Zane Grey novel
Dates: 4/5/02,5:30 PM through 4/8/02,3:55 PM (3 postings)
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FROM: Spring Quick <[removed]@ccrls.org>
REC'D: 4/5/02, 5:30 PM
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FROM: "Jeannine Cook" <[removed]@co.douglas.or.us>
REC'D: 4/5/02, 5:52 PM
Spring Quick wrote:
> I have a patron looking for a book she says is by Zane Grey called The
> Spirit of Llano Estacado. I can't find any reference to such a book. Has
> anyone every heard of this?
> Thanks!!
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FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 4/8/02, 3:55 PM
> I have a patron looking for a book she says is by Zane Grey called The
> Spirit of Llano Estacado. I can't find any reference to such a book.
Has
> anyone every heard of this?
> Thanks!!
I did a quick-and-dirty check of several Web bibliographies of Zane
Grey's books, and didn't find a title matching this. However, he did
write one entitled "Spirit of the Border". Searching WorldCat for items
with "zane" and "grey" in the author field, and "spirit" in the title
field, gave similar results. Could this be the one your patron is
thinking of?
If so, WorldCat indicates that it's held by numerous libraries. It's
apparently recently been reprinted by U. of Nebraska, in case anyone
feels the need to run out and buy a copy.
The Karl Mays book mentioned by someone else is also a possibility,
especially if your patron is German or European. Mays wrote in German,
according to the webpage which was cited, and although WorldCat does have
a few listings for "Der Geist des Llano Estacado" in German, I didn't see
any English translations under that title. The OCLC record for the
"Collected Works" as published by Seabury Press in 1977 does not list
this story in the table of contents, but I'm never quite sure how
complete TOC's in catalog records really are.
The only exact title match I found for "Spirit of the Llano Estacado", in
English, seems to be someone's music thesis at Texas Tech University,
which is located in Lubbock, Texas, where some of May's tales were set.
Intriguingly, it does list "bibliographic references" -- perhaps it's a
musical interpretation of Mays' story?
Quien sabe?
Bradley A. Scott
"The ocean, babe, is watered down, but these plains are high and dry
and though you've seen your share of dreams, you've never seen me cry."
-- The Flatlanders, semi-famous Lubbock band
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