The Untamed West
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The Untamed West collects three of the finest short novels by some of the greatest and most influential Western authors of all time: Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey and Max Brand. Brand's brilliant "Black Sheep," restored and corrected, is published here. "Cañon Walls" was first serialized by Zane Grey in three parts in Ladies Home Journal. The version included here was taken from Grey's manuscript and appears exactly as he intended. Louis L'Amour's "Showdown on the Hogback" was rewritten years later as "Showdown at Yellow Butte." Presented here is L'Amour's original version. Finally Western fans are able to read these landmark short novels the way the way the authors themselves wanted them to be read.
Louis L'Amour
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Zane Grey
American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.
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