Riders of the purple sage
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Riders of the purple sage
（Oxford world's classics）
Oxford University Press, 2008, c1998
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"First published as an Oxford world's classics paperback 1998, reissued 2008"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [xxxvi]
A chronology of Zane Grey: p. [xxxvii]-xxxviii
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`With searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.'
The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies.
In the remote border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts his own history of an endless search for a woman abducted long ago by the Mormons. Secrecy, seduction, captivity, and escape: out of these elements Zane Grey built his acclaimed story of the
American West.
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