The Last of the Plainsmen

This book is an outstanding true account of a trip made by Zane Grey and a plainsman, Buffalo Jonesone of the last. Jones was a famous sportsman in North America at the turn of the 20th century and Grey a famous author of adventure stories. Unlike many of Grey's fictional novels of the old west, this is an account of a trip made to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon about 1908, for the purpose of tracking and capturing mountain lions. In those days, the North Rim was famous for the number and size of cougarsone mentioned in the book was 10' long, tip of tail to nape of neck, and weighed 300 pou…