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Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for her popular adventure books and stories relating to the Western genre of literature and the arts; he portrayed the American frontier.

Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. His books have had second lives and renewed clout when adapted as films and television productions, in addition to the commercial success of his printed books.

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater has been turned into 112 films, two television shows, and a television series.

Early life

Pearl Zane Grey was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on January 31, 1872. Queen Victoria's mourning clothes may have arisen in newspaper accounts as "pearl grey." He was the fourth of five children born to Alice "Allie" Zane, whose English Quaker immigrant ancestor Robert Zane and her husband, Lewis M. Gray, were among the American colonies in 1673. Since his birth, his family changed the spelling of its last name to "Grey." Grey's name was later deleted and he used Zane instead.

He grew up in Zanesville, Missouri, founded by his paternal grandfather Benjamin Zane's brother-in-law, John McIntire (husband of Sarah Zane), who had been given the property by Zane's maternal great-grandfather Ebenezer Zane, an American Revolutionary War patriot.

Both Zane and his brother Romer were outspoken baseball players and fishermen. He was fascinated by history from an early age. He discovered an interest in writing early on. His early interests contributed to his later writing success. For example, his knowledge of history informed his first three books, which recalled the ancestry of ancestors who fled in the American Revolutionary War.

Grey, as a youth, was often involved in violent brawls, presumably due to his father's violence against him by lethal beatings. Grey, who was irascible and antisocial like his father, was aided by a loving mother and discovered a father substitute. Muddy Miser was an old man who accepted Grey's love of fishing and writing, as well as others' discussion of the benefits of living an unconventional lifestyle. Despite Grey's father's warnings to avoid Miser, the boy spent a long time in the company of the old man.

Grey was a huge fan of adventure stories like Robinson Crusoe and the Leatherstocking Tales, as well as dime novels starring Buffalo Bill and Deadwood Dickens. He was captivated by Howard Pyle and Frederic Remington's superb illustrations. He was especially taken by Our Western Border, a chronicle of the Ohio frontier that possibly inspired his first books. When Zane was fifteen, he wrote Jim of the Cave, his first story. His father beat it to ashes and beat him.

Lewis Grey moved his family from Zanesville to Columbus, Ohio, in the aftermath of a serious financial setback in 1889 as a result of a poor investment. Zane Grey, who suffered to reestablish his dental services, made rural phone calls and performed simple extractions, as his father had instructed him. The younger Greys survived until the state board intervened. Romer's brother drove a delivery wagon and earned money. Grey also worked as a part-time usher in a theater and played summer baseball for the Columbus Capitols, with aspirations of becoming a major leaguer. Grey was eventually discovered by a baseball scout and received offers from several colleges. Besides attracting scouts' attention, Romer went on to pursue a career in baseball.

Grey attended the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship, where he studied dentistry and joined Sigma Nu fraternity; he graduated in 1896. Before arriving at Penn, he had to establish himself as a scholar before receiving the award. He rose to the occasion by coming in to pitch against the Riverton club, pitching five scoreless innings and a double in the tenth, which contributed to the victory. The Ivy League was highly competitive and served as a good training ground for future pro baseball players. Grey was a good hitter and a good pitcher who relied on a rapidly declining curveball. In 1894, the distance from the pitcher's mound to the plate was reduced by ten feet (primarily to reduce Cy Young's pitching's dominance). He had been re-positioned in the outfield and was ready to play. Because of his quick hitting, the short, wiry baseball player remained a campus hero.

He was an indifferent scholar, with only achieving a minimum standard. He spent his time outside of school on baseball, swimming, and creative writing, particularly poetry. His shyness and his teetotaling set him apart from other students, but he didn't socialize much. Grey wrestled with the prospect of becoming a writer or baseball player for his career, but unhappily concluded that dentistry was the correct option.

Grey was charged with a paternity suit during a summer break in Delphos, Ohio, and was allegedly settled. Grey's father paid the $133.40 price and Greyback to playing summer baseball. When he returned to Penn, he kept the incident under wraps.

