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Title	Longline photograph
Subject	Fishing lines; Longlines (Fishery equipment); Linen; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
Time Period	1800s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Place	Norwich (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
Description	This linen fishing line is on a black wooden spool. It features a paper label on the spool with a graphic of Zane Grey and text that reads: "Zane Grey, Hand Laid 50's Lea Linen Line, Ashaway, Thread 21, Yards 300, Over 63 Lbs. Wet Test, Used by the Famous Author and Angler in Taking All His Giant Record Fish. The fishing line is part of a collection of Zane Grey related materials that were donated to the Ohio Historical Society in 1968 by Grey's children: Romer Grey, Loren Grey and Betty Zane Grosso. Zane Grey (1872-1939) was a popular and widely read novelist of the American West. Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray in Zanesville, Ohio, to Lewis Gray and Alice Josephine Zane Gray. The family later changed the spelling of their surname and Zane Grey dropped his first name, Pearl. As a teenager, Grey was an excellent baseball player. He won a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied to become a dentist. After practicing dentistry for fewer than ten years, Grey decided to leave dentistry behind and become a writer. Betty Zane, Grey's first novel, drew inspiration from the stories he had heard about frontier Ohio when he was growing up. He wrote Betty Zane in 1904 but was not able to find a publisher at first. Refusing to give up, Grey traveled west and continued writing. In 1910, he had his first success when Harper's Magazine published The Heritage of the Desert. Two years later, Harper's published Riders of the Purple Sage. Grey married Lina Elise Roth in 1905. The couple had three children, Romer, Betty and Loren. After publication of The Heritage of the Desert, the family moved to Altadena, California. Each year, Grey spent time traveling in the west and fishing in the Pacific. Grey died unexpectedly of a heart attack on October 23, 1939. By the time of his death, he had written almost ninety books. Most of his books were Westerns, but he also wrote nine books that had a fishing theme. Grey also published many short stories, a biography of George Washington as a young man and several stories for children.
Creator	Ashaway Line & Twine Mfg. Co. (Ashaway, Rhode Island)
Date of Original	ca. 1895-1939
Collection	National Road Zane Grey
Source	H 33716
Format	Object; Picture
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	H33716.tif

Title	Longline photograph
Subject	Fishing lines; Longlines (Fishery equipment); Linen; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
Time Period	1800s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Place	Norwich (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
Description	Alternate view (view a) of fishing line, accession number H33716.
Creator	Ashaway Line & Twine Mfg. Co. (Ashaway, Rhode Island)
Date of Original	ca. 1895-1939
Collection	National Road Zane Grey
Source	H33716
Format	Object; Picture
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
Image Height	2597
Image Width	3896
File Size	30367576 Bytes

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