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| | 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. |
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