Zane Grey (1872–1939)
Auteur van Riders of the Purple Sage
Over de Auteur
Zane Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray in 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. He studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, married Lina Elise Roth in 1905, then moved his family west where he began to write novels. The author of 86 books, he is today considered the father of the Western genre, with toon meer its heady romances and mysterious outlaws. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) brought Grey his greatest popular acclaim. Other notable titles include The Light of Western Stars (1914) and The Vanishing American (1925). An extremely prolific writer, he often completed three novels a year, while his publisher would issue only one at a time. Twenty-five of his novels were published posthumously. His last, The Reef Girl, was published in 1977. Zane Grey died of heart failure on October 23 in Altadena, California, in 1939. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:
(eng) born Pearl Zane Gray. Family changed spelling to Grey and he dropped his first name.
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Buffalo Bill: Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of Colonel William F. Cody (1899) 172 exemplaren
Three Complete Novels: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Rainbow Trail, & The Lone Star Ranger (1994) 25 exemplaren
The Best of Zane Grey: Riders of the Purple Sage / The Trail Driver / Rangers of the Lone Star (2009) 16 exemplaren
Four Complete Novels: The Lone Star Ranger, The Rainbow Trail, Under the Tonto Rim, and Wyoming (1982) 11 exemplaren
The Last of the Plainsmen and Last of the Great Scouts: Two Complete Novels (2015) — Medewerker — 9 exemplaren
Obras completas : novelas 8 8 exemplaren
CLASSIC TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF ADVENTURE. Riders of the Purple Sage; King Solomon's Mines; Greenmantle; The… (2008) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
Western Heroes: "Riders of the Purple Sage", "Last of the Plainsmen", "Lone Star Ranger" (1992) 5 exemplaren
Three Complete Western Novels - Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last Trail, Yaqui (1996) 5 exemplaren
Zane Grey: 5 orange color hardbacks no dust covers West of the Pecos,The Lost Wagon Train,The Trail Driver,Raiders of… (1936) 5 exemplaren
Classic Westerns - 27 Zane Grey Novels 4 exemplaren
Country Gentleman 3 exemplaren
The Zane Grey Collection (The Fighting Caravans / The Fighting Westerner / Hell Town / To the Last Man / Drift Fence) 3 exemplaren
Tex Thorne Comes Out of the West. Based on the Famous Adventure Strip. The Big Little Book (1937) 3 exemplaren
50 Eternal Masterpieces of Western Stories (Golden Deer Classics): The Last Of The Mohicans, The Log Of A Cowboy,… (2017) 3 exemplaren
The Fort Henry Saga : Complete in One Volume : Betty Zane/The Spirit of the Border/The Last Trail (2000) 3 exemplaren
Geen broedermoord in Lost Lake 2 exemplaren
To The Last Man 2 exemplaren
Zane Grey Collection: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Call of the Canyon, The Man of the Forest, The Desert of Wheat and… (2016) 2 exemplaren
The Ohio River Trilogy The Purple Sage Saga The Lone Star Ranger The Border Legion (7 Western Classics in One Volume):… (2015) 2 exemplaren
Tappan's Burro: and Other Stories 2 exemplaren
Zane Grey Combo #3: The Rustlers of Pecos County/The Last of the Plainsmen/To the Last Man (Zane Grey Omnibus) (Volume… (2013) 2 exemplaren
The Call of the Canyon (Zane Grey) 1934 2 exemplaren
Western Classics Collection Volume I: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Light of Western Stars, The Rainbow Trail 2 exemplaren
Sence na poti 2 exemplaren
Grey's The Dude Ranger 2 exemplaren
THE CALL OF THE WILD WEST - Ultimate Western Collection: 175 Novels & Short Stories in One Volume: Famous Outlaw Tales,… (2017) 2 exemplaren
Classic Westerns: 18 Novels by Zane Grey 2 exemplaren
The Lost Wagon Train and The Trail Driver 2 exemplaren
Zane Grey's Western Magazine August 1947 2 exemplaren
Nevada - Bantam # 1067 1 exemplaar
The Classic Western Collection 1 exemplaar
La lunga pista 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey Ohio River Trilogy: Betty Zane, The Spirit of the Border, The Last Trail) (2012) 1 exemplaar
Vogntoget som forsvant 1 exemplaar
