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Banner image for Zane Grey Photograph Collection featuring a desert landscape with a large rock arch in warm tones, and a man sitting on a rock in the foreground looking out over the scene. The title appears across the center.

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Zane Grey was the best-known author of Western novels in the early 20th Century. His books shaped Americans’ views of the West as well as inspired other Western authors such as Louis Lamour. The photographs in this collection provide context for the settings Zane Grey used his novels as well serve as a window into how an American author in 1922 might view the American West with its diverse landscapes and peoples.

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