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The Kidnapping of Collie Younger / Outlaws of Palouse
Book by Grey, Zane
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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Zane Grey
2,095 books597 followersPearl Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. As of June 2007, the Internet Movie Database credits Grey with 110 films, one TV episode, and a series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater based loosely on his novels and short stories.
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March 4, 2023
There are two stories in this book. They are labeled novels, but are so short they amount to short stories. The heroes and heroines in each are very similar. Collie and Edith are young, flirty, courageous and smart. Ron and Dale are taciturn, indecisive, given to self-reflection and self-doubt, but are also courageous.
The Kidnapping of Collie Younger
Rod Brecken has returned home to visit family. His brother, John, is in love with a flirt named Collie Younger. John wants Rod to kidnap her so he can come along and rescue her.
Rod offers to drive her to the train station and suggests that he drive her all the way to Albuquerque. Yes, there are cars in the story. And the depression is mentioned. The cars do have running boards
At one point they are shot it and chased. Someone had seen Rod cash a check at the bank. They leave the highway and drive on country roads until they reach a cabin. It is at this point that Rod tells Collie that he has kidnapped her.
She attempts to escape crashing the car. The two men chasing them have found them. It is at this point that the story improves. I don’t really understand the psychology of young men and women in the 1930s. I wasn’t there. I guffawed at the end of the story.
Outlaws of Palouse
Dale Brittingham is on the trail of horse thieves who have stolen Edith Watrous’ thoroughbreds. He sneaks up on them. He hears them mention a friend of his, a friend he owes much to. But makes a noise on his approach. The shooting begins. Dale survives. He returns the horses to Edith but finds that the town has the suspicion that he is one of the horse thieves himself. Edith defends him to Baynes who has come to arrest him. Dale pulls a gun and leaves.
He has no objective in mind, but soon turns to the idea of finding where the rest of the horses are corralled. He hears of a horse sale over the border in Idaho and decides to investigate. Edith has followed him to town. She sees at least one of the horses at the sale is in fact hers. Reed, the man running the sale flees the sale taking Edith as a hostage. Dale arranges a posse, and then set off in pursuit on his own with Nalook, his lifelong friend.
There are several gunfights and an attempted lynching(back in Salmon there is a large bounty on Dale’s life).
These two stories have similar resolutions. They were enjoyable. I can’t say that I like Grey’s writing. Too much ruminating on the part of the protagonists, too much time spent with describing the terrain and Dale’s attempts to find the horse thieves.
The Kidnapping of Collie Younger
Rod Brecken has returned home to visit family. His brother, John, is in love with a flirt named Collie Younger. John wants Rod to kidnap her so he can come along and rescue her.
Rod offers to drive her to the train station and suggests that he drive her all the way to Albuquerque. Yes, there are cars in the story. And the depression is mentioned. The cars do have running boards
At one point they are shot it and chased. Someone had seen Rod cash a check at the bank. They leave the highway and drive on country roads until they reach a cabin. It is at this point that Rod tells Collie that he has kidnapped her.
She attempts to escape crashing the car. The two men chasing them have found them. It is at this point that the story improves. I don’t really understand the psychology of young men and women in the 1930s. I wasn’t there. I guffawed at the end of the story.
Outlaws of Palouse
Dale Brittingham is on the trail of horse thieves who have stolen Edith Watrous’ thoroughbreds. He sneaks up on them. He hears them mention a friend of his, a friend he owes much to. But makes a noise on his approach. The shooting begins. Dale survives. He returns the horses to Edith but finds that the town has the suspicion that he is one of the horse thieves himself. Edith defends him to Baynes who has come to arrest him. Dale pulls a gun and leaves.
He has no objective in mind, but soon turns to the idea of finding where the rest of the horses are corralled. He hears of a horse sale over the border in Idaho and decides to investigate. Edith has followed him to town. She sees at least one of the horses at the sale is in fact hers. Reed, the man running the sale flees the sale taking Edith as a hostage. Dale arranges a posse, and then set off in pursuit on his own with Nalook, his lifelong friend.
There are several gunfights and an attempted lynching(back in Salmon there is a large bounty on Dale’s life).
These two stories have similar resolutions. They were enjoyable. I can’t say that I like Grey’s writing. Too much ruminating on the part of the protagonists, too much time spent with describing the terrain and Dale’s attempts to find the horse thieves.
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