[Gutenberg 1239] • The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley

West of Fort Henry, in the wild and lawless country, the tribes are massing for an attack that will destroy the isolated white settlements. Settlers are doomed unless a few grizzled veterans of the Indian Wars can turn back the angry natives. One veteran is a man of legend and mystery: Wetzel rides through a borderland crawling with outlaws and savages, vowing to rid the frontier of its ruthless predators and to make the territory safe for the bold pioneers of the American West.

Pearl Zane Grey (1872-1939) was a prolific American author of adventure stories, particularly westerns. A college baseball player and dentist, Grey began writing fiction in the early 1900s; he eventually wrote over 90 books, the bulk of them westerns. A number of his works were published posthumously for more than twenty years after his death.