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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.

The Panhandle was a lonely purple range land, unfenced and wind swept. Bill Smith, cattleman, threw up a cabin and looked at the future with hopeful eyes. One day while plowing almost out of sight of his little home-which that morning he had left apprehensively owing to an impending event-he espied his wife Margaret coming along the edge of the plowed field. She had brought his lunch this day, despite his order to the contrary. Bill dropped the loop of his driving reins over the plow handle and strode toward her. Presently she halted wearily and sat down where the dark rich overturned earth met the line of bleached grass. Bill meant to scold Margaret for bringing his lunch, but it developed she had brought him something more. A son!

Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, they had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.

Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will.

Zane Grey (1872-1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. He became especially interested in the West in 1907, after joining a friend on an expedition to trap mountain lions in Arizona. Grey wrote steadily, but it was only in 1910, and after considerable efforts by his wife, that his first western, Heritage of the Desert, became a bestseller. It propelled a career writing popular novels about manifest destiny and the aconquest of the Wild West. a Two years later he produced his best-known book, Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). He became one of the first millionaire authors.

This story tells of the bravery and heroism of Betty, the beautiful young sister of old Colonel Zane, one of the bravest pioneers.

This adventure novel tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, younger brother of the Earl of Burlesdon and a distant cousin of Rudolf V, the new King of Ruritania. King Rudolf is a hard-drinking, feckless playboy, unpopular with the common people, but supported by the aristocracy. When Rudolf is abducted and imprisoned on the order of the Duke of Streslau, Rassendyll has to impersonate the King at his coronation. There are various plots and counter-plots, with the schemings of the Duke's mistress Antoinette de Mauban, and of the villainous henchman Rupert of Hentzau, complicated by Rassendyll's romance with Princess Flavia, the King's betrothed.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.

Three novels in one book! THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS THE RAINBOW TRAIL (sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage) WILDFIRE Three books for one low price in one excellent volume!

It may seem strange to you that out of all the stories I heard on the Rio Grande I should choose as first that of Buck Duane-outlaw and gunman. But, indeed, Ranger Coffee's story of the last of the Duanes has haunted me, and I have given full rein to imagination and have retold it in my own way. It deals with the old law-the old border days-therefore it is better first. Soon, perchance, I shall have the pleasure of writing of the border of to-day, which in Joe Sitter's laconic speech, "Shore is 'most as bad an' wild as ever!" In the North and East there is a popular idea that the frontier of the West is a thing long past, and remembered now only in stories. As I think of this I remember Ranger Sitter when he made that remark, while he grimly stroked an unhealed bullet wound. And I remember the giant Vaughn, that typical son of stalwart Texas, sitting there quietly with bandaged head, his thoughtful eye boding ill to the outlaw who had ambushed him. Only a few months have passed since then-when I had my memorable sojourn with you-and yet, in that short time, Russell and Moore have crossed the Divide, like Rangers.

They took the most contrary bunch of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists rascals, and politicians, jumbled them together, and somehow formed a state. They called it Texas, but for defenseless women and children, it was hell. Texas Rangers. Although they were outnumbered a thousand to one, the Texas Rangers fought a holding action against the complete breakdown of law and order, often paying for peace with their lives. But one county held out against attack after attack, a place so mean that a saint would have turned bad. Into this valley of death rode Ranger Vaughn Steel, hungering for revenge, thirsting for justice, and determined to wipe out the rustlers of Pecos County.

Known by the Indians as le vent de la mort (the wind of death), Wetzel and his partner Jonathan Zane are hard on the trail of white rustlers led by Simon Girty and Bing Leggitt. One night at their campfire Helen Sheppard and her father, who have become lost in the forest on their way to Fort Henry, are approached by Wetzel and Zane. For Jonathan Zane and Helen Sheppard this accidental encounter is the beginning of a romance that will be fraught with many dangers. Betty Zane, whose dash for gunpowder in the defense of Fort Henry during the Revolutionary War is now legendary, and her brother, Colonel Ebenezer Zane, are also among the characters in The Last Trail, older now, sharing their wisdom and experiences with a younger generation.

