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Full of romance, mystery and adventure, Zane Grey's Mysterious Rider is an Old West classic where the desire to settle an old score threatens the existence of a business and a family founded on murder and mayhem.

Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.

The Mysterious Rider by Grey Zane is a novel about the love and happiness that are the main goals of human life. The story tells us about life of Columbine, a young girl with kind heart who never knew what the hate is. She loved life and everybody liked her, especially the rancher Bellounds, a man who was like a father for her through all her life. Columbine found out that she is not his daughter when she was 19. The rancher had told her about that and also he said that she will marry his son Jack, who will come home after being away (he was in jail but Columbine didn't know that). Columbine didn't like Jack because he was cruel and selfish since his childhood, but father always loved him and forgave him everything, so he wanted him to marry the best girl he knew because she will be the one who will make him happy: "Jack, she's shy an' strange, an' deep, too. If you ever win her heart you'll be richer than if you owned all the gold in the Rockies".

The Mysterious Rider 1921. From your expert of the European comes a book filled with love and experience. Rancher Expenses Belllounds raised Columbine as if she were his child. Out of devotion on her behalf foster dad, Columbine agrees to marry his child Jack, who's a drunkard, gambler, coward, and thief. But she really loves the cowboy, Wilson Moore. Then, the Strange Rider shows up at the Belllounds ranch, a guy of middle age group, mild, kindly, but so formidable a weapon fighter he has gained the nickname Hell Bent Wade. He'll play a pivotal role in righting the wrongs in the storyplot.

He came to the Belilounds ranch, no one knew from where; a man of middle age, gentle, kindly, but so terrible a gunfighter that they called him "Hell Bent" Wade. He played the part of fate in all their lives, ...

Columbine was an orphan found alone in the wilderness and adopted by rancher Bill Belllounds, who raised her as his own daughter. Now a young woman, she promises Belllounds she will marry his son, the hotheaded drunk and gambler Buster Jack, even though she has fallen in love with cowboy Wilson Moore and is tormented by her decision. Into this conflict comes a mysterious rider, who, driven by a dark past and terrible secret, is determined to stop the marriage and secure Columbine s happiness, no matter what it takes. Made into four film versions.

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Excerpt from The Mysterious Rider: A Novel The trail came up back of the bluff, through a clump of aspens with white trunks and yellow fluttering leaves, and led across a level bench of luxuriant grass and wild flowers to the rocky edge. She dismounted and threw the bridle. Her mustang, used to being petted, rubbed his sleek, dark head against her and evidently expected like demonstration in return, but as none was forthcoming be bent his nose to the grass and began grazing. The girl's eyes were intent upon some waving, slender, white-and-blue flowers. They smiled up wanly, like pale stars, out of the long grass that had a tinge of gold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This edition includes: The complete novel (The Mysterious Rider), Complete bibliography of Zane Grey, Over ten western illustrations, Biography of Zane Grey, A September sun, losing some of its heat if not its brilliance, was dropping low in the west over the black Colorado range. Purple haze began to thicken in the timbered notches. Gray foothills, round and billowy, rolled down from the higher country. They were smooth, sweeping, with long velvety slopes and isolated patches of aspens that blazed in autumn gold. Splotches of red vine colored the soft gray of sage. Old White Slides, a mountain scarred by avalanche, towered with bleak rocky peak above the valley, sheltering it from the north. A girl rode along the slope, with gaze on the sweep and range and color of the mountain fastness that was her home. She followed an old trail which led to a bluff overlooking an arm of the valley. Once it had been a familiar lookout for her, but she had not visited the place of late. It was associated with serious hours of her life. Here seven years before, when she was twelve, she had made a hard choice to please her guardian--the old rancher whom she loved and called father, who had indeed been a father to her. That choice had been to go to school in Denver. Four years she had lived away from her beloved gray hills and black mountains. Only once since her return had she climbed to this height, and that occasion, too, was memorable as an unhappy hour. It had been three years ago. To-day girlish ordeals and griefs seemed back in the past: she was a woman at nineteen and face to face with the first great problem in her life.

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