Part one of term paper
has come to be known as "The Father of Western". He was the first ever to give the myth of the rugged American Cowboy to American Literature. Although some have called Grey a "hack writer" no one can argue that his sixty-odd novels won him great popularity from the 1920's through present time (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 175). It ...

Part two of term paper
... nature. His stories were stimulating to boys who wanted imaginative excitement and men without developed literary taste who wanted only to escape (Nesbitt 277). Grey used a common theme in most of his novels. The theme of the "rite of passage". This idea involves an eastern person, usually of a higher class moving to the west, for whatever reason (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 173). Gradually the character comes to be one with their surroundings and is able to cope with the problems the ...