Zane Grey (1872-1939) was a prolific and popular author of novels about the wild west of the United States. For nearly three decades in the early part of the 20th century, Grey published a novel almost every year, many of which became bestsellers. His stories examined the hostility between cattlemen and sheepherders, the variegated Western vistas, cattle drives, gunslingers, range wars, the impact of the railroad and the wire on the way of life. Grey gave authenticity to his books by visiting...
Three summers in Catalina waters I had tried persistently to capture my first broadbill swordfish; and so great were the chances against me that I tried really without hope. It was fisherman’s pride, I imagined, rather than hope that drove me. At least I had a remarkably keen appreciation of the defeats in store for any man who aspired to experience with that marvel of the sea—Xiphius gladius, the broadbill swordsman.
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Zane Grey, who is best known for his novel «Riders of the Purple Sage,» helped to define the popular image of the Old West through his popular adventure novels. First published in 1910, «The Heritage of the Desert» is set in the American southwest where John Hare is found dying in the desert and consequently nursed back to health by the rancher August Naab. John soon finds himself caught between his indebtedness to the generous rancher, whose daughter he has fallen in love with, and a band of...
Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children’s books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books. It is estimated that he wrote over nine million words in his career, which made him one of the first millionaire authors, as well as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's favorite writer. In this story, it turns out the Island of the Dead supports a...
He’s one of the best ball players in the game, but he’s a knocker. How valuable is the talent of a ball player when he speaks ill of his fellow players?
This eBook edition of «The Last of the Plainsmen» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Buffalo Jones needs no introduction to American sportsmen, but to these of my readers who are unacquainted with him a few words may not be amiss. He was born sixty-two years ago on the Illinois prairie, and he has devoted practically all of his life to the pursuit of wild animals. It has been a pursuit which owed its unflagging energy and...
"The Last Trail" is the third book in Zane Grey's Ohio River Valley Trilogy, the first two being «Betty Zane» and «The Spirit of the Border» in that order. Based on historical characters «The Last Trail» is the story of Lew Wetzel and Jonathan Zane who are fast on the trail of a gang of rustlers and Ohio Valley Indians, led by Simon Girty and Bing Leggitt, to rescue a woman kidnapped from Fort Henry.
