Pre-Owned Thorndike Western I: Shower of Gold : A Western Story (Hardcover)

When young Richard Gale arrives in the Arizona border town of Casita, he finds himself surrounded by Mexican and American troops, bandits and renegades--and makes an enemy of Rojas, a vicious Mexican bandit leader. When young Richard Gale arrived in the Southwestern border town of Casita, he didn't realize it was a tinderbox waiting to explode. There's a revolution in Mexico and American troops are stationed along the border. The town itself is overrun by bandits and renegades. And things only get worse for Gale when he promises to help protect the daughter of a murdered Spanish aristocrat. The bandit leader who killed the girl's father wants her found-right away-and he'll destroy anyone who tries to stop him.This powerful novel was written in 1913, but for over ninety years it has existed only in a weaker, censored form, published as Desert Gold. That edited version trimmed violence, changed dialogue . . . and removed the climactic fight scene altogether. The result was a novel quite different from the one Zane Grey had intended. Now, nearly a century later, Shower of Gold has been completely restored, using the author's original manuscript.