{ "item_title" : "The U.P. Trail", "item_author" : [" Zane Grey "], "item_description" : "The U. P. Trail is a classic Western novel written by Zane Grey. The story is set in the late 1800s and follows the journey of a group of pioneers as they travel westward along the newly constructed Union Pacific Railroad. The group includes a diverse cast of characters, including cowboys, gamblers, and outlaws, all seeking their fortunes in the untamed wilderness of the American West.As they make their way across the rugged terrain, the pioneers face a variety of challenges and dangers, including hostile Native American tribes, treacherous weather conditions, and the constant threat of attack from bandits and thieves. Along the way, they also encounter a number of colorful characters, including a beautiful young woman named Allie Lee, who captures the heart of one of the cowboys.The U. P. Trail is a thrilling adventure story that captures the spirit of the American West during a time of great change and upheaval. Zane Grey's vivid descriptions of the landscape and the characters who inhabit it bring the story to life, and his masterful storytelling keeps readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. This is a must-read for anyone who loves Westerns or classic adventure tales.1918. From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds of buffalo grazed and the wolf was lord and the campfire of the trapper sent up its curling blue smoke from beside some lonely stream; on and on over the barren lands of eternal monotony, all so gray and wide and solemn and silent under the endless sky; on, ever on, up to the bleak, black hills and into the waterless gullies and through the rocky gorges where the deer browsed and the savage lurked; then slowly rising to the pass between the great bold peaks, and across the windy uplands into Utah, with its verdant valleys, green as emeralds, and its haze-filled canons and wonderful wind-worn cliffs and walls, and its pale salt lakes, veiled in the shadows of stark and lofty rocks, dim, lilac-colored, austere, and isolated. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/41/792/253/1417922532_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "36.95", "online_price" : "36.95", "our_price" : "36.95", "club_price" : "36.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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