Ralph Compton has 78 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 73 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.9★ across 165 ratings. The most-rated is The Case for Christ, Revised & Updated.
The Case for Christ, Revised & Updated
Summary
New York Times best seller! Over 5 million copies sold! Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? Former atheist and Chicago Tribune journalist Lee Strobel takes an investigative look at the evidence from the fields of science, philosophy, and history. In this revised and updated bestseller, The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates from schools such as Cambridge, Princeton, and Brandeis, asking hard-hitting questions - and building a captivating case for Christ's divinity. Strobel asks challenging questions like: How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible? Is Jesus who he said he was? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event? Winner of the Gold Medallion Book Award and twice nominated for the Christian Book of the Year Award, Strobel's tough, point-blank questions read like a captivating, fast-paced novel. But it's not fiction. It's a riveting quest for the truth about history's most compelling figure. This edition includes scores of revisions and additions, including updated material on archaeological and manuscript discoveries, fresh recommendations for further study, and an interview with the author that tells dramatic stories about the book's impact, provides behind-the-scenes information, and responds to critiques of the book by skeptics. Also available: The Case for Christ Spanish edition, kids' edition, and student edition. Plus, be sure to check out Lee Strobel's entire collection of Case for... books: The Case for a Creator explores the scientific evidence for God The Case for Grace uncovers the "how" and "why" behind God's amazing grace The Case for Faith responds to eight major objections about Christianity...and more!
©2016 Lee Strobel (P)2016 Zondervan
The Western Trail
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some 300 miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad. InThe Western Trail, Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys have traveled long and hard to drive thousands of ornery cattle into Wyoming’s Sweetwater Valley. They’re in the midst of setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. Now, with the help of the Shoshoni Indian tribe and a man named Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men must vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they will wage the most ferocious battle of their lives—to win the right to call the land their own.
©1992 Ralph Compton (P)2011 Macmillan Audio
The Chisholm Trail
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Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm—the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman—arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime: loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates. Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas brakes with a team of battle-toughened cowboys and ex-soldiers—and a vow to return to Priscilla and make her his wife—he must round up wild longhorns, ward off angry Comanches, and survive treacherous outlaw attacks as he crosses the Red River and sets off on a brazen quest to open a new trail to Kansas on the savage frontier.
©1993 Ralph Compton (P)2011 Macmillan Audio
North to the Salt Fork
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Captain Jack Starr served the Confederate cause with honor for four years. The town of Lost Dog Creek promised an opportunity for the war veteran to rebuild his life-and a woman to share it with. But not everyone is willing to roll out the welcome wagon....
©2010 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2012 Recorded Books
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Autumn of the Gun (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Nathan Stone was a living legend in the West as a lawman, as an outlaw, as a gambler, as a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, he played his cards and used his Colt .45s as best he could in games of chance, skill, and savagery, for stakes of life or death. Now he was riding on a course that would test his rawhide nerve 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 headed toward a fateful rendezvous with the number one gunfighter as fast and deadly as he: the teenage kid who killed like a man and was Nathan Stone's son.... Performed by Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, Joel David Santner, Casie Platt, Daniel Sonntag, Michael Glenn, Tony Nam, Christopher Graybill, Eva Wilhelm, Alyssa Wilmoth, Gary Telles, Michael John Casey, David Coyne, Christopher Scheeren, Richard Rohan, Joe Brack, Kimberly Gilbert, Nanette Savard, James Lewis, Tim Carlin, Dylan Lynch, Ken Jackson, Scott McCormick, Drew Kopas, Patrick Bussink, Bradley Smith, Eric Messner, Jeff Allin, Nick DePinto, Ren Kasey, Thomas Keegan, Tracy Olivera, Bobby Aselford, Mort Shelby.
