About this book
In **The Last of the Plainsmen**, Zane Grey captures a remarkable true account of a 1909 expedition into the untamed Grand Canyon wilderness alongside the legendary Buffalo Jones, a plainsman devoted to capturing wild animals alive. What unfolds is an extraordinary adventure to lasso a cougar—a feat as daring as it sounds—through a landscape still raw with danger and teeming with wolves, wild horses, buffalo, and native wildlife.
Grey's narrative plunges listeners into the American West at the turn of the century, when civilization had barely touched these remote regions and survival depended on courage and skill. Buffalo Jones emerges as a fascinating figure—a man driven by an almost obsessive passion to preserve rather than destroy, despite a lifetime spent pursuing the West's most formidable creatures. His philosophy of capture over killing sets the stage for an adventure that blurs the line between fact and the excitement typically found in fiction.
This historical fiction and adventure hybrid offers an unflinching glimpse into a vanished world, complete with the authentic details and complexities of frontier life that modern sensibilities might find challenging. Narrated with compelling authenticity, Grey's account serves as both thrilling adventure and historical documentation of an era when the American wilderness remained genuinely wild.
Ideal for listeners who crave authentic adventure stories, Western history enthusiasts, and anyone fascinated by the untamed frontier and larger-than-life characters who shaped it.
