Boulder Dam
by Zane Grey
On This Page
Description
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 show more 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! There will be feats of heroism and periods of exhaustion in the creation of the Boulder Dam. And Lynn has proven his mettle many times over. But will he be able to save the girl he has fallen in love with when she's kidnapped again? show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
I never really thought of how big a job it must have been to build the boulder dam. And Zane Grey while not a deep writer was certainly one that was fun. Though sometimes his hicks were a little hard to understand and he wrote what they said spelled out like they pronounced their words. Part of the charm of western writing. :)
Grey is best when his story is based in some little niche of history that we couldn't otherwise experience. This one is a story about the construction of Hoover Dam.
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
438+ Works 20,954 Members
Zane Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray in 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. He studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, married Lina Elise Roth in 1905, then moved his family west where he began to write novels. The author of 86 books, he is today considered the father of the Western genre, with its heady romances and mysterious outlaws. Riders show more of the Purple Sage (1912) brought Grey his greatest popular acclaim. Other notable titles include The Light of Western Stars (1914) and The Vanishing American (1925). An extremely prolific writer, he often completed three novels a year, while his publisher would issue only one at a time. Twenty-five of his novels were published posthumously. His last, The Reef Girl, was published in 1977. Zane Grey died of heart failure on October 23 in Altadena, California, in 1939. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Belongs to Publisher Series
Common Knowledge
- First words
- That first upthrust of the slope of the western hemisphere formed a vast inland sea which gave birth to a rapacious and terrible river.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The spirit moved ever toward perfection and immortality.
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 142
- Popularity
- 231,069
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.04)
- Languages
- Czech, English, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 25
- ASINs
- 13
