Zane Grey - (A Novel by)
Subtitle: West of the Pecos  (Orig. Serial in ''The American Magazine'' 1931)
Series: Zane Grey Books & Stories
Publisher: The MUSSON Book Company, Ltd.
Published: 1931, 1938
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
Copyright date: 1938 by The MUSSON Book Company, Ltd.
Other titles: DVD: West Of The Pecos (1922, 1934, 1945); SPANISH: Al oeste del Pecos; CROATIAN: Zapadno od Pecosa; CZECH: Na západ od Pekosu;
Description: She can ride, rope, and shoot like a boy, but when her father is killed by greedy rustlers, Terrill faces defeat. Then she meets Pecos Smith, a straight-shooting cowboy whose courage could save her ranch.--LibraryThing

Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son-- an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bore a girl. His hopes crushed and in denial, he decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor of Lambeth's more successful brother, they named her: Terrill.

Upon the arrival of the Civil War, Lambeth enlists in Lee's army, leaving behind his wife and tomboy daughter, with hopes to reconcile living in the shadow of his brother. By the time the war ends, Lambeth returns a colonel and his wife has passed. Tired of his old life as a cotton planter, he packs up with his tomboy daughter, Rill, and heads for the alluring western frontier to start anew.

After they arrive in the West, the Colonel is brutally murdered. Rill, disguised as a youth of eighteen who rode with the toughest, is left to fend for herself in the Wild West swarming with outlaws. Enter the one they called Pecos Smith--a rugged desperado with a mysterious past and one bad reputation. Though, he may not be what he seems.

Filled with adventure, bandits, and the beautiful landscape of America in its formative years, West of the Pecos is a classic tale by one of the greatest novelists of the American west.--Skyhorse Publishing
Notes: **Printed in Canada: The Hunter Rose Company Ltd., Toronto, Canada**
Both **Classifications** are Harper & Brothers, New York-London,**1937. Other sys. # (OCoLC)6947094**
**OCLC Number: 928967811 [1931 Serial]** West Of The Pecos: The Crowell Publishing Co., Springville, USA
"A vaquero with a past." Pecos Smith was the best horseman, the best shot, the best man with a rope that ever rode out of southwest Texas. That was all anyone really knew about him. But in six-gun country, west of the Pecos, people figured he would be useful to have around so no one asked questions **-- Crowell Publishing Co.**
West of the Pecos, a **1937 novel by Zane Grey with hero Pecos Smith:**
First published as a serial beginning in **1931** in **''The American Magazine''**, and made into these films:
    West of the Pecos **(1934 film)**, a Western film starring **Richard Dix**
    West of the Pecos **(1945 film)**, a Western film starring **Robert Mitchum**