What do you think?
Rate this book
Steve Yeager
Steve Yeager held his bronco to a Spanish trot. Somewhere in front of him among the brown hill swells that rose and fell like waves of the sea lay Los Robles and breakfast.
- GenresWesterns
290 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1915
About the author
William MacLeod Raine
488 books15 followersWilliam MacLeod Raine (June 22, 1871 - July 25, 1954), was a British-born American novelist who wrote fictional adventure stories about the American Old West.
William MacLeod Raine was born in London, the son of William and Jessie Raine. After his mother died, his family migrated from England to Arkansas when Macleod was ten years old, eventually settling on a cattle ranch near the Texas-Arkansas border.
In 1894, after graduating from Oberlin College, Macleod left Arkansas and headed for the western U.S. He became the principal of a school in Seattle while contributing columns to a local newspaper. After leaving Seattle, he moved to Denver, where he worked as a reporter and editorial writer for local periodicals, including the Republican, the Post, and the Rocky Mountain News. At this time he began to publish short stories, eventually becoming a full time free lance fiction writer, and finally finding his literary home in the novel.
His earliest novels were romantic histories taking place in the English countryside. However, after spending some time with the Arizona Rangers, Macleod shifted his literary focus and began to utilize the American West as a setting. The publication of Wyoming in 1908 marks the beginning of his prolific career, during which time he averaged nearly two western novels a year until his death in 1954. In 1920 he was awarded an M.L. degree from the University of Colorado where he had established that school's first journalism course. During the First World War 500,000 copies of one of his books were sent to British soldiers in the trenches. Twenty of his novels have been filmed. Despite his prolificness, he was a slow, careful, conscientious worker, intent on accurate detail, and considered himself a craftsman rather than an artist.
In 1905 Mr. Raine married Jennie P. Langley, who died in 1922. In 1924 he married Florence A Hollingsworth: they had a daughter. Though he traveled a good deal, Denver was considered his home.
William MacLeod Raine died on July 25, 1954 and is buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.
William MacLeod Raine was born in London, the son of William and Jessie Raine. After his mother died, his family migrated from England to Arkansas when Macleod was ten years old, eventually settling on a cattle ranch near the Texas-Arkansas border.
In 1894, after graduating from Oberlin College, Macleod left Arkansas and headed for the western U.S. He became the principal of a school in Seattle while contributing columns to a local newspaper. After leaving Seattle, he moved to Denver, where he worked as a reporter and editorial writer for local periodicals, including the Republican, the Post, and the Rocky Mountain News. At this time he began to publish short stories, eventually becoming a full time free lance fiction writer, and finally finding his literary home in the novel.
His earliest novels were romantic histories taking place in the English countryside. However, after spending some time with the Arizona Rangers, Macleod shifted his literary focus and began to utilize the American West as a setting. The publication of Wyoming in 1908 marks the beginning of his prolific career, during which time he averaged nearly two western novels a year until his death in 1954. In 1920 he was awarded an M.L. degree from the University of Colorado where he had established that school's first journalism course. During the First World War 500,000 copies of one of his books were sent to British soldiers in the trenches. Twenty of his novels have been filmed. Despite his prolificness, he was a slow, careful, conscientious worker, intent on accurate detail, and considered himself a craftsman rather than an artist.
In 1905 Mr. Raine married Jennie P. Langley, who died in 1922. In 1924 he married Florence A Hollingsworth: they had a daughter. Though he traveled a good deal, Denver was considered his home.
William MacLeod Raine died on July 25, 1954 and is buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
January 2, 2023
Entertaining western listening 🎶🔰
Another will written classic pulp fiction western with 👍 and bad 👎 guys and love 💘 adventure thriller novel by William MacLeod Raine. This is a classic pulp fiction western with 👍 two guys wanting the love 💘 of a woman 🚺. The good guy wins out in the end. I would recommend this novel and author to readers of western novels 👍🔰. Enjoy the adventure of reading or listening to books 📚. 2023 😮👒😀
Another will written classic pulp fiction western with 👍 and bad 👎 guys and love 💘 adventure thriller novel by William MacLeod Raine. This is a classic pulp fiction western with 👍 two guys wanting the love 💘 of a woman 🚺. The good guy wins out in the end. I would recommend this novel and author to readers of western novels 👍🔰. Enjoy the adventure of reading or listening to books 📚. 2023 😮👒😀
March 10, 2021
Well written
The author knew how to write and how to use the English language. Modern day authors should read some of the old time authors. The author developed the characters and story line that made you feel like you were there. The book has some ups and downs, but it is we worth reading.
The author knew how to write and how to use the English language. Modern day authors should read some of the old time authors. The author developed the characters and story line that made you feel like you were there. The book has some ups and downs, but it is we worth reading.
August 6, 2012
Enjoyed rereading this classic Western from 1915. Raine was a contemporary of Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, and other popular novelists of the early 20th century. His works are pretty much forgotten today and definitely dated but still enjoyable from a "When a Man's a Man" perspective. This one is about a Texas cowboy -- the titular Steve Yeager -- who is out of work and ends up as a stunt man on an early movie set in Arizona. He falls for a local waitress who gets kidnapped by an ex-prizefighter who was acting in the film and who then ends up in the clutches of a Mexican revolutionary across the border. Of course our hero, Steve, sets out to rescue her and winds up himself in the hands of the Mexican bad guy. This story may seem a little racist by modern-day political correctness but I'm sure it is line with much of the literature of its day. Overall a real change of pace and I would recommend this overall.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews