Best Seller The Heritage of the Desert ( western, thriller, crime novel, crime story, detective story, classic western, Billy the kid, Wyatt Earp, dodge city, cowboy, Indian, 1800's )

Published in 1910, this was Grey's first Western—the novel that catapulted him to fame and fortune and launched a new genre of popular fiction. A lone wanderer, hired to protect a herd of cattle from an outlaw, finds himself falling in love with the beautiful fiancé of his employer's son.