Betty Zane 1st Edition Book 1 exemplaar
Karr 1 exemplaar
The Collected Complete Works of Zane Grey (Huge Collection Including The Call of the Canyon, Riders of the Purple Sage,… (2017) 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey's Westerns (Volume 1), including The Last of the Plainsmen, The Heritage of the Desert, The Young Forester,… (2015) 1 exemplaar
The Red-Headed Outfield 1 exemplaar
The Rainbow Trail, The Original Western Novel (Annotated): (Masterpiece Collection) (2016) 1 exemplaar
Tales of Angler's Eldorado New Zealand 1 exemplaar
Tales of Swordfish & Tuna 1 exemplaar
La heroína de Fort Henry 1 exemplaar
Obras Completas: Novelas, VI 1 exemplaar
Obras completas : novelas 5 1 exemplaar
O Vale Dos Cavalos Selvagens 1 exemplaar
Fogo Selvagem Livro 1 1 exemplaar
The Redheaded Outfield and Other Stories 1 exemplaar
Kraljica pašnikov 1 exemplaar
Set of 25 Hardcover Zane Grey Books From 1960 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey Western Award Stories 1 exemplaar
Flucht vor Sonnenaufgang - Western 1 exemplaar
Il ranger del Texas (Italian Edition) 1 exemplaar
The One That Got Away - w/ Dust Jacket 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey's Western Magazine - September 1947 1 exemplaar
The Collected Works of Zane Gray 1 exemplaar
Zane Gray Classic Western Collection 23 Works 1 exemplaar
Country Gentleman March 1930 1 exemplaar
L'ORO DEL DESERTO 1 exemplaar
Auringonlaskun sola 1 exemplaar
Do posljednjeg čovjeka 1 exemplaar
Pljačkaško gnijezdo 1 exemplaar
Der Texas Reiter 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey Library: Volume 5 1 exemplaar
Wild Horse Mesa. [Novel of Desert Life in Utah]. 1 exemplaar
Thirty Thousand on the Hoof 1 exemplaar
Das Greenhorn. 1 exemplaar
Karavane se bojujejo 1 exemplaar
Pobegla reka 1 exemplaar
Jezdeci škrlatne kadulje 1 exemplaar
62 ZANE GREY Hardcover Collection ☆ UNABRIDGED 1 exemplaar
The Code of the West 1 exemplaar
Lovec divokých včel (1926) 1 exemplaar
The Wild Horse Mesa 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey A Biography 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey's Greatest Western Storie 1 exemplaar
Ørkenguld 1 exemplaar
The lost wagon train zane 1 exemplaar
Río perdido 1 exemplaar
El cazador de ciervos 1 exemplaar
Silvermane and Other Short Stories 1 exemplaar
12 Volume Set: Twin Sombreros; Riders of the Purple Sage; West of the Pecos; Knights of the Range; the Border Legion;… (1961) 1 exemplaar
The Heritage of the Desert Plus 26 Other Zane Grey Classic Westerns (English Edition) (2009) 1 exemplaar
The Definitive Zane Grey Collection: 26 Westerns in One Volume (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey, the Man and His Work: An Autobiographical Sketch, Critical Appreciations and Bibliography (2011) 1 exemplaar
Classic Western Sampler #3: 12 books by 12 different authors, in a single file, improved 8/14/2010 (2009) 1 exemplaar
Best of the West Expanded Edition, Vol. 1: Classic Stories from the American Frontier (2009) 1 exemplaar
Set of 7 Zane Grey Novels: The Deer Stalker, Knights of the Range, Wild Horse Mesa, Riders of the Purple Sage, Shadow… (1952) 1 exemplaar
Duch pogranicza 1 exemplaar
Sporet som forsvant 1 exemplaar
The Collected Baseball Stories of Zane Grey (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 1 exemplaar
Doupě uchvatitelů 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey's ambush (Western Union) 1 exemplaar
Riders of the Spanish Peaks 1 exemplaar
Texasin tyttö 1 exemplaar
Obras Completas VI. Arizona; Al Oeste del Pecos; La Caravana Perdida; Guarida de Ladrones; La Montaña del Trueno; Los… (1959) 1 exemplaar
Collected Westerns of Zane Grey (19) 1 exemplaar
Tvirtovės apsuptis: romanas 1 exemplaar
Heyne Western Classic Sammelband 2683. Bis zum letzten Mann - Der Marshal von River Bend - Shannigan. (1983) 1 exemplaar
Caçadores de Cavalos - vol. 25 1 exemplaar
Prospector's Gold 1 exemplaar
Texas Joe. Zane Grey-bøkene. 2. 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey: The Collected Works 1 exemplaar
Riders of the Purple Sage 1 exemplaar
Ranger 1 exemplaar
The Last Man Standing 1 exemplaar
El rancho Majestad 1 exemplaar
50 Classic Western Stories You Should Read (Zongo Classics): The Last Of The Mohicans, The Log Of A Cowboy, Riders of… (2017) 1 exemplaar
Ocelový oř. Seš. 1 1 exemplaar
Grenselandets sv 1 exemplaar
