Zane Grey 
The Border Legion (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

In this 1916 novel, lovely frontierswoman Joan Randle lives with her uncle in untamed Idaho. Her affections for Jim Cleve are tempered by his laziness; following a quarrel, Jim decamps for the lawless Montana border to prove himself, and Joan sets out to bring him back. Instead, she encounters the outlaw Jim Kells. 

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Zane Grey (1872-1939) was a prolific and highly influential American writer best known for moralistic adventure stories set in an idealized Old West, many of which were eagerly adapted by Hollywood for the big screen. He wrote to blow off steam after a long day at his New York City dental practice. His most famous novel is Riders of the Purple Sage (1912).