MAX BRAND, THE CABIN IN THE PINES (1922)
WOLF AND MASTIFF!
Babe Rourke and Angus Cairn are two giants among men whose similarly large reputations make them adversaries before they actually meet. Their enmity goes through several permutations after a chance encounter occurs in a cabin in the pines. (Definitive text from The Overland Kid, 2003)
Babe Rourke and Angus Cairn are two giants among men whose similarly large reputations make them adversaries before they actually meet. Their enmity goes through several permutations after a chance encounter occurs in a cabin in the pines. (Definitive text from The Overland Kid, 2003)
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Zane Grey's The Heritage of the Desert--How Zane Grey became an author
When Ripley Hitchcock handed Zane Grey a contract in 1910 for Heritage of the Desert, Grey knew he had arrived as an author. He kept the contract through the years as a treasured memento. Selling the
When Ripley Hitchcock handed Zane Grey a contract in 1910 for Heritage of the Desert, Grey knew he had arrived as an author. He kept the contract through the years as a treasured memento. Selling the first novel to a major publisher was not easy, but it would set the standard as to how Grey’s manuscripts were handled. First, Hitchcock insisted on numerous changes in the story. Then, because magazine publication usually was necessary before book publication, Hitchcock sent the story to Street & Smith’s The Popular Magazine where The Heritage of the Desert ran in five installments in 1910. Then, Harper’s published Hitchcock’s heavily edited manuscript in book form.
For more, read my Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature, available at Amazon. ...more
For more, read my Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature, available at Amazon. ...more
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