1922. The true story of Grey's experiences capturing lions alive, which makes ordinary hunting with guns seem, in contrast, about as exciting as a Sunday-school picnic. Grey, with four Western rangers, a Navajo Indian, and a pack of very lovable dogs who were as much real individuals as their masters, hunted mountain lions, but hunted them with the camera and the lasso, and not with the rifle. Readers will enjoy the exciting account of how they captured six of the mountain lions, which infest the bottom of the Grand Canyon, ...
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1922. The true story of Grey's experiences capturing lions alive, which makes ordinary hunting with guns seem, in contrast, about as exciting as a Sunday-school picnic. Grey, with four Western rangers, a Navajo Indian, and a pack of very lovable dogs who were as much real individuals as their masters, hunted mountain lions, but hunted them with the camera and the lasso, and not with the rifle. Readers will enjoy the exciting account of how they captured six of the mountain lions, which infest the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and got them into camp alive and growling.
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Very good in fair dust jacket. VG-condition. Pages somewhat yellowed but unblemished. Tear in DJ (see photo) 167 p. Audience: General/trade. Apparent 1st edition.
Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon is Zane Grey's telling of his first adventure out west with Buffalo Jones in 1907 and the antecedent of the book, The Young Lion Hunter, which was fiction; this one is fact and uses information Zane Grey had written in The Last of the Plainsmen, the true story of Buffalo Jones. This book was dedicated to the Boy Scouts of America and ZG writes, "I am hoping that it may influence boys to a keener love and appreciation of all the wonderful outdoors of their native land." In this book you will find not only Buffalo Jones but the many other westerners who influenced ZG and instilled in him the "code of the west". The lion dog, Don, also plays an important role in this book. What a wonderful inspiration this book is to all of us who have grown up in a time in which we can still relate to what ZG is writing about. Perhaps if these books were made available in school libraries today, our world would be a much better place to live--they instill values still needed to today.
