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Title: The Lost Wagon Train

Subtitle: A Western Story

Author: Zane Grey, Joe Wheeler - foreword

Narrator: John McLain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Westerns

Publisher's Summary:

The story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery.

Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thievery and murder. Still hoping to uphold the values of the Confederacy, Latch sets his sights on the wealth of resources pouring westward from the northern United States, putting together a band of ruthless misfits to help him stake his claim of the riches of the caravans.

Latch's plan calls for an unusual alliance, one made with Chief Satana and his band of Kiowas. The Kiowas are in desperate need of "firewater" - the rum and whiskey that Latch keeps secreted away - and Latch plans to use it to inspire them to levels of barbarism not seen anywhere else. Once the caravan drivers and passengers are dispatched with, Latch and his men will spirit away the now ownerless wagons, never to be seen again.

The Lost Wagon Train follows Latch on his greatest attack against a train of 160 wagons, and shows how the once-haunted man turns a corner and finds a new life away from the ways of the brigand.

Members Reviews:

A dark story

For me, this is not a story to begin reading before bedtime. The terrible events--perpetrated by they main character--in the first half of the story are not sufficiently balanced by the insertion of a young couple and a somewhat "happy" ending in the second half of the story. The main character suffers some for his terrible deeds, but in all I found the story so unlike the really top notch, fine, wonderful stories of Zane Grey that I wonder why he wrote it. For me, this is a dark story, and the general subject matter is already covered in Grey's Fighting Caravans, and somewhat it Border Legion. I believe the subject matter would better have been part of a non-fiction book on the history of the West.

Not the best

I do recommend it to Zane Grey fans but it was way dark and the morality of the main character is questionable to the extent I couldn't support his actions. Gritty and interesting, nonetheless.

Five Stars

very good

Zane Gray, the Lost Wagon Train

Really enjoyed this Zane Gray western. Looking for more of this type of action western. Have only read a few of his works so far.

Lost and Should Stay Lost

The advertise book is a Walter J. Black 1st edition from 1936 which I find rather hard to believe. It may be a Walter J. Black first printing but not from that date as it was in 1936 that Harpers published it for the first time after having been serialiize in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1932. As to the story: I'm sorry, but this is one Zane Grey book I do not like. I have only managed to read the entire thing just one time. It's boring; it's flat; it's unbelievable. Stephen Latch, the main character, is not some one you can have any sympathy for, or at least be able to think, well, maybe, perhaps; or even have any mercy for. I'm not some one to criticize an author for what he writes because I know he has something he wants to say, or an opinion; but I just don't understand what Zane Grey was doing with this book. My advice is skip it, and pick a better one and then come back to this one. I know not every book an author creates is perfect, or great; Zane Grey just missed this time out.