Zane Grey

The Spirit of the Border annotated Zane Grey

The Spirit of the Border is an historical novel written by Zane Grey, first published in 1906. As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girt brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is destroyed, the settlers know they will have to hunt him down. A historical personage who had dedicated his life to the destruction of Native Americans and to the protection of nascent white settlements in that region.