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    • Zane Grey Diary - 23 May, 1930

    • Zane Grey Diary - 23 May, 1930

    • Zane Grey Diary; nature; insects; dragon-fly;

    • "My line of vision took in a broad belt of golden sky against which these dragons of the air limned in distinct silhouette. The rapid flutter of their long slender wings could be plainly discerned. They were feeding on the gnats, mosquitoes, and...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 23 Jul, 1905 - 1905-1910

    • Zane Grey Diary - 23 Jul, 1905 - 1905-1910

    • Zane Grey; Death of his father;

    • "My thoughts go back to the days I climbed the hills with my father, when I was a lad eager and gay, with no thought of tomorrow, no understanding of the sadness of human life. And today he is gone. I shall never see him again. Somewhere in the...
    • Joseph Facer (1871-1961) Papers

    • Joseph Facer (1871-1961) Papers

    • Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association; Mormon Church--Missions--Southern States; Mormons--Missionary experiences; Mormons--Polygamy; Patriarchal blessings (Mormon Church); Mormon Church--Hymns; Temple work (Mormon Church); Navajo Indians

    • Joseph Facer served two Church missions, one to the Southern United States (1897-1899) and one in Arizona (1901-1902). Contains records, diaries, correspondence, and other documents about Joseph Facer's life. Deals mainly with his service in the...
    • Wyoming

    • Wyoming

    • Wyoming Mad; Young Runaway; Wyoming; writing; title; time; pace; publication;

    • May-Sep, 1932 - Pict. Rev. serializ.; Jul, 1931-May, 1932 (Zane Grey Diary) - wrote YOUNG RUNAWAY; 1932 written - FG, early 30's Romer Grey; Jun, 1953 - published;
    • Zane Grey Diary - 8 Jun, 1907

    • Zane Grey Diary - 8 Jun, 1907

    • writing; subject matter; observation;

    • "In the hidden commonplace byways of life pain is universal; and love, constancy, silence, martyrdom. Happiness there is, too. Earnest and intense must be the writers seizing of these natural facts; and his expression of them beautiful and...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 24 Nov, 1924

    • Zane Grey Diary - 24 Nov, 1924

    • writing; starting; time; pace;

    • "The fierce zest of battle of life takes my leisure. I must work and do. Yet I want onely [sic] to dream. Dawn finds me eager, full of joy and enthusiasm; and mostly the night finds me depressed. The hours change me. I think I need to write. When...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 29 Jan, 1910

    • Zane Grey Diary - 29 Jan, 1910

    • writing; sources; guidelines for; note; taking;

    • "I shall study primarily and principally, to make my stories true to life, as big as possible, and thrilling as may be…The problem of leaving human nature is the great one for me. I must learn to forget myself, let other people talk, to be...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 12 Feb, 1910

    • Zane Grey Diary - 12 Feb, 1910

    • writing; sources; craft; Tennyson; Wordsworth; Arnold; Stevenson; Hawthorne; philosophy of; method; observation;

    • "I am studying Tennyson for beauty, and for Saxon words; Wordsworth for interpretation of nature; Arnold for the profound sadness of life; Stevenson for style; Hawthorne for moral evil and moral good. And with the help of what I learn from them,...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 17 Nov, 1933

    • Zane Grey Diary - 17 Nov, 1933

    • writing; Shadow on the Trail; Knights of the Range; Twin Sombreros; quality; favorite; Ride the Man Down; title; change;

    • "I think Ride the Man Down [Shadow on the Trail], Knights of the Range, Twin Sombreros as good as any I ever wrote. I believe 30,000 on the Hoof is my best novel."
    • "On the Trail of Zane Grey" - Jackson

    • "On the Trail of Zane Grey" - Jackson

    • writing; setting; vs.; character;

    • "He was not really as interested in the character he created as in the settings. He once remarked that Arizona stars would be moons in any other state. His diary entry of August 9, 1910, showed his different feelings for people and places: 'It is...
    • Zane Grey Diary - Jan, ?(1923-1928)

    • Zane Grey Diary - Jan, ?(1923-1928)

    • writing; sensation;

    • "Sometimes I see what is the only course for me-strong, keen, persistent energy to experience and write. But is not all I have gone through experience? Has not the God of Life chained me to sensation? I ought not repudiate the pangs of grief-the...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 8 Dec, 1923

    • Zane Grey Diary - 8 Dec, 1923

    • writing; romance vs. realism;

    • "Since I last wrote in this book I have experienced enough strong emotion to fill a volume and a drama. I have had current and recurrent moods of grief, distress, and ye the contrasting ones of thrill, anticipation. Oh, the heart of man! I know...
    • Zane Grey Diary - 13 Jun, 1909

    • Zane Grey Diary - 13 Jun, 1909

    • writing; rejection; slips;

    • "My two stories written for the Youth's Companion are rejected, returned to me with a few cold words as to their unavailability."" (8 Jul, 1909); ""The rejection of nine out of ten stories has convinced me that I will do well to wait a little and...

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