Subject:  MSR The Last of the Plainsmen
Author:  Zane Grey
Uploaded By:  HOST Comp Joots
Date:  9/28/2002

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Keywords:  The Last of the Plainsmen, Zane Grey, Western

CONTENTS


1.  THE ARIZONA DESERT
2   THE RANGE
3.  THE LAST HERD
4.  THE TRAIL
5.  OAK SPRING
6.  THE WHITE MUSTANG
7.  SNAKE GULCH
8.  NAZA! NAZA! NAZA!
9.  THE LAND OF THE MUSK-OX
10. SUCCESS AND FAILURE
11. ON TO THE SIWASH
12. OLD TOM
13. SINGING CLIFFS
14. ALL HEROES BUT ONE
15. JONES ON COUGARS
16. KITTY
17. CONCLUSION


CHAPTER 1. THE ARIZONA DESERT

One afternoon, far out on the sun-baked waste of sage, we made
camp near a clump of withered pinyon trees. The cold desert wind
came down upon us with the sudden darkness. Even the Mormons, who were finding the trail for us across the drifting sands, forgot
to sing and pray at sundown. We huddled round the campfire, a
tired and silent little group. When out of the lonely, melancholy
night some wandering Navajos stole like shadows to our fire, we
hailed their advent with delight. They were good-natured Indians,
willing to barter a blanket or bracelet; and one of them, a tall,
gaunt fellow, with the bearing of a chief, could speak a little
English.

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