Zane Grey
1) Desert gold
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Rather than lose the favors of the beautiful Mercedes to the gringo Texas Ranger, the bandit Rojas vows to kill her. With the help of the Ranger's friend, Mercedes escapes into the desert -- but Rojas and his band of cutthroats are close behind.
2) Betty Zane
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With an Indian attack looming on the horizon, the men, women, and children at Fort Henry wait for the conflagration and rely on the courage of Betty Zane.
3) Wildfire
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In a land of red cliffs and towering stone monuments, with the brooding Colorado River running through it, the unmatched Zane Gray sets his classic novel about a rancher, a blood feud, and a horse named. . .
Wildfire.
Bostic, a powerful rancher with a strong-willed 18-year-old daughter, has lost track of Lucy's wanderings. Caught up in a feud with two families, running his empire with an iron fist, Bostic does not know that Lucy has met a man who...
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From the most original mind in supernatural suspense... Award-winning Bill Myers asks: ""What would happen if Judas came back today?"" Judas wants a second chance. As a marketing expert, he never understood why God didn't use his abilities to sell Jesus to the masses and more effectively save the world. So God allows Judas to return to earth today to become the PR manager of a powerful young prophetess growing up in the inner city. But she has some...
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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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This 1914 novel of frontier romance by "the greatest Western writer of all time" was the basis for the classic film starring Victor Jory (Jackson Cain, author of Hellbreak Country).
Feeling constrained by her high-society life back east, Madeline Hammond decides to join her brother Alfred at his cattle ranch in El Cajon, New Mexico. But she gets a rude introduction to frontier living when she encounters a drunken cowboy named Gene Stewart. Though...
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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)
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Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his bestselling book. This is one of his stories.
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Monty Price was a man with a secret. Several times each year, he disappeared with his accumulated pay, not to be heard from again for months. And when he came back, he wouldn't say where he had been or what he had been doing. It was a selfish obsession, and he wouldn't break his habits for man or beast. But when a forest fire threatened, he found depths of courage in his soul that would change his life forever.
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The Zane Grey Megapack assembles a massive collection of 42 novels and short stories by the acclaimed western writer.
Included are:
BETTY ZANE (1903)
SPIRIT OF THE BORDER (1906)
THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN (1908)
THE LAST TRAIL (1909)
THE SHORTSTOP (1909)
THE HERITAGE OF THE DESERT (1910)
THE YOUNG FORESTER (1910)
THE YOUNG PITCHER (1911)
THE YOUNG LION HUNTER (1911)
THE HORSES OF BOSTIL'S FORD (1912)
RIDERS OF THE
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The Lone Star Ranger is a Western novel published by Zane Grey in 1915. The book takes place in Texas, the Lone Star State, and several main characters are Texas Rangers, a famous band of highly capable law enforcement officers. It follows the life of Buck Duane, a man who becomes an outlaw and then redeems himself in the eyes of the law. The novel was dedicated to the Texas Ranger John Hughes.
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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
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A gentile sage rider is about to be whipped by the Mormons to coerce the rich and beautiful Jane Withersteen to marry against her will. In desperation, Jane whispers a prayer, "Whence cometh my help!" Just then, an unlikely hero, the infamous gunfighter Lassiter, routs the persecutors and is drawn into this conflict on the Utah-Arizona border.
The mysterious loner hires on at Jane's ranch. Through battles with gun-slinging cattle rustlers,...
The mysterious loner hires on at Jane's ranch. Through battles with gun-slinging cattle rustlers,...
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
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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.
16) To the last man
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After a Texan stole another man's woman, a feud erupted into war. A son and daughter of the feuding clans fell in love, becoming pawns in a bloodbath that raged until no one was left to kill.
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Colonel "Buffalo" Jones, the last of the plainsmen, and several associates venture into the region of Buckskin Mountain, along the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. In a continuing quest to establish dominion over wild animals, Jones leads his men on a journey to capture untamed cougars and bring them back alive. After several run-ins with Navajo, Commanche, Yellow Knife and Great Slave Indians, Jones finally captures his first wild cougar.
18) Arizona Ames
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1960
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310 pages ; 20 cm
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He didn't drink, talk much, or swear--but he was one tough cowboy. No one knew that Arizona Ames was filled with secret hurt. It would take a beautiful and determined woman to heal this tough hombre.
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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....
20) The Last Trail
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White rustlers trouble the people of the Ohio River Valley, and Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane set about stopping them.