zane grey

     

This author's 1st book, "Betty Zane", was an historical novel about his mother's ancestors

Trivia about zane grey

  • "The Mysterious Rider", "To the Last Man" & "The Call of the Canyon" were some of his 1920s top westerns
  • He had one of his western novels in the Top 10 list every year from 1917 to 1924
  • Appropriately enough, this writer of Westerns was born in Zanesville in 1872
  • His first book, "Betty Zane", was a historical novel about one of his ancestors
  • This bestselling Western author's 1920s novels included "The Call of the Canyon" & "The Mysterious Rider"
  • 1904's "Betty Zane" was his first published novel--makes sense
  • Fittingly, his "Riders of the Purple Sage" has been accused of having purple prose

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