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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…

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 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…

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 Painted Veil

by W. Somerset Maugham Read by Bob R 4.6
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…

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, …

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…

The Daughter of a Magnate

by Frank H. Spearman Read by Bob R 4.6
This is an American Western without any bad guys. The main characters are trains, and the elements---snow, terrain, weather and water. Fra…

Oil!

by Upton Sinclair Read by Bob R 4.3
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 …

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 …

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…

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…

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Bob R 4
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, …

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 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…