Synopsis
The U.P. Trail is one of Zane Grey's most detailed and panoramic Western novels and in addition to being first rate historical fiction it is a gripping story of romance and adventure. The trail in this instance is the quest to build the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860s across remote and rugged stretches of the West. It is a portrait of the incredibly brave, tough Irish laborers whose hands laid the ties and drove the spikes; of the defiant Sioux, doomed to be driven back by the infernal iron horse of the white man; of the free-spirited trappers who also dreaded the coming of the rails into their virgin wilderness and of the violent, hellish camp-towns that sprang up and vanished again and again along the route of the advancing railroad. But above all, it is the story of the romance between little Allie, who survives the hideous massacre of her wagon train, and young Neale, the gifted engineer whose daring genious allows the railway to span impossible gorges and climb dizzying heights.
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About the Author
Born Pearl Zane Gray in Zanesville, OH, Zane Grey is noted for his careful research and accurate portrayal of the American West. Though Grey trained as a dentist, he turned to writing as a career in 1904, when his first book was published. Grey went on to write more than 50 novels, most of them tales of adventure with a Western setting, including The Last of the Plainsmen (1908), Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), The Thundering Herd (1925), Code of the West (1934), and West of the Pecos (1937). His nonfiction works include Tales of Fishing (1925). Many of Grey s novels continue to be extremely popular, and several have been adapted into motion pictures.
Review
“A story that flows as swiftly and irresistibly as the Colorado River. His West is the rainbow land we visit in spirit when the job palls. The wild, lonely, fearfully beautiful Arizona desert has never been better done.”―The New York Times on The Call of the Canyon
“It is the railroad that is the center of interest, that is both hero and heroine. Grey’s pictures of the slow, determined, thwarted, triumphant progress of the line are vivid and thrilling, unforgettable.”―The New York Times on The U.P. Trail
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