Desert Gold Zane Grey Download Searchable

[JohndeFresno]

I have put this great old classic cowboy tale on my Internet folder before, but this time it is a "searchable" PDF file, at least on most computers, cell phones and tablets with the free PDF reader. Yes, this is Public Domain and legal.

You should be able to click on the chapters in the Table of Contents to jump to the section, and least on Windoze computers use Ctrl-F (Ctrl key and F key pressed together) to open a "search" box to jump to the part of the box that contains that word or word string.

Desert Gold - Zane Grey.pdf - Download it to to use the search functions - click on (and use Download function):
https://app.box.com/s/5o8yg1p55rqy3awa5t8b8a6vnjgtw9zn

[Blaine]

Thanks!

[piller]

I have most of his books, and my parents have all of them which we know that he wrote. His style is an older more romance style, but he was a good writer. Elmer Keith guided him at least once on a journey, and I have heard that Zane Grey was impressed with Elmer Keith's abilities. I also like Louis L'Amour as an author. Different styles, but both were good storytellers. Few can match them in any genre in my opinion.

[Tanqueray]

Zane Grey is quite well known down here in NZ, where he was one of the pioneering big game fisherman, using a leather thumb-drag to catch record book marlin and mako sharks. I think he wrote about his time in NZ in a few books, most notably “Angler’s Eldorado”.

[FWiedner]

Thanks for that.

[JohndeFresno]

You are all quite welcome.

This comes about thanks to the Gutenberg free download site and the free (Donation supported) Calibre e-Book Conversion and Power PDF Conversion software.

I discovered more great Western books in Kindle, pdf and other forms (many in basic text files) here. It includes many Zane Grey offerings, Bret Harte, Owen Wister ("The Virginian" author), and the female Science Fiction legendary author(!) Andre Norton among several others:
https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Western_(Bookshelf)

[PriseDeFer]

Thank you. For all Zane Grey fans allow me to recommend the film "Riders of the Purple Sage", the one done by Amy Madigan and Ed Harris. For western movie lovers the starting sequence alone is like going to church.

[Bill in Oregon]

Thanks for mentioning that, Prise. I'll look for the film.
I have read handful of Grey's books, and found them to be tales well told.
His fishing cabin still stands down in the Wild and Scenic section of the Rogue River between Grants Pass and the Oregon Coast. He also was a pioneer in sport fishing the Umpqua River to the north.
For a time, he had a place in Arizona's Tonto Basin where I am told many of the ranchers -- including my grandfather -- had no use for the man, his entourage or his ego.

[JerryB]

In Elmer's book "Hell I was There" he did not speak very highly of Zane Grey for several reasons. I have not read it in a while but I think that's how it went.

[JohndeFresno]

In Elmer's book "Hell I was There" he did not speak very highly of Zane Grey for several reasons. I have not read it in a while but I think that's how it went.

When I was a youngster, my father had a summer vacation cabin on the Rogue River near Grant's Pass. Not one of those city dweller weenie "cabins" that look like they were built in downtown Los Angeles, a regular log cabin with a pump handle for water and an external outhouse with its characteristic half moon to help vent the "aromas." And some wasps that kept building nests in the privvy's roof. And - on one occasion, an unexpected squatter inside the wood stove one time when we opened up for the summer. Mom just shrieked and yelled, but dear old Dad swiftly dispatched the uninvited rattler with a shovel.

Our family spent many happy hours fishing, exploring, even getting a little gold out of that river water. Dad set up a conveyor belt contraption as as sluice, I believe it was called.

We were apparently pretty near Zane Grey's vacation cabin and fishing grounds. I remember way back then, more than 60 years ago, that Dad - an honorable man who rarely spoke ill of anyone - told me that he would not bother to acknowledge him if he saw him. Instead, he told me, he would walk away to avoid even having to speak to him. He would not tell me why, however; just that he wasn't a very good fellow.

Later I learned, and I believe I have also seen it on the Internet, that this great author was not so great a person. He had henchmen who would intimidate and run off any persons who came anywher near to where the author was fishing. And I think that later in Elmer Keith's book, he states that he guided Grey who stiffed him.

Then again, many great authors were difficult to deal with, if not real donkeys. Jack London, Mark Twain are two who come to mind.

But then again, if you follow the great Hollywood actors on IMDB or (a bit more accurately) Wikipedia, and listen to their mindless blabber at all the award ceremonies, you probably can't get real excited about their true character, either. I have no use for most of them, but love their talent and the characters they portray.