The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey Fiction Westerns Historical

<p><strong>Pearl Zane Gray studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship and later played with a minor league team.</strong> He met and later married Lina Roth whose inheritance helped support his efforts to become a writer. He pioneered the Western genre. His first western <em>Heritage of the Desert</em> became a bestseller in 1910 and he went on to write over sixty books many of which became films.</p><p>In <em>The Mysterious Rider</em> Bill Bellound's foster daughter Columbine agrees to marry his son Jack out of love for her foster father. Jack is a coward drunkard gambler and thief and Columbine really loves the cowboy Wilson Moore.</p><p> </p>