Riders of the Purple Sage - Unabridged
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"Riders of the Purple Sage" is author Zane Grey's best-selling book and it is often credited as having both popularized and re-shaped the entire genre of Western fiction.
Set in the wilds of Utah in 1871, the novel concerns a devout young Mormon girl, Jane Withersteen, who inherits here father's sprawling ranch but must fend off the advances of a powerful Mormon leader named Elder Tull, who wishes to make Jane his third wife. After Tull attempts the extort her into marrying him, Jane is rescued by a mysterious gunman named Lassiter who arrives in town to visit the grave of a friend...only to discover that the Mormons have taken her daughter to raise as one of their own.
Filled with gunfights, cattle-rustling, high drama and thrilling adventure, "Riders of the Purple Sage" is perhaps the most popular Western novel of all time. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format.
Zane Grey
American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.
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