Zane Grey
Tom Doan joins the buffalo hunters going into the Southwestâ€™s inhospitable Staked Plain. Seeing huge herds there, he thinks of getting rich off their hides. He proves efficient as a skinner, and what follows is almost a literal baptism in sweat and blood. Fighting the Comanches and Kiowas, some unscrupulous white hunters, and hisÂ own conscience, he ages fastâ€”all the faster in facing obstacles to loveâ€™s consummation with Milly. She, like Tom, is in constant danger from every side. Finally, they can be united in mind and body only if he agrees to her one condition. ,The Thundering Herd,, originally published in 1925, is Zane Greyâ€™s great lament for the passing of the buffalo. Grounded in the authorâ€™s sense of western history, it shows in no uncertain terms how white men were debased by the wanton destruction of the herds.
Westerns,Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,Classics,Romance
The Thundering Herd