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The U.P. Trail

by Zane Grey Read by Bob R 4.4
Grey's story of the struggles to build the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1860's. Typical western characters, but placed in a factual se…

Whispering Smith

by Frank H. Spearman Read by Bob R 4.8
Whispering Smith, like most of Frank Spearman's western novels (and some non-fiction as well) are set in the world of railroads, in the late…

The Crossing

by Winston Churchill Read by Bob R 4.6
This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the p…

Laramie Holds The Range

by Frank H. Spearman Read by Bob R 4.9
As with most of Frank Spearman's novels (and non-fiction), "Laramie Holds the Range" is set in the West during our early railroad …

The Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham Read by Bob R 4.7
This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epide…

The Country House

by John Galsworthy Read by Bob R 3
In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth…

The Winning of Barbara Worth

by Harold Bell Wright Read by Bob R 4.7
This is a fairly substantial western, written in 1911 by Harold Bell Wright, then a major bestselling author. (His best-known novel is “The …

The Conquest of Canaan

by Booth Tarkington Read by Bob R 4.6
Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law s…

The Daughter of a Magnate

by Frank H. Spearman Read by Bob R 4.5
This is an American Western without any bad guys. The main characters are trains, and the elements---snow, terrain, weather and water. Fra…

Robert Kimberly

by Frank H. Spearman Read by Bob R 4.7
The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …

Oil!

by Upton Sinclair Read by Bob R 4.2
The two main characters of “Oil” are James Arnold Ross, called “Dad”, and his son James Jr., called “Bunny”. The book is loosely based on a …

Helen of the Old House

by Harold Bell Wright Read by Bob R 5
Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …

Poor White: a Novel

by Sherwood Anderson Read by Bob R 3.8
This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…

The Rising of the Tide

by Ida M. Tarbell Read by Bob R 3.7
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Bob R 4.1
This is the 11th book in the 24-book series of the character Tarzan. It begins something of a departure from Tarzan's previous adventures, …