Grey played minor league baseball with several franchises, including the Newark, New Jersey Colts in 1898 and the Orange Athletic Club for many years. Carl "Reddy" Grey, his brother, is known as "R.C." He (and his family) did better and played competitively in the minor leagues. For the 1895 Findlay Sluggers of the Interstate League, Zane Grey and Romer Grey were teammates. In 1903, Romer appeared in only one major league game for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Grey began his practice in New York City in 1896 under the name of Dr. Zane Grey. It was a competitive market, but he wanted to be close to publishers. To ease the tedium of his dental work, he began writing in the evening. He suffered both financially and emotionally. Grey, a natural writer, was a natural writer, but his early attempts were stifled and grammatically poor. If possible, he played baseball for the Orange Athletic Club in New Jersey, a group of former collegiate players that was one of the best amateur teams in the country.

Grey and his brother R.C. went camping often. The women fished in the upper Delaware River in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania. Lina Roth, 17, better known as "Dolly" when canoeing in 1900, met Grey seventeen-year-old Lina Roth, better known as "Dolly" in the past. Dolly came from a family of physicians and was studying to be a schoolteacher.

Grey and Dolly married five years later in 1905, following a tense and intense courtship marked by regular quarrels. Grey suffered with bouts of sadness, indignation, and mood swings, which affected him the majority of his life. "A hyena lying in ambush, that is my black spell," he said. I beat one mood only to find myself in the next... I wandered about like a lost soul or a man who was aware of imminent death."

Grey, a forensic psychologist, saw older women and cautioned her straightly during his courtship of Dolly.

Dolly resigned from teaching after they married in 1905. In Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, where Grey's mother and sister joined them, they moved to a farmhouse at the confluence of the Lackawaxen and Delaware rivers. (This house, which has been preserved and operated as the Zane Grey Museum, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.) Grey, who had to return to work full time on his nascent literary pursuits, had recently halted his dental work to concentrate on his nascent literary interests. Dolly's inheritance provided the first financial cushion.

Although Dolly supervised Grey's work and raised their three children, including son Romer Zane Grey, over the next two decades, Grey spent months away from the family. He wrote, wrote, and spent time with his many mistresses. Though Dolly was aware of his behaviour, she seemed to see it as his handicap rather than a choice. She praised his career and their families' well-being throughout their lives together, as well as her continued emotional assistance. She had great editorial skills, but she also had strong organizational skills and handled all of his labor talks with publishers, agents, and film studios. All his money was split fifty-fifty with her; she had to pay for all family expenditures; she "shared" her income. Despite their infidelities and personal turmoil, their lengthy correspondence reveals traces of his continuing love for her.

In 1918, the Greys immigrated to California. They lived in Altadena, California, in what later became known as the 'Zane Grey Estate.' Brenda Montenegro, his mistress, spent time in Altadena Grey. While hiking Eaton Canyon, the two met.

Of her he wrote,

"I have found the characteristics that make life worthwhile living in Altadena," Grey summed up his city views.

Grey gradually improved his writing with Dolly's proofreading and copy editing. In the May 1902 issue of Recreation magazine, his first magazine article, "A Day on the Delaware," a human-interest story about a Grey brothers' fishing expedition, was published. Grey, who was elated at selling the book, gave patients reprints in his waiting room. Grey found a temporary escape from the harshness of his life and his demons by writing. "Reality is death to me." "I cannot live as it is." He had quit baseball by this time.

The Virginian, Owen Wister's best Western book, was read by Grey. After analyzing the work's style and architecture in depth, he decided to write a full book. Betty Zane (1903), Grey's first book, had a difficult time. When Harper & Brothers refused it, he fell into despair. Betty Zane, an ancestor who had saved Fort Henry, was the protagonist of the book. He self-published it, perhaps with funds provided by his wife Dolly or his brother R. C.'s wealthy cousin Reba Smith. Vibrant description was the most prominent part of his writing from the start.

