The Border Legion
by Grey, Zane
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- This Book is in Fair condition with some wear on the covers and discoloration of pages. A previous owner's name appears on the/There is no Dust Jacket with this Book.
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Shawnee, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
This Book is one of he classic western works of the famous American Author, Zane Grey. This Book was printed in 1916 and remains in a readable condition with all pages intact. This is a book for both Zane Grey readers and collectors.
Synopsis
Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and dread beginning to knock at her heart she gazed before her at the wild and looming mountain range.
Reviews
On Apr 12 2020, a reader said:
The Border Legion has without a doubt the greatest of Zane Grey's villains--the blond beast, Gulden, whose way with women was a rope and a cave, the most vicious and depraved of the border bandits. And as in earlier works by Zane Grey this novel had to undergo many editorial changes demanded by his publisher before they would print it. Things today which seem very tame indeed, but yet his editors felt did not belong in fiction, regardless of how historically accurate Zane Grey was being to actual events upon which this book was based. When Joan Randle decides to follow her 'boyfriend' Jim Cleve after he departs because of a quarrel she finds herself captured by this outlaw gang and held, only to find out Jim has joined them as well. (She had accused Jim of not being man enough to even be bad, so he sets out to prove her wrong.) This book is a fascinating look at what happens to men, I should say, mankind, when driven by their passions and left to revert to the barbaric when the environment is one of dog eat dog i.e. "survival of the fittest" a phrase used by Darwin and popularized by Zane Grey, as he subscribed to some of Darwin's theories, as seen in many of his novels as he expressed his philosophy of life, and concerns for America in his writings. It has been said more students learned of Darwin's theory from reading Zane Grey than they did in the class room. But if one goes beyond any "hidden" agenda and reads this book as a novel of escapism and adventure and romance it is a good read I think you will enjoy.
P.S. If you want the unexpurgated version as Zane Grey wrote it buy a copy of Cabin Gulch, Five Star Westerns 2006.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Silver Wave Auctions and Sales (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24-0015
- Title
- The Border Legion
- Author
- Grey, Zane
- Illustrator
- Lillian E. Wilhelm
- Format/Binding
- Binding is in Fair condition with some loosening of the front cover and pages in the front part of the Book.
- Book Condition
- Used - This Book is in Fair condition with some wear on the covers and discoloration of pages. A previous owner's name appears on the
- Jacket Condition
- There is no Dust Jacket with this Book.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Not Specified, but print date is 1916
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1916
- Pages
- 366
- Size
- 7.5" x 5.25" x 1.25"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Western Fiction, American West, Zane Grey.
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