What Was There About Arizona

Zane Grey was drawn to the wildlands of Arizona and to the people, especially the Native American people.  Throughout his life, the great western romance author sought spiritual fulfillment.  He found it, not within the walls of a church, but in nature.  He seemed to find direction in the beliefs of the native people which drew so heavily on the natural environment within which they lived.

Candace Kant, author of Zane Grey's Arizona, wrote of how Arizona impacted Grey's works.

"The Arizona Zane Grey described- gunmen, cowboys, the Code of the West, stoic Indians, Mormons, ... Mexicans, rustic homesteaders, and wholesome western girls- became his trademark, and were absorbed into the general conception of the West held by most Americans.  Whatever else Zane Grey may have been, he was exciting.  The portrait of Arizona and the West he bequeathed to many generations of Americans and to the world remains with us still."