Spirit of the Border - Softcover

Zane Grey

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786022639 ISBN 13: 9780786022632

Publisher: Pinnacle Books,U.S., 2010

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Jim and Joe Downs came from Virginia - one led by the call of God, the other by a thirst for adventure. In the Ohio River Valley, the handsome young preacher and his rogue and charming brother entered a storm of Indian wars, white men's treachery, and into the wilderness of a legendary fighter whose enemies knew him as the 'Deathwind...' In this classic novel by America's greatest Western writer, the true life and times of Lewis Wetzel - a character every bit as towering as Daniel Boone - is set against the extraordinary saga of Jim and Joe Downs. As the two brothers make very different choices, as one woman loves them both, they will both learn, win and lose in the presence of a man larger than life - fighting a war all his own...

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About the Author:

Zane Greyis noted for his careful research and accurate portrayal of the American West. Grey s first book was published in 1904, and he went on to write more than 50 novels, most of them tales of adventure with a Western setting, includingThe Last of the Plainsmen(1908), Riders of the Purple Sage(1912), The Thundering Herd(1925), Code of the West (1934), andWest of the Pecos(1937). His nonfiction works includeTales of Fishing(1925). Many of Grey's novels continue to be extremely popular, and several have been adapted into motion pictures."

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