Autumn of the Gun (Trail of the Gunfighter #3)

By Ralph Compton

Book Overview

A gunslinger goes up against his own kin in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton.

Nathan Stone is a living legend in the West as a lawman, an outlaw, a gambler, and a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He has blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, he plays his cards and uses his Colt .45s as best he can in games of chance, skill, and savagery, for stakes of life or death.

Now he's riding on a course that will test his rawhide nerves and lightning draw against the likes of Doc Holliday, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the fleeing James brothers, and the incredible John Wesley Hardin as he heads toward a fateful rendezvous with the one gunfighter as fast and deadly as he: a teenage kid who kills like a man--Nathan's own son...

More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451190459
• ISBN13: 9780451190451
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A good book

I liked this Ralph Compton book except that the dialogue once in a while seems rather hokey and Compton displays no knowledge of clothing and gun and gun leather detail from the Old West. I can live with those details, but I'll tell you one thing: if you want to talk Louis L'Amour and Ralph Compton, you have come nowhere near the surface. The best western writer out there is Kirby Jonas, whom critics call the New Louis L'Amour. If you want some reading without equal, try Kirby Jonas.

Compton out does himself once again ! ! !

The continuing saga of Natan Stone and the beginning of Wes, is one of the most gripping Novels I've ever read. I've been reading Louis LaMour all my life and have just begun to read Ralph Compton, but Compton can match Louis page for page. Ralph Compton shows wonderful knowledge and understanding of the west and it's way of life. You feel as if you're on the trail with them.