The Grafters

by Francis Lynde, Arthur I. Keller (Illustrator)

Francis Lynde (1856-1930) was an American author who wrote The Master of Appleby (1902), The Grafters (1904), A Fool for Love (1905), The Quickening (1906), Empire Builders (1907), The Taming of Red Butte Western (1911), The Price (1911), The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush (1913), Branded (1918), The Golden Spider (1923) and Mr. Arnold (1923). "In point of age, Gaston the strenuous was still no more than a lusty infant among the cities of the brown plain when the boom broke and the junto was born, though its beginnings as a halt camp ran back to the days of the later Mormon migrations across the thirsty plain; to that day when the advanced guard of Zophar Smith's ox-train dug wells in the damp sands of Dry Creek and called them the Waters of Merom. "

324 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2007

About the author

1856-1930

Reviews

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Francis Lynde came to fiction writing in mid-life and brought to his first published novel a worldly knowledge of business, law, finance, and politics. This novel of political intrigue in an unnamed state on the western plains also shows a gift for tight plotting, believable characters, and suspenseful storytelling. . .

Read my review at my blog.

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is almost business fiction! It gives many details of the building and running of railroads in the early 1900s. It's a good book, not by any means a "fluff" read, but very enjoyable and informative.