Zane Grey
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Language
English
Description
Though he made his name and his fortune as an author of western novels, Zane Grey’s best writing has to do with fishing. An avid fisherman both in the United States and worldwide, Grey was constantly in motion, sometimes fishing three hundred days a year, always writing to support his passion. At one time or another, he held more than a dozen salt water records.
This book is a selection of some of Grey’s best work, and the stories and excerpts
...Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In its first appearance with a text based on the author's holographic manuscript, three cowhands working for the Springer Ranch have tried, through forging letters, to discourage a schoolteacher in the East from coming West to teach school. Their strategy has failed because of a mysterious Frank Owens whose love letters have convinced her that she must come. No one knows who he is. Jane Stacey does arrive, and to everyone's amazement, she is not the...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[1982] c1952
Language
English
Description
"The Call of the Canyon" is a novel by American author Zane Grey, first published in 1924. Set in 1920s New York, it is the story of a veteran returning from war who is nursed back to health by a compassionate girl from Arizona. A powerful tale of Western romance, "The Call of the Canyon" would make for a worthy addition to any collection and is not to be missed by fans of Grey's fantastic work.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
Author
Publisher
P. F. Collier and Son
Pub. Date
[1937]
Language
English
Description
From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story.
Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son- an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bore a girl. His hopes crushed and in denial, he decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor of Lambeth's more successful brother, they named her: Terrill.
Upon the arrival...