Many readers that love the western writing genre can argue that Zane Grey is one of the bestselling western writers of all time. His novels The Lone Star Ranger and The Spirit of the Border are two examples of this. In these two novels Grey does a good job at showing the differences of the west during two different time periods when Native Americans roamed the lands and when cowboys and outlaws ruled the west. When examining the two novels, it will show the stereotypical views of the west, Zane’s show of gunplay in his stories, and life on the western frontier.
First, Grey shows off the stereotypical views of the western frontier that people see in all the western movies and shows. "Most of his plots are only slightly varying fictionalizations of Grey's own experience of the west: an Eastern dude comes west and sheds the superficialities of his Eastern cultural background, finding physical health, moral strength, philosophical enlightenment, or true love" (Topping). In The Lone Star Ranger the …show more content…
In The Spirit of the Border it tells the story of a man living with hostile Native Americans around him while in The Lone Star Ranger it shows the life on any outlaw on the run innocent or not and what they go through. "Stranger, in this here country two's a crowd. It's safer. I never was much of this lone-wolf dodgin', though I've done it of necessity. It takes a damn good man to travel alone any length of time. Why, I've been thet sick I was jest achin' fer some ranger to come along an' plug me. Give me a pardner any day. Now, mebbe you're not thet kind of a feller, an' I'm shore not presumin'to ask. But I jest declares myself suffient" (23). This quote said by Stevens in The Lone Star Ranger shows the struggles that the outlaws on the western frontier have to go through. Different than in The Spirit of the Borders where instead of the law there having to deal with
First, Grey shows off the stereotypical views of the western frontier that people see in all the western movies and shows. "Most of his plots are only slightly varying fictionalizations of Grey's own experience of the west: an Eastern dude comes west and sheds the superficialities of his Eastern cultural background, finding physical health, moral strength, philosophical enlightenment, or true love" (Topping). In The Lone Star Ranger the …show more content…
In The Spirit of the Border it tells the story of a man living with hostile Native Americans around him while in The Lone Star Ranger it shows the life on any outlaw on the run innocent or not and what they go through. "Stranger, in this here country two's a crowd. It's safer. I never was much of this lone-wolf dodgin', though I've done it of necessity. It takes a damn good man to travel alone any length of time. Why, I've been thet sick I was jest achin' fer some ranger to come along an' plug me. Give me a pardner any day. Now, mebbe you're not thet kind of a feller, an' I'm shore not presumin'to ask. But I jest declares myself suffient" (23). This quote said by Stevens in The Lone Star Ranger shows the struggles that the outlaws on the western frontier have to go through. Different than in The Spirit of the Borders where instead of the law there having to deal with