Cowgirl Trail (The Texas Trail Series) [Paperback]

Susan Page Davis (Author)

Book Description

Release date: March 21, 2012 | Series: The Texas Trail Series

Cowgil Trail is part of a six-book series about four generations of the Morgan family living, fighting, and thriving amidst a turbulent Texas history spanning from 1845 to 1896.  Although a series, each book book can be read on its own.

In 1884 Maggie Porter returns to the Rocking P Ranch. The sanatorium was not able to save her mother and now her father's health is failing. When the cowboys walk off the job leaving no one to drive the cattle to market, head ranch hand, Alex Bright, cannot convince the men to stay. How could Alex let this happen?

Maggie is desperate to save the ranch and she turns to the town's women for help. The new cowgirls must herd, rope, and drive the cattle to market. With only two days left, outlaws charge the small band of cowgirls in an effort to start a stampede. The cattle begin to scatter. Will they lose everything? Where will their help come from?

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Writing this book was a lot of fun, but also a great deal of hard work. I learned a lot about women on the cattle trails while doing my research. Captive Trail, my earlier book in this series, won the 2012 Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Fiction category. I hope you enjoy this story of faith, forgiveness, and adventure.

From the Back Cover

COWGIRL TRAIL bcc 1.16.12

 

A young woman determined to save the family ranch

A devastating loss

An answer to prayer as shots are fired

 

Maggie Porter returns to the Rocking P Ranch. The sanatorium was not able to save her mother and now her father's health is failing. When the cowboys walk off the job leaving no one to drive the cattle to market, head ranch hand, Alex Bright, cannot convince the men to stay. How could Alex let this happen?

Maggie is desperate to save the ranch. To everyone's surprise, she turns to the town's women for help. The cowgirls must herd, rope, and drive the cattle to market. With only two days left, outlaws charge the small band in an effort to start a stampede. The cattle begin to scatter. Will they lose everything? Where will their help come from?

Doubt meets hope, and fear gives way to faith in the Morgan family.

SUSAN PAGE DAVIS is an award winning author who has published more than thirty novels in the historical romance, suspense, mystery, and romance genres. She's a past winner of the American Christian Fiction Writers' Book of the Year Contest and a two time winner of the Inspirational Readers' Choice Contest. She resides in Kentucky with her husband Jim. Visit Susan at www.susanpagedavis.com.

For information on the Texas Trails series, visit TexasTrailsFiction.com. For upcoming titles, visit RiverNorthFiction.com.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: River North; New Edition edition (March 21, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080240586X
• ISBN-13: 978-0802405869
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan Page Davis writes romantic suspense, historical romance, and mystery. She is a Maine native now living in Kentucky, and a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers. Her books have won several awards including the Carol Award for her novel The Prisoners Wife; the Inspirational Readers' Choice Award for The Prisoner's Wife and The Lumberjack's Lady (Maine Brides series); and the 2012 Will Rogers Medallion Award for her novel Captive Trail (Texas Trails series). Visit her website at www.susanpagedavis.com

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A great twist on your conventional Christian Western Romances! August 6, 2012

By Pirate2240

Format:Paperback

Maggie Porter has grown up on the Rocking P Ranch and has come to love everything there is to about ranching, from riding horses, roping and driving cattle. As a young girl at 13, she had developed a school girl crush for ranch-hand Alex Bright because he didn't treat her any different because she was the bosses daughter.

Now that she has returned to the Rocking P as an older women, she wonders if that same crush exists and she can't wait to see Alex again. When she arrives home on the ranch, she learns Alex has been promoted as foreman, but even though her heart continues to chase after Alex, she finds out that things on the ranch aren't running as smoothly as her father would like. Maggie returns home after a long stay from helping her ill mother at the sanatorium and later attending her funeral, she finds her father isn't his usual self. She believes he is taking her mother's grief harder than she expected and learns that he has relinquished most of the ranch's task to Alex instead of being there on hand to help.