Obras completas II - 1 exemplaar
3 Books: The Heritage of the Desert, The Young Forester, Blue Feather and Other Stories (1910) 1 exemplaar
El espíritu de la frontera Novela 1 exemplaar
Zane Grey's Western Magazine - Vol 2, No 5 1 exemplaar
Tales of the Gladiator 1 exemplaar
Kämpfende Karawanen 1 exemplaar
Obras completas. Novelas VII 1 exemplaar
Obras completas. Novelas VIII 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Grey, Zane
- Officiële naam
- Gray, Pearl Zane
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- GREY, Pearl Zane
GREY, Zane - Geboortedatum
- 1872-01-31
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1939-10-23
- Graflocatie
- Union Cemetery, Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Zanesville, Ohio, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Altadena, California, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- heart failure
- Woonplaatsen
- Avalon, Catalina Island, California, USA
Altadena, California, USA
Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, USA - Opleiding
- University of Pennsylvania (DDS|1896)
- Beroepen
- usher
dentist
baseball player
author - Relaties
- Grey, Romer C. (brother)
Grey, Romer Zane (son)
Grey, Loren (son) - Organisaties
- Sigma Nu
Orange Athletic Club
Outdoor Life Magazine
Tuna Club of Avalon - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Hall of Great Westerners (1977)
- Ontwarringsbericht
- born Pearl Zane Gray. Family changed spelling to Grey and he dropped his first name.
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(Print: 1915 | 8/10/2020; 978-9354044311; Alpha editions; 298 pages )
(Digital: Yes.)
Audio: 1/21/2010; 9781449877262; Recorded Books; Duration 10:25:55 (10 parts); Unabridged.
(Film: multiple times).
CHARACTERS: (Not comprehensive)
Buck (Buckley or Dodge) Duane – (more commonly referred to by his name, Duane, in the narration) A fellow, fast with a gun, excommunicated from his home when he shot someone in self-defense, forcing him to go “on the dodge” which is a Nomad status that generally put one in company with Outlaws.
Luke Stevens – The first fellow Buck befriends after going “on the dodge”.
Bland – an outlaw
Kate Bland – Bland’s wife
Jenny – A captive of the Blands held in servitude under the constant threat/fear of sexual abuse.
Euchre - An outlaw Buck befriends
MacNelly – A Texas Ranger who wants to recruit Buck
Bullet – Buck’s large black horse
DEDICATION:
This book was dedicated to Texas Ranger Captain John R. Hughes who it is believed inspired the protagonist. Hughes is also believed to be the inspiration for the radio and tv series, “The Lone Ranger”. There are many similarities, but the reason in the series for the name “Lone” was apparently because the character lost all of his fellow Rangers including his Ranger brother, leaving him the only Ranger left. Whereas, with this book it is because Texas is “The Lone Star State”.
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
I never got attached to any Western themed movies or books, but several years ago I woke with the name Zane Grey in my consciousness. I didn’t realize, until several days later when I saw a biography about him in a used book sale, that this was actually a person. Seeing that he’d been the author of Western books, I didn’t purchase the biography at the time, but was still curious why I had the name on my mind when I woke up. I didn’t think of it again until one of the recent Connelly books I listened to mentioned a hotel on Catalina Island named Zane Grey. That re-ignited my curiosity enough to decide to listen to at least one of his books, so this was one of the few that was available on LAPL’s Overload.
It made me realize that what I don’t like about Westerns is that they romanticize and promote violence. Gunplay is always involved and the stereotypes of the characters were never appealing. The horses were the only attraction.
This was originally written in 1915 and things were much different then, but I still can’t help but find the many racial slurs distasteful.
BUT, if you LIKE Westerns, no doubt you’ll like this one.
I did enjoy it for its historical value.
Something I found mildly annoying was that a more current decade was mentioned. I believe it was 1970’s—there seemed to be no need to update the time period and it was incongruous. It also made me wonder what other edits had occurred.