©1996 Ralph Compton (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC
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The Killing Season (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]
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In the 1870s, as the country recovered from the War Between the States, the expansion of railroads and the discovery of gold opened the American west to both civilization and savagery. Men and women on both sides of the law were drawn by the chance to make a fortune, and there was often a big difference between Law and Justice. Into this whirlwind rode Nathan Stone, a man whose trail of vengeance gave him a reputation for speed with a gun. He tracked and killed the seven men who murdered his family after the war. Now, the first of those deaths has come back to haunt him. He finds unlikely friends among some of the famous gunfighters and adventurers who brought life - and death - to a land that once knew only the buffalo and the Indian. Only the strongest will survive The Killing Season. Performed by Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, Thomas Keegan, Richard Rohan, Michael John Casey, Yasmin Tuazon, Christopher Graybill, David Coyne, Michael Glenn, Kimberly Gilbert, Jeff Allin, Scott McCormick, Dylan Lynch, Thomas Penny, James Lewis, Alexander Strain, Tim Carlin, Christopher Scheeren, Bradley Smith, Eric Messner, Elizabeth Jernigan, Tony Nam, Patrick Bussink, Bobby Aselford, Joe Brack, Johann Dettweiler, Ken Jackson, James Konicek, Nick DePinto, Drew Kopas, Alyssa Wilmoth, Nanette Savard, Mort Shelby.
©1996 Ralph Compton (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC
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The Killing Season (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
In the 1870s, as the country recovered from the War Between the States, the expansion of railroads and the discovery of gold opened the American west to both civilization and savagery. Men and women on both sides of the law were drawn by the chance to make a fortune, and there was often a big difference between Law and Justice. Into this whirlwind rode Nathan Stone, a man whose trail of vengeance gave him a reputation for speed with a gun. He tracked and killed the seven men who murdered his family after the war. Now, the first of those deaths has come back to haunt him. He finds unlikely friends among some of the famous gunfighters and adventurers who brought life - and death - to a land that once knew only the buffalo and the Indian. Only the strongest will survive The Killing Season. Performed by Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, David Coyne, Tracy Olivera, Jeff Allin, Michael Glenn, Elizabeth Jernigan, Nanette Savard, Dylan Lynch, Eric Messner, Drew Kopas, Michael John Casey, Nick DePinto, Tim Carlin, Gary Telles, Christopher Graybill, Scott McCormick, Joe Brack, Bradley Smith, James Lewis, Barbara Pinolini, Patrick Bussink, Lily Beacon, Ted Stoddard, Ken Jackson, Joel David Santner, James Keegan, Ren Kasey, Richard Rohan, Thomas Keegan, Christopher Scheeren, Johann Dettweiler, Tony Nam, Yasmin Tuazon, Margie Tompros, Kimberly Gilbert, Alyssa Wilmoth, Mort Shelby.
©1996 Ralph Compton (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC
Texas Hills
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A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands.... That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26 when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest. Thirty seconds and 30 bullets later, three officers were wounded, and three citizens lay dead in the dirt.
©2015 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2018 Recorded Books
Bucked Out in Dodge
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Four men - Jess Donner, a Rebel and Southern gentleman; Steve Ellsworth, a ladies' man with a foul temper; Stu Wilkens, a Yankee; and Heck Myers, a teller of tall tales - find their friendship sorely tested by a dance-hall girl and a gang of outlaws. The four friends have traveled to Dodge City to rest their saddle-weary bodies, but trouble erupts between them and some less-than-reputable characters over the attentions of a dance-hall girl. If the boys can keep their wits about them and their hands steady, they might just make it out of Dodge....
©2004 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2019 Recorded Books
The Omaha Trail
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Blood and Bankers Dane Kramer looks forward to the day when his sprawling Oklahoma cattle ranch will truly be his - no strings attached. With only one more bank payment to make and a buyer in Omaha ready to pay top dollar for a herd of Herefords, he should finally have the banker, Earl Throckmorton, off his back. But Earl has a plan to keep the ranch for himself, and if he has his way, Dane's herd will never make it across the Omaha Trail - and Dane won't make it home alive. Up against Earl's hired gang of outlaws, Dane must do whatever it takes to bring in the herd - but Earl has more than one trick up his sleeve. Planting one of his own men in Dane's newly hired team of cowhands could be just the insurance he needs.
