{"product_id":"ralph-compton-the-too-late-trail-the-trail-drive-series","title":"Ralph Compton the Too-Late Trail (The Trail Drive Series)","description":"Western Writers of America2022 Spur Award Finalist\n\nA rancher discovers just how many times a man's luck can hold out in this thrilling novel in the bestselling Trail Drive Series\n\nAfter struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana.\n\nHe strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighboring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. The trail brims with hellish hardship: prairie fire, stampede, flooded rivers, hailstorms, rattlers, sickness, long, broiling days and frigid nights.\n\nHalfway to Montana, range pirates and a rogue Apache war party close in. Mitch and the boys fight, grim and helpless, watching as their herd is driven westward in a cloud of dust and cackling laughter.\n\nCut down to two bloodied men, Mitch collapses, far too late, and admits the old man has won the bet. But salvation in the form of a Basque sheepherder revives Mitch and his pal, Drover Joe, and Mitch realizes he isn't done. Not by a long shot. And now he has nothing to lose.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0593333837\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0593333837.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Mayo, Matthew P.|Compton, Ralph\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Mass market paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Mass market paperback in GOOD condition with normal wear from use. Cover art my differ from that shown in photo.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43185480859709,"sku":"BVV.0593333837.G","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0593333837-0.jpg?v=1778793562","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/ralph-compton-the-too-late-trail-the-trail-drive-series","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}