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Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, Betty Zane was Zane Grey's first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.
Betty Zane is the story of the events culmi...
He was known as Deathwind to the Ohio Valley Indians, and now Lewis Wetzel must single-handedly save Fort Henry. Armed only with his long rifle and knife, he heads out on a one-man rampage to stop the bloody border wars, to face down Chief Wingenu...
Buffalo Jones needs no introduction to American sportsmen, but to these of my readers who are unacquainted with him a few words may not be amiss.He was born sixty-two years ago on the Illinois prairie, and he has devoted practically all of his life t...
Born to the lonely wilderness trail, famed borderman Jonathan Zane roams the rugged Ohio frontier; fighting to protect his homeland from attack. Braving certain death against a gang of outlaws and savage Shawnees, Zane struggles to save the life of t...
In the eighty-year-old classic based on the author's career in the minor leagues, Chase Alloway quits his factory job to play professional baseball and becomes caught in the middle of a small-town baseball rivalry....
Through thrilling adventures with a lovely woman, vicious outlaws, and mysterious Mormons, John Hare--an innocent in danger of succumbing to the violence of the Utah wilds--grows into a strong, confident man. Reprint....
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I loved outdoor life and hunting. Some way a grizzly bear would come in when I tried t...
(Pearl) 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...
Ken Ward had not been at the big university many days before he realized the miserable lot of a freshman. At first he was sorely puzzled. College was so different from what he had expected. At the high school of his home town, which, being the capita...
Ken Ward and his brotehr, Hal, are headed south of the border, into the steaming jungles of Mexico. Hal's job is together specimens for a museum; Ken's is to keep Hal out of trouble--and prove himself as a jungle explorer.
Then an unexpected c...
Lassiter was a gunman with a reputation as black as his clothes--and a mighty vengeance to fulfill Jane Withersteen was a homesteader on the Utah frontier--the richest woman in the Mormon village of Cottonwoods. But that fortune was in danger. The...
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 n...
One beautiful tenderfoot .... A whole frontier of trouble! Madeline Hammond wanted more out of life than the superficial glitter of New York society. So she bought a ranch near the turbulent Mexican frontier and ended up getting more than she'd e...
Fighting for peace in a wild and untamed Texas, Ranger Vaughn Steele finds the ultimate challenge in one particularly rebellious county whose citizens are known to kill for whatever they want--including pleasure. Reprint....
THE LAW NAILED HIM WITH EVERY MURDER IN THE SOUTHWEST! And every holdup, horse theft-all the unsolved crimes in the territory. But Buck Duane was innocent. He was just too busy ducking lead to prove it. Then he met the Texas Ranger and found th...
John Shefford rode into Utah's valley in search of a new life and when he met Fay Larkin, he knew he had found it. Even when she was charged with murder, he did not care. She was worth life itself.
Breaking her out of jail was the easy part....
"Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and...
ZANE GREY IS A TRUE LEGEND. HIS BESTSELLING NOVELS HAVE THRILLED GENERATIONS OF READERS WITH HEART-AND-GUTS CHARACTERS, HARD-SHOOTING ACTION, AND HIGH-PLAINS PANORAMAS. ZANE GREY IS THE GENUINE ARTICLE, THE REAL SPIRIT OF THE OLD WEST. THE U.P. TR...
Zane Grey is one of America's most popular and enduring authors, the man behind the classic Western Riders of the Purple Sage.
Desert of Wheat is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during W...
Zane Grey was an American author best known for writing Western fiction. With books such as Riders of the Purple Sage and Betty Zane, Grey is perhaps the most famous writer of Westerns with many of his books being adapted into movies and TV sho...
A novel originally serialized in 1919, and heavily censored, is now published for the first time in its original, pre-censored form, and shows the effects that World War I had on the American West. By the author of
Milt Dale is the Man of the Forest. Living alone in a camp in the wilderness called Paradise Park, he prefers the company of bears, cougars, and wolves to that of the surrounding ranchers and troublemakers. But one day he overhears a conversation t...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There was Delaney's red-haired trio - Red Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right f...
