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    The Heritage Of The Desert
    The Heritage Of The Desert
    The Heritage Of The Desert
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    The Heritage Of The Desert

    Written by Zane Grey

    Narrated by Gene Engene

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    John Hare lies dying in the desert until he is discovered and saved by the kind and generous rancher, August Naab. As Hare is nursed back to health on Naab’s ranch, he finds himself irresistibly attracted to Naab’s adopted daughter, Mescal. Here is a story of action and also a love story. It is a story of gunfighting, cattle rustling, fighting over waterholes, and the amazing capture of Silvermane, the magnificent stallion of the desert.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateFeb 15, 2010
    ISBN9781605486727
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    Zane Grey

    American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.

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    • 3/5
      You'll find heartfelt descriptions of the harsh, alluring deserts and canyons of Utah and Arizona. Originally published in 1915 the images still spring up with a vivid, crisp style that could only have been written by someone who had been there to be captivated by the stark beauty of it. The story is wrapped in the romance of the western tale of its time that gives glimpses of the goodness and perfidy of the people who lived there. Grey was a gifted author.
    • 3/5
      Finally! A Zane Grey novel that I found exciting and interesting. Jack Hare is found in the desert by August Naab, a Mormon, and some of his family. Naab is warned by fellow Mormon, Martin Cole, that he must stand up to local strong man, Holderness. Naab prefers to believe God will protect him and his family as long as he doesn't kill. Eventually Naab nurses Hare who is suffering from tuberculosis back to health and by hard work makes him strong and healthy as well as deadly with a gun. Hare falls in love with Naab's ward who is promised to Naab's oldest son. She flees because she doesn't wish to marry the son. Later Hare searches for her and saves her from starvation. He brings her home where the wayward son has joined the rustlers and is now his father's enemy. The son is killed by Holderness and Hare kills Holderness. There is a nice touch where Hare saves a couple of the rustlers from hanging because they were kind to his finance when she was a prisoner of the son.In the novel, Grey seems sympathetic to the Mormons although his hero Hare refuses to join the church at the novel's conclusion because of the way Mormons treat their women which based on the story's plot would mean polygamy and abuse.
    • 3/5
      In the upper half of Grey's stories, emphasizing the spiritual and natural elements of the West.