The Young Lion Hunter (Illustrated Edition)

In this book, we find our young friend, Ken Ward (The Young Pitcher, Ken Ward in the Jungle), heading west to catch mountain lions—by roping them! Ken and his younger brother spend an exciting summer hunting mountain lions in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.

This edition of the book contains all four original illustrations, rejuvenated, and six additional full-color illustrations of the Grand Canyon that are unique to this edition of the book.

Pearl Zane Gray was born January 31, 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. His birth name may have originated from newspaper descriptions of Queen Victoria's mourning clothes as "pearl gray". He was the fourth of five children born to Alice "Allie" Josephine Zane, whose English Quaker immigrant ancestor Robert Zane came to America in 1673, and her husband, Lewis M. Gray, a dentist. His family changed the spelling of their last name to "Grey" after his birth. Later Grey dropped Pearl and used Zane as his first name. He grew up in Zanesville, a city founded by his maternal great-grandfather Ebenezer Zane, an American Revolutionary War patriot; from an early age, the boy was intrigued by history. Grey developed interests in fishing, baseball, and writing, all which contributed to his writing success. His first three novels recounted the heroism of his ancestors who fought in the American Revolutionary War.