Zane Grey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Jane Withersteen, a wealthy young woman and ranch owner in Mormon Utah in the late 1800s, having angered the Church elders by refusing to marry, is championed by Lassiter, a gunman who has a special dislike for the Mormons.
Author
Publisher
The American Reprint Company
Pub. Date
[1978], ©1911
Language
English
Description
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.
3) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1990], ©1945
Language
English
Description
"Wildfire is a legend, a fiery red stallion who is captured and broken by horse trainer Lin Slone. A glorious beast, a miracle, Wildfire is also a curse - a horse who could run like the wind and who could also spill the blood of those who love him most." -- Lower cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jim Cleve has been deemed, "a good guy" all of his life and it agitates him to no end. Even his girlfriend, Joan Randle has scorned him for this "weakness" shouting, "You haven't it in you even to be BAD!" Dejected and hurt, Jim abandons the life he has known for the gold mining camps along Alder Gulch in southern Montana. It is here, among the thieves and murderers, that he must make a new name for himself.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A classic historical western of the eighteenth-century American frontier by the celebrated author of Riders of the Purple Sage.
First published in 1906, The Spirit of the Border is a vivid and brutal tale based on true events as chronicled in the journals of Zane Grey's ancestor Col. Ebenezer Zane. It tells the story of Moravian Church missionaries and their efforts to bring peace to the Ohio Valley-efforts that met a tragic end in the destruction...
Author
Publisher
W.J. Black
Pub. Date
1948
Language
English
Description
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...
10) Desert gold
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The beauty of Mercedes won the Texas Ranger and the ruthless bandit Rojas. With the help of the Ranger's friend, Mercedes is able to escape into the desert followed by Rojas and his band. Only a bloody showdown can end things.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
"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",...
12) The U.P. trail
Author
Publisher
Walter J. Black
Pub. Date
©1946
Language
English
Description
While workers build the Union Pacific Railway, the United States Army fights the Native Americans.
Author
Series
Great western edition volume 14
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
Pub. Date
©1933.
Language
English
Description
When Gloriana comes to Arizona to visit her tenderfoot brother Jim, trouble is rampant. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit of rustlers and gunmen are stealing the ranchers' cattle and terrorizing the beautiful valley. Guns will blaze and blood will run hot and red before Goloriana and her brother have a chance to become true and valiant citizens of the frontier Wild West...
14) The Arizona clan
Author
Publisher
Walter J. Black
Pub. Date
©1958
Language
English
Description
Dodge Mercer looks for thieves taking his sorghum at night and becomes interested in opposing clan's lovely daughter during the day.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016, c1936
Language
English
Description
"Is Frayne an outlaw?" Holly Ripple asked. "Miss Holly, it takes bad men to cope with bad men on this frontier. If you could hire him, he'd be a whole outfit in himself. Course, a lady like you wouldn't have Frayne's sort around your ranch." ... "Wouldn't I?" When her father dies, sheltered young Holly Ripple gains possession of his vast cattle empire, plagued by rustlers and desperadoes. But she stands firm and soon has earned the reputation of a...
16) Boulder Dam
Author
Publisher
Walter J. Black
Pub. Date
1963
Language
English
Description
"Straddling the great Colorado River, a huge structure is slowly rising--a dam that will alter the course of this ravaging river and harness its awesome power. Men from all over America have flocked to the site, laboring at the dam by day and filling the nearby Las Vegas gambling houses by night. To Lynn Weston, a rich man's son, working on the dam means independence and the chance to prove his physical courage. But an even greater challenge faces...
18) The deer stalker
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1965], ©1953
Language
English
Description
Because of the unrestrained slaughter of cougars on Buckskin Mountain, the deer population has increased so fast that they begin to starve. But when Thad Eberne, chief forest ranger, hears the government's plan to open a massive deer hunt to hundreds of indiscriminate hunters, he worries that it will only worsen man's dangerous meddling with nature. Then, when Eburne decides to save a deer herd from a cattleman bent on selling illegal deer meat for...
20) The drift fence
Author
Series
Great western edition volume 10
Publisher
Publishers Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1960?].
Language
English
Description
Missouri Jim was a tenderfoot, he had not been West and he did not know cattle. Still his uncle made him foreman of the toughest outfit in Arizona.
Jim Traft's uncle invites him to become foreman at his Arizona ranch despite Jim being a tenderfoot easterner. To stop rustlers from stealing his uncle's cattle, Jim attempts to build a drift fence and encounters conflict from all sides as the fence cuts off free range.