This book isn't really about Nevada, the state. It's about a dude named Nevada, or nicknamed Nevada, should say. He calls himself Nevada to hide his true identity as "Jim Lacy" a slick gunfighter with a past.
He's the typical Zane Gray protagonist - sorrowful past which led to a corrupt life, possesses the glacier beneath the iceberg of noble heart just waiting for an angelic maiden to transform and redeem him into the white hatted hero that he was meant to be.
I find Zane Gray females to be pretty one dimensional but I really love his nature descriptions. This book in particular interested me because the majority of the story takes place around the Mogollon Rim in Arizona which is near Payson where I was born. Last Summer, my girls and I travelled there and sat atop this picturesque rim overlooking the Tonto basin. Zane Grey actually kept a hunting cabin in the area which has now been relocated to Payson alongside a museum of local history. His writing and the fact that he had a place there suggests that he loved the area. It comes across in his writing.
I want to get back there and explore some more.
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