The Mysterious Rider

The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey. The Mysterious Rider is an American Western novel by Zane Gray, it concerns a notorious outlaw who returns to the ranch he once owned and takes a job disguised as a ranch hand. Unrecognized by the ranch's current owner, he waits patiently for an opportunity to expose the men who murdered his partner twenty years ago, framed him for the crime, and then stole his ranch. In the Arizona desert in the late 1800s, a famed outlaw and his sidekick hold up a stagecoach. During the raid, they take money from a wealthy passenger and gives it to a poor woman passenger, then ride away. Having lived an outlaw life for the past twenty years, and still wanted for a murder he did not commit, he decides to return to his home town disguised as a regular cowboy to see his now grown daughter.