About This Book

. . . From the canyon-slope came answering shouts. There were sounds of heavy bodies breaking through brush, followed by the thudding of feet. Then men could be plainly heard running up the trail. Jim leaned against the door-post, and the three fellows before him stood rigid as stone.

Suddenly a form leaped past Jim. It was Dick Leslie, bareheaded, his hair standing like a lion's mane, and he had a cocked rifle in his hands. Close behind him came old Hiram Bent, slower, more cautious, but no less formidable. As these men glanced around with fiery eyes the quick look of relief that shot across their faces told of ungrounded fears . . .

About Zane Grey

(1875-1939) Zane Gray was perhaps the most successful writer of Western novels in the world. Born in Zanesville, Ohio, he was a New York dentist until 1904, after which he authored some 60 novels of the old west, including Riders of the Purple Sage," "The Lone Star Ranger," "Code of the West, and "West of the Pecos." Many of his novels were made into films, and many continue to be best-sellers, over 60 years after their author's death.