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What if the law knows your name, but not the man you are?
Buck Duane carries his father's reputation before he makes a name of his own. The son of a feared Texas gunman, he lives beneath a shadow he cannot shake. When a violent clash leaves a man dead, Duane becomes a fugitive, forced into the outlaw country of the border.
In The Lone Star Ranger, Zane Grey follows Duane through gunfights, long rides, and hard country. Captain MacNelly of the Texas Rangers sees courage where others see only an outlaw. Jennie Lindsay gives Duane reason to hope for a better life. But can his choices count for more than the name that follows him?
What you’ll discover
- A name like a shadow Follow a young man whose father's deadly reputation shapes how strangers judge him.
- Flight across hard country Ride with Duane into the Texas borderlands, where the law no longer offers shelter.
- A captain who looks closer Meet MacNelly, a Ranger who sees a possible servant of justice in a fugitive.
- Hope beyond the gunfight Discover how Jennie Lindsay gives Duane a reason to imagine a better life.
- Character against reputation Explore whether a man's choices can speak louder than the stories told about him.
Who will love it
For readers who love classic Westerns, frontier landscapes and stories of a good man pushed outside the law, with gunfights, loyalty and the search for redemption.
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- A gunman's son cannot outrun his name
- One deadly fight sends him into exile
- The Rangers offer a different road
- What the story is about and how it moves
Who’s who
- Buck DuaneA young Texan with a gunman's reputation who is forced to flee into the outlaw country of the border.
- Captain MacNellyA Texas Ranger captain who sees in Duane a chance to turn skill and courage toward the cause of law.
- Jennie LindsayA young woman who is part of Duane's story and gives him a reason to hope for a better life.
- Duane's fatherA feared gunman whose name and example cast a long shadow over his son's life.
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El ranger de la estrella solitaria
by Zane Grey · 1915
Hunted on the Texas border, Buck Duane must weigh loyalty against justice when the Rangers offer him another way.
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The Lone Star Ranger is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published in 1915. Grey was an American writer who made the frontier his main subject, and here he turns to the Texas border country and the men who tried to keep law there.
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A gunman's son cannot outrun his name
Buck Duane is the son of a man known on the Texas frontier as a fast and deadly gunman. The father's reputation hangs over the son from the start. People look at Duane and expect a killer, whatever he wants for himself.
Grey builds the early part of the story on this pressure. Duane is not drawn as a lover of violence. He is a quiet young man who would rather live in peace, yet the world around him keeps pushing him toward the gun.
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What is The Lone Star Ranger about?
It tells of Buck Duane, a young Texan with a gunman's reputation who becomes a fugitive on the border and is later offered a place among the Texas Rangers. It is about law, loyalty and redemption.
Who is Buck Duane?
Buck Duane is the hero of the novel. He is the son of a feared gunman, and he struggles to live apart from the violence his name suggests.
Who are the Texas Rangers in the book?
The Texas Rangers were the state's mounted lawmen. In the novel they work to bring order to the border, and Captain MacNelly is the Ranger who takes an interest in Duane.
The author
Zane Grey
1872–1939 · American Western novelist
Zane Grey (1872–1939) was an American novelist born in Zanesville, Ohio. He worked as a dentist before becoming a writer. He wrote Western novels, including Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) and The Rainbow Trail (1915). He later lived in Altadena, California, where he died in 1939.
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