The Last of the Plainsmen

Name: The Last of the Plainsmen
Rating: 3.79 (1089 reviews)

by Zane Grey

First published 1908

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Based on Zane Grey’s 1907 journey with the frontiersman and conservationist Charles “Buffalo” Jones, The Last of the Plainsmen follows an expedition through the Arizona wilderness in pursuit of cougars, wild horses and other game. Grey presents Jones as a surviving figure from the nineteenth-century frontier, combining a real historical personality with the heightened narrative methods of an adventure story.

The book is especially concerned with a West undergoing rapid change. Jones’s reputation rests not only on hunting but on efforts to capture and preserve threatened wildlife, while Grey records the physical demands of desert travel, rough camps and encounters with animals in remote country. The result is a hybrid of biographical fiction, personal travel narrative and frontier adventure.