This classic western novel blends adventure and romance in the story of a terrible gunfighter with a strange history and Columbine Belllounds, a lost child brought up by a stern old rancher who expects her to marry his rascally son out of gratitude. ...
This classic novel of the West was written in 1921, but only now is it making its paperback debut in the form Zane Grey intended. For more than eighty years it has been available only in a shorter, censored version, titled To the Last Man. Finally re...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
(Pearl) 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...
The bloody, horrible feud between the Jorth and Isbel families puts generations six feet underground. Their viciousness went beyond understanding, their vengeance was unrelenting, and their violence was unforgiveable. Save for the hearts of two impos...
An unrivaled collection features stories from the most famous masters of Western fiction, including Louis L'Amour's
1923. From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert. The Rio Colo...
Glenn Kilbourne had been born and bred in the city. It’s bright lights and fast ways were the only life he knew. But the call of the West proved irresistible. Glenn soon found that the hard country -- and even harder men -- of Arizona would ...
Lion Home
"This is virgin ground, where no man has ever hunted," said Buffalo Jones. "We stumbled onto a lion home, the breeding place of the deadly canyon cougar."
Powell's Plateau was the most remote, inaccessible corner of the Grand ...
When not writing his famous Western novels, Zane Grey was an insatiable angler. Tales of Southern Rivers recounts his tales of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Everglades, and on remote rivers in the jungles of Mexico. With many o...
Zane Grey, America's master storyteller of the old West, was a passionate angler. He fished as many as 300 days of the year! This collection, first published in 1925, describes his fishing adventures in exotic locales throughout the Pacific region. I...
Tom Doan joins the buffalo hunters going into the Southwest's inhospitable Staked Plain. Seeing huge herds there, he thinks of getting rich off their hides. He proves efficient as a skinner, and what follows is almost a literal baptism in sweat and b...
The Vanishing American is the story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the age of seven. White parents bring the child up as though he were their own, eventually sending him to a prestigious Eastern college where he ...
New Zealand is one of the"hot" fly-fishing spots in the world today. Known for brilliant, crystal clear rivers, Zane Grey's New Zealand conjures up images of huge and mythic trout. In Tales of the Angler's Eldorado, Grey fishes both these now legenda...
Lucy Watson, a young schoolteacher, is appointed welfare instructor in a community of isolated backwoods folk. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. She is especially successful with a strong...
Zane Grey fished up to 300 days of the year. But, with all that time on the water, there was nothing more exciting or more compelling than the really BIG fish -- the giants of the sea. Blue fin tuna are (even today) still sometimes pursued with harpo...
Driven away from home and hearth--and his sweetheart--by his father's interference, Ben Ide seeks refuge in the remote wilderness of Forlorn River and gets involved in a cattle rustling scheme. Reprint....
The Yellow Mine Saloon was like every gambling dive Panhandle Smith had seen from Montana to Mexico. Piles of gold and greenbacks littered the roulette and faro tables. Hard-faced gamblers, bearded mountain men, lean cowpunchers, all bent with inte...
Zane Grey, known and loved primarily for his Western novels, was an avid fisherman. When his writing started paying off, he managed to spend as many as 300 days a year enjoying the sport. And while he is remembered for his record-breaking catches, su...
Clint Belmet's parents were killed in a Comanche raid when he was young, but that hasn't stopped him from taking a job leading freight caravans on the old Santa Fe Trail, from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexicoa route that goes right thro...
ON A WILD, ROUGH OREGON RIVER, HE FACED A MAN'S TRUEST TEST Soldiering had left Keven Bell wounded and adrift, until he returned to Grant's Pass to find his reputation savaged. The unsavory Major Atwell had spread rumors that Kev was a violator of...
Cliff Forrest returns from the war to find his parent's house taken over by the brutal Lundeen, whose own lovely daughter is terrified of him, so he confronts Lundeen and risks his life for those he loves. Reprint....
