Zane Grey (1872-1939) was an American author of Western adventure novels and short stories. He was a very prolific author and one of the first authors to become a millionaire. Over 100 films have been based on his stories. His best-known novel is Riders of the Purple Sage. Grey was an avid fisherman and wrote a lot about fishing. Two of his sons, Romer Zane and Loren became authors as well.

Zane Grey became a published novelist in 1903 with the novel Betty Zane. Below is a list of Zane Grey’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Adam Larey Books

Wanderer of the Wasteland (1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stairs of Sand (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Brazos Keene Books

Knights of the Range (1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twin Sombreros (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Forlorn River Books

Publication Order of Jim Traft Books

The Hash Knife Outfit (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Drift Fence (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Ken Ward Books

The Young Forester (1910)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Young Pitcher (1911)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Young Lion Hunter (1911)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ken Ward in the Jungle (1912)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Light of the Western Stars Books

Light of Western Stars, The (1914)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Majesty's Rancho (1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Pan Handle Smith Books

The Lone Star Ranger (1914)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trail Driver (1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Valley Of Wild Horses (1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Riders of the Purple Sage Books

Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rainbow Trail (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Desert Crucible (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Golden West Books

(with Louis L'Amour, Max Brand, Jon Tuska, Christopher Lane)

Stories of the Golden West, Book 3 (With: Max Brand,Jon Tuska,Christopher Lane) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories of the Golden West, Book 5 (With: Grover Gardner,Max Brand,Jon Tuska) (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories Of The Golden West, Book 7 (With: Louis L'Amour,Max Brand) (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Ohio River Trilogy Books

Betty Zane (1903)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Spirit of the Border (1906)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Trail (1909)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Last of the Plainsmen (1908)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Short Stop (1909)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Heritage of the Desert (1910)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wildfire (1910)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Desert Gold (1913)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Light of Western Stars (1914)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cabin Gulch (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Border Legion (1916)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The U. P. Trail (1918)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Desert Of Wheat (1918)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mysterious Rider (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
War Comes to the Big Bend (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wyoming (1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man of the Forest (1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tonto Basin (1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
To the Last Man (1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Day of the Beast (1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon (1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rustlers of Pecos County (1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Call of the Canyon (1924)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Water Hole (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Under the Tonto Rim (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Thundering Herd (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Deer Stalker (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Vanishing American (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shower of Gold (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Top Hand (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lost Pueblo (1927)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Open Range (1927)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Don. The Story Of A Lion Dog (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wild Horse Mesa (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shepherd of Guadaloupe (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dorn of the Mountains (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Missouri Schoolmarm (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rogue River Feud (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fighting Caravans (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
RobbersRoost (1930)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sunset Pass (1930)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dude Ranger (1930)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
West of the Pecos (1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Raiders of Spanish Peaks (1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lost Wagon Train (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thunder Mountain (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arizona Ames (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Code of the West (1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Outlaws of Palouse (1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
King of the Royal Mounted and the Great Jewel Mystery (1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Western Union (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
30,000 on the Hoof (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wilderness Trek (1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shadow on the Trail (1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Maverick Queen (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
THE ROARING U.P.TRAIL (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Black Mesa (1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stranger from the Tonto (1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fugitive Trail (1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Arizona Clan (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Horse Heaven Hill (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Boulder Dam (1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Prairie Gold (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vanishing Indian (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arizona Clan (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Ranger (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nassau, Cuba, Yucatan, Mexico (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hoods (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Adventures Of Finspot (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Reef Girl (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Captives of the Desert (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Buffalo Hunter (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shark (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Big Land (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dark Heritage (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lord of Lackawaxen Creek (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Riders of Vengeance (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lost In The Never Never (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tenderfoot (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tex Thorne Comes Out of the West (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Yaqui (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
George Washington, Frontiersman (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Last of the Great Scouts (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rangers of the Lone Star (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Woman of the Frontier (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last of the Duanes (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Great Trek (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Union Pacific (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Redheaded Outfield (1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Lonely Trails (With: Ray Hogan) (1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wolf Tracker and Other Animal Tales (1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tappan's Burro and Other Stories (1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ranger and Other Stories (1926)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blue Feather and Other Stories (1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bernardo's Revenge & Other Western Yarns (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Savage Kingdom (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales From A Fisherman's Log (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Camp Robber and Other Stories (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Westerners (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Freshwater Fishing (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Amber's Mirage and Other Stories (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Secret of Quaking Asp Cabin and Other Stories (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Undiscovered Zane Grey Fishing Stories (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zane Grey's Greatest Animal Stories (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tigre and Other Stories (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Avalanche, and Other Stories (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Best Western Stories (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Seafishing Yarns (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Silvermane And Other Stories (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Swordfish and Tuna (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Tahitian Waters (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Southern Rivers (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rangle River (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of the Great Game Fish (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Silvermane (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Florida Fishes (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

An American Angler in Australia (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of the Angler's Eldorado (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zane Grey's Book of Camp and Trails (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zane Grey on Fishing (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Graphic Classics, Volume 12: Adventure Classics(0)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories(1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Great Baseball Stories(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Century of Great Western Stories(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
100 Years Of Fishing: The Ultimate Tribute To Our Fishing Tradition(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden West(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Untamed West(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lawless West(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Three Classic Westerns(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Trailin' West(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: Last of the Great Scouts was co-authored with Helen Cody Wetmore. Robbers’ Roost was also published under the title Thieves’ Canyon. The Golden West also contains contributions from Louis L’Amour and Max Brand. Last of the Duanes is an unabridged version of The Lone Star Ranger. The Desert Crucible is an unabridged version of The Rainbow Trail. Tonto Basin is an unabridged version of To the Last Man. Shower of Gold is an unabridged version of Desert Gold. The Great Trek is an unabridged version of The Wilderness Trek.

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3 Responses to “Order of Zane Grey Books”

  1. LH: 6 years ago

    I read Zane Grey novels in high school in the Seventies. They had book covers with an action description in a black box at the bottom of the page. Any available for my Walter Black editions?

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  2. Pat C Wilson: 7 years ago

    My dad’s family lived five miles from the Grey’s. At that time they were the closest neighbors. At one time when I was a young teenager I read one of Zane’s books and it told about a wild bunch of kids that weren’t bad, like thieves, just wild crazy and always getting into fights and doing crazy dangerous stunts. I told my dad it sounded like the stories I had heard about him,his brothers and sisters. He said those stories sounded awful familiar. Wish I remembered which book it was. My mom totally changed my dad and my aunt told me they kept trying to pull mom down to their level and she just pulled them up! I’m 81 years old now and have great grandkids and wish I could give them at least the name of the book. One of my aunts dated Zane’s son for a while. She was pretty wild. I know she embarrassed me as an adult.

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  3. Shelly Ann LPN(ret): 9 years ago

    I really appreciate this listing of Mr. Grey’s books, Just recently purchased a 50 book collection of hardback books to replace the paper backs that I lost during my time in the military. Started reading Zane Grey novels when I was in the 6th grade and have been collecting them since.

    I find that there are only two authors who I consider to be great western writes, Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour.

    Thank you for this listing site, I will be bookmarking these pages so I can come back to them for reference to my favorite authors.

    Shelly Ann, LPN (ret)
    HM2c(FMF)/USN, Sgt/USAR, ACM/olc
    A Proud Honorable Disabled American Veteran 1967-1994 – Combat Medicine

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