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The U. P. Trail
Zane Grey
Book Overview:
Grey's story of the struggles to build the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1860's. Typical western characters, but placed in a factual setting. His first real attempt at historical fiction. The heroes must battle the human challenges of greed, ruthlessness, and ambition, as well as the tremendous challenges of nature, to make the rail connection between East and West.
Grey's story of the struggles to build the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1860's. Typical western characters, but placed in a factual setting. His first real attempt at historical fiction. The heroes must battle the human challenges of greed, ruthlessness, and ambition, as well as the tremendous challenges of nature, to make the rail connection between East and West.
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What then had happened? After a long absence up in the mountains he had returned to Slingerland's valley home, and to the little girl he had rescued and left there. He had left her frail, sick-minded, silent, somber, a pale victim to a horrible memory. He had found her an amazing contrast to what she had been in the past. She had grown strong, active, swift. She was as lovely as a wild rose. No dream of his idle fancy, but a fact! Then last—stirring him even as he tried to clarify and arrange this magic, this mystery—had come the unbelievable, the momentous and dazzling assurance that she loved him. It was so plain that it s. . . Read More
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3.5 stars rounded down.
I debated what I should rate this. It was hard to decide what was fair, and what I thought of the overall writing and story.
This book, in 1918, was listed as the biggest seller. It has all the elements of adventure, romance, and history. It is about the building of the Union
Quick story. My dad once pulled me along and forced me to come into the official Zane Grey Museum in Zanesville, Ohio. I'd never heard of this dude before, and I hate...I mean I HATE westerns. Now if you go to the museum, kids (at the time I was...13?) get a Zane Grey novel. Naturally, I was not thr
Zane Grey's personable telling of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, particularly through Wyoming, is a remarkable narrative, if not somewhat dramatized, containing the brutality, the greed, the courage, the fear, the loyalty, and the dedication of the men and even some women involved in th
I decided to read my first Zane Grey novel, The U. P. Trail, as a nod to my Father who loved and owned all of the Zane Grey books. This was an enjoyable, fast-moving tale filled with traditional Old West excitement. It kept my interest despite the fact that this is not even remotely my normally favo
A young woman is rescued by a cowboy and a railroad man. Soon a rivalry develops between the two for the woman's affections. This is a typical romantic western in Zane Grey's distinctive style.
"U.P." in this title stands for "Union Pacific," i.e., the Union Pacific Railroad. At the beginning of the 1860s, railroad connections in the U.S. ran no farther west than Council Bluffs, Iowa, just across the Nebraska state line from Omaha. Between that point and the new state of California stretch
Meet Allie Lee, the Most Kidnapped Lass in the West, and the sweetheart of Warren Neale, an engineer building the Union Pacific Railway. When she isn't being kidnapped and getting people killed left and right in her rescue, and when he isn't working on the railway and moping about her being kidnappe