The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey. The Mysterious Rider is an American Western novel by Zane Gray, it concerns a notorious outlaw who returns to the ranch he once owned and takes a job disguised as a ranch hand. Unrecognized by the ranch's current owner, he waits patiently for an opportunity to expose the men who murdered his partner twenty years ago, framed him for the crime, and then stole his ranch. In the Arizona desert in the late 1800s, a famed outlaw and his sidekick hold up a stagecoach. During the raid, they take ...
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The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey. The Mysterious Rider is an American Western novel by Zane Gray, it concerns a notorious outlaw who returns to the ranch he once owned and takes a job disguised as a ranch hand. Unrecognized by the ranch's current owner, he waits patiently for an opportunity to expose the men who murdered his partner twenty years ago, framed him for the crime, and then stole his ranch. In the Arizona desert in the late 1800s, a famed outlaw and his sidekick hold up a stagecoach. During the raid, they take money from a wealthy passenger and gives it to a poor woman passenger, then ride away. Having lived an outlaw life for the past twenty years, and still wanted for a murder he did not commit, he decides to return to his home town disguised as a regular cowboy to see his now grown daughter.
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The Mysterious Rider perhaps would have been better titled, Beauty and the Beast, and I am not in any way being disparaging. Zane Grey used the same type of plot lines for many of his books, and then added an extra character to bring the book to its logical conclusion. A young girl, the adopted daughter of a wealthy rancher, is forced to marry the rancher's no-good, drunk of a son, while the young girl loves another cowboy as different from the son as could possibly be--a similar scenario is found in Heritage of the Desert. But here a "mysterious stranger" is on the scene to make things right. And we can all guess who this "mysterious stranger" is, can't we? If you can't guess, I'm not going to tell you and ruin the book. Still, having said that, this book is a good Zane Grey romance told as only the master of historical romance could tell it, and worth reading--even more than once.
