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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 ....

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.... Literary Criticism 173). Gradually the character comes to be one with their surroundings and is able to cope with the problems the west posses. They gain inner peace and become one with nature. In the novel The Vanishing American Marian is an eastern girl who moves out west to be with her true love Nophie. Nophie is an Indian she met and fell in love with. At first Marian struggles with the harsh conditions and hot weather. She almost gives up but continues to push on. Gradually she becomes stronger and able to deal with the climate and the problems nature throws at her. This gains her a lot of respect from the westerners who had ....