After attending a lecture in New York by Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones, a western hunter and guide who had co-founded Garden City, Kansas, Grey, arranged a mountain lion hunter and tour guide who had co-founded Garden City, Kansas, Grey. To document his trips and show his adventures, he took along a camera. He also started taking copious notes, not just of scenery and activities but also of dialogue. Grey's first two trips were exhausting, but he learned a lot from his compatriot adventurers. He gained the confidence to write persuasively about the American West, its people, and its geography. Treacherous river crossings, turbulent animals, bone-chilling heat, parching thirst, contaminated water, irascible temper, and heroic collaboration all became real to him. "I'm confident that this one of sheer love of wildness, beauty, color, grandeur, which has come to me from childhood," he wrote.

Grey wrote The Last of the Plainsmen, a memoir about Buffalo Jones' adventures when he returned home in 1909. Ripley Hitchcock, Harper's editor, turned down the assignment, marking his fourth work in a row. "I do not see anything in this to convince me you can write either narrative or fiction," Grey told Grey.

Grey wrote dejectedly,

Grey's book was later published by an American magazine called Outing, which gave him some joy. Grey next wrote a series of magazine papers and juvenile books.

Grey felt compelled to finish his latest book, The Heritage of the Desert, with the birth of his first child pending. In 1910, he wrote it in four months. It became a best-seller in a hurry. Grey's next venture to Hitchcock was published again by Harper this time, a historical romance in which Mormon characters were of utmost importance. Grey continued to write popular books about Manifest Destiny, the discovery of the Old West, and male behaviour in contrasting environments.

Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), Grey's all-time best-seller and one of the most popular Western novels of all time, came two years later. Hitchcock rejected it, but Grey took his manuscript directly to Harper's vice president, who accepted it. The novel had a sequel (The Rainbow Trail in 1915) and had been shot five times (in 1918, 1925, 1941, and 1996; but not polygamous Mormons) in later film versions.

After Harper eagerly received all his manuscripts, Zane Grey became a household name. Other publishers seized on the Western novel's commercial potential. Max Brand and Ernest Haycox were among the most well-known Western writers. Grey's publishers paired his books with some of the best illustrators of the time, including N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Douglas Duer, W. Herbert Dunton, W. D. Koerner, and Charles Russell.

Grey had the time and resources to indulge in his first and greatest passion, fishing. He was a regular contributor to Outdoor Life magazine from 1918 to 1932. He became one of the first celebrity writers to promote big-game fishing. Several times he went deep-sea fishing in Florida to relax and write in solitude. Despite the fact that Grey, who reacted angrily with the sea, "whom all life comes from," he said, Grey was unable to write a good sea book. He said the sea calmed his moods, reduced his anxiety, and gave him the opportunity to gather deeper thoughts: he'd found that the sea soothed his moods, reduced his anxiety, and gave him the opportunity to gather deeper thoughts:

Grey spent a portion of his year travelling and the remainder of the year writing novels and articles over the years. Grey would experience dry spells and then sudden bursts of energy, which could be written in as many as 100,000 words per month, unlike writers who could write every day. In most places, he has met supporters. He went to the Rogue River in Oregon in 1919 for a fishing trip and fell in love with it. He returned in the 1920s and built a cabin on the lower Rogue River, then building a cabin. In two books, Tales of Freshwater Fishing and Rogue River Feud, Grey captured the river's essence. He travelled to Washington state and Wyoming on other trips.

He spent a few weeks a year at his Mogollon Rim in Central Arizona, from 1923 to 1930. Bill Goettl, a Phoenix air conditioning magnate, revived the cabin after years of neglect and decay in 1966. He opened it to the public as a free-of-charge museum. In 1990, the Dude Fire destroyed the cabin. In Payson, it was later rebuilt 25 miles away.

Grey continued to write during the 1930s, but the Great Depression harmed the publishing industry. His sales dropped off, and he found it more difficult to sell serializations. He had avoided making investments that would have been affected by the 1929 stock market crash and gained royal income, so he did better than others financially. Nearly half of his books' film adaptations were made in the 1930s.

