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Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

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Zane Grey
Age: 67 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 31
Died: 1939
Died: October 23
Author
Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Zanesville
Ohio
Gazed
Away
Red
Drift
Hard
Rivers
Wondering
Meant
Silent
Adam
Wonder
River
Eyes
Current
Upon
Currents
Eye
Desert

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