Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 60102-h.htm or 60102-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60102/60102-h/60102-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60102/60102-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/wandererofwastel00grey_0 WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND [Illustration] * * * * * * BOOKS BY ZANE GREY WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND TALES OF LONELY TRAILS TO THE LAST MAN THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER THE MAN OF THE FOREST TALES OF FISHES THE DESERT OF WHEAT THE U. P. TRAIL WILDFIRE THE BORDER LEGION THE RAINBOW TRAIL THE LONE STAR RANGER THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS DESERT GOLD THE HERITAGE OF THE DESERT RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE THE YOUNG FORESTER THE YOUNG PITCHER THE YOUNG LION HUNTER KEN WARD IN THE JUNGLE THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY, LTD. _Publishers_ * * * * * * [Illustration: THE GIRL’S RED LIPS CURLED IN POUTED SCORN] WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND by ZANE GREY Author of “The Man of the Forest,” “To the Last Man,” “Riders of the Purple Sage,” Etc. With Illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton [Illustration] Toronto: the Musson Book Company Ltd. New York: Harper & Brothers WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND Copyright, Canada, 1923 by the Musson Book Company, Ltd. Printed in Canada Dedicated to my wife LINA ELISE GREY Without whose love, faith, spirit and help I never could have written this novel ZANE GREY CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I 1 CHAPTER II 11 CHAPTER III 18 CHAPTER IV 27 CHAPTER V 39 CHAPTER VI 52 CHAPTER VII 64 CHAPTER VIII 79 CHAPTER IX 92 CHAPTER X 102 CHAPTER XI 118 CHAPTER XII 134 CHAPTER XIII 151 CHAPTER XIV 156 CHAPTER XV 172 CHAPTER XVI 195 CHAPTER XVII 212 CHAPTER XVIII 231 CHAPTER XIX 252 CHAPTER XX 262 CHAPTER XXI 285 CHAPTER XXII 295 CHAPTER XXIII 309 CHAPTER XXIV 329 CHAPTER XXV 348 CHAPTER XXVI 358 CHAPTER XXVII 370 CHAPTER XXVIII 393 CHAPTER XXIX 403 CHAPTER XXX 413 ILLUSTRATIONS THE GIRL’S RED LIPS CURLED IN POUTED SCORN _Frontispiece_ THEN THE GUN BOOMED WITH MUFFLED REPORT--AND GUERD LAREY, UTTERING A CRY OF AGONY, FELL AWAY FROM ADAM 58