1872, English, Unpublished edition: Zane Grey Collection Grey, Zane, 1872-1939

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  • 7 boxes
  • Papers (Document genres), Manuscripts (for publication)
Published
  • L. Tom Perry Special Collections
  • 1872-1939
Language
  • English

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Title
  • Zane Grey Collection
Creator
  • Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
Published
  • L. Tom Perry Special Collections
  • 1872-1939
Physical Description
  • 7 boxes
  • Papers (Document genres), Manuscripts (for publication)
Subjects
Notes
  • Zane Grey, began his life in Ohio where he was the forth of five children. From there his life took him to the University of Pennsylvania where he played Baseball, and went to school to be a dentist. After graduation he moved to New York City, where he practiced Dentistry and to play baseball fro teh Athletic Club in East Orange, New Jersey. Then in 1900 he met his future wife, Lina Elise Roth, and during there courtship Zane was changed, he left his dential practices and took up the profession of writting. Sortly there after Grey met Charles Jess ("Buffalo") Jones who help turn his attention to the west, which became the setting for most of his books there after. Nineteen photographs, mostly black and white snapshots, and a leather photograph album of the Grey family's trip through the Flattop Mountains in 1917 have been transferred to the Photo Archives. An inventory of these photographs is bound with this register. To use the photographs, request collection number Mss P-85. Pearl Zane Gray was born January 31, 1872, in his ancestral home of Zanesville, Ohio. The fourth of five children born to Lewis M. Gray, a dentist, and Josephine Alice Zane, his was an active boyhood marked by attendance at local schools and participation in many boyhood activities of which fishing and baseball were his favorites.After serving an apprenticeship with his father, he entered dental school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1892. Although he was acclaimed for his success as an outstanding shortstop on the school's baseball team, his academic performance was only average. He graduated in 1896, and while practicing dentistry in New York City continued to play baseball with the Athletic Club in East Orange, New Jersey.In 1900 he met his future wife, editor, and life-long source of encouragement, Lina Elise Roth, known as Dolly. During their five year courtship Gray changed his name to Zane Grey (dropping his first name and changing the spelling of his last), gave up his dental practice, and began a career as an author. After receiving many rejections by publishers, on his own he published his first book, entitled Betty Zane (1903). He and Dolly were married the following year, making their first home in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania.Grey's attention was drawn west to the geographic area which would provide the setting for most of his major books when he met Charles Jesse ("Buffalo") Jones in 1906. An older hunter who had set out to preserve and breed buffalo which were in danger of extinction, Jones took Grey to the American Southwest for the purpose of having Grey write a book about his life. For weeks Grey lived the life of a Westerner in the deserts of Arizona and Utah. Upon returning to the East fired by his experiences, he expressed his sentiments in The Last of the Plainsmen, a book about Jones. In 1910 he published Heritage of the Desert and in 1912 Riders of the Purple Sage.These two books were his first major successes in literature and the ones by which he established his national reputation as an author. Riders of the Purple Sage was enormously successful and is his best known and probably his best loved work.His greatest sustained success, wealth, and fame came after he, Dolly, and their three children (Romer, Betty, and Lore) moved to Altadena, California, in 1918. Included among his works published during this time were To the Last Man, Tappan's Burro, Forlorn River, The Shepherd of Guadaloupe, Robbers' Roost, and The Trail Driver. By 1930 he was hailed as the most sought after writer in America. (For a useful and virtually complete list of his .books and other writings, see the bibliography on pages 250-273 of Frank Gruber's biography of Grey).When he was not writing, Grey took lengthy trips to such places as New Zealand, Australia, and Tahiti, where he set world records with his deep sea fishing catches (at one time he held ten world records) and where he had many of the experiences that later served as the basis for some of his writing. He enjoyed hunting and exploring as well, and these activities also found expression in his sports and adventure stories, written for both juvenile and adult readers.Zane Grey died October 23, 1939, in Altadena, California. During his lifetime he sold nearly 20 million copies of his novels, and another 20 million have been sold posthumously. Before his death he published 40 western romances in addition to works for juveniles, and collections of short stories and books on his adventures as a hunter, explorer, and fisherman. Since his death another 23 of his books have been published. Desert Gold, The Rainbow Trail, The Border Legion, To The Last Man, The Shepherd of Guadaloupe, Robbers' Roost, The Trail Driver, Twin Sombreros, Ride the Man Down, Lost Pueblo, and Boulder Dam; and the novelettes Tappan's Burro, Don The Ranger, Canyon Walls From Missouri, and The Horse Thief. ; This collection is comprised of thirty-five original Zane Grey literary manuscripts including eleven novels, six novelettes, seventeen short manuscripts, and one manuscript fragment. Most of them have been published either in book or serial form, or both. The manuscripts in this collection account for roughly one-tenth of Grey's total output. Their publication dates range from 1912 to 1963 and they constitute a representative and significant cross section of his literary output. Among the manuscripts are samples of both Grey's Western romances and his sports writings. Included are the novels Desert Gold, The Rainbow Trail, The Border Legion, To The Last Man, The Shepherd of Guadaloupe, Robbers' Roost, The Trail Driver, Twin Sombreros, Ride the Man Down, Lost Pueblo, and Boulder Dam; and the novelettes Tappan's Burro, Don The Ranger, Canyon Walls From Missouri, and The Horse Thief. There are many similarities among these manuscripts which, unless otherwise noted, are as follows. They are pencil holographs, written on one legal-sized (12 5/​16" x 7 3/​4") ruled paper. Except for some fraying edges, some slight discoloration, and a few torn spots, the paper is in very good condition. Each manuscript contains a moderate number of erasures, corrections, revisions and additions, and occasionally these changes are written in a hand other than Grey's. Most likely they were made by his wife, Lina Elise Grey. According to Harper and Row Publishers, Grey would shut himself in his study and write for 7-8 hours daily until a work was finished. After a work was finished he was usually unwilling to look at it again, leaving the task of editing to Mrs. Grey.* With these insights, it is safe to say these manuscripts are probably first drafts.In addition to the manuscripts, there is one folder of correspondence and one of miscellaneous items, including canceled checks, blank stationery with Grey's letterhead, and a poster advertising Pfleuger tackle and hooks, endorsed by Grey.
  • Vault MSS 507
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  • The research use of the manuscripts in this collection is unrestricted. However, no manuscript may be copied in its entirety without the approval of the Board of Curators of Special Collections and Manuscripts. Copyright for these manuscripts is still held by Zane Grey, Inc., and they may not be published (other than "fair use excerpts") without their permission. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.Permission to publish material from Zane Grey Collection must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/​or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Language
  • English
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