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Zane Grey의 "The U. P. Trail"은 1918년에 출판된 역사 소설입니다. 이 작품은 19세기 중반 미국 대륙횡단철도 건설의 대서사시적 이야기를 다룹니다.

소설의 제목 "U. P."는 Union Pacific Railroad를 의미하며, 이 철도의 건설 과정이 작품의 중심 배경이 됩니다. 이야기는 William Neale이라는 젊은 엔지니어를 주인공으로 하여 전개됩니다. Neale은 철도 건설 프로젝트에 참여하면서 다양한 도전과 모험을 경험합니다.

Grey는 이 작품을 통해 미국의 서부 개척과 산업화 과정을 생생하게 그려냅니다. 철도 건설이라는 거대한 프로젝트를 둘러싼 인간 드라마, 기술적 도전, 자연과의 투쟁, 그리고 다양한 집단 간의 갈등이 세밀하게 묘사됩니다.

소설은 역사적 사실에 기반을 두고 있으며, 실제 인물들도 등장합니다. 동시에 Grey 특유의 로맨스와 모험 요소가 가미되어 있어, 역사와 픽션이 절묘하게 어우러집니다.

"The U. P. Trail"은 미국의 성장과 발전, 개척 정신, 그리고 그 과정에서의 희생과 고난을 탐구합니다. 작품은 또한 원주민, 중국인 노동자, 아일랜드 이민자 등 다양한 집단의 이야기를 포함하여 당시 미국 사회의 복잡한 모습을 그려냅니다.

Grey의 뛰어난 자연 묘사 능력은 이 작품에서도 빛을 발하며, 광활한 평원과 험준한 산맥 등 서부의 장대한 풍경이 이야기의 중요한 배경이 됩니다.

"The U. P. Trail"은 Zane Grey의 대표작 중 하나로 평가받으며, 미국의 중요한 역사적 순간을 문학적으로 재현해낸 작품으로 인정받고 있습니다. 이 소설은 서부 개척의 대서사시적 면모와 인간 드라마를 균형 있게 다루어, 역사 소설과 서부 소설의 장점을 모두 갖춘 작품으로 여겨집니다.


Zane Grey's "The U.P. Trail" is a historical novel published in 1918. It deals with the epic story of the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States in the mid-19th century.

The title of the novel, "U.P.", refers to the Union Pacific Railroad, and the construction of this railroad is the central setting of the work. The story unfolds with a young engineer named William Neale as the main character. Neale experiences various challenges and adventures while participating in the railroad construction project.

Through this work, Grey vividly depicts the process of western development and industrialization in the United States. The human drama, technical challenges, struggles with nature, and conflicts between various groups surrounding the huge project of railroad construction are described in detail.

The novel is based on historical facts and features real people. At the same time, Gray's unique elements of romance and adventure are added, creating an exquisite blend of history and fiction.

"The U.P. Trail" explores the growth and development of the United States, the pioneering spirit, and the sacrifices and hardships along the way. The work also portrays the complexities of American society at the time, including the stories of various groups such as Native Americans, Chinese laborers, and Irish immigrants.

Gray's outstanding ability to describe nature shines in this work, and the magnificent landscapes of the West, including the vast plains and rugged mountains, serve as important backdrops to the story.

"The U.P. Trail" is considered one of Zane Grey's masterpieces, and is recognized as a literary reenactment of a significant moment in American history. The novel is considered to have the strengths of both historical fiction and Western fiction, balancing the epic aspect of the Western frontier with the human drama.

Summary
In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground?Wyoming?where the herds of buffalo grazed and the wolf was lord and the camp-fire of the trapper sent up its curling blue smoke from beside some lonely stream; on and on over the barren lands of eternal monotony, all so gray and wide and solemn and silent under the endless sky; on, ever on, up to the bleak, black hills and into the waterless gullies and through the rocky gorges where the deer browsed and the savage lurked;

Contents
CHAPTER I. In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri
CHAPTER II. Deep in the Wyoming hills lay a valley watered
CHAPTER III. Bill Horn, leader of that caravan
CHAPTER IV. In 1865, just after the war
CHAPTER V. Neale had not been wrong
CHAPTER VI. Some ten miles from the scene of the massacre
CHAPTER VII. Neale rode to Slingerland’s cabin twice
CHAPTER VIII. That summer the engineers crossed the Wyoming hills
CHAPTER IX. Slingerland appeared younger to Neale
CHAPTER X. Neale and King traveled light
CHAPTER XI. After Neale and Larry left
CHAPTER XII. Allie Lee possessed a mind at once active
CHAPTER XIII. When Allie Lee came back from that black gap
CHAPTER XIV. Allie recovered to find herself lying in a canvas-covered wagon
CHAPTER XV. The building of the U. P. R. as it advanced westward
CHAPTER XVI. Neale slept until late the next day
CHAPTER XVII. Neale and Larry and Slingerland planned to go into the hills
CHAPTER XVIII. Neale seemed to come into another world
CHAPTER XIX. Neale slept in a tent
CHAPTER XX. Neale took up lodgings with his friend Larry
CHAPTER XXI. Benton slowed and quieted down a few days
CHAPTER XXII. To Allie Lee, again a prisoner in the clutches of Durade
CHAPTER XXIII. Neale conceived an idea
CHAPTER XXIV. So for Neale the wonderful dream had come to pass
CHAPTER XXV. The afternoon and night of pay-day in Benton
CHAPTER XXVI. Beauty Stanton threw a cloak over her bare shoulders
CHAPTER XXVII. For many moments after the beautiful bare-armed woman
CHAPTER XXVIII. Beauty Stanton opened her eyes to see blue sky
CHAPTER XXIX. Casey left Benton on the work-train
CHAPTER XXX. Neale, aghast and full of bitter amaze
CHAPTER XXXI. It was half-past five
CHAPTER XXXII. The mere sight of Warren Neale had transformed
CHAPTER XXXIII. The sun set pale-gold and austere
CHAPTER XXXIV. The home to which Allie Lee was brought stood
CHAPTER XXXV. Building a railroad grew to be an exact
CHAPTER XXXVI. Slingerland saw Allie Lee married to Neale
CHAPTER XXXVII. A band of Sioux warriors rode out upon a promontory