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Fiction · 1914

The Light of the Western Stars

Zane Grey

Reading time
about 9 h
Length
123,851 words · 434 pages
Structure
25 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Modern

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

  1. Epigraph
  2. I — A Gentleman of the Range
  3. II — A Secret Kept
  4. III — Sister and Brother
  5. IV — A Ride from Sunrise to Sunset
  6. V — The Round-Up
  7. VI — A Gift and a Purchase
  8. VII — Her Majesty’s Rancho
  9. VIII — El Capitan
  10. IX — The New Foreman
  11. X — Don Carlos’s Vaqueros
  12. XI — A Band of Guerrillas
  13. XII — Friends from the East
  14. XIII — Cowboy Golf
  15. XIV — Bandits
  16. XV — The Mountain Trail
  17. XVI — The Crags
  18. XVII — The Lost Mine of the Padres
  19. XVIII — Bonita
  20. XIX — Don Carlos
  21. XX — The Sheriff of El Cajon
  22. XXI — Unbridled
  23. XXII — The Secret Told
  24. XXIII — The Light of Western Stars
  25. XXIV — The Ride
  26. XXV — At the End of the Road

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Zane Grey

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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