[Gutenberg 29656] • The Mountain Divide
- Authors
- Spearman, Frank H.
- Publisher
- COMBO PRESS
- Tags
- western stories
- Date
- 2016-03-17T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.54 MB
- Lang
- en
Frank Hamilton Spearman was an American author. He was known for his books in the Western fiction genre and especially for his fiction and non-fiction works on the topic of railroads.
His western novel Whispering Smith – the title character of which was modeled on real-life Union Pacific Railroad detectives Timothy Keliher and Joe Lefors, was made into a movie on eight separate occasions, four silent films in 1916, 1917, 1926, and 1927, with later versions in 1930, 1935, 1948 and 1952. In 1961, NBC aired twenty episodes of the television series Whispering Smith.
This volume includes 9 works;
THE NERVER OF FOLEY AND OTHER RAILROAD STORIES
HELD FOR ORDERS
THE DAUGHTER OF A MAGNATE
THE SEWING-MACHINE STORY
WHISPERING SMITH
ROBERT KIMBERLY
THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE
NAN OF MUSIC MOUNTAIN
LARAMIE HOLDS THE RANGE