Career
A native of Saint Clair County, Alabama, Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. Mr. Compton began his writing career with a notable work,, which was chosen as a finalist for the Western Writers of America "Medicine Pipe Bearer Award" bestowed upon the "Best Debut Novel".
He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the series.
In the last decade of his life, he authored more than two dozen novels, some of which made it onto the United States of America Today bestseller list for fiction. Ralph Compton died in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 64.
Since his death, Signet Books has continued the author"s legacy, releasing new novels, written by authors such as Joseph A. West and David L. Robbins, under Compton"s byline. The Dawn of Fury () The Killing Season () Autumn of the Gun () The () Sixguns and Double Eagles () Train To Durango () North to the Bitterroot Across the Rio Colorado The Winchester Run Devil"s Canyon () Whiskey River () The Skeleton Lode () Demon"s Pass by Robert Vaughan () Runaway Stage Do Or Die Nowhere, Texas () Bucked Out In Dodge West of Pecos Death Rides A Chestnut Mare () The Shadow of a Noose Death Along the Cimmaron () Riders of Judgment by Ralph West. Cotton ().
