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    • Letter to Zane Grey from Merrell Kitchen - 11 Jun, 1930

    • Letter to Zane Grey from Merrell Kitchen - 11 Jun, 1930

    • Riders of the Purple Sage; The Rainbow Trail; Wildfire; Heritage of the Desert; Lone Star Ranger; Desert Gold; The Border Legion; composition; Virginain; escape; old west; quality; review; criticism; favorite; romance; adventure; reader; reaction;

    • "…I have particular regard for Riders of the Purple Sage. I have read it again and again and never tire of it. I think this book together with Owen Wister's The Virginian, are the two greatest books on the west ever written. I have high opinion...
    • Zane Grey
    • Mysterious Rider

    • Mysterious Rider

    • Seasons; Autumn; Nature;

    • "A September sun, losing some of its heat if not its brilliance, was dropping low in the West over the black Colorado range. Purple haze began to thicken in the timbered notches. Gray foothills, round and billowy, rolled down from the higher...
    • Zane Grey
    • Riders of the Purple Sage

    • Riders of the Purple Sage

    • Riders of the Purple Sage; Effective; beginning; Writing; craft; description; setting;

    • "A sharp clip-clop of iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwoods out over the sage."
    • Zane Grey
    • Gruber

    • Gruber

    • Riders of the Purple Sage; criticism; public; popularity; western; quality;

    • "Bob Davis was profuse in his praise of Riders of the Purple Sage. It was a splendid work, a greater novel than Heritage of the Desert." (page 98); "He [Duneka] had read Riders of the Purple Sage, and so had his wife. Both of them considered it...
    • Zane Grey
    • "Zane Grey's Tales of the West" - Diehl

    • "Zane Grey's Tales of the West" - Diehl

    • criticism; popular writing; peers; Riders of the Purple Sage;

    • "By the time Grey died in 1939, he had two generations of writers hot on his western trail, such as Ernest Haycox, Max Brand, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Sam Peoples and Louis L'Amour. But none of them ever wrote a sentence like: 'A sharp clip-clop of...
    • Zane Grey
    • Adventures of Finspot

    • Adventures of Finspot

    • Children; trips; horse-night; Rides of the Purple Sage;

    • "He also wanted his family to see and appreciate the outdoors. He was a family man, and liked to have us with him everywhere he went if it was possible. I was fourteen when Dad took me on my first trip into the Arizona back-country. During the trip...
    • Zane Grey
    • Black Mesa

    • Black Mesa

    • Desert; description; writing; craft;

    • "In the foreground, just beyond the red knoll on which stood the trader's cabin, a band of goats dotted the sage, shepherded by an Indian boy mounted on a burro. The lonely figure of the boy lent the only visible sign of life to the scene and...
    • Zane Grey
    • Writer of the Purple Page - Powell W

    • Writer of the Purple Page - Powell W

    • Fame; Writing; Critical; response; Riders of the Purple Sage; The Rainbow Trail; Arizona; Utah; canyon; desert; rainbow bridge; Wetherill; nature; description; sequel;

    • "In the spring of 1913, he returned once more to the Arizona-Utah canyonlands. This time he was a known man, rich and rising famous. With John Wetherill as guide, he packed into the canyon that concealed the Rainbow Bridge, discovered by...
    • Zane Grey
    • The Reef Girl - Wayne Irish (GMF)

    • The Reef Girl - Wayne Irish (GMF)

    • The Reef Girl; Analysis; western; beauty; writing; style; depth; story; culture; Polynesia; quality; redemption;

    • "It is better than many of the westerns. …It has all the beauty of Zane Grey's inimitable talents, but it has a depth that isn't often found in stories of the Islands. I personally feel that Grey excelled in this story, and approached, but not...
    • Zane Grey
    • Captives of the Desert

    • Captives of the Desert

    • nature; sunrise; sunset;

    • "Purple shadows were meeting across the darker sage. Over the westward mesa, pink, gold and carmine clouds floated through thin, gray-white light, and lower clouds that a short while ago had pushed themselves above the horizon hung high in the...
    • Zane Grey
    • Riders of the Purple Sage

    • Riders of the Purple Sage

    • Favorite things; Purple sage country, description of;

    • "She loved it all - the grove of cottonwoods, the old stone house, the amber-tinted water, and the droves of shaggy, dusty horses and mustangs, the sleep, clean limbed, blooded racers, and the browsing herds of cattle and the lean, sun-browned...
    • Zane Grey
    • Black Mesa

    • Black Mesa

    • Man vs. Time; futility; life; infinity;

    • "The littleness of man, his futile despair, his brief span of life-what were they to this indefinite breadth of sage, broad as the dome of the sky above it? For millions of years creatures of some kind have eked out their short existences out on...
    • Zane Grey
    • Gruber

    • Gruber

    • Riders of the Purple Sage; criticism; publication; sales; popularity; public; reviews; rave;

    • "The long-awaited day in 1912 finally came-publication day of Riders of the Purple Sage. The New York bookstores had huge stacks of them. The book sold briskly at once and was talked about everywhere. Soon there was a stampede for it. The reviews...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Diary - 1919

    • Zane Grey Diary - 1919

    • Wanderer of the Wasteland; Nature; Desert; Description; plants; color; flowers; Mexico; Christ; Trees;

    • "The Mexicans say the Chola jumps at a man. Palo Verde - beautiful green tree - all fine needled branches. No leaves. Strange and graceful tree. In spring has deep blue flower. Palo Christi, a gray-steel five pointed tree, almost lacy, like a...
    • Zane Grey
    • Black 7-17-74

    • Black 7-17-74

    • Black editions, most popular; Riders of the Purple Sage; Thundering Herd; Arizona Ames; Wildfire;

    • "The top-seller for us has unquestionably been Riders of the Purple Sage. Following behind it, in a group, with each title selling approximately 80% as well as Riders, would be Thundering Herd, Arizona Ames, and Wildfire. Those four have been our...
    • Zane Grey
    • The Rainbow Trail

    • The Rainbow Trail

    • woman; description of; simile; vivid;

    • "Then for the first time he saw her face fully, and was thrilled that chance had reserved the privilege for this moment. It was a girl's face he saw, flower-like, lovely and pure as a Madonna's, and strangely, tragically sad. The eyes were large,...
    • Zane Grey
    • Letter to Zane Grey from Miss Beulah Limerick - 11 Sep, 1930

    • Letter to Zane Grey from Miss Beulah Limerick - 11 Sep, 1930

    • The Shepherd of Guadaloupe; Fighting Caravans; Riders of the Purple Sage; favorite; author; comparison; popularity; west;

    • "You are my favorite author. I have just finished reading Fighting Caravans and The Shepherd of Guadaloupe. I think my favorite book was Riders of the Purple Sage. It was so true to the West and interesting to both old and young. My next...
    • Zane Grey

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