7 best short stories by Zane Grey

Grey''s novels however denigrated by critics as empurpled froths of ''virgins, villains and varmints'' were only part of the allure that fixed his name in the hearts of millions of Americans. Zane Grey was a self-made model of rugged rural virtue overimbued with what the critic Heywood Broun acidly called "the sanity, the strength and the wholesomeness" of his novels; a teetotaler opposed to the...