Riders of the Purple Sage, 9780812966121
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Gunslinger saves rancher, unearths secrets in the wild west.

Riders of the Purple Sage

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    14 December 2002

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Summary

Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780812966121
ISBN-10:0812966120
Author:Zane Grey, William Handley
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Modern Library Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Edition:New edition
Release Date:14 December 2002
Weight:262g
Dimensions:203mm x 134mm x 18mm
Series:Modern Library Classics
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Critics Review

”[Zane Grey is] an amazingly significant literary phenomenon.“-Hamlin Garland

“[Zane Grey is] an amazingly significant literary phenomenon.”—Hamlin Garland

About The Author

Zane Grey

William R. Handley is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West.

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