"Zane Grey was the father of the Western... To learn more about nature, the uncompromising force that shaped the characters he devised, he became an explorer, a hunter, and a champion fisherman. [Gruber] had access to the incomplete manuscript of Grey's own autobiography, his private diaries and letters, and the family's memories and records. The full chronicle is here: The Ohio boyhood in the 1880's, college days as a University of Pennsylvania baseball star, the frustrating years as a practicing dentist in New York, marriage, and the daring plunge into full-time writing... In this, his only biography, Zane Grey lives again"--from jacket flaps.
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