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Riders of the purple sage [electronic resource] / Zane Grey ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lee Clark Mitchell.
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: 9780191564895 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0191564893 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0585353700 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780585353708 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 265 p.)
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1998.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 CatBulkString:jan.10.13 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvi]). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage -- Explanatory notes. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Polygamy > Fiction. Mormon women > Fiction. Women ranchers > Fiction. Electronic books. Literature. FICTION > Westerns. Electronic books. Fiction. Utah > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Western stories. |
