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Photograph of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

The Hash Knife Outfit is the sequel to Grey's The Drift Fence. Cattle rustling, a kidnapping of two girls and gunplay between the Diamond and Hash Knife cattle outfits offer plenty of action mixed with Grey's usual western romances.

Heritage Desert was Zane Grey's first romance novel set in the Old West. It tells the story of the Patriarch of a polygamist family who faces the choice of picking up his guns to protect his family or staying true to his faith's teachings against…

Ken Ward and his younger brother Hal have many adventures as they try to follow the course of the Santa Rosa River through uncharted jungles in Mexico

A ragtag team of cultural and racially diverse cowboys protect a young woman's romance as villains trying to take it from here. An underlying theme of racial integration make this one of the best examples of Grey using his western romance novels to…

Zane Grey is at his best in this story of the building of the Boulder Dam (later renamed the Hoover Dam). It shows an excellent depiction of early day Las Vegas and the people who built the dam. Of course there is also the damsel in distress and the…

Photograph of Lake Mead National Recreation Area

Light of the Western Stars is unique in that it is primarily told from the perspective of an eastern woman who moves to the Arizona-Mexico border to run a ranch she inherits at the turn of the 20th century. She goes through a tumultuous relationship…

Some argue this is the best of Grey's "gunfighter" stories. Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, struggles as he experiences more and more of this father's lust for gunfights. Along the way, he falls in love with two women and seeks redemption…