High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! To the Last Man: A Story of the Pleasant Valley War is a western novel written by Zane Grey.To The Last Man is a shorter version of Tonto Basin. Grey submitted the manscript of Tonto Basin to the magazine The Country Gentleman, which published it in serialization as To the Last Man from May 28, 1921 through July 30, 1921. This was a much shorter version of the original leaving out much of the backstory. This shorter version was published by Harper Brothers.It is a story of a family feud healed by young love. The story is based on a factual event involving the notorious Hashknife gang of Northern Arizona.