Fiction · 1916
The Border Legion
Joan Randle quarrels with Jim Cleve and taunts him into riding off to be as bad as any man on the border, then goes after him and rides straight into the camp of Jack Kells, whose gang is the border legion itself. Kells is a robber and worse, and he falls in love with her; she keeps herself alive by letting him believe it might be returned, and finds Jim in the same camp, sworn into the gang and not allowed to know her. Around all three is Gulden, an enormous cave-dwelling killer with no feeling of any kind, and a gold strike at Alder Creek that draws the legion to it.
Zane Grey published The Border Legion in 1916, taking the outline from the history of the Plummer gang in the Montana gold camps of the 1860s and the vigilante reckoning that ended them.
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1872–1939 · Modern
Zane Grey (1872–1939) was born in Zanesville, Ohio, and trained as a dentist at the University of Pennsylvania, practicing in New York City until 1904. He self-published his first novel, Betty Zane, that year, and left dentistry for good after The Spirit of the Border (1905) sold well; Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) made him the best-selling western writer in America, and Desert Gold followed the next year. He wrote more than eighty books in all, several published after his death in Altadena, California, and did more than any other writer to define the western as a genre.
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