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The Young Forester

Zane Grey

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Mounting Hal, I rode down the forest to the point where I had seen the men, and there came upon a trail. I proceeded along this in the direction the men had taken. I had come again to the slow-rising level that I had noted earlier in my morning's journey. After several miles a light or opening in the forest ahead caused me to use more caution. As I rode forward I saw a vast area of tree-tops far below, and then I found myself on the edge of a foot-hill.

Right under me was a wide, yellow, bare spot, miles across, a horrible slash in the green forest, and in the middle of it, surrounded by stacks on stacks of lumber, was a great sawmill.

I stared in utter amazement. A sawmill on Penetier! Even as I gazed a train of fresh-cut lumber trailed away into the forest.





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Community Reviews

Just to change things up a bit I read this 100 year old book (original edition!) which came across my path. I don't normally read westerns, but this book had a premise unique to western novels that piqued my interest. The hero is an aspiring young forester promoting sustainable forestry practices (w

Very descriptive writing style with believable characters and plot. Fast paced and held my interest though I don't normally read Western genre.

Since I own a collection of Zane Grey novels (the first 42, in fact), I decided to read the first few this year in publication order. I have enjoyed them a great deal despite the fact that Grey has a tendency to loquaciously overwrite the setting, but I find that more than acceptable when one consid

I particularly liked this book because of the stance it takes on forests, conservation, and all of the ramifications of taking proper care of the nature that this world has provided us with. It talks of a young man who goes west from Pennsylvania for the summer, gets into a fix here and there and al

The Young Forester is one of the most simply constructed plots that I've read of Zane Grey's western romance novels. It has also contains something new, though, that adds to its readability: the protagonist wants to enter a career path new to America--that of the forester, of protecting and nurturin

I love all of Zane Grey's books, and it was interesting to remember as i was reading this one that it was one of his firsts. I learned a lot about trees!

OKAY FINE. I liked it.

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