The Arizona Clan

by Zane Grey

First published 1958

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In Arizona’s Tonto Basin, an illicit whiskey trade spreads violence and corruption through a community where formal authority is weak. Families and neighbours are drawn into the consequences of a profitable underground business, and old loyalties become harder to maintain as intimidation and retaliation increase.

The story treats frontier lawlessness as a community problem rather than a contest between a single outlaw and a single lawman. Smuggling, local influence and personal grudges overlap, forcing people to decide whether kinship and silence are worth the damage being done around them.