Pearl Zane Gray studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship, and later played with a minor league team.
Jack is a coward, drunkard, gambler, and thief, and Columbine really loves the cowboy Wilson Moore..
In The Mysterious Rider , Bill Bellound\'s foster daughter Columbine agrees to marry his son Jack out of love for her foster father.
His first western, Heritage of the Desert , became a bestseller in 1910, and he went on to write over sixty books, many of which became films.
He pioneered the Western genre.
He met and later married Lina Roth, whose inheritance helped support his efforts to become a writer.
Pearl Zane Gray studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship, and later played with a minor league team