What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window. It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet. "Glenn has been gone over a year," she mused, "three months over a year-and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet." She lived again, for the thousandth time, the last moments she had spent with him. It had been on New-Year's Eve, 1918. They had called upon friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass with the low swell of whistles and bells, Carley's friends had discreetly left her alone with her lover, at the open window, to watch and hear the old year out, the new year in. Glenn Kilbourne had returned from France early that fall, shell-shocked and gassed, and otherwise incapacitated for service in the army-a wreck of his former sterling self and in many unaccountable ways a stranger to her. Cold, silent, haunted by something, he had made her miserable with his aloofness. But as the bells began to ring out the year that had been his ruin Glenn had drawn her close, tenderly, passionately, and yet strangely, too. "Carley, look and listen!" he had whispered.

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

A STORY OF THE PLEASANT VALLEY WAR... Rivalries and vendettas were rife in the Old West but few were as brutal and vicious as the Pleasant Valley War. The disagreements between farmers and cattlemen soon escalate into a relentless, violent rivalry which damages both business and personal relationships. An exciting, atmospheric tale compellingly told by a master of the Old West. The vintage nature of the book means that some of the attitudes and terms used would not be considered appropriate in the 21st Century.

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(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1916. From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and dread beginning to knock at her heart she gazed before her at the wild and looming mountain range. Jim wasn't fooling me, she said. He meant it. He's going straight for the border...Oh, why did I taunt him! See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

So it was in him, then-an inherited fighting instinct, a driving intensity to kill. He was the last of the Duanes, that old fighting stock of Texas. But not the memory of his dead father, nor the pleading of his soft-voiced mother, nor the warning of this uncle who stood before him now, had brought to Buck Duane so much realization of the dark passionate strain in his blood. It was the recurrence, a hundred-fold increased in power, of a strange emotion that for the last three years had arisen in him.

Despite what some readers might assume, world-famous Western writer Zane Grey wasn't born on an isolated ranch in Montana or Wyoming. Instead, he grew up in the Midwest and attended the University of Pennsylvania courtesy of a baseball scholarship. He draws on his experiences as a college athlete in The Young Pitcher, which follows the travails and triumphs of player Ken Ward's university career

There was Delaney's red-haired trio--Red Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remarkable outfield ever developed in minor league baseball. It was Delaney's pride, as it was also his trouble. Red Gilbat was nutty--and his batting average was .371. Any student of baseball could weigh these two facts against each other and understand something of Delaney's trouble. It was not possible to camp on Red Gilbat's trail. The man was a jack-o'-lantern, a will-o'-the-wisp, a weird, long- legged, long-armed, red-haired illusive phantom. When the gong rang at the ball grounds there were ten chances to one that Red would not be present. He had been discovered with small boys peeping through knotholes at the vacant left field he was supposed to inhabit during play. Of course what Red did off the ball grounds was not so important as what he did on. And there was absolutely no telling what under the sun he might do then except once out of every three times at bat he could be counted on to knock the cover off the ball.

In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds of buffalo grazed and the wolf was lord and the campfire of the trapper sent up its curling blue smoke from beside some lonely stream; on and on over the barren lands of eternal monotony, all so gray and wide and solemn and silent under the endless sky; on, ever on, up to the bleak, black hills and into the waterless gullies and through the rocky gorges where the deer browsed and the savage lurked; then slowly rising to the pass between the great bold peaks, and across the windy uplands into Utah, with its verdant valleys, green as emeralds, and its haze-filled canons and wonderful wind-worn cliffs and walls, and its pale salt lakes, veiled in the shadows of stark and lofty rocks, dim, lilac-colored, austere, and isolated.

The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey is a captivating Western novel that falls into the genre of Western Fiction. It combines elements of adventure, romance, and the rugged landscapes of the American frontier.Set in the wilds of Arizona, the story follows Milt Dale, a mysterious and skilled gunman known as the "Man of the Forest." When he encounters a group of settlers facing threats from outlaws and hostile Native American tribes, Dale steps in to protect them. As he fights to defend the innocent, he becomes entangled in a web of danger, loyalty, and unexpected romance.With vivid descriptions of the untamed wilderness and thrilling action sequences, Zane Grey paints a rich and immersive picture of the Old West. The novel explores themes of honour, justice, and the resilience of the human spirit against adversity. It delves into the complex relationships between settlers, outlaws, and Native Americans, highlighting the clash of cultures and the struggle for survival.The Man of the Forest showcases Zane Grey's talent for crafting gripping narratives, vibrant characters, and breathtaking scenery. Through Milt Dale's journey, readers are transported to a world where lawlessness and heroism collide, and where the line between good and evil is often blurred.Prepare to be swept away by the pulse-pounding action, sweeping landscapes, and tender moments of romance that define the Western genre. The Man of the Forest is a riveting adventure that will keep readers engrossed until the final, unforgettable showdown.

