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When Jack Kells kidnaps the beautiful Joan Randle, he takes her to an isolated canyon where his legion are plotting to acquire a gold fortune. The woman becomes an unexpected accomplice to an intricate robbery. Jack Kells is the cold-hearted leader of a group of mountain bandits. Despite his rough exterior, he develops a soft spot for their latest victim-Miss Joan Randle. She was captured by the men and taken to their hideout where she encounters...
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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...
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The Call of the Canyon' is a novel by Zane Grey. It is the story of Glenn Kilbourne, a US Army veteran, who returns from the battlefields of World War I "shell-shocked and gassed", and otherwise incapacitated". It is set in the American West of the Roaring Twenties. Meanwhile his fiancée, Carley Bruch, lives with her family in New York. She receives communication through letters from Gleen but little by little these letters become more and more strange....
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Milt Dale, man of the forest, halted at the edge of a timbered ridge, to listen and to watch. Beneath him lay a narrow valley, open and grassy, from which rose a faint murmur of running water. Its music was pierced by the wild staccato yelp of a hunting coyote. From overhead in the giant fir came a twittering and rustling of grouse settling for the night; and from across the valley drifted the last low calls of wild turkeys going to roost. To Dale's...
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From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The son of a German Farmer in Washington state during WWI, decides to join the Army to fight the Germans and "kill" the German part of his heritage. Along the way, he falls in love with the daughter of a rich farmer, and then has to protect her and himself from a worldwide labor organisation that is wreaking havoc all over the country to cause problems with the war effort....
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Zane Grey is an American icon, the premier chronicler of the West, and the writer who first brought the frontier to life in all its gritty glory. In this classic western, frontier legend Buffalo Jones won't back down from the most dangerous hunt of all...
Land Of Blood, Land Of The Brave
Big, brash and fearless, Buffalo Jones is in pursuit of the greatest mountain lion ever spotted in the remote Arizona desert. Determined to bring the beast home...
7) Desert gold
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A FACE haunted Cameron - a woman's face. It was there in the white heart of the dying campfire, it hung in the shadows that hovered over the flickering light, it drifted in the darkness beyond. This hour, when the day had closed and the lonely desert night set in with its dead silence, was one in which Cameron's mind was thronged with memories of a time long past - of a home back in Peoria, of a woman he had wronged and lost, and loved too late. He...
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Based on a true story of Northern Arizona's notorious Hashknife gang, Zane Grey's classic 1921 western novel tells the tale of Jean Isbel, a woodsman hailing from Oregon. Caught in a bitter feud between the Isbels and the cattle-rustling Jorths, Jean is dragged into a generations-long clash between the two families, both of whom have sworn to fight until no man on the other side is left standing. Amidst it all, Jean finds himself hopelessly in love...
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Ken Ward in the Jungle is an adventure novel by Zane Grey. was an American author known for his popular adventure novels and stories. Excerpt: "Finally the boys met a mozo named Pepe, who had often rowed a boat for George. Pepe looked sadly in need of a job; still he did not ask for it. George said that Pepe had been one of the best boatmen on the river until canya, the fiery white liquor to which the natives were addicted, had ruined his reputation....
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Excerpt: "[Lumbermen] are in such a hurry to get rich that they'll leave their grandchildren a desert. They cut and slash in every direction, and then fires come and the country is ruined. Our rivers depend upon the forests for water. The trees draw the rain; the leaves break it up and let it fall in mists and drippings; it seeps into the ground, and is held by roots. If the trees are destroyed the rain rushes off on the surface and floods the rivers....
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"The Rustlers of Pecos County" is another fantastic example of Western fiction by the master of the genre, American Author Zane Grey. This book is highly recommended for all lovers of Western fiction and constitutes a must-read for fans of Grey's seminal work. Contents include: "Vaughn Steele And Russ Sittell", "A Kiss And An Arrest", "Sounding The Timber", "Steele Breaks Up The Part", "Cleaning Out Linrock", "Enter Jack Blome", "Diane And Vaughn",...
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The Lindsay family has come west hoping to help the father, John, recover from an illness. When they arrive, they are induced to purchase Spanish Peaks Ranch, an abandoned United States military post surrounded by mountains. It seems like a perfect place to settle into their new life as ranchers. As they soon find out, though, this deserted fort is equally suited for both protection and imprisonment. In fact, they've been swindled into buying the...
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Excerpt: "Next day, upon resuming our journey, it pleased me to try to find the trail to Betatakin, the most noted, and surely the most wonderful and beautiful ruin in all the West. In many places there was no trail at all, and I encountered difficulties, but in the end without much loss of time I entered the narrow rugged entrance of the canyon I had named Surprise Valley. Sight of the great dark cave thrilled me as I thought it might have thrilled...
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When Gloriana Traft came to Arizona to visit her tenderfoot brother Jim, trouble was rampant in Yellow Jacket. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit of rustlers and gunmen were stealing the ranchers' cattle and terrorizing the beautiful valley. But Gloriana, innocent to the brutal ways of the West, wanted to meet a real desperado. And when she did, Gloriana was the frightened captive of the most dangerous killer of the gang, and facing an ordeal that would...
15) The drift fence
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""Molly conceived a resentment against the rich cattleman who could impose such restrictions and embitter the lives of poor people. And as for Traft's tenderfoot nephew, who had come out of Missouri to run a hard outfit and build barbed-wire fences, Molly certainly hated him." Although he doesn't know cattle or cowboys, Missourian Jim Traft finds himself as the foreman of a tough Arizona outfit tasked with fencing a hundred miles of open cattle range....
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Ever since the day he was deployed to fight in WWI, Daren Lane dreamed of the day that he returned home. Feeling that it had been several years since he left, Daren finally returns home to America, but soon realizes, that it is not the home he remembers. Others have been able to move on from the war, causing Daren to question if his sacrifice of service was even worth it. Though he is attached to the ideals and behavior popular during the Victorian...
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The Spirit of the Border is an historical novel written by Zane Grey, first published in 1906. The novel is based on events occurring in the Ohio River Valley in the late eighteenth century. It features the exploits of Lewis Wetzel, a historical personage who had dedicated his life to the destruction of Native Americans and to the protection of nascent white settlements in that region. The story deals with the attempt by Moravian Church missionaries...
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After arriving in Hell Hole USA, Madeline is accosted by a filthy, drunken cowboy, Mean Gene Stewart. She was revolted, she was frightened, she was appalled, but at the same time, it was a universe away from the phony sociophiles in New York, and that is the spark Madeline was looking for, although she didn't realize it at the time. (Goodreads)
19) Wild Horse Mesa
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This novel takes place in southeastern Utah in the late 1800s. The main character, Chance Weimer, is a debater of wild horses. His greatest conquest would be to capture the great wild stallion Pankitch, whose refuge is the wild horse of Mesa. Naturally, the book is full of Indians, thieves, chases, wild river crossings and amazing love. After all, this is a love story.
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In the first of the Ken Ward books, baseball rivalry knows no borders and no bounds, and when the entire varsity is declared ineligible because they played for money, the coach is required to create a team from scratch. With the help of Ken, can they do enough to win the championship? A book any little leaguer would love.