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Our ‘fight of flight’ response is something hardwired into the primitive part of our brain. Our need to survive, to outlive whatever danger poses, that immediate threat to our lives is little short of a marvel. Everything else is abandoned in order to survive. Whilst in modern times that ability has been somewhat modified and ‘reasoned’ away to an extent, in past years it’s what usually kept you alive. In this volume people struggle valiantly to survive and to exist no matter the extent of the threat they face.

Fleeing Arizona, gunslinger and cattle rustler Monty Ballou has found his way to just across the border in Utah, at Canyon Walls Ranch. He takes on a new identity, Sam Hill, and becomes the ranch's hired hand, farming and bringing in a rich crop of alfalfa for its widow owner. It also takes no time at all when Monty finds himself attracted towards Rebecca, the daughter of his widow owner employer. Monty resists as best he can the charms of Rebecca while working the ranch. He has now begun a new life at a ranch that needs the touch of a strong man in order to thrive.

Sienna, the young chief of a vanishing tribe, is given a second chance to bring abundance to his people when white traders bestow a gun upon him. The power of the gun brings him great renown and his people flourish for a time. Little does he know that his spreading fame will cause the downfall of his people as they are captured by a rival tribe and dragged away into slavery. Sienna knows that rather than resist or fight, he must bear the troubles of his captive people and wait for his destiny, foretold in a prophecy, to unfold.

Texas Ranger Vaughn Medill, after 20 hard and long years of duty, wants to finally settle down with a wife and children of his own and on his own ranch. He is also in love with Roseta Uvaldo who suddenly and mysteriously disappears. He embarks on a desperate and agonizing search to find and save Roseta and to bring to justice, or even kill, her kidnappers or die trying.

This final Boxed set of Zane Grey's novels features three of his most popular titles: The Border Legion, Betty Zane, and The Desert of Wheat.

Zane Grey is considered the creator of the Western genre and remains its most popular author. The famous critic T. K. Whipple praised a typical Grey novel as a modern version of the ancient Beowulf saga, "a battle of passions with one another and with the will, a struggle of love and hate, or remorse and revenge, of blood, lust, honor, friendship, anger, grief—all of a grand scale and all incalculable and mysterious." This fourth Volume contains four more of his novels: The Light of Western Stars, The UP Trail, The Spirit of the Border and The Call of the Canyon.

Zane Grey is considered the creator of the Western and remains the most popular author of that genre. The famous critic T. K. Whipple praised a typical Grey novel as a modern version of the ancient Beowulf saga, "a battle of passions with one another and with the will, a struggle of love and hate, or remorse and revenge, of blood, lust, honor, friendship, anger, grief—all of a grand scale and all incalculable and mysterious." This third Volume contains four of more of his captivating novels: Desert Gold, Wildfire, The Heritage of the Desert and The Last of the Plainsmen.

A young man named Ken discovers a deep passion for the newfound work of forestry, a controversial new government branch being established in the young United States, especially in the West. Ken is sent to a rural town in deep Arizona to begin the initial studies of the local forests when he stumbles across an illegal logging operation that is wiping out the trees and ruining the land. The local authorities are teeming with corruption, and the Department of Forestry is seen as a joke and a governmental overstep by the people.