Desert Gold by Zane Grey is a thrilling Western novel that plunges readers into a world of danger, adventure, and romance. Set amidst the rugged landscapes of the American Southwest, this captivating story unfolds against the backdrop of the lawless frontier.As the tale unfolds, a courageous and enigmatic woman named Mescal leads the way, capturing the hearts of two brave men: Glenn Kilbourne and Joe Cumberland. Together, they find themselves entangled in a treacherous journey through the unforgiving desert, facing off against ruthless outlaws, hostile Native American tribes, and the harsh realities of survival.Zane Grey's descriptive prose transports readers to a land of vast deserts, towering mesas, and hidden canyons, immersing them in the untamed beauty and perilous nature of the Southwest. Through the intertwining fates of his characters, Grey explores themes of love, honour, and the pursuit of justice, painting a vivid portrait of the Wild West and the clash between lawlessness and order.With its heart-stopping action, sweeping landscapes, and emotional depth, Desert Gold is a testament to Zane Grey's mastery of Western storytelling. The novel offers readers an exhilarating ride filled with pulse-pounding confrontations, unexpected twists, and a compelling romance that blooms amidst the harsh realities of the frontier.Prepare to be swept away by the gripping narrative, vivid imagery, and unforgettable characters that define Desert Gold. This Western classic will transport readers on a thrilling adventure, where danger lurks at every turn and the pursuit of gold intertwines with the quest for love and redemption.

The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey is a thrilling Western novel that falls into the genre of Western Fiction. It combines elements of action, adventure, romance, and the rugged landscapes of the American frontier.Set in the Texas frontier during the late 19th century, the story follows Buck Duane, a former outlaw seeking redemption and a chance to leave his violent past behind. As he tries to build a new life, he becomes entangled in a web of conflict and lawlessness, ultimately leading him to embrace his skills as a gunslinger once again.With vivid descriptions of the untamed wilderness and gripping gunfights, Zane Grey paints a captivating portrait of the Wild West. The novel explores themes of honour, justice, and the struggle between lawlessness and the rule of law. It delves into the complex dynamics between outlaws, lawmen, and ordinary citizens caught in the crossfire.The Lone Star Ranger showcases Zane Grey's mastery of Western storytelling, with his memorable characters and thrilling plot twists. Through the eyes of Buck Duane, readers are transported to a world where the code of the West clashes with personal redemption and the pursuit of justice.Prepare to be immersed in the heart-pounding action, sweeping landscapes, and moral dilemmas that define the Western genre. The Lone Star Ranger is a gripping tale that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the final, unforgettable showdown.

The U.P. Trail by Zane Grey is an enthralling Western novel that takes readers on an epic journey across the untamed American frontier. Filled with adventure, romance, and the spirit of the Wild West, this gripping tale captures the essence of the pioneering spirit and the challenges faced by those who dared to conquer the rugged wilderness.Set against the backdrop of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, the story follows Warren Neale, a young engineer tasked with the monumental challenge of constructing the railroad across the vast and treacherous landscapes of the West. As Neale faces countless obstacles, from hostile Native American tribes to dangerous natural elements, he must also navigate the complexities of love and loyalty.With Zane Grey's vivid descriptions and evocative prose, readers are transported to a time when the American West was still untamed and full of promise. As Neale battles against all odds to complete the railroad, he becomes embroiled in a web of personal and professional conflicts, testing his mettle and forcing him to confront his own inner demons.The U.P. Trail showcases Grey's masterful storytelling, painting a rich tapestry of adventure, romance, and the indomitable spirit of the pioneers who shaped the American West. With its memorable characters, sweeping landscapes, and pulse-pounding action, this Western classic will captivate readers from the first page to the last, leaving them breathless with excitement and a deep appreciation for the frontier spirit that defined a nation.