the herd, themselves, and any hope of profit.

A cattle drive toward Green River country tests a crew against weather, distance, and men eager to steal what they cannot earn. The herd must keep moving or die.

Civil War veteran Dick Hodson returns to his impoverished Texas hometown and organizes a cattle drive staffed by inexperienced children. Saving the community means surviving a ruthless gang hired to prevent the herd from reaching its destination.

Clay Allison hires the Trailback Ranch cowboys to drive cattle from Mexico into Colorado along the Alamosa Trail. A severe blizzard and outlaws trafficking in slaves turn the journey into a struggle against both weather and violence.

Ranch heir James Cason, vigilante Duke Faglier, and suspected rustler Revelation Scattergood undertake a cattle drive from San Antonio to Dakota Territory. Their differing backgrounds and ambitions complicate a journey through the dangers of the western trail.

Young orphans Jed and Tim Strange are hunted across the trail for a murder they did not commit. Richards turns their flight into a tough cattle-country adventure full of danger and grit.

Felix Dagstaff risks everything driving four thousand longhorns through Palo Duro Canyon toward Cheyenne. Storms and swollen rivers threaten the journey, but deception and theft among his own drovers may prove more dangerous than the unforgiving landscape.

Two saddle partners drive cattle from San Antonio to Fort Smith, hoping to turn a profit at the end of a long, dangerous trail. Dusty Richards gives the job all the trouble it can hold.

Reluctant drover Jock Kane joins a cattle drive after learning his wife’s killer is competing for the same Kansas sale. The murderer is his own brother, turning a difficult journey into a personal pursuit of justice and revenge.

A long push up the Ogallala Trail brings cowboys face to face with weather, rustlers, and the plain strain of moving cattle through dangerous country. It is classic trail-drive western territory.

Framed for murder and responsible for five mail-order brides, Luke Garrett drives his herd along the dangerous Whoop-Up Trail. Pursuing lawmen, vigilantes, and bounty hunters leave him few choices as he attempts to survive and protect his companions.

After years of trail driving and wearing a Ranger badge, Ed Wright is ready to drink and disappear. Then widowed rancher Unita Nance offers him one last job, and he cannot quite refuse.

Doc Blaine plans a cattle drive to Kansas while enemies seek revenge against his family. His sons’ longstanding feud over the same woman threatens the venture, forcing him to conceal that both brothers are traveling toward the same buyer.

Dane Kramer needs one successful cattle drive to finish paying for his Oklahoma ranch. Banker Earl Throckmorton wants the property for himself and hires outlaws, placing an infiltrator among Dane’s drovers to sabotage the journey to Omaha.

Aging rancher Big Jake Motley recruits an old friend and a makeshift crew for one final cattle drive to Kansas. Natural hazards and rustlers threaten the journey, forcing Jake to confront violence as the era he knows approaches its end.

After a child dies in a shootout, bounty hunter Art Catlin starts over as a Bar X drover. The Cimarron trail brings sandstorms, renegades, outlaws, and no easy forgiveness.

Mase Durst must drive his cattle to Wichita or lose his ranch, but the usual routes are closed by conflict. The Red Trail offers a chance, and a long line of dangers waiting to break him.

Toby Bishop joins a diverse crew driving longhorns five hundred miles toward Missouri to save their ranch. Rough terrain, dangerous people, and memories of his violent past test his ability to unite the drovers and protect the herd.

After Pancho Villa’s guerrillas steal horses and devastate their New Mexico ranch, twin sisters Dolores and Yolanda lead a recovery expedition. With federal authorities unwilling to cross the border, they gather ranch hands and Apache allies to seek justice.

Pressured by a rival and expanding orange groves, California rancher Andrew Buchanan drives his cattle into Mexico. Deserts, cliffs, and pursuing thieves threaten his only chance to sell the herd and preserve the livelihood he has built.

Trail boss Luke Ross must bring his cattle herd to the railhead despite rustlers, bandits, and armed conflict. Each obstacle threatens the drive, forcing him to keep the drovers and animals moving through an increasingly dangerous journey.

A cattle drive becomes a race against time, weather, and armed trouble on a trail that may already be lost. The drovers keep moving because stopping could cost everything.

Clay Forsythe joins two Hawaiian cowboys driving breeding cattle toward the Pacific coast. Enemies determined to ruin Barker Ranch threaten their journey, leaving Clay responsible for getting the herd safely to its departure point for Hawaii.