The Rustlers of Pecos County / Silvermane

By Zane Grey

Fiction, Westerns, Historical, Cowboys, Indians

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0505513552
• ISBN13: 9780505513557
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Belmont Tower Books
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 3.9" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Texas Rangers Ride

Written earlier in his career, and in first person, this story about the Texas Rangers is typical "western" material. Having said that, I by no means mean this is inferior stuff, but you can see, if you are a devotee of Zane Grey that this book was a model for many of the more famous works that came later, making him famous. Many of his books are interconnected with scenes and prologues that are in other stories--provided you have read them all, and have a good memory. The one thing Zane Grey did not do well, in my opinion, is tell a fiction story well in 1st person. His fishing books, and camp and trail books are superbly told this way, but his fiction lacks something when he uses this literary device. A complete version of this book was published in 1997 when the full hand written draft was found by Loren Grey and published as Rangers of the Lone Star. Silvermane is a short story probably never meant to be published, but was needed to fill out this volume. It had appeared earlier in the Walter J. Black collection of Zane Grey's work, The Wolf Tracker, under the title Lightning. Nothing spectacular here, but this is still a good enough book to buy and read, so if you don't have it, get it, and enjoy.