Western landscape photograph
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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