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  Zane Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939), born Pearl Zane Gray (he later dropped "Pearl" and changed the a to an e in "Grey") was an American author of popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West.
Zane Grey was born in Zanesville, Ohio, a city founded by a maternal ancestor, Ebenezer Zane.
Zane Grey died in 1939 at his home in Altadena, California and was interred at the Union Cemetery in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, where the National Park Service maintains the Zane Grey Museum as part of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zane_Grey   (963 words)

  
 Zane Grey - MSN Encarta
Zane Grey (1875-1939), American novelist, noted for his careful research and for his accurate portrayal of the American West.
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, Grey trained as a dentist but turned to writing as a career in 1904, when his first book was published.
Grey wrote more than 50 novels, most of them tales of adventure with a Western setting, including The Last of the Plainsmen (1908), Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), The Thundering Herd (1925), Code of the West (1934), and West of the Pecos (1937).
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 Zane Grey: Maverick Heart
Athens, Ohio—Stephen May paints a portrait of Zane Grey as an outdoorsman, angler, explorer, ocean voyager, and desert sage in MAVERICK HEART: The Further Adventures of Zane Grey, to be published October 15, 2000, by Ohio University Press.
Grey's harsh boyhood may have fueled his ambition, but he became a man who was as complex as his stories were simple.
Grey fell in love with Tahiti and returned there repeatedly; his Tales of Tahitian Waters (1931) is an absorbing narrative of the South Pacific's pioneer anglers and of Grey's love for tropical seas.
www.angelfire.com /trek/zanegrey/maverick.html   (2581 words)

  
 Zane Grey and Duck Key in the Florida Keys
Grey was not only drawn by the marvelous fishing on his frequent trips to the Florida Keys, but found Long Key a quiet place to write.
Zane Grey was a pioneer when it came to fishing the flats of the nearby islands such as Duck Key for permit and bonefish.
Grey considered permit to be a delicious dinner catch, and unlike today's fishermen thought bonefish, despite the many bones that gives this fish its popular name, to be a succulent gourmet treat of firm white meat.
www.duckkeyonline.com /duck_key_history/zane_grey.htm   (1750 words)

  
 Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River - Zane Grey Museum: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Grey's baseball prowess led to a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania's Dental Department.
Zane's study and office were decorated with a frieze of Navajo sandpainting and Hopi kachina doll designs, painted by Dolly's cousin, Lillian Wilhelm.
Zane Grey died October 23, 1939, at the age of 67.
www.nps.gov /upde/zgmuseum01.htm   (871 words)

  
 Zane Grey
In his works Grey presented the West as a moral battle ground, in which his characters are destroyed because of their unableness to change or redeemed through a final confrontation with their past.
Grey's semioutlaw heroes were his most interesting creation, among them Lassiter in Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), a gunman who has lost a girl he loved to a Mormon preacher, and Buck Duane, the agonized killer of Lone Star Ranger (1915).
Grey's books dealt with settlers, cowboys, desperadoes, Indians, cattle drives, the advance of technology, family feuds, feuds between cattlemen and sheepherders, the bison hunting (The Thundering Herd), the defeat of the American Indian - all the aspects of West that later generations of writers and filmmakers utilized.
www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.119   (1382 words)

  
 Zane Grey: Altadena
Zane was so taken with the beauty and precociousness of both my father and his sister, Rachela, that he made arrangements for both the children to meet with studio heads.
The Zane Grey Mansion was built in 1907 by Arthur Woodward, a wealthy inventor from the Chicago area.
Zane Grey dies in the house on October 23, 1939 and the home remained occupied by the Grey family until 1970.
www.angelfire.com /trek/zanegrey/altadena.html   (1797 words)

  
 Thomas H. Pauly / Zane Grey
Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty.
Zane Grey's personal life was as colorful as his best novels.
The revelations about Grey’s blue cache of journals and photos—and about Grey’s considerable harem of mistresses, who openly shared him with his wife and one another—make Thomas H. Pauly’s biography a major correction to the wholesome image Grey enjoyed for almost a century.
www.press.uillinois.edu /f05/pauly.html   (597 words)

  
 Zane Grey
This study assesses the Zane Grey phenomenon by examining Grey’s romantic novels in the context of his life and era.
Grey, whose roots were in Zanesville, Ohio, was the son of a dentist and practiced dentistry himself in his early adulthood.
In Zane Grey: Romancing the West, author Stephen J. May traces the career of Grey by analyzing the development of his novels and popularity and the degree to which that shaped his world.
www.ohiou.edu /oupress/zanegrey.htm   (247 words)

