From a master storyteller of Old West adventures comes this novel of romance and redemption. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage, introduces Hell-Bent Wade, a gunfighter with a shadowy past. Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. Rancher Bill believes that marriage to Columbine, his foster daughter, will steady his wild and unruly son, Jack. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty and affection for the old man, who raised her as his own child, and her blossoming love for a young ranch hand, Wilson Moore. Columbine's ... Read More
From a master storyteller of Old West adventures comes this novel of romance and redemption. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage, introduces Hell-Bent Wade, a gunfighter with a shadowy past. Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. Rancher Bill believes that marriage to Columbine, his foster daughter, will steady his wild and unruly son, Jack. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty and affection for the old man, who raised her as his own child, and her blossoming love for a young ranch hand, Wilson Moore. Columbine's ... Read More
Description
From a master storyteller of Old West adventures comes this novel of romance and redemption. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage, introduces Hell-Bent Wade, a gunfighter with a shadowy past. Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. Rancher Bill believes that marriage to Columbine, his foster daughter, will steady his wild and unruly son, Jack. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty and affection for the old man, who raised her as his own child, and her blossoming love for a young ranch hand, Wilson Moore. Columbine's dilemma seems impossible to resolve — until tragedy, fate, and the mysterious rider intervene. Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this story's spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontier's natural beauty.
Reprint of the Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1921 edition.
Details
Price: $6.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
Publication Date: 17th September 2014
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486784663
Format: Paperback
Age: 14-99
BISACs: FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century FICTION / Westerns FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century FICTION / Classics
Author Bio
American author Pearl Zane Grey (1872–1939) is best known for his popular adventure novels and their idealized images of the Old West. His successful books, including Riders of the Purple Sage, achieved second lives with adaptations for television and more than 100 movies.
From a master storyteller of Old West adventures comes this novel of romance and redemption. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage, introduces Hell-Bent Wade, a gunfighter with a shadowy past. Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. Rancher Bill believes that marriage to Columbine, his foster daughter, will steady his wild and unruly son, Jack. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty and affection for the old man, who raised her as his own child, and her blossoming love for a young ranch hand, Wilson Moore. Columbine's dilemma seems impossible to resolve — until tragedy, fate, and the mysterious rider intervene. Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this story's spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontier's natural beauty.
Reprint of the Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1921 edition.
Price: $6.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
Publication Date: 17th September 2014
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486784663
Format: Paperback
Age: 14-99
BISACs: FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century FICTION / Westerns FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century FICTION / Classics
American author Pearl Zane Grey (1872–1939) is best known for his popular adventure novels and their idealized images of the Old West. His successful books, including Riders of the Purple Sage, achieved second lives with adaptations for television and more than 100 movies.