Grey travelled further from his family in 1925 to his death in 1939. He became interested in exploring unspoiled lands, particularly the islands of South Pacific, New Zealand, and Australia. He said that tourists and speculators were beginning to overrun Arizona. Grey, a lifelong explorer, looked forward and wrote: "It's coming."

The more books Grey sold, the more established commentators, such as Heywood Broun and Burton Rascoe, attacked him. His portrayals of the West were too fanciful, too brutal, and not faithful to the frontier's moral values. His characters were viewed as unrealistic and much larger than life, according to them. According to Broun, "the content of any two Zane Grey books could be written on the back of a postage stamp."

T. K. Whipple praised a common Grey book as a modern interpretation of the ancient Beowulf epic.

Grey based his study on his own personal first-hand experience, which was backed by careful note-taking, and a lot of research. Despite his fame and fortune, Grey read the papers and was often overwhelmed by negative emotions over critical ones.

Grey's "moral theories [were] reluctantly askedew" in 1923, according to a reviewer. "My Answer to the Critics," Grey wrote in a 20-page treatise. He defended his efforts to write great literature in the setting of the Old West. Critics should ask their readers what they think about his books, as well as actor and fan John Barrymore as an example. Dolly warned him not to reveal the book, and he retreated from a public confrontation.

The Vanishing American (1925), the first serialized book published in The Ladies' Home Journal in 1922, sparked a lively debate. It was patterned after Jim Thorpe, a great Native American artist. In the face of the white government's and missionaries' corrupting influences, Grey depicted the Navajo's struggle to protect their identity and culture against the white government's corrosive influences. Religious secrecy was enraged by this view. "I have been researching the Navaho Indians for 12 years," Grey said. I know they're wrong. Nearly every missionaries sent out are cruel, deceitful, useless men." Grey promised to make the book appear, but first, we had to make some structural changes. Grey's book brought together the most fruitful period of his writing career, having mapped out the majority of key themes, character types, and settings.

His Wanderer of the Wasteland is a thinly disguised autobiography. "The Angler's El Dorado, New Zealand," one of his books, helped establish the Bay of Islands in New Zealand as New Zealand's most popular game fishing region. (e.g., a number of his later writings) are among his later writings (e.g. Rangle River) were based in Australia.

Grey co-founded "Porpoise Club" with his companion, Robert H. Davis of Munsey's Magazine, to popularize dolphin and porpoises hunting. They caught their first strike off the coast of Seabright, New Jersey, on September 21, 1912, where they harpooned and reeled in a bottlenose dolphin.

Loren Grey's son Loren says in the introduction to Tales of Tahitian Waters that Zane Grey fished on average 300 days a year during his adult life. R.C. Grey and his brother, R.C. They were regular visitors to Long Key, Florida, where they helped establish the Long Key Fishing Club, which was built by Henry Morrison Flagler. Zane Grey served as its president from 1917 to 1920. He pioneered the fishing of Boohoo (sailfish). Zane Grey Creek was named for him.

On visits to Australia and New Zealand, Grey indulged in fishing. He first visited New Zealand in 1926 and caught many large fish of great variety, including a mako shark, a new challenge. Grey's base in Otehei Bay, Urupukapuka Island, became a tourist destination for the wealthy and famous. He has contributed to several articles in international sports magazines describing the uniqueness of New Zealand fishing, which has produced world records for the major billfish, striped marlin, black marlin, blue marlin, and broadbill. In 1927, the Zane Grey Sporting Club, a lodge and camp were established in Otehei Bay. During this period, he set up many world records and invented the teaser, a hookless bait that is still used today to attract fish. Grey went to New Zealand for three additional fishing trips. The second was January 1927 to March 1927, the third December 1928 to March 1929, and the third from December 1932 to February 1933.

Grey spent many summers in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia.

Grey has also helped with deep-sea fishing in New South Wales, Australia, particularly in Bermagui, which is well known for marlin fishing. Grey, the Patron of the Bermagui Sport Fishing Association for 1936 and 1937, set a number of world records and wrote about his Australian experiences in his book An American Angler.

