To the Last Man (Zane Grey)

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name = To the Last Man
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author = Zane Grey
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Western| publisher = Harper & Brothers (US hardback) & Forge (US paperback)
release_date = 1921
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 311 pp (hardback); 288 pp (paperback edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-8125-6465-0 (paperback edition)
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To the Last Man: A Story of the Pleasant Valley War is a western novel written by Zane Grey.

Origin

"To The Last Man" is a shorter version of "Tonto Basin". Grey submitted the manscript of "Tonto Basin" to the magazine "The Country Gentleman," which published it in serialization as "To the Last Man" from May 28, 1921 through July 30, 1921. This was a much shorter version of the original leaving out much of the backstory. This shorter version was published by Harper Brothers.

Plot introduction

It is a story of a family feud healed by young love. The story is based on a factual event involving the notorious Hashknife gang of Northern Arizona.

Plot summary

The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamedwhen one of the families takes up cattle rustling.

The ranchers are led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers.

In the grip of a relentless code of loyalty to their own people, they fight the war of the Tonto Basin, desperately, doggedly, to the last man, neither side seeing the futility of it until it is too late. And in this volatile environment, young Jean finds himself hopelessly in love with a girl from whom he is separated by an impassable barrier.

Characters in "To the Last Man"

*Jean Isbel –
*Lee Jorth –

ee also

*"To the Last Man (film)" is a 1933 Henry Hathaway film based on the Zane Grey novel starring Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane, Noah Beery, Shirley Temple, and Eugenie Besserer.
* Frederick Russell Burnham participated on the losing side in the real-life Tonto Basin feud and narrowly escaped alive. After the feud, he went home to California and left for Africa only a few years later.cite book | last =Burnham | first =Frederick Russell | authorlink =Frederick Russell Burnham | coauthors = | title =Scouting on Two Continents | publisher =Doubleday, Page and Co | date =1926 | location = New York | pages = Chapters 3 & 4| url = | doi = | id = ASIN B000F1UKOA ] cite journal| author =R. R. Money| date=April 1962| year=1962| month=April | title=Tonto Basin Feud | journal=Blackwood's Magazine| volume=291| issue=| issn=0006-436X ]

References

External links

*gutenberg|no=2070|name=To the Last Man