To the Last Man
by Zane Grey
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Imagine if Romeo and Juliet were set among the sheep ranching families of Arizona. Add in a heavy dash of frontier action and adventure, and that neatly sums up the plot of Zane Grey's To the Last Man, which follows a blossoming romance among members of feuding clans in the vast open plains of the Wild West..
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Zane's preface explains that he wanted to at least once cover one of the many famous family feuds, here the Jorth's and Isbel's of Arizona. He also writes about idealism and romance: "Romance is only another name for idealism and I contend that life without ideals is not worth living."
To The Last Man,1921, Zane Grey, Walter J. Black, Inc., Zane Grey Book Club Matched Set, hardcover, 1975?,abridged version of Tonto Basin (2004)
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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
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- Original publication date
- 1922; 1921-05-28 (Country Gentleman) (Country Gentleman)
- People/Characters
- Jean Isbel; Ellen Jorth; Gaston Isbel; Lee Jorth; John Sprague; Simm Bruce (show all 7); Jim Colter
- Important places
- Arizona, USA; Grass Valley, Arizona, USA.
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- To the Last Man (1933 | IMDb)
- First words
- At the end of a dry, uphill ride over barren country Jean Isbel unpacked to camp at the edge of the cedars where a little rocky cañon, green with willow and cottonwood, promised water and grass.
Foreward: It was inevitable that in my efforts to write romantic history of the great West I should at length come to the story of a feud. For long I have steered clear of this rock. - - - - - - - Suffice it to say that t... (show all)his romance is true to my conception of this war, and I base it upon the setting I learned to know and love so well, upon the strange passions of primative people, and upon my instinctive reaction to the facts and rumors that I gathered. Z. G. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"But I can kneel with you!..."
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