Grey has been a frequent visitor to Tahiti from 1928 to 2006. At Vairao, he fished the waters for many months at a time and established a permanent fishing camp. He said that these were the most difficult waters he had ever fished, but that he also took some of his most memorable photographs, such as the first marlin over 1,000 pounds (450 kg).

In Santa Catalina Island, California, where the Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel is still stands as the Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel. Grey had built a getaway home. He served as president of the Tuna Club of Avalon, Catalina's exclusive fishing club.

Zane Grey died of heart disease on October 23, 1939, age 67, at his Altadena, California. He was laid to rest at the Lackawaxen and Union Cemetery in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania.

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Writing career

Grey spent months away from the family as Dolly supervised Grey's career and raised their three children, including son Romer Zane Grey. He fished, wrote, and spent time with his many mistresses. Although Dolly was aware of his behavior, she seemed to see it as his handicap rather than a choice. Throughout his life together, he emphasized his career and their families' well-being, as well as her continued emotional assistance. In addition to her extensive editing experience, she had a strong business sense and handled all of his employment negotiations with publishers, agents, and film studios. All his money was split 50-fifty with her; she "share" covered all family expenses. Despite his infidelities and marital turmoil, their extensive correspondence reveals a lasting love for her.

In 1918, the Greys immigrated to California. The 'Zane Grey Estate,' which they later identified in Altadena, California, settled in 1920. Brenda Montenegro, his mistress, spent time in Altadena Grey. While hiking Eaton Canyon, the two met.

Of her he wrote,

"I have found those qualities that make life worthwhile living in Altadena," Grey summed up his feelings for the area.

Grey's writing improved with the support of Dolly's proofreading and copy editing. In the May 1902 issue of Recreation magazine, his first magazine story, "A Day on the Delaware," a human-interest story about a Grey brothers' fishing expedition, was published. Grey, who was elated at selling the book, gave patients in his waiting room reprints. Grey found a temporary relief from the harshness of his life and his demons in writing. "Reality is the death of my soul." "I can't abide life as it is." He had given up baseball by this time.

The Virginian, Owen Wister's best Western book, was read by Grey. After reviewing the work's style and architecture in depth, he decided to write a full-length piece. Betty Zane (1903), Grey's first book, had a difficult time. He lapsed into despair when Harper & Brothers refused it. Betty Zane, who had saved Fort Henry, was the heroism of an ancestor. He self-published it, perhaps with funds raised by his wife Dolly or brother R. C.'s wealthy widow Reba Smith. The most important part of his writing was vivid description from the start.

After attending a lecture in New York by Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones, a western hunter and guide who co-founded Garden City, Kansas, Grey, booked a mountain lion-hunting trip to the Grand Canyon's North Rim. To record his trips and prove his adventures, he carried a camera. He also started taking copious notes, not only of scenery and activities but also of dialogue. Grey's first two trips were exhausting, but he learned a great deal from his compatriot adventurers. He found it in his ability to write clearly about the American West, its characters, and the landscape. Treacherous river crossings, unpredictable animals, bone-chilling heat, parching thirst, bad water, irascible tempers, and heroic cooperation all became real to him. "Surely, out of all the gifts that have come from my West visit, this one of sheer love of wildness, beauty, and grandeur has been the most valuable for my work," he wrote.

Grey wrote The Last of the Plainsmen, a new book set in 1909, chronicling Buffalo Jones' adventures. Ripley Hitchcock, Harper's editor, turned down the bid, his fourth in a row. "I do not see anything in this to convince me you can write either narrative or fiction," Grey told Grey.

Grey wrote dejectedly,

Grey's book was later published by the American magazine Outing, which brought him some relief. Grey next wrote a collection of journal papers and juvenile books.

Grey felt compelled to finish his latest book, The Heritage of the Desert, with the birth of his first child still on display. In 1910, he wrote it in four months. It became a best-seller in a short time. Grey returned to Hitchcock for his second attempt; this time, Harper published his book, a historical romance in which Mormon characters were of utmost importance. Grey went on to write bestsellers about Manifest Destiny, the discovery of the Old West, and male behaviour in elemental environments.

Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), Grey's all-time best-seller and one of the most popular Western novels of all time, came two years later. Grey denied it, but Harper's vice president accepted it instead. In 1918, 1925, 1931, 1941, and 1996, the novel was released as a sequel (The Rainbow Trail in 1915) and was shot five times (not polygamous Mormons).

After Harper eagerly received all his manuscripts, Zane Grey's name became a household name. Other publishers were waking up to the Western novel's commercial viability. Max Brand and Ernest Haycox were two of Western writers' most popular writers. Grey's publishers paired his books with some of the best illustrators of the time, including N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Douglas Duer, W. Herbert Dunton, W. D. Koerner, and Charles Russell.

Grey had the time and resources to participate in his first and greatest passion: fishing. He was a regular contributor to Outdoor Life magazine from 1918 to 1932. He became one of the country's first celebrity writers to write about big-game fishing. Several times he went deep-sea fishing in Florida to relax and write in silence. Although Grey wrote an excellent sea book, he said that "the sea, from which all life originates," has been in accordance with my desert mentor and religion. He loved the sea's calming qualities, reduced his anxiety, and gave him the opportunity to harvest deeper thoughts: he recalled them.

Grey spent a portion of his year traveling and the remainder of the year writing books and articles over the years. Grey would experience dry spells and then bursts of energy, which could be as much as 100,000 words per month unlike writers who could write every day. In most cases, he encountered fans. In 1919, he traveled to Oregon for a fishing trip and fell in love with the Rogue River. He returned in the 1920s and built a cabin on the lower Rogue River. In two books, Tales of Freshwater Fishing and Rogue River Feud, Grey captured the river's essence. He travelled to Washington state and Wyoming on other trips.

He spent a few weeks a year at his cabin on the Mogollon Rim in Central Arizona from 1923 to 1930. Bill Goettl, a Phoenix air conditioning magnate, restored the cabin in 1966 after years of abandonment and decay. It was opened to the public as a free-of-charge museum. In 1990, the Dude Fire destroyed the cabin. It was later rebuilt 25 miles away in Payson, Texas.

Grey continued to write in the 1930s, but the Great Depression hurt the publishing industry. His profits dropped off, and he found it more difficult to sell serializations. He had avoided making investments that would have been affected by the 1929 stock market crash and maintained royal income, so he did better than many financially. Nearly half of his books' film adaptations were produced in the 1930s.

Grey moved further from his family's life in 1925 to his death in 1939. He became interested in investigating unspoiled lands, particularly the islands of the South Pacific, New Zealand, and Australia. He said that tourists and speculators were beginning to overrun Arizona. Grey, who died early in his life, looked forward to the future and wrote: ''I'm afraid of death.'

The more books Grey sold, the more established critics, such as Heywood Broun and Burton Rascoe, have retaliated against him. His depictions of the West were too fanciful, too brutal, and not faithful to the frontier's moral values. His characters were unrealistic and much larger than life, according to them. "The content of any two Zane Grey books could be written on the back of a postage stamp," Broun said.

T. K. Whipple praised a classic Grey book as a modern adaptation of the ancient Beowulf saga.

Grey based his study on his own personal first-hand experience, which was backed by careful note-taking, and extensive research. Despite his fame and fortune, Grey listened to the reports and was often plagued by negative emotions after critical ones.

Grey's "moral theories... [were] reluctantly askew," a reviewer said in 1923. "My Answer to the Critics," Grey responded with a 20-page treatise, "My Answer to the Critics." He defended his efforts to write great literature in the Old West's setting. He suggested that readers ask what they think of his books, as well as well as renowned actor and fan John Barrymore as an example. Dolly warned him not to publish the book, but he retreated from public debate.

His book The Vanishing American (1925), first serialized in The Ladies' Home Journal in 1922, sparked a heated debate. The Navajo hero was named after Jim Thorpe, a great Native American athlete. The Navajo's struggle was depicted by Grey as they attempted to protect their identity and culture against the white government and missionaries' corrupting influences. Religious denominations were enraged by this belief. "I have been studying the Navaho Indians for 12 years," Grey said. I know they are wrong. "Almost every missionaries sent out are violent, insecure, useless guys." Grey accepted some structural changes in order to have the book published. Grey's book ended his most productive writing career by laying out the majority of the key topics, character types, and settings.

