Grand Canyon

by Gary McCarthy

Seeking his fortune on John Wesley Powell's epic expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, William Dunn finds short-lived happiness with a beautiful half-Havasupai woman and a perilous career as a rancher and champion of Native American rights. Original.

Paperback

First published June 1, 1996

About the author

Gary McCarthy is the author of fourteen American historical novels and thirty-four westerns published by many of New York's major publishing houses. He has over three million books in print and continues to research and write his Canyon Country novels.

Growing up with horses and living in California, Nevada and Arizona, Gary is well suited to writing about the American West. He received his B.S. degree in Animal Science and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics. He has a keen interest in Native American cultures, especially the Hopi, Navajo, Havasupai and Haulapai who live in Northern Arizona.

Gary and his wife Jane live in Arizona and have often ridden horses and hiked in the Kaibab and Coconino National Forests. Gary is always looking for new stories set in the American West and considers the research to be among his most favorite pursuits.

Reviews

[Garrett · Rating 3 out of 5]

The dialogue was pretty choppy and mechanical, so I gave it 3 stars. Still, the backdrop of the Grand Canyon and its time period (1870-1920) makes it worth reading. It begins with Powell's first expedition through and ends with the Grand Canyon Lodge and El Tovar.

[RAW · Rating 4 out of 5]

Getting so excited to head here in a month!! Listened to this on Hoopla when I should have been reading my book club book.

Excellent yarn of Grand Canyon history which fed ones imaginations as well as entertained. As always I love historical fiction and this one wove a lot of it in. Fun characters and hard lives made for a compelling read. I haven't read any westerns but this seemed like what one might be like.

[Batu · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an entertaining and enlightening look back at the Grand Canyon from 1870 to 1920, complete with all the splendor of nature and its winged, finned, and four-legged creatures, along with human treachery, love, betrayal, struggle, victory, loss, and all that being human brings with it.