Word: zane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collection of more than 10,000 volumes, a repository that scholars, authors, regional libraries and Old West freaks came to rely on. Nowadays the shop has even become a stop on the tour-bus routes out of Tucson. Her customers aren't the sort whose taste runs to Zane Grey -- no, they are more likely looking to flesh out a study of, say, Texas John Slaughter with a document first published when the century was young. Winifred either has it, will find it or will spin out of control trying. Such work kept her pushing on during her toughest trial...
...West encroaches on the wilderness, any heroes are welcome. To his fans, Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr., a hardened 36-year-old, embodies bull- headed heroism. As a boy, Dallas read Zane Grey, trapped animals on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and harbored a dream to head West. In 1968 he did, and started as a buckaroo on a ranch in Oregon. Acquaintances called him gentle, quiet, a loner. Dallas earned a reputation as a hard worker and a fellow who'd stare you straight in the eye. "Buckarooing," he once explained in charming simplicity, "is just a man doing...
...archetypal cowboy, of course, is the famous leading man in the nation's collective unconscious. What Americans carry in their minds is not the historical reality of the cowboy but the myth as it came to them in books and movies, the cowboy according to Zane Grey and John Wayne. Americans, tutored in the lore from childhood, almost unconsciously see cowboy stories as morality plays. Good guys do battle with bad guys. Right generally triumphs. The bad guys end in the hands of the law. In the American understanding of the myth, cowboys may sometimes operate outside...
...Soloflex, an Oregon maker of body-building equipment, show a woman's hand touching such brawny hunks as Boxing Champ Ken Norton, Muscleman Frank Zane and Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast Mitch Gaylord. The headline: "A hard man is good to find." Says Jerry Wilson, founder of Soloflex, whose sales have jumped 20% since the ads started appearing last spring: "There's no way I can sell the product without selling...
...Zane Gazal Las Vegas...