The U. P. Trail

:	Zane Grey
:	The U. P. Trail
:	Seltzer Books
:	9781455360567
:	1
:	CHF 0.70
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:	Erzählende Literatur
:	English

:	636
:	DRM
:	PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
:	ePUB

Classic Western. 'U.P.' stands for 'Union Pacific'.The book begins: 'In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground -- Wyoming--where the herds of buffalo grazed and the wolf was lord ...' According to Wikipedia: 'Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. As of June 2007, the Internet Movie Database credits Grey with 110 films, one TV episode, and a series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater based loosely on his novels and short stories.'

The U. P. Trail By Zane Grey

published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

Westerns by Zane Grey:

Betty Zane
The Spirit of the Border
The Last of the Plainsmen
The Last Trail
The Heritage of the Desert
The Young Forester
Riders of the Purple Sage
Desert Gold
The Light of Western Stars
The Lone Star Ranger
The Rainbow Trail
The Border Legion
Wildfire
The U. P. Trail
The Desert of Wheat
Tales of Fishes
The Man of the Forest
The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories
The Mysterious Rider
To the Last Man
The Day of the Beast
Tales of Lonely Trails

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... When I think how the railroad has been pushed through this unwatered wilderness and haunt of savage tribes; how at each stage of the construction roaring, impromptu cities, full of gold and lust and death, sprang up and then died away again, and are now but wayside stations in the desert; how in these uncouth places Chinese pirates worked side by side with border ruffians and broken men from Europe, gambling, drinking, quarreling, and murdering like wolves; and then when I go on to remember that all this epical turmoil was conducted by gentlemen in frock-coats, with a view to nothing more extraordinary than a fortune and a subsequent visit to Paris--it seems to me as if this railway were the one typical achievement of the age in which we live, as if it brought together into one plot all the ends of the world and all the degrees of social rank, and offered to some great writer the busiest, the most extended, and the most varied subject for an enduring literary work. If it be romance, if it be contrast, if it be heroism that we require, what was Troy to this?

--ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON In ACROSS THE PLAINS