On his first trip west, Zane Grey met Buffalo Jones, who had not only been witness to the great herds of buffalo that once roamed the Great Plains, but had participated in their destruction. In 1923, Grey decided to write the epic story of those thundering herds, the great hunt that decimated them, and the battle between the Plains Indians and the buffalo hunters. At last that magnificent, elegiac panorama is being published just as Grey wrote it

Zane Grey's first historical western, now restored to his handwritten manuscript, is the story of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across the plains and through the mountains and deserts to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah. Brilliant civil engineer Warren Neale, constantly confronted with construction problems, lawlessness, corruption, and the danger of Indian attacks, is sided by Texas gunfighter and friend Larry Red King. But...

From beloved author Zane Grey come four thrilling tales of the West. The very essence of the American West can be found in the stories of Zane Grey, an author whose popularity has not flagged since his first novel was published. "Silvermane" is concerned with the efforts of two Mormon mustangers, brothers Lee and Cuth Stewart, to capture a wild stallion in the Sevier range country. "Tappan's Burro," with the text restored from the author's handwritten...

In its first appearance with a text based on the author's holographic manuscript, three cowhands working for the Springer Ranch have tried, through forging letters, to discourage a schoolteacher in the East from coming West to teach school. Their strategy has failed because of a mysterious Frank Owens whose love letters have convinced her that she must come. No one knows who he is. Jane Stacey does arrive, and to everyone's amazement, she is not the...

Known by the Indians as le vent de la mort (the wind of death), Wetzel and his partner Jonathan Zane are hard on the trail of white rustlers led by Simon Girty and Bing Leggitt. One night at their campfire Helen Sheppard and her father, who have become lost in the forest on their way to Fort Henry, are approached by Wetzel and Zane. For Jonathan Zane and Helen Sheppard this accidental encounter is the beginning of a romance that will be fraught with...

From the moment Madeline Hammond steps off the train in New Mexico, she walks straight into trouble. Almost tricked into marriage by a handsome, drunken cowboy, Madeline quickly realizes whe has a lot to learn if she is going to survive life on her brother's ranch in the southwestern territory.