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The Mysterious Rider : Illustrated
The Mysterious Rider (1921), a western novel by Zane Grey.From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this story’s spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontier’s natural beauty. Hell-Bent Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. The plot centers around this young woman, an orphan named Columbine, who is entrapped by her allegiances into considering marriage to the drunkard son of her adopted father. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty and affection for the old man, who raised her as his own child, and her blossoming love for a young ranch hand, Wilson Moore. Columbine’s dilemma seems impossible to resolve – until tragedy, fate, and the mysterious rider intervene.
344 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 16, 2022
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Zane Grey
2,069 books590 followersPearl Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. As of June 2007, the Internet Movie Database credits Grey with 110 films, one TV episode, and a series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater based loosely on his novels and short stories.
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November 13, 2025
Zane Grey's descriptions of the great outdoors are powerful and vivid. When a landscape is lush and aromatic, you know it; the same holds for when things are bleak. After re-reading this book, Columbines are back on my Spring planting list.
Characters are strongly typed; the Good Guys have a code and the Bad Guys earn their black hats. You will not find any Blazing Saddles campfire scenes in a Zane Grey Western.
It is not difficult to understand why Zane Grey was something of a literary rock star in the emergent Era of electricity, radio. automobiles and flight. There was an abundance of disruptive technologies, any of which could cause a tech-weary audience to seek some quality time immersed in a story about the good old days. Tech-weary readers of today might benefit from reading Zane Grey as well.
Characters are strongly typed; the Good Guys have a code and the Bad Guys earn their black hats. You will not find any Blazing Saddles campfire scenes in a Zane Grey Western.
It is not difficult to understand why Zane Grey was something of a literary rock star in the emergent Era of electricity, radio. automobiles and flight. There was an abundance of disruptive technologies, any of which could cause a tech-weary audience to seek some quality time immersed in a story about the good old days. Tech-weary readers of today might benefit from reading Zane Grey as well.
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