Wilderness Trek

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Wilderness Trek
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Title page for Wilderness Trek (1944)
AuthorZane Grey
LanguageEnglish
Set inAustralia
PublisherGrossett and Dunlap
Publication date
1944
Publication placeUSA

Wilderness Trek is a 1944 novel by Zane Grey. Unlike most of his novels it was set in Australia. It was published in 1944, after his death in 1939. [1]

Contents

It was based on his trip to Australia and he wrote it in late 1936 to early 1937. [2] [3] The book was heavily edited after Grey's death - a revised edition, closer to his original draft, was published in 1999 as The Great Trek.

Premise

Two American cowboys, Red Krehl and Sterl Hazelton, arrive in Australia to help drive a “mob” of cattle through three thousand miles of the outback. They clash with villain, Ash Ormiston.

Reception

Grey's biographer called the book "part Australian travelogue, part western novel, and part pilgrimage, as kangaroos, wallabies, and kookaburras try to steal the scenes from the principal characters. Wilderness Trek is vintage Zane Grey, with Aussie flair added to western gunbattles, fistfights, cattle drives, and maiden-rescues." [4]

References

  1. ↑ "The footprints of a fisherman". The Canberra Times . Vol. 44, no. 12, 623. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 16 May 1970. p. 11. Retrieved 1 October 2025– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (1 October 2025). "Forgotten Australian Films: White Death". Filmink. Retrieved 1 October 2025.
  3. ↑ "Zane Grey's £750 Shark Reel". The Advocate (Australia) . Tasmania, Australia. 10 February 1939. p. 7. Retrieved 1 October 2025– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ May, Stephen (2000). Maverick heart : the further adventures of Zane Grey. Ohio University Press. p. 222.
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