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The Border Legion
by Grey, Zane
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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WESTBANK, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Collectible!-Tight, clean and unmarked-Sound Binding-Undated-Copyright 1944-Bound in green cloth with dark green lettering on cover and spine, top edge stained green.Tight, clean and unmarked-Light edgewear to DJ." The Border Legion is a Western novel written by Zane Grey. It tells the story of a cold-hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has taken captive near the Idaho border. Jim Cleve has been deemed, "a good guy" all of his life and it agitates him to no end. Even his girlfriend, Joan Randle has scorned him for this "weakness" shouting, "You haven't it in you even to be BAD!" Dejected and hurt, Jim abandons the life he has known for the gold mining camps along Alder Gulch in southern Montana. It is here, among the thieves and murderers, that he must make a new name for himself. Written in 1912, it reflects its time period. The heroine is spunky and virtuous, the villains are horrible but capable of redemption. It is a fun read, especially if you want to slip away to yesteryears. The story of Joan, a young woman living in a mining town in the old West. After she scorns a man so badly that he leaves to pursue wildlife on the border. When she rides off to stop him, she is kidnapped by the leader of a dangerous gang of outlaws. She must use all her wits to protect her from them, and to find her love."
Synopsis
Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and dread beginning to knock at her heart she gazed before her at the wild and looming mountain range.
Reviews
On Apr 12 2020, a reader said:
The Border Legion has without a doubt the greatest of Zane Grey's villains--the blond beast, Gulden, whose way with women was a rope and a cave, the most vicious and depraved of the border bandits. And as in earlier works by Zane Grey this novel had to undergo many editorial changes demanded by his publisher before they would print it. Things today which seem very tame indeed, but yet his editors felt did not belong in fiction, regardless of how historically accurate Zane Grey was being to actual events upon which this book was based. When Joan Randle decides to follow her 'boyfriend' Jim Cleve after he departs because of a quarrel she finds herself captured by this outlaw gang and held, only to find out Jim has joined them as well. (She had accused Jim of not being man enough to even be bad, so he sets out to prove her wrong.) This book is a fascinating look at what happens to men, I should say, mankind, when driven by their passions and left to revert to the barbaric when the environment is one of dog eat dog i.e. "survival of the fittest" a phrase used by Darwin and popularized by Zane Grey, as he subscribed to some of Darwin's theories, as seen in many of his novels as he expressed his philosophy of life, and concerns for America in his writings. It has been said more students learned of Darwin's theory from reading Zane Grey than they did in the class room. But if one goes beyond any "hidden" agenda and reads this book as a novel of escapism and adventure and romance it is a good read I think you will enjoy.
P.S. If you want the unexpurgated version as Zane Grey wrote it buy a copy of Cabin Gulch, Five Star Westerns 2006.
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13871
- Title
- The Border Legion
- Author
- Grey, Zane
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap,
- Date Published
- 1944
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Size
- 8 vo
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