Valley of Wild Horses

A magnificent tale of high adventure by the master storyteller of the Old West.

From the moment Panhandle Smith rode into the stinking New Mexico town, he sensed something rotten – and dangerous.

The tall young Texan had gambled, fought and killed from Montana to Mexico. He’d been in many places where there was no law, but this little hellhole town was the worst.

Jard Hardman and his son Dick were the law in Marco, and they ruled with an iron fist, taking tribute from every saloonkeeper and dance-hall girl. They owned the marshal, and used him to rob the town blind.

These were the men Pan Smith had come to find – and destroy. He had successfully bluffed them once. But the young gun fighter knew he couldn’t do it again.

This time they would call his bluff!

“Billed at his death as "the greatest selling author of all time," with his work exceeded in sales ‘only by the Bible and the Boy Scout Handbook,’ Zane Grey was as much a brand as a writer - a brand that would eventually come to encompass films, television series, a monthly magazine, a saltwater fishing reel, even a Pacific sailfish by the name of Istiophorus greyi. And behind that brand stood the man: a self-made model of rugged rural virtue over imbued with what the critic Heywood Broun acidly called "the sanity, the strength and the wholesomeness" of his novels; a teetotaler opposed to the ‘jiggle and toddle and wiggle’ of jazz-age dancing and all the era's other ‘rotten sensual stuff’; and a staunch champion of clean outdoor living and hard work and righteous, simple codes of conduct.” -The New York Times

“To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seem good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.” -Zane Grey