Heading: (Grey, Zane)
Author:
Title: Sportfishing photograph of Zane Grey framed with signed check by the author to Fellows and Stewart shipbuilding company
Place Published: No place
Publisher:
Date Published: Check: 1921
Description:

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  Photograph: 24x19 cm (9½x7½"); framed: 46.1x31 cm (18¼x12¼"). Print date unknown.


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  Cancelled check signed by Zane Grey made out for $2214.81 to Fellows and Stewart shipbuilding company of San Pedro, CA, dated May 6, 1921.

Grey very well may be the greatest deep sea angler that ever lived, spending the lion's share of his enormous fortune earned as the best-selling author of his time in pursuit of bigger fish in increasingly exotic, faraway locations. Operating his smaller fishing boats in tandem with his 130-foot three-masted schooner Fisherman 1, he was able to stay at sea for lengthy periods of time, pioneering many new techniques in big game fishing, including the use of light tackle. He was the first person to land a fish weighing more than 1,000 pounds on a rod and reel, and at one time he owned 14 different big game angling records. He worked extensively with manufactures to develop new reels, rods, and fishing lines. Although the western novels that made Grey rich and famous now seem relegated to a bygone era, his nine major fishing books are still eagerly read by anglers and avidly collected. Ernest Hemingway was a great fan of Grey's fishing books and gave copies of them to his friends.

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Unexamined out of frame.