Pennsylvania museum keeps alive writer's vision of West

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20010829
Author:DAN LEWERENZ

Pennsylvania museum keeps alive writer's vision of West

By DAN LEWERENZ

Associated Press

Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Lackawaxen, Pa. -- Zane Grey, an Easterner who studied dentistry on a baseball scholarship at the turn of the 19th century, earned fame and fortune writing adventure stories about cowboys, Indians and the Wild West.

He did much of that writing in a farmhouse on the wooded banks of the Delaware River in a tiny town in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania, far removed from desert canyons and mesas and cactus and tumbleweed.

The Ohio-born Grey, who lived in Lackawaxen, Pa., from ...

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