"The Wolf Tracker"
This story takes the listener to the mountains of New Mexico in the pursuit of a giant wolf.
"Quaking-Asp Cabin"
" He looked along the brown barrels of a shotgun, into eyes that blazed murderous hate. "
Bullet holes ...
Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he''s become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rus...
Arizona Ames did not set out to make his mark as a gunfighter -- it just happened. O'Neill's slow, soft speech perfectly portrays Ames. Actor-teacher O'Neill has a low-key, pleasant voice that strains, at times, to feminize voices for Arizona's conqu...
A classic story of imperiled love on the western frontiers of nineteenth-century America."He was a young man in years, but he had the hard face and eagle eye of one matured in experience of that wild country. He bestrode a superb bay horse, d...
Business ain’t easy when the locals stand to lose it all.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, ...
They are just about as bad and evil as outlaw gangs come. But in the end, they finally go straight. For a good reason: there's only one Hash Knife man left alive. A true legend of Western storytelling, Zane Grey's novels have thrilled generations of ...
School teacher Mary Stockwell is joined out west in the Tonto Basin of Arizona by her sister, Georgianna, sent there by her parents because of her outrageous behavior which has caused a "bad" lung. And her doctor, Dr. Jones, agreed: "Georgie had danc...
Greed and gold unleash a storm of robbery, vengeance, and murder. The Emerson brothers come to Thunder Mountain and discover more gold than they had ever dreamed possible--and more treachery than normal men could ever hope to survive. Part of Harper'...
The story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery.Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thievery and murder. Still hoping to uphold the values of the Confeder...
The head of a vast cattle empire after her father's death, Holly Ripple has also inherited the ranch's problems with rustlers and desperados, whom she keeps at bay by transforming herself into a cattle-queen legend. Reprint....
Old Adam Brite recruits a tough outfit to drive four thousand cattle along the Chisholm Trail, haunt of gunslingers and rustlers. One of his gun-toting horse wranglers is Reddie Bayne, a youth who turns out to be slightly different....
Australia brings to mind images of the Great Barrier Reef, great white sharks, huge crocodiles and friendly people. Zane Grey fished everywhere, but he often found himself lured back to the Pacific especially around Australia and New Zealand. Most of...
From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story. Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointm...
Hoping to cure John Lindsay's illness by moving west, the Lindsay family discovers that the old military post they have been swindled into buying is the headquarters of a band of thieves and cattle rustlers. Reprint....
LANCE SIDWAY pulled himself up from the stone steps of the Natural History Museum. He laughed ruefully as he realized that this was his third visit to the institution. As on his two previous excursions, he had wandered round and round the inside hall...
Young Harvard man Wayne Cameron travels west and meets his destiny. There, he falls in with a brave group of Westerners struggling to fulfill a dangerous, desperate and thrilling dream - to carry through a thousand miles of dangerous wilderness a sin...
"Logan Huett thought he knew the West. Once a scout with the 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 ...
Pearl Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage was his best-selling book...
Ruth Virey, beautiful, young, and headstrong, gets herself in trouble from the get go with her fiery temper and impulsive ways. Willing to risk anything to escape her life at a "barren desert waterhole," she finds herself having jumped from the fryin...
American cowboy, Stirling Haselton, taking the blame for a shooting committed by a friend, is exiled to Australia and with one loyal follower, joins a party of ranchers and drovers making the long wilderness journey to the Elaberleys. Along the way c...
Traveling with a new name and a new face, Wade Holden, the triggerman responsible for the fall of the notorious Simm Bell gang, rides far and wide, carving out the life of a feared and respected gunman. Reprint....
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 Eburne, chief forest ranger, hears the government''s plan to open a massive deer hunt to hundred...
Upon the death of his uncle, Ernest Selby, a young man from Iowa, inherits the Red Rock Ranch in Arizona. When he learns that the ranch's twenty thousand cattle have dwindled to six thousand he suspects foul play. Ernest decides to go under cover in ...
