Publisher, Blackstone Audio (June 2005)

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“Zane Grey was a literary giant. He had the knack of tying his characters into the land and the land into the story.” —Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason

“Grey was the finest author of his time.” —Richard Arlen, 1920’s actor

“Quite by chance, as he was looking for his burros, he struck his pick into a place no different from a thousand others there, and hit into a pocket of gold. He cleaned out the pocket before sunset, the richer for several thousand dollars.

“You brought me luck,” said Tappan, to the little gray burro staggering round its mother. ‘Your name is Jenet. You’re Tappan’s burro, an’ I reckon he’ll stick to you.’”

Prospecting was a lonely business for Tappan, but his burro Jenet was good company, and more. She knew the trails and waterholes better than Tappan, from the scorching heat and poison air of Death Valley to the blinding blizzards of Arizona’s mountains. Jenet tracked with him, faithful, his only friend. And he repaid her loyalty with a final, supreme effort of heart, will, and spirit.

About the Author: ZANE GREY (1872–1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife published his first novel themselves. The man, whose name is synonymous with Westerns, made his first trip west in 1907 at age thirty-five. Motion picture rights brought in a fortune, with 109 films based on his work.