  
 The Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel in Avalon Santa Catalina Island California in Jetsetters Magazine at ...
Little did Zane Grey know, as he penned over 80 western novels in his home on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California, that the house he designed in 1929 would someday be a charming bed-and-breakfast inn.
Zane Grey wrote this splendidly thrilling sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage in 1915, but for almost 90 years it has existed in a profoundly censored version....
To the Last Man is Zane Grey's archetypal tale of a bitter feud between two unforgiving factions: the ranchers led by Jean Isbel and Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers....
www.jetsettersmagazine.com /archive/jetezine/bandb/california/zane/grey.html   (1308 words)

  
 Writer Zane Grey
Although Zane Grey never permanently lived in the Upper Keys, he spent many winters writing and fishing from his cottage at the Long Key Fishing Club.
Below - Pearl Zane Gray was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1872 and went to the University of Pennsylvania Dental School under name Pearl Zane Grey.
Now as Zane Grey he wrote Spirit of the Border, The Last Trail, the Last of the Plainsmen, The Short Stop, The Heritage of the Desert and the Riders of the Purple Sage, but had difficulties having them published.
www.keyshistory.org /artzanegrey.html   (414 words)

  
 Welcome to Zane Grey Collections!
Zane’s determination is beautifully captured in a detail only befitting the father of modern big-game fishing.
Whether a Zane Grey themed collector or a Chris Barela fan, at four feet long, by over two feet high, this piece is guaranteed to be THE focal point of any collector’s presentations, and is available now for $17,950.
As a child, Zane’s son Dr. Loren Grey, took part in many of the odysseys that are so vividly recounted within the pages of these writings.
www.zanegreycollections.com /whatsnew.html   (630 words)

  
 Zane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Zane Grey (January 31, EHandler: no quick summary.
Riders of the purple sage is zane greys best-known novel....
Zane Grey died in 1939 and was interred at the Union Cemetery in Lackawaxen, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/z/za/zane_grey.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Tantor Audio Books : Zane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The prolific American writer, Zane Grey was the pioneer of the new, Western literary genre.
Born with the name Pearl Grey in Zanesville, Ohio in 1872, he was the son of a farmer and part time preacher.
Grey used his formula where a mysterious outlaw fights to protect the innocent and the good, in many novels.
www.tantor.com /AuthorDetail.asp?Author=Grey_Z   (252 words)

  
 Zane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Zane Grey received its title from the famous adventure author who kept a cabin in the heart of the area.
The Zane Grey is the largest BLM roadless area in southern Oregon and northern California.
The Zane Grey is also known to be an important area for migrating anadromous fish.
www.oregonwild.org /zanegrey.html   (378 words)

  
 Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River - Zane Grey Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Zane Grey Museum will be open from 12 noon to 4:00 pm on Saturday January 29th to remember Zane Grey's January 31st, 1872 Birthday.
Zane Grey lived in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, from 1905 until 1918.
Today, Grey's home from 1914-18 is preserved by the National Park Service as part of Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River.
www.nps.gov /upde/zgmuseum.htm   (203 words)

  
 Grey, Zane on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
GREY, ZANE [Grey, Zane] 1872-1939, American writer of Western stories, b.
Zane Grey and images of the American West.
This week, Zane Grey's heroine in `Call of the Canyon' leaves her heart behind.(Features)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/grey-z1an.asp   (345 words)

  
 Zane Grey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Zane Grey Museum, former home of the famed Western author, is just a hop, skip and a jump away from the Roebling Bridge and a fun place to visit if you...
The Zane Grey Lounge at the World Wide Sportsman, MM 80.5 in Islamorada, is to host cocktails and dinner on Monday, July 10, and appetizers and refreshments on...
Described as "Zane Grey meets Stephen King," the comedy/Western/splatterfest has characters with names like Shedevil (who sports hair the color of a "throwed...
www.wikiverse.org /zane-grey   (698 words)

  
 Zane Grey
Grey graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in dentistry in 1896, and practiced in New York City until 1904.
Grey's first book, BETTY ZANE, was turned down by several published, and in 1904 Grey published it privately.
Grey died on October 23, 1939, in Altadena.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /zgrey.htm   (1779 words)

