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Before I opened this book, I thought it was just a fundamental cowboy story, and indeed, as I read it anonymous images coaxed from every Western movie I’ve ever seen interjected themselves into the experience. (For some reason – I don’t know wh...more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 4 1 false Tue Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Dec 02 15:06:30 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 06:47:36 -0800 2007 more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 5 0 false Mon Sep 07 09:17:30 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 09:17:48 -0700 2009 This story is about Lassiter, a gunslinger who is looking for revenge. He shows up in the remote Utah town of Cottonwood. Jane Withersteen is a young and beautiful rancher of the Mormon faith. She is being pressured to marry a church elder,...more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 3 1 false Fri May 22 19:41:21 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 20:03:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 90159 0843956011 9780843956016 26 7 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90159.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 3 0 false Tue Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 19:31:08 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 19:48:05 -0800 2009 A sharp clip-clop of iron shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwoods out over the sage.

I was surprised by this book. It was surprisingly readable, considering it was written in the early 1900s--1912, to be exact--and that westerns hav...more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 3 1 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 22:46:55 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 22:58:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 3 0 true Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 11:38:18 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 10:14:00 -0700 2008
Riders of the Purple Sage was the oldest book on the Washington Post list of classic beach reads, with a publication date of 1912. That fact kept reasserting itself on my consciousness as I read the book, as I thought a lot about the passa...more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 5 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 19:20:55 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 19:42:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 90159 0843956011 9780843956016 26 7 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90159.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 3 0 false Fri May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 17:37:35 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 05:04:07 -0700 2008
There is much description of nature and weather in the book. For me, it made the going ...more...]]> 1328303 1594141304 9781594141300 7 2 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182783863m/1328303.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1328303.Five_Star_First_Edition_Westerns_Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 4 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 09:44:54 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 17:50:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 5 0 false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 08:23:04 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 08:37:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 3 0 false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 01:50:48 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 01:55:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 2 0 false Thu Jun 11 13:47:38 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 09:06:39 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 13:47:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 2 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 16:51:32 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 16:53:23 -0700 2009 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 4 0 false Mon Aug 25 10:40:47 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 10:48:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 4 0 false Mon Nov 23 20:24:26 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 16:40:30 -0800 2009 601117 0140184406 9780140184402 2 1 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176173954m/601117.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/601117.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 2 0 false Fri Feb 13 19:47:55 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 19:51:48 -0800 2009 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 3 0 false Thu Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 21 23:56:31 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 23:58:11 -0800 2008
I don't really have an opinion. If you like that kind of stuff....

Not that much gun blazing tho.

More of some sort of propaganda piece on Americanism and self-sufficiency.]]> 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sun Dec 21 21:47:43 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 21:47:43 -0800 2008 90160 0812966120 9780812966121 482 65 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171186073m/90160.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90160.Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage 5 0 false Sat Dec 19 13:36:48 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 17:42:52 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=90160