Carrol,
    Some say that close examination of the facts indicates that Lewis Wetzel
does not deserve that reputation. See "The Border Wars of the Upper Ohio
Valley (1769 -1794)" by William Hintzen, 1999. Grey's novel was "The Spirit
of the Border".
    There's a Zane Grey Museum in Zanesville, Ohio also dedicated to the
National Road. The Zanes were an important early family in Ohio history.
Isaac Zane was a captive of the Wyandot Indians and married Chief Tarhe's
(The Crane) daughter, Myeerah. Isaac played an important part at the Treaty
of Greenville after Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne defeated the tribes at The
Battle of Fallen Timbers in August of 1794. Somehow my wife believes Zane
Grey may be related to the Zane family, but she hasn't come up with any
proof yet.

Charles

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>From: Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Zane Grey and Westernesse
>Date: Thu, Jan 2, 2003, 3:02 PM
>

> It's been 60+ years since I read Zane Grey, but for a year or so I read
> every book of his I could get my hands on. I can't remember any
> specifics re Purple Sage other than the hero suffers from TB (that's how
> he gets in Mormon country), and cures by surviving a case of pneumonia.
> The passage of his prose posted certainly makes one cringe -- but I
> loved his prose style at the time. One of the biggest disappointments of
> my childhood was the movie of _Western Union_ -- I had loved the book,
> and the movie was so different. (Can't remember either now -- just the
> expectation and the letdown.)
>
> Carrol Cox
>
> P.S. In his Ohio frontier books he makes a hero of an actual historical
> figure, Lew Wetzel, who I understand was in life a pathological killer.