Shadow on the Trail
by Zane Grey
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Traveling with a new name and a new face, Wade Holden, the triggerman responsible for the fall of the notorious Simm Bell gang, rides far and wide carving out the life of a feared and respected gunman. Tired of shooting, riding, and fighting, all he wants now is to settle down on the ranch for a nice, peaceful life. But the Texas Rangers are on his tail in a ride for vengeance, daring Wade to one last fight for his dream - and his life.Tags
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One of my all-time favorite westerns. One of Dad's favorites, too. He told me he first read it in high school in the '50s, and loved it. He's since read it twice more, once in the early '60s to my Mom, and then again in 2010. He gave me this copy, along with the entire Zane Grey collection that Mom bought for him the first couple of years they were married. I'll definitely read this one again.
Very much a dime-store paperback story.
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Zane Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray in 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. He studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, married Lina Elise Roth in 1905, then moved his family west where he began to write novels. The author of 86 books, he is today considered the father of the Western genre, with its heady romances and mysterious outlaws. Riders show more of the Purple Sage (1912) brought Grey his greatest popular acclaim. Other notable titles include The Light of Western Stars (1914) and The Vanishing American (1925). An extremely prolific writer, he often completed three novels a year, while his publisher would issue only one at a time. Twenty-five of his novels were published posthumously. His last, The Reef Girl, was published in 1977. Zane Grey died of heart failure on October 23 in Altadena, California, in 1939. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Shadow on the Trail
- Original publication date
- 1946
- People/Characters
- Wade Brandon Holden (Tex Brandon); Simm Bell; Randall Blue (Band Drake); Cap Mahaffey; Jacqueline Pencarrow; Bill Catlin (show all 9); Rona Pencarrow; Hogue Kinsey; Elwood Lightfoot
- Important places
- Mercer, Texas, USA; Cedar Ranch, Arizona, USA; Pine Mound, Arizona, USA
- First words
- The whistle of the Texas Pacific express train nerved Wade Holden to dare one more argument against the unplanned holdup and robbery his chief had undertaken.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They were his to hold, to keep, to grow by, together with the endless range out there, with its blue flats and green knolls, its yellow-walled canyons, and the dim red shadows in the desert distance.
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- English, French, Slovenian, Spanish
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 27
- ASINs
- 21
