Title Riders of the purple sage / Zane Grey ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lee Clark Mitchell

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxxviii, 265 pages) Series Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) Contents Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage -- Explanatory notes 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvi) Notes English Print version record Subject Women ranchers -- Fiction Latter Day Saint women -- Fiction Polygamy -- Fiction FICTION -- Westerns. Mormon women Polygamy Women ranchers SUBJECT Utah -- Fiction Subject Utah Genre/Form Western stories Western. Western fiction Fiction Western stories. Romans (teksten) Western stories. Form Electronic book Author Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- ISBN 9780191564895 0191564893 0585353700 9780585353708 0191605352 9780191605352

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