When John Curry, galloping across the desert to save the life of an Indian child, was thrown from his horse and badly injured, he was rescued by a woman whose husband became his deadly enemy. For Wilbur Newton was both jealous and afraid. He was jeal...
Zane Grey evokes the feel and flavor of the Old West as no other author can, and millions of readers will thrill to this adventure of Phil Randolph as he vows to tame a pampered rich girl from back East. He succeeds--only to end up with a noose aroun...
Lost in the Sonora Desert, Kent Wingfield makes an oath to a dying gold prospector that sends him to a canyon in Utah to fulfill his vow and save a damsel in distress from a man named Bonesteel. Reprint....
Zane Grey''s bestselling novels have thrilled generations of readers with heart-and-guts characters, hard-shooting action, and high-plains panoramas.
When his brother, Barse, pulled one of the biggest hold-ups Texas had ever seen, Bruce Lock...
A high-spirited adventure from a true legend of Western storytelling. Kansas rider Dodge Mercer is seeking only a little corner of peace in Arizona, but he runs up against the Southwest's three most dangerous things: a beautiful young woman, sorghum ...
Four tales of love and adventure in the Old West introduce a cast of characters that includes a Texas ranger who risks his life to rescue the woman he loves and a beautiful woman who comes between two brothers. Reprint....
A collection of three classic Grey stories of the West features the tale of a tribal war between two Indian nations, a man accused of a crime he did not commit, and an eerie night in a haunted cabin. Reprint....
They came with their passions and violence, with their courage and strength, to carve a monument from nature itself. Men like Lynn Weston, men of vision, of dreams, of desires, who lived and died to harness the immense power of a ravaging river and m...
Not all outlaws are bad mend. Rich Ames didn’t set out to be a gunslinger"it was forced on him. When two men roughed up his sweet sister, Rich reached for his trusty Colt and let loose on them. When the smoke cleared, Rich was the only one standi...
Armed with Creedmor Sharps .45 caliber rifles, bands of hunters decimate the once vast herds of buffalo in a startling portrait of the effects of settlement on the West. Reprint....
In "Prospector's Gold," the fatal flaw of a loner and desert man could be his undying love for a woman, and in "Canyon Walls," Smoke Bellows leaves behind a shady past in Arizona to start fresh as a ranch hand in Utah...
An American writer travels with his fiance+a7e to Tahiti and is lured away from her by the seductive splendor of the island and by the Tahitian beauty Faaone, who sweeps him into a web of murder, deception, and revenge. Reprint....
A new Zane Grey novel
But even more thrilling is that Zane Grey chose for the central character of this culminating work the father of our country, George Washington, as a young man on the frontier.
Grey presents the drama of the li...
The boy who became "Buffalo Bill" got his first job as a mule-driver on the bleak Kansas plains, then became a a Pony Express rider, a cavalry scout, an Indian fighter, a buffalo hunter for the railroads, and a world-famous "Wild West Show" celeb...
Buck Duane, son of a gunfighter, kills a drunken bully when he is forced to defend his father's name and, disgusted by what he has done, heads for the trails of southwestern Texas where he finds Jennie Lee, a young woman who is held prisoner by a gan...
The fully restored manuscript of the author's classic tale of western justice chronicles a U.S. deputy marshal's mission to stop cattle rustling and shut down a cattle baron mayor bent on maintaining the status quo. Reprint....
This gripping collection captures the essence of the Wild West and includes two short stories, two short novels, and two first-hand accounts of the author's own adventures in the territories he writes about. Reprint....
John Shefford sets out to rescue three people trapped in Surprise Valley, including Fay Larkin, who, unbeknownst to him, has been forced into a polygamous marriage to a mysterious Mormon leader. Reprint....
Originally published in 1915, this classic novel, restored to its original form, follows Joan Randle, as she, journeying to the mining camps of Idaho Terrirtory, is kidnapped by a notorious stagecoach bandit who wants to claim her as his woman. Repri...
