Zane Grey

As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.

Young welfare worker among the settlers in the southwest and her love for a wild-bee hunter.---LCCatalog Lucy Watson, a young schoolteacher, is appointed welfare instructor in a community of isolated backwoods folk. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. She is especially successful with a strong, uncouth bee-hunter. Zane Grey's handling of these primitive characters is robust and understanding.---Goodreads Lucy Watson leaves home when she finishes her schooling and joins a pioneer community in the Old West. She is appointed welfare instructor of isolated backwoods folk. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. She is especially successful with a strong, uncouth bee-hunter.---WorldCat Lovely Lucy Watson takes a job as a state welfare worker and travels to distant Cedar Ridge to help primitive backwoods families improve their lives. But amid the strapping hunters and uncouth drinkers, Lucy realizes that the life most likely to change is her own.---LibraryThing LibraryThing Member (Jul 27, 2008) MrsLee (4 of 4 Stars): Although this is written as fiction, it is easy to tell that the author lived here and loved it. The descriptions of the forest never get old and you can feel yourself there. This is like reading an adult version of Little House on the Prairie. I was expecting a Western novel, and it is that, meaning it takes place in the west, Northern Arizona, to be specific. It is not so much about cowboys. A young woman has it in her heart to do good and leaves on a mission of social welfare, employed by the state, to go into the wilderness and teach the backwoods people how to be civilized. Little does she expect that they will change her in more ways than she knows. This could read like a romance, but it is so much more, filled with information about the pioneering days of Arizona, the conflict of "civilizing" people and "improving" them, the way we can hide the truth from ourselves and hurt others in the process. The protagonist, Lucy, would almost be annoying except for her willingness to examine herself and change and grow. There are honest portrayals of men in here too. Some bad, and some really fine men. I really enjoyed this story, can you tell?

Into Texas rode Ranger Vaughn Steel, hungering for revenge, thirsting for justice, and determined to wipe out the rustlers of Pecos County.

An overview of the geography, history, people, and customs of the second coldest state in the nation.

Lynn Weston, a rich man's son, proves his manhood with the rough crew building the Boulder Dam but the real trouble starts when gangsters plan to blow the Dam sky-high!

The story of a foundling Columbine torn between her love for a good man and the duty of following her adopted father's plea to marry his morally twisted son and reform him. The arrival then on the scene of a man who is a good man but brings his own sorrow with him. he becomes her friend and guides her steps in making her decision between her love and duty.

From the book:In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground - Wyoming - where the herds of buffalo grazed and the wolf was lord and the camp-fire of the trapper sent up its curling blue smoke from beside some lonely stream; on and on over the barren lands of eternal monotony, all so gray and wide and solemn and silent under the endless sky; on, ever on, up to the bleak, black hills and into the waterless gullies and through the rocky gorges where the deer browsed and the savage lurked; then slowly rising to the pass between the great bold peaks, and across the windy uplands into Utah, with its verdant valleys, green as emeralds, and its haze-filled canons and wonderful wind-worn cliffs and walls, and its pale salt lakes, veiled in the shadows of stark and lofty rocks, dim, lilac-colored, austere, and isolated; ever onward across Nevada, and ever westward, up from desert to mountain, up into California, where the white streams rushed and roared and the stately pines towered, and seen from craggy heights, deep down, the little blue lakes gleamed like gems; finally sloping to the great descent, where the mountain world ceased and where, out beyond the golden land, asleep and peaceful, stretched the illimitable Pacific, vague and grand beneath the setting sun.

Fleeing persecution, Fay Larkin is held prisoner in a hidden canyon near the Mormon village of “sealed” wives. Trespassers face a gory death, but Fay’s fiance John Shefford will stop at nothing to get her back. Encountering villainous characters and rough terrain, he goes up against the odds – even without a gun! – to save his beautiful wife-to-be.

Riders of the Purple Sage is a novel that tells the story of a woman by the name of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church. A leader of the church, Elder Tull, wants to marry her, but she has evaded him for years. Things get complicated when Bern Venters and Lassiter, a famous gunman and killer of Mormons help her look after her cattle and horses. She is blinded by her faith to see that her church men are the ones harming her. But when her adopted child disappears... she abandons her beliefs and discovers her true love. The plot deepens and it involves a horse race and a decision to whether to roll a large stone that forever closes off the only way in or out of her hiding place. A second plot involves a innocent girl Bern Venters accidentally shot…or is she innocent?! The lives of all these people intertwine ….past…present and future! Preceded by Zane Grey's book: 'The Heritage of the West' and Followed by Zane Grey's book: 'The Rainbow Trail'

The words stung John Hare's fainting spirit into life. He opened his eyes. The desert still stretched before him, the appalling thing that had overpowered him with its deceiving purple distance. Near by stood a sombre group of men.

Nonnezoshe. - - Colorado trails. - - Roping lions in the Grand Canyon. - - Tonto basin. - - Death valley.

Pecos Smith, a young gunman and cowhand meets Terril Lambeth who is masquerading as a person he is not.

Two Yankee cowboys find adventure and romance while driving cattle in the Australian bush country.