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Heritage of the Desert
Zane Grey
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Jack Hare is a young cowboy who was rescued from sure death by an old settler by the name of August Naab. Hare learns that Naab's ranch is a dangerous place and is challenged by cattle thieves and a corrupt rancher who is after Naab's water rights. The greatest danger Hare faces though, is over Mescal, a half-Navajo shepherdess who is already promised in marriage to Naab's first-born son. Hare must stop the marriage, but can't kill the son of his benefactor, August Naab...until a gun battle with rustlers brings the two face-to-face over drawn pistols.
Jack Hare is a young cowboy who was rescued from sure death by an old settler by the name of August Naab. Hare learns that Naab's ranch is a dangerous place and is challenged by cattle thieves and a corrupt rancher who is after Naab's water rights. The greatest danger Hare faces though, is over Mescal, a half-Navajo shepherdess who is already promised in marriage to Naab's first-born son. Hare must stop the marriage, but can't kill the son of his benefactor, August Naab...until a gun battle with rustlers brings the two face-to-face over drawn pistols.
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Community Reviews
I am interested in the history of the Lee's Ferry and House Rock Valley areas of Arizona. I knew that Zane Grey had spent time there and that this story was loosely based on the people he knew there, primarily Jim Emet. So this was part of my enjoyment of the book, but I was surprised how much I lik
Thanks to my GR friends, Scott Rhee, and Ron Scheer, I gave Zane Grey another chance by reading The Heritage of the Desert. Scott has written a great review of Riders of the Purple Sage, a novel I had abandoned because of its anti-Mormonism. Ron commented that Heritage of the Desert provides a more
Zane Grey came from a distinguished family, however this was way back during the Revolutionary War, his ancestors fought well and bravely , brought glory... His birthplace Zanesville, Ohio named after them, yet they were unremarkable financially speaking, his father a dentist and he too ...for a sho
Without a doubt Silver Mane, a wild mustang desert stallion, is the hero of The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey. This seriocomic narrative takes place on the desolate plains of southern Utah in the mid-1870’s. Sheep and beef dominate the high western plains and water is the only drawback. As in
Boy, can Zane Grey paint a picture with words.. absolutely amazing descriptions of the desert abound in this book... perhaps too many.
The actual story is not a surprise at all, and the action actually gets skipped over... so if you're looking for a spaghetti western in a book, this definitely isn't
Great classic western by the guy who practically invented the genre. The Log of the Cowboy, by Andy Adams, and The Virginian, by Owen Wister, maybe came out first, but it's Zane Grey whose books have everything we think of as belonging to a western, and there's not many westerns written today who do
Good read
Ageless story makes one want to sleep under the stars. Zane Grey causes one to relive history. Read and enjoy
I appreciate that the local Navajo Indians in this Western were all portrayed as friendly to a gentle Mormon rancher. The romance that was woven into this water rights and cattle rustling story was between the main character and the adopted daughter (half American Indian / half Spanish) of the ranch