Boulder Dam, Zane Grey
Boulder Dam, Zane Grey
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Boulder Dam

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: Adam Sims

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2019

Synopsis

Zane Grey is at his best in this story of the building of the Boulder Dam, later renamed the Hoover Dam.Straddling the great Colorado River, a huge structure is slowly rising—a dam that will alter the course of this ravaging river and harness its awesome power. Men from all over America have flocked to the site, laboring at the dam by day and filling the nearby Las Vegas gambling houses by night.To Lynn Weston, a rich man’s son, working on the dam means independence and the chance to prove his courage. But an even greater challenge faces Lynn: he discovers a girl who has escaped her abductors in the back seat of his car and becomes her self-appointed protector. Suddenly, he finds himself threatened by a pack of ruthless gangsters with a vicious plan to blow up the dam.

About Zane Grey

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872–October 23, 1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife, Lina Roth (Dolly) Grey, published his first novel. Grey presented the West as a moral battleground in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or are redeemed through a final confrontation with their past. The man whose name is synonymous with Westerns made his first trip west in 1907 at age thirty-five. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his bestselling book. More than 130 films have been based on his work.

About Adam Sims

John Traven, Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actor who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew

4 to 4.5 stars (Rounding up because I was so darn entertained) I read Riders of the Purple Sage several years ago and always wanted to try Zane Grey again. However, after reading Riders and looking at several other titles as possible follow-ups, I always assumed my next would be a classic Western. Bu......more

Goodreads review by Joshua

I picked up this book for a number of reasons...It has elements of Las Vegas, It's about the Boulder Dam, and it's Zane Grey. Three things I like. Oh and I found it at an amazing bookstore 20 miles outside of Palm Springs for 2 dollars. BOOM. There are two parts to this book. One is the love story br......more

Goodreads review by Akshit

This book sure is a reflection of the wild west back in the early 20th century. The first two pages of the book and the part of the scene where Lynn , Bellow ,Gip Ring and Snap are locked in a dark room and Gip Ring is shooting like crazy . The character descriptions in the book are as if some cowbo......more

Goodreads review by Kim

The story of Lynn ‘Bif’ Westin and Anne seems more of an artifice that covers the real story here: the building of the Boulder, later renamed the Hoover Dam. Yet, both add value to each other and the one gives necessary gravitas to the emerging story. What I found most interesting, though, was the u......more

Quotes

"[Bolder Dam], the spectacular vision which became a reality in the early ’30’s and which inspired Lynn Weston, a rich man’s son, to ‘earn a living in overalls.’ All the on-the-job dangers are doubled by a gangster gang who want to sabotage the project and also engage in white slavery.” Kirkus Reviews

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