Fiction · 1914
The Light of the Western Stars
The Light of the Western Stars, first published in 1914, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Epigraph
- I — A Gentleman of the Range
- II — A Secret Kept
- III — Sister and Brother
- IV — A Ride from Sunrise to Sunset
- V — The Round-Up
- VI — A Gift and a Purchase
- VII — Her Majesty’s Rancho
- VIII — El Capitan
- IX — The New Foreman
- X — Don Carlos’s Vaqueros
- XI — A Band of Guerrillas
- XII — Friends from the East
- XIII — Cowboy Golf
- XIV — Bandits
- XV — The Mountain Trail
- XVI — The Crags
- XVII — The Lost Mine of the Padres
- XVIII — Bonita
- XIX — Don Carlos
- XX — The Sheriff of El Cajon
- XXI — Unbridled
- XXII — The Secret Told
- XXIII — The Light of Western Stars
- XXIV — The Ride
- XXV — At the End of the Road
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About the author
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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