Since 1921, this story has existed only in a highly censored version known as To the Last Man. Here is Zane Grey's splendid and wonderful novel of the longstanding feud between the Jorths and the Isbels. For Jean Isbel the savagery of this conflict is complicated by falling in love with Ellen Jorth. Ellen is also torn between loyalty to her father, the hatred for anyone named Isbel with which she has grown up, and that she, too, is in love. At last, this incredible story of tragedy, romance, historical realism, and hope can ...
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Since 1921, this story has existed only in a highly censored version known as To the Last Man. Here is Zane Grey's splendid and wonderful novel of the longstanding feud between the Jorths and the Isbels. For Jean Isbel the savagery of this conflict is complicated by falling in love with Ellen Jorth. Ellen is also torn between loyalty to her father, the hatred for anyone named Isbel with which she has grown up, and that she, too, is in love. At last, this incredible story of tragedy, romance, historical realism, and hope can be read as Zane Grey originally wrote it.Zane Grey(TM) continues to be one of the bestselling Western writers of all time with a record 108 motion pictures based on his work. He was born Pearl Zane Gray at Zanesville, Ohio, in 1872. Grey's early novels were serialized in pulp magazines but by 1918 he had graduated to the slick magazine market. His first Western, Heritage of the Desert, was self-published in 1910.
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The Graham-Tewskbury feud on which this story is based is as legendary out West as the Hatfield-McCoy feud is back East. Zane Grey, of course, adds his own twist to the facts, but over-all this is probably the most accurate accounting there will ever be, as Zane Grey was able to talk to old-timers who were still living and had gone through the feud. The one scene in the book with the hogs is the one most readers will never forget, and is based on fact. The Romeo and Juliet part is consistent with other romances written by Grey, and has to be in the story line to make it historical romance, which is what he considered himself to be writing. In fact, the word, or term, "western" was not universally used until around 1930. But by 1930 Zane Grey had been writing historical romance for over twenty-five years. The word, "western" had appeared on the cover of The Day of the Beast as a warning in big bold letters "NOT A WESTERN" to let buyers know this was not typical Zane Grey. The root of the longstanding feud between the Isbels and the Jorths is a woman we never meet, a character dead before the story opens, Ellen Sutton. She was engaged to Gaston Isbel at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War. While Isbel is away to war, Ellen Sutton takes up with the disreputable Lee Jorth and they have a child out of wedlock, and never marry. The child is Ellen Jorth. It is Lee Jorth who tells her how her mother taunted Isbel when he came back with the sexual relationship, and how this so enraged Isbel and began the feud. This burden of having been born of infidelity is one that oppresses Ellen Jorth for most of the novel. Of course most of this background material was excised before the magazine appearance, and left out of the Harper's edition, leaving the reader baffled as to the source and extent of the passion and hatred of the feud which claims every member of both families with the exception of Ellen Jorth and Jean Isbel, the half-mixed Nez Perce.
Tonto Basin restores such scenes as well as others bringing back the author's original intent and desire to present a powerful and dramatic piece of fiction. It is well worth reading to discover the writer Zane Grey actually was.
