Author: GREY, ZANE
Title: The Spirit of the Border, a Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley
Description: A. L. Burt, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by J Watson Davis. Hardcover with red print. shows soiling. Pages soiling/browning due to age. Illustrations clear and bright. No writing, underlining or highlighting to text. Former owners name is written in front on endpaper. "Novels by Zane Grey crystallized a set of symbols for the American West in the minds of his millions of readers. He infused the frontier myth with vivid imagery of a sublime and beautiful landscape inhabited by heroic cowboys, deadly gunmen, polygamous Mormons, and noble Indians. He also localized the myth in and along the southern margin of the Colorado Plateau, so that this landscape became the quintessential West."(Geographical review, v.85,no 2, Ap 1995); B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 266 pages. Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Adventure Novel, Legendary Author, Western Genre, Pearl Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Romance Novel, Cowboy, Outlaws, American West, Western Myth, Wild West


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