Raiders of Spanish Peaks: A Western Story
Written by Zane Grey
Narrated by John McLain
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
The Lindsay family has come west hoping to help the father, John, recover from an illness. When they arrive, they are induced to purchase Spanish Peaks Ranch, an abandoned United States military post surrounded by mountains. It seems like a perfect place to settle into their new life as ranchers. As they soon find out, though, this deserted fort is equally suited for both protection and imprisonment. In fact, they’ve been swindled into buying the longtime headquarters and hideout for a band of thieves and rustlers.
Almost as soon as they get to work, the Lindsay family's peace is disturbed, and their protected new homestead quickly becomes an isolated outpost as rustlers begin to harass their herds. John Lindsay discovers there are spies among his faithful cowboys. Things continue to get worse until finally their brewing hostilities climax in a nighttime attack, leading to all-out war and the abduction of one of the Lindsay girls and elopement of another. John must fight against treason on the inside and enemies on the outside to keep his family and new life safe.
First published in 1938, the greatest writer of the American West, Zane Grey, brings a classic tale of drama on the frontier. Raiders of Spanish Peaks is a thrilling tale of a how a man’s home is truly his castle.
Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns—books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians—are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Zane Grey
American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.
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Reviews for Raiders of Spanish Peaks
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was a good story with a good ending. It gives a good insight to what life was like for the earlier settlers
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a Grey novel that contains lots of action and romance. Laramie stops a man named Pierce from hanging Lonesome. Laramie and Lonesome become partners with a third man named Ted Williams. After several years of travel the three range riders decide to help a the Lindsay family from Ohio settle on to the ranch they have purchased in Colorado. The Lindsay family is made up of parents, three young beautiful women and a wayward son. Almost immediately the three wranglers have fallen in love with the three daughters but before love wins all, there are rustlers to eliminate. Surprising violent at times especially when Grey includes graphic descriptions of hangings. Two of the women also face some graphic physical and sexual threats.Unlike some Grey novels I have read, this effort is less bogged down with romantic descriptions of the natural world in which it is set. However the descriptions of nature are replaced with unrealistic scenes of lovemaking.