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    • Zane Grey's West - Topping

    • Zane Grey's West - Topping

    • Buffalo Jones; Last of the Plainsmen;

    • "Eastern audiences were more than a little skeptical that anyone would be brave and skillful enough to rope a live mountain lion in its natural habitat, and Jones' lecture career was on the rocks when Grey offered to return to Arizona with him as a...
    • Zane Grey's Tales of the West - Diehl

    • Zane Grey's Tales of the West - Diehl

    • Arizona; Legend; Hunter vs. Fisherman;

    • "But Zane Grey is a legend of his own kind in the West, and perhaps it is just as well if most remember him in the saddle rather than under sail. As for myself, I can see how he was lured by both elements at different periods in his life, and how...
    • Zane Grey's Arizona - Zane Grey Collection - vol 4 no 3

    • Zane Grey's Arizona - Zane Grey Collection - vol 4 no 3

    • Arizona; description of Mogollon (Tonto) Rim; Heritage of desert; Riders of the Purple Sage; Source of stories;

    • "Craggy and forbidding, the rugged, 100-mile-long escarpment known as the Mogollon Rim runs eastward from central Arizona toward the border of New Mexico. Zane Grey, author and outdoorsman, called it by its Indian name, 'Tonto Rim.' His cabin...
    • Zane Grey: His Life Story - Brett

    • Zane Grey: His Life Story - Brett

    • Horses; Night; Black Star; Blanco Sol; Brutus; Nig; Sarchedon; Riders of the Purple Sage; Theodore Roosevelt;

    • Grey has found horses which he learned to love and purchased for his own. ""'Night' and 'Black Star' and 'Blanco Sol,' the horses made famous in Riders of the Purple Sage, were used by Theodore Roosevelt and his sons on their trip to...
    • Zane Grey M of the West - Farley

    • Zane Grey M of the West - Farley

    • Sources for books; Call of the Canyon; Arizona; Oak Creek Canyon; Fishing;

    • "Beautiful Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona was one of Zane Grey's favorite spots, the one which inspired 'The Call of the Canyon.' He liked to visit there, and to fish the winding stream."
    • Zane Grey M of the West - Farley

    • Zane Grey M of the West - Farley

    • Sources for books; Call of the Canyon; Arizona; Oak Creek Canyon; Fishing;

    • "Beautiful Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona was one of Zane Grey's favorite spots, the one which inspired 'The Call of the Canyon.' He liked to visit there, and to fish the winding stream."
    • Zane Grey Lodge

    • Zane Grey Lodge

    • Tonto Lodge; History;

    • "Zane Grey acquired a portion of the old Haught Ranch and instructed the Haughts to build him a home on the property." "After Zane Grey left Arizona in the early 1930's, the 'lodge' was unoccupied from that time and was neglected. It became the...
    • Zane Grey in Arizona - April - ZGW - Richardson - 29 Sep, 1927

    • Zane Grey in Arizona - April - ZGW - Richardson - 29 Sep, 1927

    • Arizona; Doyle Emmett, Jones; Writing: sources; The U.P. Trail; To the Last Man;

    • Zane Grey letter to the Coconing Sun - Flagstaff - 29 Sep 1927 ""This is my 17th visit to Flagstaff; and to come back is always thrilling and memorable. Much has changed however since my last visit in 1925, and while I rejoice in Flagstaff's...
    • Zane Grey in Arizona

    • Zane Grey in Arizona

    • Arizona; Writing (preparations for); Wilderness trips;

    • First trip, 1907, 6 month trip with Buffalo Jones. ""They roped mountain lions in the Grand Canyon, hunted, explored Indian ruins, crossed the raging Colorado River rapids, hearded wild horses, camped and fished. Zane was enthralled with the west,...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 7 Jan, 1919

    • Zane Grey Diary - 7 Jan, 1919

    • Wanderer of the Wasteland; characters in Charlie Meadows; stories; code;

    • "Met Charlie Meadows, famous Western character. Arizona Charlie nearly 70 years old, but looked young. The most remarkable appearing man I ever saw in my Western travels. A great stature 6 ft 5, yet well proportioned, with broad shoulders, long...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 5 Jun, 1907

    • Zane Grey Diary - 5 Jun, 1907

    • 1907 western trip

    • I have been to Old Mexico and to Arizona in that time. It has been the most interesting and broadening period I can remember in my life, and so much happened that I cannot chronicle the events. Wonders of the sea, and of desert, and tropical...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 3 May, 1928

    • Zane Grey Diary - 3 May, 1928

    • Writing books; Arizona Ames; Creating characters;

    • (Avalon) Arizona Ames. It is easy and thrilling to write. I get a strange ecstasy out of the creation of characters and the expression of my feeling for places.
    • Zane Grey Diary - 28 Feb, 1911

    • Zane Grey Diary - 28 Feb, 1911

    • Favorite sounds

    • "And in spite of my hurry, familiar sounds kept breaking my efforts so that I had to stop and listen. My bell in the ash-tree, the old bell that used to jangle on my mustangs in Arizona, it really seemed to be welcoming me home. The ash-tree...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 27 Feb, 1906

    • Zane Grey Diary - 27 Feb, 1906

    • Favorite places (1906 trip)

    • "Things that struck me on out trip might be enumerated in this way: The Young Consumptive; Kansas Plains; the mesas of New Mexico; the wide plains and deserts; Apache Pass and Glorietta Pass; the Rockies; the mystical and wonderful Grand Canyon;...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 22 May, 1908

    • Zane Grey Diary - 22 May, 1908

    • Arizona; Roping; Lions; Grand Canyon;

    • After all I feel a confused sense of the savagery, barrenness and wonder of the canyon and desert country of Arizona. I seem to see in my mind's eye the red walls, the mesas, the speckled slopes, and reaches of sage and sand I seem to feel the...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 1919

    • Zane Grey Diary - 1919

    • Wanderer of the Wasteland; History; Characters; Felix Mayhem; Billy the kid; Red Pipkins; description; source; authenticity; research; government; Arizona; Mexico;

    • Felix Mayhem - old Arizona timer. Tall, medium build, regular features - once handsome - gray haired - strong chin. Told story of Billy, the kid, almost the N.Y. dime novel youngster who outfitted at Tucson, and rode to Horseshoe, a mining time,...

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