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Title: The Rainbow Trail

Author: Zane Grey

Release Date: February, 2004 [EBook #5067]
Posting Date: May 31, 2009

Language: English

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Produced by Doug Levy

THE RAINBOW TRAIL, a Romance

by ZANE GREY.

Transcriber's note:

In the original text the words "canyon" and "pinyon" are spelled in the
Spanish form, "canon" and "pinon", with tildes above the center "n"s.
Since the plain text format precludes the use of tildes, I've changed
these words to the more familiar spelling to make them easier to
read.--D.L.

CONTENTS.

FOREWORD

CHAPTER.

I. RED LAKE.

II. THE SAGI.

III. KAYENTA.

IV. NEW FRIENDS.

V. ON THE TRAIL.

VI. IN THE HIDDEN VALLEY.

VII. SAGO-LILIES.

VIII. THE HOGAN OF NAS TA BEGA.

IX. IN THE DESERT CRUCIBLE.

X. STONEBRIDGE.

XI. AFTER THE TRIAL.

XII. THE REVELATION.

XIII. THE STORY OF SURPRISE VALLEY.

XIV. THE NAVAJO.

XV. WILD JUSTICE.

XVI. SURPRISE VALLEY.

XVII. THE TRAIL TO NONNEZOSHE.

XVIII. AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW.

XIX. THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO.

XX. WILLOW SPRINGS.

EPILOGUE

FOREWORD

The spell of the desert comes back to me, as it always will come. I see
the veils, like purple smoke, in the canyon, and I feel the silence. And
it seems that again I must try to pierce both and to get at the strange
wild life of the last American wilderness--wild still, almost, as it
ever was.

While this romance is an independent story, yet readers of "Riders of
the Purple Sage" will find in it an answer to a question often asked.

I wish to say also this story has appeared serially in a different
form in one of the monthly magazines under the title of "The Desert
Crucible." ZANE GREY.

June, 1915.

THE RAINBOW TRAIL

I. RED LAKE

Shefford halted his tired horse and gazed with slowly realizing eyes.

A le