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Speak of Zane Grey today and immediately one thinks of Westerns, of blazing guns, treacherous villains, virtuous women, heroes ten feet tall, and the most beautiful scenery in America.

Long ago, the name Zane Grey became a household world, and is known around the world. He was very rich; at one time the world's highest paid author. But it was not always that way.

He was born Pearl Zane Gray in Zanesville, Ohio, January 31, 1872.

His father was a farmer, preacher, and dentist.

The full chronicle is here: The Ohio boyhood in the 's, college days as a University of Pennsylvania baseball star, the frustrating years as a practicing.

The full chronicle is here: The Ohio boyhood in the 's, college days as a University of Pennsylvania baseball star, the frustrating years as a practicing.

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This book follows Grey from his birth in Ohio as Pearl Zane Gray (changed in to Zane Gray) through his attempts at dental school, to his success as a.

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It was Doc Gray's desire that his son would also become a dentist, and before his fame Zane Grey fulfilled this desire.

The young Gray became proficient in the art of baseball, and actually won a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania where his playing won fame for the school and himself.

Newspapers carried stories and articles about his exploits on the diamond.

Encouraged by an editor to write a fishing story which appeared in Recreation Magazine, May 1902, Zane Grey decided to become a writer. He had