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Desert Gold: A Romance of the Border
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781627554374
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Oct 28 2013
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Desert Gold is a hard-riding borderland Western of pursuit, danger, buried pasts, and survival in the desert country between the American Southwest and Mexico. When former Union soldier Dick Gale becomes entangled in the rescue of a young Spanish woman from Mexican rebels, he is drawn into a harsh frontier world of ranchers, outlaws, prospectors, desert riders, and men who live by courage because the land leaves them little else. Around him gather figures with secrets of their own: a haunted prospector, a threatened ranch family, desperate men on both sides of the border, and a woman whose fate may decide more than one man's future.
Zane Grey gives the novel his characteristic blend of romance, action, landscape, and moral pressure. The desert is not merely a setting but a force: beautiful, dangerous, and indifferent, testing every rider who crosses it. First published in 1913 as Desert Gold: A Romance of the Border, the novel belongs to Grey's classic early period, when he helped define the popular American Western for generations of readers through stories of loyalty, endurance, frontier justice, and men and women remade by wild country.
This Black Curtain Books edition positions Desert Gold as a rugged frontier adventure with strong suspense elements: hidden histories, cross-border menace, pursuit, violence, and hard choices made far from settled law. It is a strong fit for readers of classic Western fiction, early twentieth-century adventure novels, borderland romance, and vintage frontier stories with atmosphere, danger, and a dark edge.
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