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Thirty Thousand on the Hoof

by Zane Grey

First published 1940

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Beginning in the Arizona Mogollon Rim country in the late nineteenth century, a ranching couple sets out to build an enormous cattle operation. Their goal of running thirty thousand head becomes the organising ambition of their lives, demanding continual expansion, endurance and sacrifice across decades of changing conditions.

The ranch survives drought, economic pressure and the broader transformation of the West into the First World War era, but scale brings its own dangers. What begins as a shared dream can become an obsession, testing health, marriage and family loyalty. The novel treats ranch building as a long historical process rather than a single frontier adventure.

Historical Periods

World War I1914–1918 CE Cattle Drives and Cowboy Era1866–1890 CE

Genres

Historical Sagas Social & Domestic Fiction Western & Frontier Fiction

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