Riders of the purple sage / Zane Grey ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lee Clark Mitchell
- Author
- Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
- Published
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 265 pages).
- Additional Creators
- Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947-
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 9780191564895 (electronic bk.)
0191564893 (electronic bk.)
0585353700 (electronic bk.)
9780585353708 (electronic bk.)
0192833251
9780192833259
0191605352
9780191605352 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvi).
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