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Tappan gazed down upon the newly-born little burro with something of pity and consternation. It was not a vigorous offspring of the redoubtable Jennie, champion of all the numberless burros he had driven in his desert prospecting years. He could not leave it there to die. Surely it was not strong enough to follow its mother. And to kill it was beyond him.
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Based on some of Zane Grey's own real-life adventures exploring the rugged West with professional guides, including the Grand Canyon area, he here tells the story of hunters with their hounds that go to the rim of the Grand Canyon in hopes of capturing mountain lions alive. This is one of Zane Grey's stories that is especially appealing to young listeners.
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Here are four short stories from Zane Grey, the acclaimed author of Western adventures and frontier characters.
Living in the ruthless solitude of the desert, range, or mountains, the men in these four stories are all on personal journeys.
In The Camp Robber, a man has driven his wife away and yearns for reconciliation.
Amber's Mirage reveals an old man's realization of the corrupting power of gold when up against young love.
In a harsh climate...
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Logan Huett thought he knew the West. Once a scout with the US Army, he was familiar with both the hardships and rewards of pioneer life. But not even Logan could foresee the challenges that lay ahead for him and his young wife Lucinda, raising a brood of headstrong children, struggling to achieve financial security in the wilderness, concealing a long-buried family secret, and, finally, surviving the tragedy dealt them by the advent of World War...
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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...
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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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From Zane Grey, legendary writer of the West: two complete novels in one low-priced edition
Wildfire
Horse hunter Lin Sloan never wanted anything more than the wild stallion he called Wildfire. Lucy Bostil found the horse and the unconscious man who had roped him. She saved both their lives, taking Sloan's heart in the process. Now another man wants Lucy and the horse-and will kill to get them.
Heritage of the Desert
John Hare is dying in the...
11) Yaqui
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Yaqui was one of the last great chiefs of his once great tribe. All his life he remembered the words of his father and his grandfather-that the Yaquis must find an unknown and impenetrable hiding place or perish from the earth.
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To the Last Man is the story of Arizona's Pleasant Valley War, one of the most legendary conflicts of the Old West. A venomous feud between cattle ranchers, the Isbels, and sheepherders, the Jorths, plunges both families into a deadly cycle of vengeance. Yet, even as their families spiral into annihilation, Ellen Jorth and Jean Isabel struggle to keep their fateful romance alive.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital...
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The Western Romance MEGAPACK™ selects 20 classic novels with romantic elements, by some of the top Western authors of all time. Included in this volume are:
A DAUGHTER OF THE DONS, by William Macleod Raine
THE DUKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE, by G. W. Ogden
RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE, by Zane Grey
THE RAINBOW TRAIL, by Zane Grey
DESERT GOLD (1913)
THE BORDER LEGION, by Zane Grey
WILDFIRE, by Zane Grey
THE HEART OF THE DESERT, by Honoré Willsie Morrow
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"No man has employed the Western story formula with better results." --The New York Times
From the legendary writer of the west: two complete novels in one low-priced edition.
Desert Gold
While rescuing a lovely Spanish maiden from Mexican rebels, former Union soldier Dick Gale partners up with a pair of rough-hewn cowboys. The three men take refuge on the ranch of Al Belding, where Gale finds a new mission helping breed fine horses and carving a...
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A Classic Western from Zane Grey. 'It would come back,,that wind of flame, that madness to forget, that driving, relentless instinct for blood. It would come back with those pale, drifting, haunting faces and the accusing fading eyes, but all {Duane's} life, always between them and him, rendering them powerless, would be the faith and love and beauty of this noble woman.' Set in the Texas scrublands of the 1870s, The Lonestar Ranger by Zane Grey is...
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No one in Iquitos knew him by any other name than Manuel. He headed the list of outlaw rubber hunters, and was suspected of being a slave hunter as well. Beyond the Andes was a government which, if it knew aught of the slave traffic, had no power on that remote frontier. Valdez and the other boat owners, however, had leagued themselves together and taken the law into their own hands, for the outlaws destroyed the rubber trees instead of tapping them,...
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It would seem that the end of every war has been followed in the United States by social and moral changes, mostly for the worse. Zane Grey certainly felt that way about the effects of the Great War, and to show these changes and how to cope with them became the impulse behind what he called The Water Hole. However, before magazine publication, changes were made in his text, including the names of all the characters. Fortunately Grey's original handwritten...
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No one in Iquitos knew him by any other name than Manuel. He headed the list of outlaw rubber hunters, and was suspected of being a slave hunter as well. Beyond the Andes was a government which, if it knew aught of the slave traffic, had no power on that remote frontier. Valdez and the other boat owners, however, had leagued themselves together and taken the law into their own hands, for the outlaws destroyed the rubber trees instead of tapping them,...
20) California Red
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For years Ben Ide had chased and tried to capture the great stallion, California Red, probably the noblest of all the fifteen thousand horses who roamed the northern California plains. But he had always been unsuccessful. Now his chance had come--and he had to make the devil's bargain with a band of cattle rustlers in order to realize his greatest ambition.
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