Ralph Compton Down on Gila River

Name: Ralph Compton Down on Gila River
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781490693804

Author: Ralph Compton, Joseph A. West

Narrator: Lee Aaron Rosen

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/25/2015

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western

Synopsis

At fifty, 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....

About Ralph Compton

Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1998.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on November 04, 2016

This wasn't too bad of a read. Some of the writing was good with some good metaphors, but others were forced by the author. Character development was poor. We never really understood why the characters did the things they did or why. Not a bad fun read. I picked it up because I grew near the Gila Ri......more

Goodreads review by Rob on April 16, 2014

This was an okay book. The story seemed to jump around and the main plot never really had a focus. Maybe that was because the Marshall, who was the original protaganist, was killed off halfway through the book. It had a happy ending with Sam killing the evil Wells brothers, then going to live with H......more

Goodreads review by Jeffery on October 29, 2019

This is the first Ralph Compton book I read. I have been looking for a Western writer that is similar to Louis L’amour and after reading this book I think I have found one. I plan on reading more of Compton’s books to get a better cell for his writing.......more