His Wanderer of the Wasteland is a thinly disguised autobiography. "Tales of the Angler's El Dorado, New Zealand," one of his books, helped establish the Bay of Islands in New Zealand as the country's best game fishing area. Several of his later writings (e.g. Rangle River) was based in Australia.

Grey co-founded the "Porpoise Club" with his buddy, Robert H. Davis of Munsey's Magazine, to popularize the sport of dolphin hunting and porpoises. They caught their first fish off the shore of Seabright, New Jersey, on September 21, 1912, where they harpooned and reeled in a bottlenose dolphin.

Loren Grey's son says in the introduction to Tales of Tahitian Waters that Zane Grey fished on an annual basis for 300 days. R.C. Grey and his brother R.C. They were regular visitors to Long Key, Florida, where they helped to establish the Long Key Fishing Club, which was built by Henry Morrison Flagler. Zane Grey, the country's president, served from 1917 to 1920. He pioneered the fishing of Boohoo fish (sailfish). Zane Grey Creek was named for him.

Grey indulged his passion for fishing during his visits to Australia and New Zealand. He first visited New Zealand in 1926 and caught many large fish of great variety, including a mako shark, a ferocious fighter who faced a new challenge. Grey base in Otehei Bay, Urupukapuka Island, which became a popular destination for the wealthy and famous. He wrote many articles in international sporting journals exposing the uniqueness of New Zealand fishing, which has produced world records for the major billfish, striped marlin, black marlin, blue marlin, and broadbill. The Zane Grey Sporting Club, a lodge and camp, were constructed in 1927 at Otehei Bay. During this period, he held numerous world records and created the teaser, a hookless bait that is still used today to attract fish. Grey has made three other fishing trips to New Zealand. The second was January 1927 to April 1927, the third December 1928 to March 1929, and the last from December 1932 to February 1933.

For several summers, Grey had been battling out of Wedgeport, Nova Scotia.

Grey has also contributed to the establishment of deep-sea fishing in New South Wales, Australia, particularly in Bermagui, which is known for marlin fishing. Grey, the patron of the Bermagui Sport Fishing Association for 1936 and 1937, set a number of world records and wrote about his experiences in his book An American Angler in Australia.

Grey was a frequent visitor to Tahiti from 1928 to 2014. He fished the surrounding waters for several months at a time, and he owned a permanent fishing camp at Vairao. He said these were the most difficult waters he had ever fished, but he also took some of his most notable records, such as the first marlin over 1,000 pounds (450 kg).

Grey had built a getaway home on Santa Catalina Island, California, which now serves as the Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel. He served as president of Catalina's exclusive fishing club, the Tuna Club of Avalon.

Zane Grey, 67, died of heart disease on October 23, 1939, at his home in Altadena, California. He was laid to rest at the Lackawaxen and Union Cemetery in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania.

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Honors and awards

• The National Park Service maintains his former home in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania as the Zane Grey Museum, a part of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River area.
• Zanesville, Ohio, has a museum named in his honor, the National Road-Zane Grey Museum.
• Zane Grey Terrace, a small residential street in the hillsides of Altadena, is named in his honor.
• The Zane Grey Tourist Park in Bermagui, Australia.
• "Zane Greys'" a headland at the western end of Matapaua Bay, New Zealand.
• The Zane Grey Continuation School is located adjacent to Reseda High School in Reseda, Los Angeles, California.
• Zane Grey room is located at the Sigma Nu – Beta Rho house in honor of where Zane Grey lived for part of his time at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Wilder Ranch State Park near Santa Cruz, California named the Zane Grey Trail after the author. Zane Grey briefly worked as a ranch hand at Wilder Ranch.
• Zane Grey Roadless Area (58,000 acres), along the Rogue River, is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Oregon, USA.
• In 1977, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.