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Riders of the purple sage

Grey, Zane 1872-1939 (Author). Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- (Added Author).

Summary: Ẁith 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780585353708
ISBN: 0585353700
ISBN: 0191564893
ISBN: 9780191564895
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 265 pages)
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Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvi).
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage -- Explanatory notes.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.