The Enchanted Canyon: A Novel of the Grand Canyon and the Arizona Desert

346 pp. Honore Willsie Morrow (1880-1940) born in Iowa, she was an American novelist who loved history and had a talent for historical research. After her marriage to Henry Willsie, a construction engineer, she and her husband moved to Arizona for two years, but Morrow disliked life in the Southwest. She channeled her energy into her writing and began her career with Western stories and articles for Collier's magazine and Harper's Weekly. Her first novel was "Heart of the Desert" in 1913. She and Willsie divorced in 1922. She married publisher William Morrow the next year. She devoted 10 years of her life to becoming an authority on Abraham Lincoln and is best known for the "Great Captain" trilogy that "Forever Free" (1927), "With Malice Toward None" (1928) and "The Last Full Measure" (1930). The books established Morrow as a vivid storyteller. She also wrote westerns and "The Enchanted Canyon" is one of these early western novels. Historical in content, it will take you back to the old west of yesteryear.