The Call of the Canyon, Zane Grey
The Call of the Canyon, Zane Grey
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The Call of the Canyon

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: John Rayburn

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/30/2022

Categories: Fiction, Western, Classic

Synopsis

A young veteran of WWI in poor health heads to Arizona to try and recover. He meets young Flo Hunter, who successfully nurses him. However, life gets more complicated when his fiancée, Carley Burch, comes to him from back east. She winds up not liking life in the west and goes back to New York.Flo gets badly injured in an accident and vet Glenn Kilbourne wants to repay her for her assistance and proposes marriage. As wedding day approaches, Carley decides she made a mistake and returns to Arizona looking for him. Flo realizes they’re still in love, calls off the marriage, and meets another man. The very involved tale of overall compassion affords pleasant listening to details.

About Zane Grey

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872–October 23, 1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife, Lina Roth (Dolly) Grey, published his first novel. Grey presented the West as a moral battleground in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or are redeemed through a final confrontation with their past. The man whose name is synonymous with Westerns made his first trip west in 1907 at age thirty-five. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his bestselling book. More than 130 films have been based on his work.

About John Rayburn

John Rayburn is a veteran broadcaster. He served as a news/sports anchor and show host, and his TV newscast achieved the largest Share of Audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. John is a member of a Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on August 26, 2013

I have never read a Western, and I tackled this one primarily to have some exposure to the genre before I dismissed it. I was surprised how thought-provoking it was, especially as the author juxtaposes two ages and two types to great effect. Who thinks about the seismic changes of World War I and th......more

Goodreads review by Éowyn on September 20, 2017

Westerns have their fair share of space on my favorites shelf... In addition, two of Zane Grey's other works even have their own place on the list of my heart-stories, and I think The Call of the Canyon, may just have joined them there. My full review can be read here. SPOILER ALERT: I LOVED THIS STO......more

Goodreads review by Malachi on January 02, 2020

I listened to this one read from LibriVox, and I thought it was decent until the end. It was more of a Romance than a western, which wasn't what I was expecting, but even so it was ok. A lot of kissing between an engaged couple, but nothing inappropriate. Throughout most of the story a respect was s......more

Goodreads review by Wayne on January 15, 2012

It is 1919 and Carley Burch is a young orphaned woman who lives a socialite’s life of ease and pleasure in her New York City family home with her aunt Mary. Her fiancé Glenn Kilbourne has come home an injured, sick, and broken man after fighting in France during World War I, so he has gone West to A......more

Goodreads review by Louis on October 03, 2022

A seemingly old-fashioned western written by the old master of the genre, this book turns out to be quite modern for its time. The heroine, Carley Burch, is an honest-to-goodness flapper, a must fror a novel published and set in 1924. Leaving her home in New York, Carley sets out to Arizona. Her fia......more

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