Wildfire: Classic American Western Novel

Reading Wildfire was simply a fun experience. The story was indeed a “black-and-white western,” but truth and virtue were its central themes. The story was told simply and the plot was not very complicated, but the themes that permeated the book were founded in the best and worst parts of human nature. Love and hate, greed and charity, condemnation and forgiveness, were all present and they were presented in believable proportions. Zane Grey knew life and the character of Colonel Potter knew how out-of-proportion life could become. It is not surprising that Colonel Potter would find comfort in the writings of an author that presented life as it should be.