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By: Meghan Saar 03/01/2008
Zane Grey
Zane Grey fell in love with Arizona while visiting the West Coast during his honeymoon in 1906. Like a dutiful admirer, recalling a loved one’s charms over and over again, he would set 24 of his 56 romantic Westerns in Arizona. Under the Tonto Rim comes to life here when you walk along Tonto Creek, near the Mogollon Rim, and view the scrub-colored hills of the Tonto National Forest.
The cabin Grey had built for him at the base of the Mogollon Rim in 1920 was destroyed by the Dude Fire in 1990. Fans kept driving in to Payson, asking for directions to “the cabin,” so a replica was built. The nearby Rim Country Museum has shared its collection of rare Zane Grey artifacts, so they can be housed at the cabin that shares the author’s history.
While in Rim Country, be sure to visit NAU in Flagstaff to view the Zane Grey Collection at the Cline Library. It features 70 works by the author, as well as posters of movies adapted from his books, a few of his personal belongings and his correspondence, dating from 1901 through 1937, two years before the 67 year old died in Altadena, California.
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Tonto Creek flows into Roosevelt Lake, where you’ll find a monument to Chief of Indian Scouts Al Sieber, who was killed here while overseeing his scouts as they constructed the road.
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