Title	Western landscape photograph
Subject	Authors Books Grey, Zane, 1872-1939 Education National parks & reserves
Time Period	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Place	Utah Arizona
Description	This photograph shows a man riding a horse in Monument Valley, along the Arizona-Utah border. The bottom caption reads: "WEIRD AND WONDERFUL MONUMENTS IN MONUMENT VALLEY." The photograph belongs to the Zane Grey Photograph Collection. Grey was a popular and widely-read novelist of the American West. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on January 31, 1872, to Lewis Grey and Alice Josephine Zane Grey. 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. Once he left school and began his dental practice in New York, Grey realized that he was not happy. He decided to leave dentistry behind and become a writer. Grey's first novel, "Betty Zane" 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 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. Some of Grey's other popular Western novels included "Spirit of the Border" "Desert Gold" "The Last Trail" "The Call of the Canyon" and "The Thundering Herd."
Date of Original	ca. 1910-1950
Collection	Zane Grey Photograph Collection
Source	P 49; Box 2, Folder 4
Format	Picture Black-and-white photographs
Extent	27.9 cm x 18.6 cm
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
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
File Name	P49_B02F04_001.tif
Image Height	4389
Image Width	6595
File Size	86851828 Bytes
Date created	2013-07-19

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