The Ranger, and Other Stories, Zane Grey
The Ranger, and Other Stories, Zane Grey
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The Ranger, and Other Stories

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: Robert G. Slade

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2019

Synopsis

Four tales of love and adventure in the Old West introduce a cast of characters that includes a brave Texas ranger who risks his life against avenging outlaws to rescue the woman he secretly loves; a beautiful seductress comes between two brothers; a desperate fugitive seeks sanctuary with a peace-loving people; and a daring young schoolteacher journeys West to meet the man who has captured her heart.Included are “The Ranger,” “Canyon Walls,” “Avalanche,” and “From Missouri.”

About Zane Grey

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872–October 23, 1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife, Lina Roth (Dolly) Grey, published his first novel. Grey presented the West as a moral battleground in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or are redeemed through a final confrontation with their past. The man whose name is synonymous with Westerns made his first trip west in 1907 at age thirty-five. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his bestselling book. More than 130 films have been based on his work.

About Robert G. Slade

Robert G. Slade has been a professional actor for nearly thirty years, performing in film, television, radio, and stage work. He appeared in Casino Royale in 2006. He has spent much of his professional life in Canada but has been appearing across the UK in all media since moving to London in 2005.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Austin on June 10, 2022

This is a collection of four short stories / novellas by Zane Grey. This is my first time reading this author, and I think I should have chosen one of his novels instead. The Ranger: 2 / 5 A Texas ranger sets off to save a young Mexican girl that's kidnapped for ransom. This story was okay, but it fee......more

Goodreads review by Thibault on May 03, 2024

Took time to read, because this is more of a "looking for something light and ready at hand" book, and not really a "I will get super into this", thought-triggering kind of book. the first story was a dud - 1 or 2 out of 5 the second was the best, I thought - 4 out of 5 the thirst and fourth were both......more

Quotes

“The title story and three others concentrate on Texas, Arizona, Utah—and Mexico—for wild backgrounds and vigorous action. The Ranger thwarts bandits and kidnappers and wins a Spanish beauty; Canyon Walls are a good hideout for Monty, lead him to a reformed life, a wife—and a pardon for his past misdeeds; Avalanche, plus the winter, imprisons two men, raised as brothers, now at odds over a girl, and brings them together in their efforts to survive; From Missouri comes young Jane Stacey to bring trouble to Springer’s ranch but she gets a chance to stay in the West permanently. Robust.” Kirkus Reviews

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