Maggie learns from Alex that most of the men are considering striking against the Rocking P, since her father has taken back some of the benefits they used to have working for him, from herding their own cattle on the ranch, to basic help in maintaining the bunkhouses and they haven't had a pay raise in ten years. Things get worse when Leo, one of the ranch hands is injured and her father refuses to help. He tells Leo that his wife will have to take him to town to see a doctor because he can't spare any men. That leaves Leo's wife, Sela to have to manage with an infant and leave her three young boys in the care of Dolores, the housekeeper. But when her father learns of this, he dismisses the boys and Sela to town because he can't afford to help them manage their family affairs on the ranch.

This places Maggie and Alex in the middle as Alex attempts to keep the men working on the ranch at least til they finish the cattle drive and they can get paid, while Maggie tries in vain to find out what is going on with the change in her father. It goes against how he has managed the ranch up to this point and if they can't reach a compromise, the ranch will fail.

In the novel, Cowgirl Trail by Susan Page Davis, the reader is transported back to Brady, Texas during the late 1800's for a look at what it takes to manage and run a large cattle ranch and how people made a living back then, either running a ranch or helping to maintain it. I feel for Maggie Porter, because as a daughter she is stuck between her loyalty to her father and toward helping the men when she feels her father is out of line. Will she be able to help them all find a compromise or will the ranch be lost along with her dreams of falling in love with Alex?

I received Cowgirl Trail compliments of Moody Publishers and Net Galley for my honest review and being a huge fan of Christian Western Romances, I absolutely loved this one. Susan Page Davis creates a different type of conflict and the way she has Maggie attempt to handle this as the only child of the Rocking P is brilliant and virtually unheard of in most western fictional books but one that works well in this one. I rate this book a 5 out of 5 stars and shows the strength that can be required of us when faced with challenging and difficult situations if we are willing to look to God for answers! This is book 5 in the Texas Trails series and one I've really enjoyed if you love westerns!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful book about courage May 25, 2012

By kenziekylanmom1

Format:Paperback

I wasn't really sure about this book when I saw the cover, I know it's really cliche to say this but NEVER judge a book by its cover! Then I started to read it and it grabbed my attention right away and I fell in love with Maggie Porter the main character. This was a page turned and I would stay up late at night reading and promise myself just one more page and before I knew it I had finished the entire book! What I didn't realize was that this book was part of a 6 book series, I'm thrilled about that and can NOT wait to read the rest of the series. Obviously you do not have to read them in order and they can stand alone by themselves. Susan Page Davis is a dynamic writer that captivates her readers and leaves them wanting more, I will definitely start reading more of her books in the near future. I give Cowgirl Trail 5 out of 5 stars for the spunkiness that she gave Maggie and the other ladies in this powerful book with a little bit of Texas history thrown in.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Escapist Reading at its Finest October 16, 2012

By Janalyn Voigt

Format:Paperback

Young Maggie Porter returns to the Rocking P Ranch to discover her father's health failing and the cowboys ready to walk off the job just at cattle-drive time. Even Alex Bright, the head ranch hand Maggie secretly loves, can't or won't convince the workers to stay on. In desperation, Maggie assembles a team of cowgirls from the town's women to help her drive her father's cattle to market. At stake is the ranch itself, for the bank waits to foreclose. But can cowgirls really do a cowboy's job, and will the striking ranch hands let them?

Davis's skilled writing carries the reader into romance and adventure in the Wild West. This is escapist reading at its finest. Distinctive characters, descriptions that leave the taste of trail dust in your mouth, and a comfortable-but-not slaggard pace make Cowgirl Trail fun to read.

I recommend Cowgirl Trail by Susan Page Davis to adult readers who enjoy western historical romance. This is one of six novels written by Susan Page Davis, Vickie McDonough, and Darlene Franklin, which can be read alone or as part of the Texas Trails series.
Review by Janalyn Voigt, author of [...].

*My thanks to the author and publisher for a complimentary copy of this book, provided for purposes of review.