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The Last of the Plainsmen

Zane Grey

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The Last of the Plainsman is about the outstanding true account of a trip made in 1909 by Zane Grey and a plainsman, Buffalo Jones, through the Grand Canyon to lasso a cougar. This part of the west was relatively wild and untamed at this time. Wolves, wild horses, buffalo and other wildlife were quite prevalent, and the Indians were not that friendly.


e the cow join eight huge, shaggy buffalo. The hunter reined in his horse, and standing high in his stirrups, held his hat at arms' length over his head. So he thrilled to a moment he had sought for two years. The last herd of American bison was near at hand. The cow would not venture far from the main herd; the eight stragglers were the old broken-down bulls that had been expelled, at this season, from the herd by younger and more vigorous bulls. The old monarchs saw the hunter at the same time his eyes were gladdened by sight of them, and lumbered away after the cow, to disappear in the gathering darkness. Frightened buffalo always make straight for their fellows; and this knowledge contented Jones to return to the lake, well satisfied that the herd would not be far away in the morning, within easy striking distance by daylight.

At dark the storm which had threatened for days, broke in a fury of rain, sleet and hail. The hunters stretched a piece of canvas over the wheels of the north side of the wagon, and wet and shivering, crawled under it to their blankets. During the night the storm raged with unabated strength.

Dawn, forbidding and raw, lightened to the whistle of the sleety gusts. Fire was out of the question. Chary of weight, the hunters had carried no wood, and the buffalo chips they used for fuel were lumps of ice. Grumbling, Adams and Rude ate a cold breakfast, while Jones, munching a biscuit, faced the biting blast from the crest of the ridge. The middle of the plain below held a ragged, circular mass, as still as stone. It was the buffalo herd, with every shaggy head to the storm. So they would stand, never budging from their tracks, till the blizzard of sleet was over.

Jones, though eager and impatient, restrained himself, for it was unwise to begin operations in the storm. There was nothing to do but wait. Ill fared the hunters that day. Food had to be eaten uncooked. The long hour

Dave 10/07/2024
I like some of his other books, this one just didn't move well and was a chore to get through
David 10/15/2020
Zane Grey, despite his considerable financial success, has never been considered a great writer. My own experience with his work has thus far been limited to Riders of the Purple Sage, a good read (see what I did there) but surely not great literature. Grey's strengths are his sense of adventure and
Joanne N. Dorsett 07/31/2020
Action & Beauty In One!

This Story is full of action from page one through to the last page! The surroundings of this story are told in great detail!
Jerimy 06/04/2020
This is a great book written from Zane Grey's perspective of a long ride he partook in with Buffalo Jones. The pages entail in detail the great length the men of this hunting expedition endured to pave the road of preserving some of the last great heard of the American Bison. There is some bloodshed
Robert 12/31/2018
The Last of the Plainsmen was a book that could have been non-fiction. It is written very much as it was intended, to give us an account of a man, Buffalo Jones, who was bigger than life in some ways and who at the same time seemed very real. The book read much like a memoir, with Zane Grey in the s
John 08/24/2018
Zane Grey narrates an experience he had with Charles Jesse Jones, known as Buffalo Jones, who is considered as one of the preservers of the American bison (as cited by the National Archives). Much of Grey's true narrative occurs in the early 1900's while Jones, Grey, and several other men pursue ill
Charles H Berlemann Jr 02/09/2017
Zane Grey is an interesting character since he grew up out east and actually is a grad of U of Pennsylvania. However, he was a prolific writer of stories of the west. Between his novels and John Ford with movies. The myth of the American West was established. This novel is a roughly sandpaper versio

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