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Riders of the Purple Sage

by Zane Grey, William R. Handley (Introduction)

3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 · rating details · 2,876 ratings · 345 reviews

Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and be...more

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Published December 10th 2002 by Modern Library (first published 1912)

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Oct 03, 2012 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, classics, utah, audiobook-e-book, 2012-reads

Reading a classic Western novel was a to-do on my book bucket list. I'm not sure why because I've never had a high opinion of TV or movie westerns. After finishing Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey I can scratch "classic Western" off my list and add another 4-star book to the "read" column.

Oh yeah, there is some cheesy, over-dramatic scenes in this book, particularly at the end. There is the courageous too-good-to-be-true heroine, several men who want her, beautiful sunsets and numerous men...more

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Aug 12, 2011 Henry Avila rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Lassiter is a very angry man.His sister and only living relative, disappears from her home in Texas. (The only person he loves in the world) Kidnapped?Who knows,but the brother will search as long as it takes ,to find her.(Similar to The Searchers film) After years on the long weary road, the gunman discovers the sister, in an unmarked lonely grave, in southern Utah.The former cowboy seaks revenge, he has killed before, he will again .Complications occur when he meets Jane Withersteen , a rich l...more

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Dec 17, 2009 Jim rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Vacationers at the beach; romance aficionados; Western enthusiasts

Recommended to Jim by: Scenery of SD; my dad

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

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 why – I couldn’t help but envision Humphrey Bogart as “Lassiter”, the taciturn protagonist, ostensibly honorable, yet willing killer - of Mormons in particular). My expectation – and I’m also not sure why – was a novel a...more Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

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 why – I couldn’t help but envision Humphrey Bogart as “Lassiter”, the taciturn protagonist, ostensibly honorable, yet willing killer - of Mormons in particular). My expectation – and I’m also not sure why – was a novel along the lines of the “Hardy Boys” series which I consumed voraciously as a young reader. I do attribute some portion of my love of reading to the “Hardy Boys”, but was not prepared to devote much effort to reading a rather long novel if it proved to be as simple as those childhood stories.

Much to my pleasant surprise, I easily became absorbed in “Riders”, and while I’m sure it may not be considered great art, this novel presented a fascinating and somewhat complex story with a few plot twists that caught me by surprise – and that have shown up in movies ever since!

The reasons for my reading this novel are purely serendipitous. My family and I were touring the area of southwest South Dakota including the “Badlands”. There is no shortage of scenic vistas that include long stretches of rolling wasteland marked by low-lying brush and bushes featuring subtle purple and lavender shades of color. I have no idea if in fact these were “purple sages”, but the variations are commonplace. (The novel takes place in Utah, which apparently has these same or similar purple shrubberies). Furthermore, in each obligatory visit to the area’s gift shop and book stores, copies of this novel were for sale. My father had also mentioned to me years ago that he had read many of the novels of Zane Grey, who was indeed a popular author in the early twentieth century. So I picked up a cheap paperback version which promised “The only uncut, uncensored edition!” What a hook!

“Riders of the Purple Sage” is a morality tale about a sometimes strong woman and heroine who has been persecuted by her Mormon Church leaders. The Mormons are not presented in a good light in this novel, and I suspect that there’s been some dispute over the years about this representation. As a work of fiction, I know that the depiction may not be accurate or fair – Mormon men are uniformly portrayed as tyrannical and domineering in their relations with women – and considering that the novel was written in 1912, this aspect of the book surely must have caused some controversy.

The story is also somewhat complex, with several plots unfolding that eventually come together at the end of the story, and conveniently leave open the certainty of a sequel. Plausibility is at times stretched thin, and the characters often behave with a one dimensional consistency and predictability. I don’t know what the inspiration was for Grey’s Lassiter, but clearly the genesis of many Western heroes begins here: Shane; the Lone Ranger; and “The Stranger” in High Plains Drifter. It’s no wonder visions of every Western and cowboy movie I ever saw accompanied me during this read! Grey also has his heroes contemplate and wax on about the serene beauty of the “purple sage” a couple of dozen times too many, much like the stock phrases utilized by Homer. But in defense of Grey, as I had experienced in South Dakota, the purple variations of color are ubiquitous in some western locales.

The novel has a bunch of treatments and sub-plots that keep the reader interested and fascinated: shifting and uncertain romances; a heroine that vacillates between determined strength and feeble despondency; the mysterious innocence of a beautiful young woman who comes of age while recuperating from a gunshot; repeated depictions of the intolerance of religion and the attempted subjugation of women; the young and noble cowhand inspired by unexpected love. There are also some shocking surprises such as the sudden and senseless (and misguided) murder of a rustler.

As you expect of a mass market novel written in this era, there’s no explicit sex, outrageous foul language, or extreme depictions of violence. But there doesn’t need be. Zane Grey has created a host of imperfect characters and might-be heroes braided into a readable and fast-moving story. The reader finds that sometimes you like certain characters, and other times they are repugnant or they fail you. By design, Grey imposes a feeling of uncertainty and uneasiness about these characters, their intentions and their actions, and casts into doubt their moral stature. Just like people in real life.
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Nov 03, 2011 Alison Smith rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This read comes under the heading of Auld Lang Syne. Revisiting beloved books after many, many years is not always a good thing. In my childhood/early teens I devoured ALL of Zne Grey's cowboy novels, and loved them. I discovered, this time around, with the help of Wikipaedia, that ZG was a prolific writer - author of more than 90 books (!!) including two on hunting, and eight on fishing. He is credited with 'inventing' the genre of the Old West - sanitized and moralized. What I enjoyed during m...more

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Oct 24, 2011 Jared rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really liked “The Riders of The Purple Sage” by Zane Grey and thought it was interesting because the plot kept me thinking. It is about a rich Mormon woman, Jane Withersteen, in the late 1800s who befriends non-Mormons. The elders in her town of Cottonwood in southern Utah don't like it so they persecute her. They persecute her by taking her cattle and making all of her workers leave. She meets a man called Lassiter who helps her in her situation. Lassiter also was in Cottonwood because he wan...more

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Mar 18, 2010 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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"Riders of the Purple Sage" was my first western and, of course, first Zane Grey. As such, I was expecting something along the line of the classic western movies of the 40s and 50s. Obviously, it did not live up to those expectations. The hero of the book is not even a cowboy.

