The Geography of The Lone Star Ranger

Abstract

This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the first publication by Harper & Brothers of The Lone Star Ranger, featuring one of Zane Grey's best-known gunmen (Buck Duane) and one of his most memorable titles (Figure 1). This book was, however, never written in this format by Grey! It was a shotgun marriage of sorts, cobbled together by Harpers from two other books that Grey did actually write: Last of the Duanes (written in 1913 but not published until 1996) and Rangers of the Lone Star (written and serialized in 1914 as The Lone Star Ranger but not published as a book until 1997).