Zane Grey
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Oct 9, 2026
WillHOST
That like, we don't think of this as western style at all these days, I guess.
WillHOST
But if you're going back and reading like Zane Grey...
WillHOST
Yeah.
KateHOST
Yeah, very much is.
DavidAUDIENCE
But she survived, okay? She lived.
DavidAUDIENCE
Zane Gray, go back to the old...
DavidAUDIENCE
We're going back 100 years.
DavidAUDIENCE
She survived.
Wm. Paul YoungGUEST
I now am convinced that my capacity to create story comes from my dad.
Wm. Paul YoungGUEST
He, uh, he wrote away correspondence school when I was, uh, in high school to become a writer of Western novels, like Zane Grey and-
Ian Morgan CronHOST
Mm-hmm
Wm. Paul YoungGUEST
... and, um...
Jann ArdenHOST
And my dad was a big Western guy.
Jann ArdenHOST
He loved Zane Gray books.
Jann ArdenHOST
Many of you listeners can remember those pocket books, kind of like the Western equivalent of Harlequin romances.
Sarah BurkeHOST
But I
Nate MeyersGUEST
I did not know that.
Nate MeyersGUEST
Yeah, it was an adaptation of Zane Gray's The Call of the Canyon for film.
Nate MeyersGUEST
And because Zane Gray, I mean, he wrote his novels in the locations where they took place.
Nate MeyersGUEST
he also demanded they be filmed on location.
Nate MeyersGUEST
And so they came to Oak Creek Canyon and filmed The Call of the Canyon.
MartyNARRATOR
When the fighting was over, he returned to the far west.
MartyNARRATOR
The transcontinental railways were in process of construction, a romantic episode in American history, fittingly depicted in the glowing pages of Zane Grey's The U.P.
MartyNARRATOR
Trail.
MartyNARRATOR
The builders of the Kansas Pacific Railroad wanted buffalo meat to feed their laborers, and Cody undertook the contract.
Terrence LeahyHOST
What ...
Terrence LeahyHOST
How would you define that for the audience? 'Cause I think when we think Westerns, we think classically Louis L'Amour novels, we think, um, Lonesome Dove, we think Zane Grey, these ...
Terrence LeahyHOST
It is the Old West.
Josh JensenGUEST
Yeah, so it, it shares aspects with that.
Harry McClintockSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think he still lives near Bluff, Utah.
Harry McClintockSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he is the son of Jack Lee, the famous outlaw that was the original of Lasseter in Zane Grey's Writers of the Purple Stage.
Harry McClintockSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You have asked of me, my little friend, Why I'm lonesome, sad and still, And why my brow is shadowed Like the clouds on yonder hill.
Harry McClintockSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Draw in your pony closer, And the truth to you I'll tell, Of my partner Utah Carol, And my last ride on the trail.
Mal BernhardtHOST
Most of his novels are Western adventure stories packed with action and spiced with mystery.
Mal BernhardtHOST
His work is in the tradition of Zane Grey.
Mal BernhardtHOST
He is probably destined to be compared with Grey as among the greatest authors of all time, in using the American West as a vehicle for creative expression.
Mal BernhardtHOST
I do not wish, however, to extol the storytelling ability of L'Amour, but to comment on the appreciation of the education and learning he displays through the characters in his novels.
Nicholas GoroffNARRATOR
Rain kept them indoors for the next few days.
Nicholas GoroffNARRATOR
Silas had started a new Zane Grey novel, but thoughts of the yellow carousel distracted him.
Nicholas GoroffNARRATOR
In three days, he had only made it through a few pages, and even then, he wasn't sure what was going on in the story.
Nicholas GoroffNARRATOR
He knew he should talk to Emma about what he had seen, but he was too afraid.
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