

The U.P. Trail
Author: Zane Grey
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 14 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/29/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Zane Grey
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 14 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/29/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
The prolific American writer Zane Grey was the pioneer of the Western literary genre. Grey produced well over 100 books, in which he presented the West as a moral battleground, where his characters were either destroyed or redeemed. His semi-outlaw heroes were his most enduring creation. He sold some 17 million books during his lifetime, and an estimated 100 Hollywood Western films have been based on his stories.
Born with the name Pearl Grey in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1872, Zane was the son of a farmer and part-time preacher. His mother was a second-generation Danish Quaker. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in dentistry in 1896 and practiced in New York City until 1904. That year, Grey wrote and self-published his first book, Betty Zane, after it was turned down by several publishers. The colorful frontier story was based on his mother's journal and eventually became a critical success. He married Lina Elise Roth, who encouraged him to become a full-time professional writer.
In 1908, Grey made a journey to the West with Colonel C. J. "Buffalo" Jones, who told him tales of adventure on the plains. This trip turned out to be a turning point in Grey's career. In 1912, Riders of the Purple Sage was published. It sold 2 million copies and was filmed three times. Grey's formula-in which a mysterious outlaw fights to protect the innocent and the good-shows up in many of his novels. In 1918, he moved to Altadena, California, where he lived for the rest of his life. Grey died on October 23, 1939.
"U.P." in this title stands for "Union Pacific," i.e., the Union Pacific Railroad. At the beginning of the 1860s, railroad connections in the U.S. ran no farther west than Council Bluffs, Iowa, just across the Nebraska state line from Omaha. Between that point and the new state of California stretch......more
This book was original published in 1918. It is considered a classic western. The book is in the public domain now. Gray was a dentist who quit to write primarily westerns. His first novel was published in 1904. He became one of the most popular western writer and many of his books were made into mo......more
Meet Allie Lee, the Most Kidnapped Lass in the West, and the sweetheart of Warren Neale, an engineer building the Union Pacific Railway. When she isn't being kidnapped and getting people killed left and right in her rescue, and when he isn't working on the railway and moping about her being kidnappe......more
I decided to read my first Zane Grey novel, The U. P. Trail, as a nod to my Father who loved and owned all of the Zane Grey books. This was an enjoyable, fast-moving tale filled with traditional Old West excitement. It kept my interest despite the fact that this is not even remotely my normally favo......more
Zane Grey's personable telling of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, particularly through Wyoming, is a remarkable narrative, if not somewhat dramatized, containing the brutality, the greed, the courage, the fear, the loyalty, and the dedication of the men and even some women involved in th......more