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On 31 January 1872, Pearl Zane Gray was born in the small Midwestern town of Zanesville, Ohio, a town named after Ebenezer Zane, a Revolutionary War hero and Grey’s great-grandfather. Grey’s unusual Christian name derived from his mother’s whimsical notion of honouring Queen Victoria’s fondness for pearl gray (228: 18). Although he later dropped the feminine Tearl’ and changed the spelling of Gray to Grey, one is tempted to speculate upon the impact such a name had on his developing ego.
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© 1987 Cynthia S. Hamilton
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Hamilton, C.S. (1987). Zane Grey. In: Western and Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction in America. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08390-9_5
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