Zane Grey

The Heritage of the Desert Annotated Zane Grey

About BookPublished in 1910, this was Zane Grey's first western novel. It received wide and unanimous praise for its powerful portrait of the land and the men and women of the Southwest.john Hare lays dying in the desert until he's uncovered and saved by the type and generous rancher, August Naab. As Hare is nursed back again to health on Naab's ranch, he discovers himself irresistibly drawn to Naab's used girl, Mescal. But Mescal has been relentlessly pursued by Holderness, a guy who is never to be respected. Hare is soon attracted into an online of experience and intrigue over land, drinking water, and the center of a lovely woman, ready against the sweeping backdrop of the Wild West.