The U.P. Trail by Zane Grey, Fiction, Westerns, Historical

Pearl Zane Gray studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship, and later played with a minor league team. He met and later married Lina Roth, whose inheritance helped support his efforts to become a writer. He pioneered the Western genre. His first western, Heritage of the Desert, became a best seller in 1910, and he went on to wrote over 60 books, many of which became films.

The railroads are expanding to link the nation, with the celebrated golden spike mark...