©2012 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2016 Recorded Books
Tucker's Reckoning
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Taking up the mantle from legendary Western author Ralph Compton, Matthew P. Mayo delivers a searing adventure that rockets along like a runaway stagecoach. In Tucker’s Reckoning, Samuel Tucker suffers the deaths of his wife and daughter, then takes to the bottle in paroxysms of grief. After drifting from his native Texas to Oregon, Tucker witnesses a murder, little knowing that the aftermath might give him a new reason to hope - if it doesn’t spell his doom.
©2012 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2013 Recorded Books
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Death Rides a Chestnut Mare [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Where the living is hard and the killing is easy.... It's in the lawless Indian Territory that Daniel Strange meets his demise. Riding his chestnut mare to Texas to buy himself some cattle, the best gunsmith in St. Joseph, Missouri gets waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws. His lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope - robbing his family of a loving husband and father. ... Death can't keep a good man down. Now, a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengeance trail - packing Daniel Strange's trademark twin Colts, riding the same chestnut mare, and answering to the same name. With fiery green eyes and a temper to match, he won't stop until every last man who killed Daniel Strange shares the same fate. And as each bullet finds its mark, his victims will die never knowing the truth: that Daniel Strange may be dead and buried, but his daughter is alive - and killing.... Performed by Terence Aselford, Dani Stoller, Nick DePinto, Eric Messner, Patrick Bussink, David Jourdan, Dylan Lynch, Chris Scheeren, Andy Brownstein, Gregory Gorton, Ken Jackson, Steven Carpenter, Thomas Keegan, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Scott McCormick, Richard Rohan, Tony Nam, Yasmin Tuazon, Michael John Casey, Laura Harris, James Konicek, Eva Wilhelm, Colleen Delany, Evan Casey, Joel David Santner, James Lewis, Todd Scofield, Thomas Penny, Scott Graham, Alyssa Wilmoth, Bradley Smith, Christopher Graybill, David Harris, Elizabeth Jernigan, Gary Telles, Michael Glenn, Matthew Schleigh, Nanette Savard, Nathanial Perry, Justin Wortz, John Glennon, Patrick Stratton, Matthew Webb.
©1999 Ralph Compton (P)2015 Graphic Audio, LLC
The Burning Range
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The legacy of legendary Western author Ralph Compton can be heard in the explosive tales penned by Joseph A. West. A ruthless murderer known as the Fat Man is terrorizing Green Meadow, Oklahoma, which sits over a massive store of black gold. The Fat Man will kill anyone who stands in his way. But gambler Chauncey Drake and Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers aren’t the kind to back down easy, and the stars are aligning for a showdown of epic proportions.
©2010 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2013 Recorded Books
Down on Gila River
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At 50, cattle driver Sam Sawyer thinks he can finally dust off and retire, maybe open an eating house. But after a pack of Apache ambushes him and leaves him to die in Gila River country, he barely makes it to a remote ranch. The owner, Hanna Stewart, has worked the desert spread with her young daughter ever since her husband went for a ride and never returned. For years she's been victimized by the corrupt sheriff of Lost Mine, Vic Moseley. Turns out Moseley's evil intentions don't stop with Hannah Stewart. And things are fixing to get downright bloody. After a lifetime in the saddle, Sam's about to ride not only the hardest trail of his life - but possibly the last....
©2012 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2015 Recorded Books
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The Shadow of a Noose [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Young twins Jed and Tim Strange set out to find their sister, who left home to avenge their father's murder over a year ago. But when they're accused of a murder they didn't commit, they must go on the run to find the true killers. Performed by Terence Aselford, Dani Stoller, Evan Casey, Matthew Schleigh, Bradley Smith, Michael Glenn, David Jourdan, Christopher Graybill, Chris Scheeren, Eric Messner, James Konicek, Ken Jackson, James Lewis, Nick DePinto, Thomas Keegan, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Scott Graham, Tim Carlin, Eva Wilhelm, Colleen Delany, David Harris, Joel David Santner, Michael John Casey, Steven Carpenter, Scott McCormick, Patrick Bussink, Richard Rohan, Yasmin Tuazon, Nathanial Perry, Gary Telles, Laura Harris, Nanette Savard.
