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    The Spoilers
    The Spoilers
    The Spoilers
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Spoilers

    Written by Rex Beach

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His first novel, The Spoilers, was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which Beach witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska. The novel begins with the return of Dextry and Roy Glenister to Nome to reclaim their mine, The Midas. On their arrival, they find “The Law” has come to Nome. The problem is “The Law” is crooked, bent on stealing all the best gold mines in Alaska. Alec McNamara is the villain in this novel and rules with a heavy hand through the aging and corrupt Judge Stillman. Helen Chester is the naïve niece of Judge Stillman. She cannot believe her uncle is involved in such treachery. And of course, Roy Glenister is in love with her. After trying to work within the law, the miners eventually form a vigilante group called The Stranglers to right the wrongs while Glenister continues to believe the law can correct the wrongs. A cast of other characters enter the book with various roles; Cherry Malotte, The Bronco Kid (who has a surprise in store for listeners), Slapjack Sims, Struve the crooked lawyer. The climax of the book is…………but then I would be spoiling the ending, wouldn’t I? The Spoilers became one of the bestselling novels of 1906. The novel was made into movies five times, with leading men including Gary Cooper, Randolph Scott and John Wayne.

    For a brief pictorial history of the characters involved in the actual mine stealing, please see this page.

    (Summary from Wikipedia and modified by The Reader)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Rex Beach

    Rex Beach has worked for over twenty five years at a grocery store called Giant Eagle. He lives in Canton, Ohio which is the birthplace of tht National Football League. Rex is of the few people in the world who can say that they got stuck in the Dead Sea during a pilgrimage. After a long divorce in 2009, Rex decided to look for his father. In 2010 he found him through Ancestry. Com. Sadly, his father died in 1999 of cancer. For nine years Rex fought to bring his father's remains home from an unmarked grave in Dallas, Texas. With the help of a famous U S. Senator, Rex was reunited with his dad on January 08, 2019, and have him buried with full military honors. Rex hopes to retire one day and pursue his passion of research, helping others and making people laugh. Rex also plans on writing a book about the power of music to heal divorced families.

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