  
 The River Reporter Online - Celebrating Zane Grey
The Zane Grey West Society, in conjunction with the National Park Service (NPS), is hosting a party to commemorate the centennial celebration of “A Day on the Delaware,” just in time for Grey’s birthday.
Grey was born on January 31, 1872 and grew up in Ohio, the son of a dentist.
Park rangers and Zane Grey West Society members plan an informal presentation on the theme of the Delaware and the author’s first publication.
www.riverreporter.com /issues/02-01-17/zanegrey.htm   (537 words)

  
 Zane Grey Country Tour by Tour the Southwest .com USA
On this tour you will visit the stomping grounds were the famous western novelist and screenplay writer Zane Grey wrote many of his books.
The Zane Grey Museum has an extensive collection of memorabilia and artifacts destined for an onsite museum to be built among the large 280-acre pine setting of Mormon Lake Lodge.
They have an excellent presentation on Zane Grey including many of his personal items such as chaps, saddle, guns, books and posters.
www.tourthesouthwest.com /zane_grey_tour.html   (484 words)

  
 TomFolio.com - Author Biography: Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Grey (that first name was used very seldom, and his books invariably were authored by "Zane Grey") wrote, for the most part, Western American fiction.
Although Harper is known to have been reasonably consistent in applying their stated first edition identification rules, the Zane Grey books they published contain a surprising number of exceptions.
Since the glassine was plain and therefore easily replaced, these jackets add a comparatively small amount to the value of these reprints (that is, small compared to the value of jackets on fiction as a rule) although they do provide significant protection to the easily soiled covers which are also prone to wear.
www.tomfolio.com /authorinfo/authors/ZaneGrey.asp   (1015 words)

  
 The Payson Roundup: 'Rarest' Zane Grey book donated to cabin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dick Wolfe, president of the Zane Grey Cabin Foundation, said this inscribed copy of "Betty Zane," the Western novelist's first book, is literally worth a small fortune.
Jarboe's husband was a great fan of Zane Grey, and she frequently bought him books by the Western novelist as gifts.
Despite the expense of Grey's rare leather-bound popular novels, Wheeler said the foundation's copy of "Betty Zane" might very well be the most valuable Zane Grey book of all.
www.paysonroundup.com /section/localnews/story/18581   (851 words)

  
 The Payson Roundup: Historic Zane Grey cabin rises from ashes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Members of the Zane Grey Cabin Foundation were on hand for the dedication of the site where a historic replica of the noted western novelist's "hunting lodge" will be built.
Grey hired "Babe" Haught, who had served as his hunting guide, to build him a cabin where he could hunt and write.
The treasures that were saved, including a book autographed by Grey, his hat, chaps, bridle and guns, 10 first-edition books, movie posters and a handwritten manuscript, will be on display at the replica cabin.
www.paysonroundup.com /section/frontpage_lead/story/14274   (795 words)

  
 Letter from Zane Grey
The sequel to "Riders of the Purple Sage" is the "Rainbow Trail."
I recently found a letter that was written by Zane Grey to my father’s sister, Clera Phelps, in April 1935.
Grey, but looked up the book he referenced in the letter and found this website.
www.erbzine.com /zanegrey/letters.html   (275 words)

  
 Ohio Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Grey was a descendant of the Zane family that founded the city of Zanesville, Ohio.
He was a noted author of westerns but also wrote on other subjects, including fishing, baseball, and his family's history.
His first novel, Betty Zane (1903), was a story based on one of his ancestors.
ohiobio.org /grey.htm   (59 words)

  
 Zane Grey Tribute Site
Zane Grey (1872-1939) was the best-selling author of over 85 books which have sold well over 100 million copies worldwide.
Most of these books drew upon the American Old West or the great outdoors for inspiration and are acknowledged as some of the best Western adventure novels ever written.
Zane Grey Comics II: King of the Royal Mounted and BLBs
www.angelfire.com /trek/zanegrey   (177 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Zane Grey
In his works, Grey presented the West as a moral battle ground, in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or be redeemed through a final confrontation with their past.
Unlike many of Grey's fictional novels of the old west, this is an account of a trip made to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon about 1908, for the purpose of tracking and capturing mountain lions.
Zane Grey's gritty tales of law and disorder have earned him the reputation of a great American storyteller.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/ZaneGreyeBooks.htm   (1594 words)

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