Arriving in the Southwestern border town of Casita, young Richard Gale finds himself in the middle of a Mexican revolution that pits him against a notorious bandit when he comes to the aid of the daughter of a murdered Spanish aristocrat. Reprint....
Regarded with suspicion in the pioneer town of Pine in the Arizona Territory because he refuses to take a job, Milt Dorn overhears a plot to kidnap the nieces of a wealthy but ailing rancher who has sent for them to take over his land after he dies. ...
From one of the most beloved Western authors comes an epic historical tale of adventure and romance in the great wilderness.Against the epic backdrop of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across plains and deserts and through the mount...
Jack Hare is an Easterner who has come west for his health. In Salt Lake City he is mistaken by Dene's outlaw gang for a spy and must flee the town to escape them. He is found suffering from exhaustion and exposure in rough country by the wealthy Mor...
Riders of the Purple Sage, Grey's best-known bestseller, is a thrilling saga set on the Utah -- Arizona border country that features a despicable villain and a straight-shootin’ hero in a tale of passion, rivalry, and revenge. In Th...
On his first trip to the West, Zane Grey became friends with Buffalo Jones, the "last of the plainsmen" as he called him in the book he subsequently wrote about him. Jones had been witness to the great herds of buffalo that had once ranged on the Gre...
Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 " October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of t...
Zane Grey was an American author best known for writing Western fiction. With books such as Riders of the Purple Sage and Betty Zane, Grey is perhaps the most famous writer of Westerns with many of his books being adapted into movies and TV shows....
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 obses...
Madge Ellston heard young Sheldon speak. She saw the flash in his gray eyes and the heat of his bronzed face as he looked intently at the big catcher. "Fade away, sonny. Back to the bush-league for yours " replied Carroll, derisively. "You're not fas...
Willie Howarth loved baseball. He loved it all the more because he was a cripple. The game was more beautiful and wonderful to him because he would never be able to play it. For Willie had been born with one leg shorter than the other; he could not r...
One day in July our Rochester club, leader in the Eastern League, had returned to the hotel after winning a double-header from the Syracuse club. For some occult reason there was to be a lay-off next day and then on the following another double-heade...
The very essence of the American West is to be found in the stories of Zane Grey and now these stories can be enjoyed in their fully restored versions as the author meant for them to be published originally. Silvermane is concerned with the effort...
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 bes selling ...
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 bes selling ...
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 bes selling ...
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 bes selling ...
In 1925, widowed businessman Elijah Winters brings his daughter Cherry from Long Island to stay at a trading post in a remote area some distance from Flagstaff, Arizona. To entertain herself, Cherry flirts with several of the cowboys, not realizing t...
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 bes selling ...
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 bes selling ...
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 bes selling ...
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 bes selling ...
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 bes selling ...
Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children’s books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books...
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 ...
Zane Grey (1872 " 1939) was an American author best known for writing Western novels, with his most famous being Riders of the Purple Sage. That work is widely considered the greatest Western ever written, and Grey remains one of the most famous au...
When John Curry, galloping across the desert to save the life of an Indian child, was thrown from his horse and badly injured, he was rescued by a woman whose husband became his deadly enemy. For Wilbur Newton was both jealous and afraid....
The western novels by Zane Grey have been a source of imagery about the American West for almost the entire twentieth century. The plots and characterizations of Grey's popular novels set in the American West have been thoroughly examined and it is c...
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 bro...
Stories in this collection center around isolated men embarked upon a journey, ranging from a man who has driven away his wife and who yearns for reconciliation to an old man who realized the corrupting power of gold...
Many of the well known western and detective short stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editi...
(Pearl) 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...
Yaqui, the chief of a once-mighty Yaqui tribe, is desperate to protect his people. Men from the East have ravaged his land for gold, provoking war and driving the Yaquis deep into an unknown wilderness. Just when Yaqui believes that his people are sa...