Overview

Riders of the Purple Sage is a standout novel. A book that transcends the Western Genre. Most western novels are straightforward and formulaic. Riders is different; it has a well written complex plot, Great characters, and while it is undoubtably a western it stands alone as not only a great western, but also a great American novel. A sharp clip-crop of iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwoods out over the sage. Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled eyes. A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmen who were coming to resent and attack her right to befriend a Gentile. She wondered if the unrest and strife that had lately come to the little village of Cottonwoods was to involve her. And then she sighed, remembering that her father had founded this remotest border settlement of southern Utah and that he had left it to her. She owned all the ground and many of the cottages. Withersteen House was hers, and the great ranch, with its thousands of cattle, and the swiftest horses of the sage. To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste. She could not escape being involved by whatever befell Cottonwoods.

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Zane Grey is famous around the world as a western writer. His books have sold millions of copies in over 100 different countries. Not only was he a prolific writer he was also known as Dr Zane Grey when he was a practicing dentist. He loved baseball and a large portion of his fiction dealt with the sport. He played in the minor leagues and for just one game played in a major league game for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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