Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon

Lion Home

"This is virgin ground, where no man has ever hunted," said Buffalo Jones. "We stumbled onto a lion home, the breeding place of the deadly canyon cougar."

Powell's Plateau was the most remote, inaccessible corner of the Grand Canyon when Zane Grey went there with a buffalo hunter, a forest ranger, a hard-bitten Utah cowboy, and a Navajo scout.

Armed with ropes and rifles, the five men rode in on half-wild mustangs, their eyes peeled for cougar sign. They were not disappointed. Lion trails snaked through the brush and up the rocky cliffs on every side. They were in the last stronghold of the magnificent man-killers!

Even more exciting than his best-selling fiction, this is a true story from the immortal pen of America's greatest storyteller of outdoor adventure - Zane Grey.