The Border Legion is a Western novel written by Zane Grey. The story is set in the American West during the late 1800s and follows the adventures of a young cowboy named Jim Cleve. After a series of misfortunes, Jim finds himself in the middle of a dangerous feud between two powerful gangs: the Border Legion and the Masked Riders. As he tries to navigate this treacherous landscape, Jim falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Joan Randle, who is also caught up in the conflict. Together, Jim and Joan must find a way ...
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The Border Legion is a Western novel written by Zane Grey. The story is set in the American West during the late 1800s and follows the adventures of a young cowboy named Jim Cleve. After a series of misfortunes, Jim finds himself in the middle of a dangerous feud between two powerful gangs: the Border Legion and the Masked Riders. As he tries to navigate this treacherous landscape, Jim falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Joan Randle, who is also caught up in the conflict. Together, Jim and Joan must find a way to survive and escape the clutches of their enemies, while also confronting their own personal demons and desires. The Border Legion is a thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and adventure, filled with vivid descriptions of the rugged American West and its colorful characters. It is a classic example of the Western genre and a must-read for fans of Zane Grey and other Western writers.1916. From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and dread beginning to knock at her heart she gazed before her at the wild and looming mountain range. Jim wasn t fooling me, she said. He meant it. He s going straight for the border...Oh, why did I taunt him! See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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The Border Legion has without a doubt the greatest of Zane Grey's villains--the blond beast, Gulden, whose way with women was a rope and a cave, the most vicious and depraved of the border bandits. And as in earlier works by Zane Grey this novel had to undergo many editorial changes demanded by his publisher before they would print it. Things today which seem very tame indeed, but yet his editors felt did not belong in fiction, regardless of how historically accurate Zane Grey was being to actual events upon which this book was based. When Joan Randle decides to follow her 'boyfriend' Jim Cleve after he departs because of a quarrel she finds herself captured by this outlaw gang and held, only to find out Jim has joined them as well. (She had accused Jim of not being man enough to even be bad, so he sets out to prove her wrong.) This book is a fascinating look at what happens to men, I should say, mankind, when driven by their passions and left to revert to the barbaric when the environment is one of dog eat dog i.e. "survival of the fittest" a phrase used by Darwin and popularized by Zane Grey, as he subscribed to some of Darwin's theories, as seen in many of his novels as he expressed his philosophy of life, and concerns for America in his writings. It has been said more students learned of Darwin's theory from reading Zane Grey than they did in the class room. But if one goes beyond any "hidden" agenda and reads this book as a novel of escapism and adventure and romance it is a good read I think you will enjoy.
P.S. If you want the unexpurgated version as Zane Grey wrote it buy a copy of Cabin Gulch, Five Star Westerns 2006.