01451cam a2200253 4500 174344356 TxAuBib 20140923120000.0 120204s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780451238535 pbk. $6.99 0451238532 pbk. $6.99 TxAuBib West, Joseph A. Down on Gila River : a Ralph Compton novel / by Joseph A. West. New York : Signet, 2012. 298 p. ; 18 cm. At head of title: Ralph Compton. 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 is about to ride not only the hardest trail of his life, but possibly the last. 20140923. COWBOYS Fiction. Women ranchers Fiction. Sheriffs Fiction. Compton, Ralph.