Raiders of Spanish Peaks

Name: Raiders of Spanish Peaks
Rating: 4.04 (450 reviews)

by Zane Grey

First published 1938

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Three experienced western riders agree to guide an Ohio family westward toward a new ranch near the Spanish Peaks of southern Colorado. The journey takes the migrants out of the security of settled country and into a region where hard weather, unfamiliar terrain and rustlers can turn an attempt at a new beginning into a fight for survival.

Once the travellers reach Colorado, the dangers do not end. Establishing a ranch means defending livestock, judging strangers and learning the unwritten rules of range country. The novel contrasts the expectations of newcomers with the realities of the late nineteenth-century West, while the riders’ experience becomes essential to keeping the family and its new home intact.