©2000 Ralph Compton (P)2015 Graphic Audio, LLC
The Law and the Lawless
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The USA Today best-selling Ralph Compton series continues.... When a bunch of ruffians rob a bank in the sleepy town of Alpine, it's only natural for the locals to be alarmed. But this gang and its leader, Cestus Calloway, are not common criminals. In fact, Cestus is known as the Robin Hood of the Rockies, distributing his loot to those less fortunate, raining stolen money down on the townsfolk. As if that weren't too good to be true, this gang holds to one important rule: steal, but don't kill. All Alpine's marshal, Boyd Cooper, wants is a nice retirement, not to get a posse together to track outlaws. However, when an altercation leads to the exchange of gunfire and the spilling of outlaw blood, he doesn't have much of a choice. The outlaws fear their reputation might be at stake, so they declare revenge on the tin stars of Alpine. They're mad enough to break their own no-kill rule, and Boyd Cooper knows things could end as bloody as they started.
©2015 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2018 Recorded Books
Ralph Compton Ride the Hammer Down
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In this racing new installment in best seller Ralph Compton's Gunfighter series, Marshal John Beck is a man who has spent his career dispensing justice throughout the West, but now the justice is personal. Marshal John Beck was the law in the dangerous town of Mother Lode, Arizona. On his own, he'd managed to keep bandits, rustlers, and desperados at bay. It was a tough job for one man to handle, but he made it work...until the day Bram Hogan and his Brickhouse Gang got the drop on the lawman. They beat Beck to within an inch of his life and dropped him in the desert, where nothing but a slow, painful death awaited him. But the gang underestimated Beck. Even at his lowest point, he found a way to survive. Now, he's coming back, and anyone who stands against him is going to ride the hammer down to the grave.
©2020 Ralph Compton and Terrence McCauley (P)2020 Recorded Books
The Hunted
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Big Charlie Chilton knows better than to lose his temper, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his long-buried secrets, he can't help but teach the man a lesson about being quiet. Unfortunately it turns out the man was about to make an important supply run for the town's marshal, and Marshal Watt knows just enough about Shotgun Charlie's past to draft him into service in his stead. The trek north would be treacherous enough with the snow and the threat of an Indian attack, but the ragtag drunkards running the freighting outfit put Charlie ill at ease. When bad blood springs up between them, Charlie is left for dead on the side of the mountain. But they should have made sure he was really gone - because the wounded bear of a man isn't down for the count, and he's ready to bring vengeance on those who did him wrong....
©2013 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2016 Recorded Books
The Oregon Trail
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They risked their lives to bring cattle to Missouri. Now they faced a journey twices as dangerous.... The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn, and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives. Lou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their 14 Texas cowboys brought a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer's men were running out of time to reach the wide-open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden in one of the pilgrims' wooden wagons - and outlaws circling like wolves - there were miles of shooting and dying still ahead.
©1994 Ralph Compton (P)2012 Macmillan Audio
Double Cross Ranch
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Let the Dead Bury the Dead Rancher Ty Farraday's hunt for stray cattle takes a turn for the worse when he discovers a shallow grave and the body of wealthy Alton Winstead, the owner of the Double-Cross Ranch. Ty's first frantic thoughts are of Winstead's widow, Sue-Ellen, who picked Alton over him. Unfortunately, she chose poorly. Alton masterminded a crime and left his helpers to swing for it. Hungry for revenge, the murderous headcases have overrun the Double-Cross and are holding Sue-Ellen prisoner. They believe she's harboring some very important information. Ty boldly rescues her from the ranch - to find their troubles are only beginning....
©2014 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2017 Recorded Books