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In Zane Grey’s 1925 Western, Tom Doan joins a group of buffalo hunters heading into the Southwest’s harsh Staked Plain. He quickly proves himself as a skilled skinner, but the hunt is a brutal test of endurance and morality. Along the way, Tom encounters the Comanche and Kiowa tribes, unscrupulous white hunters, and the relentless fight to survive. His relationship with Milly is fraught with danger from all sides, and their eventual union hinges on a single, profound condition. The novel reflects Grey’s lament for the vanishing bison herds and the moral cost of their exploitation.
First publish date: 1925
Genre: Western Fiction/Historical Western
Authors: Zane Grey
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