The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey

The Call of the Canyon.
By Peter Glass on April 25, 2009

Bizarre is the word that comes to mind on reading this book. Read the rant at the end of Chapter X, and try to figure out what the message is exactly. Highly emotional exposition on the role of women in US society just after WW I. Vigorously opposed to Jazz Music, the evil influences of information about birth control, the unjust treatment of returning veterans, the dangers of the back seat of automobiles (while parked), the duty of child-bearing, and the frivolous nature of 'modern woman', the power of work, and the return to 'True American Virtues'. And at the end of the story the heroine does go out 'West' to be with her man (a returned WW I Vet) to pursue the vigorous life of work and duty. But she has purchased prime real estat in the area, and immediately hired two Mexican servants to see to things around the huge house she is building, so that she can go off into the wilderness to emote! Well worth a read. But bizarre.