Zane Grey's Stories of the West #34

In "30,000 on the Hoof," the Huett family’s hard-won life on the frontier is tested when the Campbells threaten their herd with knives and greed. Logan and Lucinda hold fast as their sons George and Grant answer the call to war, while daughter Barbara—adopted, then married to her brother Abe—faces loss and longing. When Abe returns years later with news of fifteen hundred head of cattle in the pasture, the family’s future begins anew, built on silence, sacrifice, and the quiet strength of the land.

In the dusty shadows of the frontier, schoolteacher Charles E. Boles traded chalk for crime, reinventing himself as the elusive C. E. Bolton—a robber who targeted only express boxes, leaving behind poems instead of blood. Known for his linen duster, flour-sack mask, and a shotgun he never fired, his heists were as precise as they were poetic. When a hunter’s accidental shot exposed his identity, the trail led not to a gun, but to a laundry, and a single cuff that unraveled the legend.