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    • Zane Grey's West - Topping

    • Zane Grey's West - Topping

    • Writing; Violence; Lone Star Ranger; Riders of the Purple Sage;

    • "Moreover, compared to many of his successors, Grey seemed to relish violence very little….Much of the carnage in his novels takes place off stage….Most of the violence is simply necessary, and well integrated with the plot. Also, Grey's most...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey's C.T.H. Story - Boerstler

    • Zane Grey's C.T.H. Story - Boerstler

    • Contoversy; Riders of the Purple Sage; Mormons;

    • "And he wasn’t afraid of the devil himself. His RPS was almost and Uncle Tom's Cabin in its attack on the prevalent Mormon custom of plural wives; but their hatred and threats never kept him from returning to their country whenever he chose."
    • Zane Grey
    • 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
    • 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
    • Zane Grey: His Life Story

    • Zane Grey: His Life Story

    • Horses; Night; Black Star; Blanco Sol;

    • "'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 Nonnezoshe…"" ""…The loss of 'Black Star' and 'Blanco Sol' [died in Lacky] and...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Outdoorsman: Don

    • Zane Grey Outdoorsman: Don

    • Grand Canyon

    • "…one afternoon we came abruptly to a break in the forest. It was the north rim of the Grand Canyon. My astounded gaze tried to grasp an appalling abyss of purple and gold and red, an effect too terrible and beautiful to understand all at...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Inventory

    • Zane Grey Inventory

    • Artists

    • ""Paintings by Lillian Wilhelm Smith, especially painted for Grosset and Dunlap in connection with displaying Zane Grey books:"" ""Horse"" - Wild Horse Fresh Oak Creek Canyon - CC Superstition Mountain - Desert Gold Rim of the Tonto - UTR A-Ga-Thla...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Diary - 9 Sep, 1906

    • Zane Grey Diary - 9 Sep, 1906

    • Nature; Favorite things; Sunrise; sunset; life; origin;

    • "I love the meadows, groves, streams, and hills. The myriads of wild creatures striving for life and freedom have deep hold on my heart. I wonder at the process of selection and evolution, at the apparent cruelty of nature. The desert silence,...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Diary - 9 Jun, 1907

    • Zane Grey Diary - 9 Jun, 1907

    • Favorite things; Favorite sounds;

    • "I have just seen and felt and heard a beautiful thing. It has no name - twilight stealing down; the dark ragged mountain rising into the pale blue sky; Wordsworth's one fair star, and a wisp of purple clouds - gleaming shadowy waters, with lights...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Diary - 7 Nov, 1908

    • Zane Grey Diary - 7 Nov, 1908

    • poetry; Zane Grey;

    • "Over the hills in the western sky, Purple clouds with golden wings, Come rolling soaring sailing by, Swift as the breeze that waves and sings, Through the yellow fields of rye. I am writing verses and an exercise in the felicity of words. There...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Diary - 4 Nov, 1908

    • Zane Grey Diary - 4 Nov, 1908

    • nature; sunrise; sunset;

    • "The sunset was beautiful. As the sun went down behind a purple bank of cloud it flared out a moment in golden lightning. The murky cloud-bank rolled on ruthlessly stamping out the glow, and was gilded on its curling changing edges with tint of...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Diary - 31 May, 1911

    • Zane Grey Diary - 31 May, 1911

    • Riders of the Purple Sage; beginning; Utah; romance; confidence; beauty; writing; mood; stress;

    • "Yesterday I made a plan for my new romance of the uplands of Utah. And at the conclusion of my day's thinking I found myself unusually nervous, and with a lack of confidence and ardor. The telling of the story that I felt seemed to be a matter of...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Diary - 3 Oct, 1927

    • Zane Grey Diary - 3 Oct, 1927

    • Horses; Night; Brutus; Spot; Sarchedon;

    • ""Night as always was in the lead. This great horse - the original Night of Riders of the Purple Sage - must have been all of 18 years old. Yet he appeared black and glossy, and as spirited as ever. He shoved his nose into my...
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Diary - 24 Jul, 1911

    • Zane Grey Diary - 24 Jul, 1911

    • Riders of the Purple Sage; Writing; pace; mood;

    • "I have been writing every day on my new story. It takes all my mind. I have kept calm and restrained for the most part, and am gradually approaching the climax. I expect to be carried out of myself."
    • Zane Grey
    • Zane Grey Diary - 21 Dec, 1908

    • Zane Grey Diary - 21 Dec, 1908

    • nature; sunrise; sunset;

    • "A high wind from the west carried huge purple clouds, with holes like bayous and lagoons, across the sunlight. One rift let out a gleam of blue and long widening shafts of white misty glow. Low down in the west a rift shone like a strip of gilt in...
    • Zane Grey

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