Zane Grey wrote about the West and lived it as well. Tales of Depressed Trails can be a assortment of accurate travel tales describing his explorations of uninhabited regions of the Western world, a lot of it on pack horses with helpful information.

Listed below are descriptions of his hunting, camping, and exploring trips in the open and desolate parts of the West, including Az territory, Colorado, Death Valley, the Tonto Basin, the Grand Canyon, and more. These adventures provided him the first-hard knowledge that he later used in writing his descriptions from the landscape and characters of his Traditional western novels.