The Border Region: Author of Wanderer of the Wasteland to the Last Man the Mysterious Rider, Etc (Classic Reprint) by Zane Grey (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from The Border Region: Author of Wanderer of the Wasteland to the Last Man the Mysterious Rider, Etc Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and dread beginning to kck at her heart she gazed before her at the wild and looming mountain range. Jim wasn't fooling me, she said. He meant it. He's going straight for the border. Oh, why did I taunt him! It was indeed a wild place, that southern border of Idaho, and that year was to see the ushering in of the wildest time probably ever kwn in the West. The rush for gold had peopled California with a horde of lawless men of every kind and class. And the vigilantes and then the rich strikes in Idaho had caused a reflux of that dark tide of humanity. Strange tales of blood and gold drifted into the camps, and prospectors and hunters met with many unkwn men. Joan had quarreled with Jim Cleve, and she was bitterly regretting it. Joan was twenty years old, tall, strong, dark. 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 techlogy 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.