Yes, kaeela, we were all saddened when the Zae Grey cabin on the Mogollion Rim burned to the ground several years ago. He wrote many of his successful novels there, and he also had a cabin on Oak Creek near Sedona, Arizona. One novel he wrote while in residence there was "The Call of the Canyon."
I like L'Amour a lot too.
I was much impressed with Will James' novels, "Smoky," "Sand" and "The Lone Cowboy."
I have a fair collection of books devoted to the West, fiction and non-fiction. I bought a book titled, "Hopalong Cassidy" by Clarence E. Mulford (because "Hoppy" was my boyhood hero in "B" western films)in a super used book store in Washington, D. C. when I lived there thirty years ago. The book could not find a publisher today. It is fill with racial slurs (aimed primarily at Mexicans) which was rather common in those days I suppose. It was published in 1910.
For a glimpse of early Arizona life (1880's) I would recommend Martha Summerhayes book, "Vanished Arizona." It is an excellent of frontier life through the eyes of a young woman who married a young second Lt. fresh out of West Point who was stationed to Arizona during most of the turbulent Indian years.
L. H.: thanks for starting this thread! A welcome change from politics.