The story involves cattle-rustling, horse-theft, kidnapping and gunfights. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

Elder Tull, a polygamist with two wives already, wishes to have Jane for a third wife, along with her estate. Considered by scholars 1 to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called 'the most popular western novel of all time. Jane Withersteen, a born-and-raised Mormon, provokes Elder Tull because she is attractive, wealthy, and befriends 'Gentiles' (non-Mormons), namely, a little girl named Fay Larkin, a man she has hired named Bern Venters, and another hired man named Lassiter. Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. His mother was an English Quaker immigrant. A native of Zanesville in Ohio, Zane’s father was a dentist. The story about three main characters, Bern Venters, Jane Withersteen, and Jim Lassiter, who in various ways struggle with persecution from the local Mormon community ('Mormon' is the informal term for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), led by Bishop Dyer and Elder Tull, in the fictional town of Cottonwoods, Utah. Zane Grey was an American author and dentist that was born in 1872 and died in 1939 at the age of 67. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called 'the most popular western novel of all time.'

Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Copyright 1912 'Published January, 1912' stated on copyright page Grosset & Dunlap publishers, New York hardbound good condition with unmarked pages except for neat previous owner's name inside minor wear and fading of pages and boards - see pics no dust jacket. riders of the purple sage by zane grey Publication date 1912 Publisher walter j.

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