UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks
Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices
Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!
Desert Gold
Zane Grey
How does All You Can Books work?
All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.
"How's the young man?" called a woman's voice. It was kind and mellow and earnest.
Gale heard footsteps on flagstones.
"He's asleep yet, wife," replied Belding. "Guess he was pretty much knocked out.... I'll close the door there so we won't wake him."
There were slow, soft steps, then the door softly closed. But the fact scarcely made a perceptible difference in the sound of the voices outside.
"Laddy and Jim are going to stay," went on Belding. "It'll be like the old Panhandle days a little. I'm powerful glad to have the boys, Nellie. You know I meant to sent to Casita to ask them. We'll see some trouble before the revolution is ended. I think I'll make this young man Gale an offer."
"He isn't a cowboy?" asked Mrs. Belding, quickly.
"No."
"Shore he'd make a darn good o. . . Read More
Try now for FREE!
"Love your service - thanks so much for what you do!"
- Customer Cathryn Mazer
"I did not realize that you would have so many audio books I would enjoy"
- Customer Sharon Morrison
"For all my fellow Audio Book & E-Book regulars:
This is about as close to nirvana as I have found!"
- Twitter post from @bobbyekat
Community Reviews
The story starts in black and white, a vignette of an earlier day. A few clues lead the reader to see the connection when the full color story unfolds. Full color? Plenty! Zane Grey's flowery descriptive verbal paintings give you a full mind's eye of what happens when Dick Gale steps in to help a f
Zane Grey never fails to entertain me. This book is no exception.
The prologue starts out with what seems like a chance meeting between two prospectors in the desert who discover they have more in common than just a love of the desert and a hunt for gold. Fast forward to the main character, Richard
David Koons
Best I have read since Riders of the Purple Sage. I really like the imagery. Hard to put the book down.
“Desert Gold,” tells the story of Dick Gale, a restless wanderer in the west, and George Thorne, a US Army officer, who are brought together to protect Mercedes, George’s romantic interest, who is being relentlessly pursued by a Mexican bandit named Rojas. Zane Grey’s better-known novels, such as Ri
I couldn't get through this. Found the opening compelling and it just kinda went downhill from there.
Another of Zane Grey’s books, although currently a bit over 100 years old, still seems relatively modern in writing, more, say, Agatha Christie than Henry James. This one also seemed different than the few others of Grey’s books that I’ve read recently. In this, a few of the main characters are from
This is dick lit.
Yes, dick lit, a very clever term I just coined. It means the male equivalent of chick lit.
I never really thought about it before, but it really does make sense. Westerns are male romances.
The basic plot is that a beautiful woman, Mercedes, has caught the eye of the local no-good (a
Very good book. Gave historical perspective most do not have regarding battles on border and policies of our government during that time regarding immigration.