The Last Trail by Zane Grey, Fiction, Westerns, Historical - Hardcover

Grey, Zane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1603129227 ISBN 13: 9781603129220

Publisher: Aegypan, 2007

Synopsis

. . . . They are nearly 18 miles from Fort Henry and they worry for their lives. Fortunately, for them, Jonathan Zane and his companion were dispatched by Colonel Zane to search for them and they reach Fort Henry safely.

Helen Sheppard's family goes to Fort Henry to start a new life. She has many young men who are interested in her. One especially seems obsessed with her, a Mr. Brandt from Detroit. Helen, however, finds him crass and ungentlemanly. She finds Jonathan Zane quite alluring, but because of his frontiersman upbringing, he has very little proper manners. His gruff mannerisms upset Helen. Then Helen overhears Mr. Brandt talk of a plan which involves the guide Mr. Sheppard had hired to bring them to Fort Henry. A plan that involves her abduction. Rather than run back to the fort and risk capture, she runs into the forest to find Jonathan Zane, who is on patrol. And she must find them before Mr. Brandt and his men manage to steal everything from Fort Henry and destroy the lives of everyone who lives there.

Zane Grey is best known for writing over ninety pulp and adventure novels set in the romanticized Old West. His novels include Lone Star Rangers and Riders of the Purple Sage. He is an inductee Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The Last Trail is the sequel to Spirit of the Border.

About this title

About the Author:

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) was an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, they had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

From School Library Journal:

YA--Helen Sheppard and her father left Williamsburg, VA, to start a new life in the Ohio Valley. Her father's friend, Col. Ebenezer Zane, met them at Fort Henry after a terrifying close encounter with Indians that ended peacefully when two bordermen, Jonathan Zane and Lew Wetzel, stepped out of the forest to rescue them. Helen is intrigued by Jonathan Zane and he with her. As the story unfolds, this love affair mingles with the tale of the early days of the Ohio Valley. Indian resentment against the encroaching white men, an obsessive lover, horse rustlers, and plain folks trying to build homesteads out of the wilderness are brought to life by Grey's fine storytelling skills. This is a reprint of the last volume of the author's "Ohio River Trilogy," published in 1909; however, the book stands alone. An interesting foreword written by Grey's son, Loren, tells much about the writer. A good story that would make great historical fiction reading for an American-history assignment.

Linda A. Vretos, West Springfield High School, Springfield, VA

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About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1603129227
• ISBN 13: 9781603129220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176