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 ...
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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.
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Boulder Dam is one of Zane Grey's best books, and it shows in his text. Every aspect of the construction is detailed with vivid description and accuracy. This book shows his care and love for his work as a writer of "good" historical romance. The wild and woolly west was still alive and present when the dam was built and Zane Grey covers the kind of illicit activity was occurring when construction was taking place, and he tells of the dangers the men faced as the dam came into existence. The story is told through the eyes of one man who performs nearly all the jobs that made the dam possible, so the reader gets to "see" for himself what a colossal undertaking this was. Along the way he meets a girl in trouble and he helps her and, of course, falls in love. This is an excellent book and it makes one wonder why it took so long to get it published either before or after his death. Zane Grey is synonymous with the West and this book does not disappoint because it is "all there"--everything you would ever want in a book by Zane Grey. Five Stars all the way!
