The Young Lion Hunter

By Zane Grey

Book Overview

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 -1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1443718793
• ISBN13: 9781443718790
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Lyon Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Ken Ward, Lion Hunter

The Young Lion Hunter is Ken Ward at his best in the Grand Canyon helping capture mountain lions or cougars. This novel is the fictionalized telling of Zane Grey's first visit to the Canyon with Buffalo Jones in 1907 which furnished him with enough material to write his first western, The Heritage of the Desert. Harpers liked ZG's boys' books about Ken Ward, but really did not encourage him in any other fashion, even though he had submitted other books to them and they had resoundedly rejected them. Still, he kept trying because Harpers was THE publishing house. Ken encounters mustangs he must ride, a pack of hounds the likes of which he had lernever seen before, Native Americans who he comes to appreciate with a new awareness, and landscape so wild and primitive it takes the breath away. A marvelous treatise of how the West still was an hundred years ago. Great book!