Unjustly driven away from the home ranch and from his sweetheart by his father’s displeasure, Ben Ide seeks refuge in the remote vastness of Forlorn River. There, with two companions, he follows the trail of a herd of wild horses led by the beautiful wild stallion, California Red. Suspected of cattle thieving by the ranchers, Ben knows that the only way to clear his name, is to run the real thieves to earth. But when he finally comes face to face with the outlaws, the fight which follows ends in both an exciting, yet unexpected surprise.

Zane Grey, the greatest storyteller of the American West, wrote to live and lived to write — surely a balance rarely attained. The breakthrough success of Heritage of the Desert in 1910 enabled Zane Grey to establish a home in Altadena, California, and a hunting lodge on the Mogollon Rim near Payson, Arizona. A lifelong passion for angling and the rich rewards of his writing also allowed him to roam the world’s premier game-fishing grounds in his own schooner and reel in several deep-sea angling records which stood for decades. A prodigiously prolific writer, Grey would spend several months each year gathering experiences and adventures, whether on “safari” in the wilds of Colorado or fishing off Tahiti, and then spend the rest of the year weaving them all into tales for serialization, magazine articles, or the annual novel.