tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822452633282744192.post2658541081519797037..comments2024-03-25T12:21:56.752-05:00Comments on Sweethearts Of The West: ZANE GREY'S LEGACYCaroline Clemmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14914658854159456335noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822452633282744192.post-87821978576749637852019-01-21T20:23:10.034-06:002019-01-21T20:23:10.034-06:00You might also enjoy this:
Mary Casey (Playwright...You might also enjoy this:<br /><br />Mary Casey (Playwright) <br /><br />Mary is an award-winning playwright who specializes in plays about the American West. A two-time finalist in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s National 10-minute Play Contest, Mary’s full-length play, Unspeakable Acts, was the 2008 winner of the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. Her full-length play, Women and Horses and A Shot Straight From the Bottle, received its world premiere at Echo Theatre in Dallas, Texas, and was nominated for best new play by the Dallas Theatre League. Mary’s one-act play, Surprise Valley, won the 2010 Zane Grey Playwriting Contest and received a staged reading by The Moveable Theatre Company. She is a recipient of the Butcher Scholar Award through the Autry National Center and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.<br /><br />http://www.moveabletheatrecompany.org/about_us<br /><br /><br />FancyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08585076321681288232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822452633282744192.post-18104148712492734102019-01-21T20:15:15.262-06:002019-01-21T20:15:15.262-06:00You might also enjoy this:
Mary Casey (Playwright...You might also enjoy this:<br /><br />Mary Casey (Playwright)<br /><br /> <br /><br />Mary is an award-winning playwright who specializes in plays about the American West. A two-time finalist in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s National 10-minute Play Contest, Mary’s full-length play, Unspeakable Acts, was the 2008 winner of the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. Her full-length play, Women and Horses and A Shot Straight From the Bottle, received its world premiere at Echo Theatre in Dallas, Texas, and was nominated for best new play by the Dallas Theatre League. Mary’s one-act play, Surprise Valley, won the 2010 Zane Grey Playwriting Contest and received a staged reading by The Moveable Theatre Company. She is a recipient of the Butcher Scholar Award through the Autry National Center and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.<br /><br />http://www.moveabletheatrecompany.org/about_usFancyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08585076321681288232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822452633282744192.post-20326766785651671222014-05-27T19:15:18.265-05:002014-05-27T19:15:18.265-05:00Thanks for your comments, ladies. I do remember Za...Thanks for your comments, ladies. I do remember Zane Grey as an author who attracted a lot of readers for westerns--and he still does. I wish I hadn't learned he wasn't a very nice person, though.Caroline Clemmonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14914658854159456335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822452633282744192.post-54259584769789489902014-05-26T22:49:30.120-05:002014-05-26T22:49:30.120-05:00His books influenced a lot of my view of life espe...His books influenced a lot of my view of life especially where it comes to nature. Yes, he had plots, but he described the land and he did it beautifully. I have his biography but most important to me is having been where he wrote and finding it as he described. I was fortunate enough to be in his cabin on the Mogollan Rim before it burned in the huge forest fire. The rebuilt it but the energy of the original location under the rim, nobody can rebuild thatRain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822452633282744192.post-33800910219684374772014-05-26T19:24:47.616-05:002014-05-26T19:24:47.616-05:00My goodness! You did a TON of research for this, C...My goodness! You did a TON of research for this, Caroline. What a fantastic post! I never knew much of this stuff, and I'm a Zane Grey fan from way back. :-)<br /><br />I blame Grey for my enduring love of western fiction. The first of his novels I remember reading -- and still my favorite -- is ROBBERS ROOST. (One of the minor characters in that book has the best character name ever: Sparrowhawk Lattimer.) After I read ROBBERS ROOST, I couldn't get enough of Grey and read every other western and frontier novel he wrote.<br /><br />For some reason, the character Wetzel (in BETTY ZANE, SPIRIT OF THE BORDER, and THE LAST TRAIL) has stuck with me through the years, probably because Grey's description of the character was so vivid.<br /><br />Grey may not have written the most elegant prose, but he got the job done. Great literature? Maybe not, but his books sure are fun. :-)<br /><br />(Like you, I wish he'd left the dolphins and porpoises alone, though. :-( )Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05740371055384281988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822452633282744192.post-59989282472987556632014-05-26T07:30:59.188-05:002014-05-26T07:30:59.188-05:00Thanks for the information about Zane Grey. He was...Thanks for the information about Zane Grey. He was a handsome devil, wasn't he. And I guess he knew it and so did the women. I don't care for a man like him, so cavalier with his attitudes and consumed with himself, first and foremost, good or bad.<br />He's the same kind of man as Charles Lindbergh. Having just read a novel about his wife--Anne Morrow Lindbergh--I see many similarities.<br />Self-absorbed and self-indulgent, yet tortured for what ever reason. <br />Also both men had wives who stayed beside them while they had other lives and other families. Disgusting.<br /><br />On the other hand, the wives of these men, knew and accepted, so they had their own reasons for remaining Mrs. Zane Grey...or Mrs. Charles Lindbergh. Perhaps they can blame no one but themselves.<br /><br />My grandfather read paperback Westerns, mostly Zane Grey. He was an alcoholic, and in his older years would stay in bed all day in his undershirt, reading Zane Grey and drinking. As he aged even more, he'd still hold a worn copy of one of his books, one side always rolled back so he could hold it in one hand...and often upside down.<br /><br />I read numerous Zane Grey novels while I was in my "genre reading" years--first all Westerns, then I switched to all science fiction, and then all women's fiction...and finally a romance book jumped off the shelf at me...and look at me now.<br /><br />Good topic, Caroline.<br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16272417114895975742noreply@blogger.com