Zane Grey Zane Grey has come to be known as "The Father of Western". He was the first ever to give the myth of the rugged American Cowboy to American Literature. Although some have called Grey a "hack writer" no one can argue that his sixty-odd novels won him great popularity from the 1920's through present time (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 175). It is often said that Grey's works appeal to the average blue jeaned man who wants only escape reality for awhile. His writings have been criticized in that they lack realism. But the people who didn't like his writings were not his targeted audience. Grey wanted people like himself to read his work, people who loved and appreciated nature. His stories were stimulating to boys who wanted imaginative excitement and men without developed literary taste who wanted only to escape (Nesbitt 277). Grey used a common theme in....

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