AUTHOR:
Zane Grey (1/31/1872 – 10/23/1929). From Amazon-dot-com: “Zane Grey, the greatest and most prolific storyteller of the American West, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on January 31, 1872. In his youth, Zane was a semi-professional Zane Greybaseball player and a half-hearted dentist, having studied dentistry to appease his father while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. He wanted above all to write and taught himself to do so with stern discipline to free his innate and immense storytelling capacity. Many a lean year came and went as he searched for a publisher, but Zane soon became the best-selling Western author of all time as well as the best selling author of non-fiction fishing novels. For most of the teens, 20s, and 30s, Zane had at least one novel in the top ten every year. His marriage in 1905 to Lina Roth, whom he called Dolly, was a triumph of the old-fashioned, “complimentary” model of matrimony, wherein the husband ranges freely to sustain the inspiration for his calling and the wife tends to the family, edits the manuscripts and makes deals with the publishers. It is fair to say that Dolly’s belief in Zane’s literaZane Greyry works was the single factor most responsible for the success of his lengthy career. Zane and Dolly had three children, Romer, Betty and Loren. Zane’s breakthrough success of Heritage of the Desert in 1910 enabled him to establish a home in Altadena, California and a hunting lodge on the Mogollon Rim near Payson, Arizona. A lifelong passion for angling and the rich rewards of his writing also allowed him to roam the world’s premier game-fishing grounds in his own schooners where he set thirteen deep-sea angling records, most of which stood for decades. Zane would develop and invent tackle still being used today and his exploits in fishing would gain him recognition as the “Father of Modern Big Game Fishing”.
NARRATOR(S):
Ed Sala. From Tantor-dot-com, “Ed Sala, an actor and a writer, has appeared at Carnegie Hall and both on and off Broadway. His plays have been performed in regional theaters across the country. He has won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for his audiobook narrations, including one for Finn by Jon Clinch, and Best Books for Young Adults Awards from the American Library Association. His performance of White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke was selected by AudioFile as one of the fifteen best audiobooks of the year.”
GENRE:
Western
LOCATIONS:
Texas
TIME FRAME:
Early 1900’s
SUBJECTS:
Texas, Outlaws, Rangers, Cattle Rustling, outlaw gangs, posse
SAMPLE QUOTATION:
From Chapter 1:
“So it was in him, then—an inherited fighting instinct, a driving intensity to kill. He was the last of the Duanes, that old fighting stock of Texas. But not the memory of his dead father, nor the pleading of his soft-voiced mother, nor the warning of this uncle who stood before him now, had brought Buck Duane so much realization of the dark passionate strain in his blood. It was the recurrence, a hundred-fold increased in power, of a strange emotion that for the last three years had arisen in him.
‘Yes, Cal Bain’s in town, full of bad whiskey an’ huntin’ for you,’ repeated the elder man, gravely.
‘It’s the second time,’ muttered Duane, as if to himself.
‘Son, you can’t avoid a meetin’. Leave town till Cal sobers up. He ain’t got it in for you when he’s not drinkin’’
‘But what’s he want me for?’ demanded Duane. ‘To insult me again? I won’t stand that twice.’
‘He’s got a fever that’s rampant in Texas these days, my boy. He wants gun-play. If he meets you he’ll try to kill you.’
Here it stirred in Duane again, that bursting gush of blood, like a wind of flame shaking all his inner being and subsiding to leave him strangely chilled.
‘Kill me! What for?’ he asked.
‘Lord knows there ain’t any reason. But what’s that to do with most of the shootin’ these days? Didn’t five cowboys over to Everall’s kill one another dead all because they got to jerkin’ at a quirt among themselves? An’ Cal has no reason to love you. His girl was sweet on you.’
‘I quit when I found out she was his girl.’
‘I reckon she ain’t quit. But never mind her or reasons. Cal’s here, just drunk enough to be ugly. He’s achin’ to kill somebody. He’s one of them four-flush gun-fighters. He’d like to be thought bad. There’s a lot of wild cowboys who’re ambitious for a reputation. They talk about how quick they are on the draw. They ape Bland an’ King Fisher an’ Hardin an’ all the big outlaws. They make threats about joinin’ gangs along the Rio Grande. They laugh at the sheriffs an’ brag about how they’d fix the rangers. Cal’s sure not much for you to bother with, if you only keep out of his way.’”
RATING: 2.5 stars. (It finally occurred to me that while I am limited to a non-fractional number of stars by Goodreads, I don’t have to be in my reviews. )
I think this was a great story for its genre and its day, just not for me.
STARTED-FINISHED 5/10/21-5/21/21
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