Desert Gold is a western novel written by Zane Grey and first published in 1913. The novel is noted for its phenomenal depiction of desert landscapes.
The book is about the exodus, through the desert, of a group of characters who try to free a beautiful young Spanish woman named Mercedes from the clutches of a feared Mexican bandit who kidnaps her after murdering and robbing her family.
Dick Gale, the protagonist, will team up with a US Army officer named George Thorne and they will be relentlessly pursued by the bandit Rojas.
Discover this story in the Old West in which love, adventure and danger will be the protagonists.
A FACE haunted Cameron—a woman's face. It was there in the white heart of the dying campfire; it hung in the shadows that hovered over the flickering light; it drifted in the darkness beyond.
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113 years later, still timely
Borderlands pursuit, stark vistas, and a romance cut against danger. Grey’s West is both harsh and magnetic.
Read for pace—and to think about conservation, mythic frontiers, and how landscapes script our choices.
Terrain drives story.
Beauty with limits.
Feeling under fire.
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