Having said this, "Riders" was far from disappointing. It was an entertaining look at the wild west through the eyes of a man who saw at least part of it. The story is fairly well known; I knew much of it before I opened th...more "Riders of the Purple Sage" was my first western and, of course, first Zane Grey. As such, I was expecting something along the line of the classic western movies of the 40s and 50s. Obviously, it did not live up to those expectations. The hero of the book is not even a cowboy.

Having said this, "Riders" was far from disappointing. It was an entertaining look at the wild west through the eyes of a man who saw at least part of it. The story is fairly well known; I knew much of it before I opened the cover. A Mormon town in Utah is held in the iron fist of the corrupt bishop Dyer and his crony, Elder Tull. The "gentiles" are being systematically eliminated. Jane Withersteen, owner of a large ranch, is a lone Mormon woman struggling to stand up for justice. Out of the west rides a man in black with huge black guns slung low on his hips. His name, Lassiter, strikes terror in the hearts of the Mormon men. He arrives seeking to enact a terrible vengeance on the men who deceived and despoiled a woman he loved.

All of that sounds very western, but Mr. Grey does not employ the conventions of the westerns of which I was thinking. Indeed, those conventions probably did not exist when he wrote. There is very little in the way of gunplay and showdowns between the good guys and bad guys. The emphasis is more on the relationships that develop between the major characters and the revelations about their individual histories. There are romances that develop slowly between Jane Withersteen and Lassiter, and Bern Venters (one of Jane's gentile ranch hands) and the mysterious Bess. There is the secret of Lassiter's past that fuels his vengeance and links him to Bishop Dyer and Elder Tull. Mr. Grey does an excellent job of creating suspense as he develops these and other plot lines over the course of the novel, and that is what held my attention most. He does not completely reveal his hand until the last page. The gunfights and desperate showdowns eventually do come, but they are the icing on the cake, not the cake itself. They fit naturally into the flow of the narrative and the results are completely gratifying.

One of the plot lines that must be considered has to do with the role of religion in the life of a community and an individual, and the question of how much influence a religious organization should wield. This is a complex question that cannot be easily answered. I'm sorry to say that Grey does not treat this subject with the care that it requires. In the case of the community in "Riders", the Mormon church is a tyrant that seeks absolute, unquestioned obedience from its people, even in the face of the evil that its leaders perpetrate. There are no nuances, there is nothing to mediate that view, so it has the appearance of a straw-man argument. This detracts from the book's overall value.

Looking at it as literature, it must be said that there is something a little awkward about Zane Grey's prose. His style can be clumsy. The dialogue is frequently melodramatic, and there are phrases that he employs far too often; "purple sage" being one of them. It was almost comical at times, and that was not the effect he was after, I'm certain. Further, the main characters tended to be one dimensional. Lassiter is a cowboy superman who, in spite of the revelations about his past, lacks depth. Jane Withersteen is naive almost to the point of willful stupidity. Dyer and Tull are evil only for the sake of being evil. Yes, there really are people like that, but I wanted to know if there was a reason for their evil. As with all things, "Riders" must be read with discernment so as to avoid painting with the same broad brush that Grey uses.

In spite of these shortcomings, "Riders of the Purple Sage" was an enjoyable read. It's an odd book; neither as shallow as shoot-'em-up, B-movie westerns, but not as deep as John Ford. I can't quite pin it down, but it's somewhere between those two ends of the spectrum. There are times when I'm not looking for deep, complex characters or real analyses of difficult questions, when all I'm looking for is a bit of brain candy. Though it is more thoughtful than most brain candy, it is in that context that "Riders" most fully satisfies. I will read it again. (less)

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Dec 05, 2007 Xarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: western

I love this book! It caught my attention and kept my attention all the while transporting me back in time to the old west. The inclusion of the Mormons as the bad guys is controversial, though also has a lot of truth to it. I never found the religious aspect to be overbearing – you just have understand that Zane Grey disliked them.

What would I give to go back and spend time alone in the beautiful sandstone canyons of the Southwest. For anyone who has lived or visited places like Canyonlands, Zi...more

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Dec 12, 2012 Jonathan rated it 2 of 5 stars

To say that Grey's characters are paper-thin would suggest that they had even a little depth to them. The Mormon men are so thoroughly evil that Satan himself would think they go too far. The Mormon women are dupes. The "Gentile" citizenry are noble, but oppressed. The cattle rustlers are "honest thieves." Lassiter? Well, Lassiter is so in control that we are left without a doubt that he knows all and can do anything.

The only thoroughly written "character" in the book is the landscape. And even...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Gerrigray rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

With an introduction by Jon Tuska who is credited with restoring the novel to the text intended by Zane Grey we have the original novel. At the time of its original publication in 1912 it had been heavily edited in order not to offend Mormon readers. The novel is set in 1871 before the Mormons outlawed polygamy among themselves in 1890. The Mormon settlers in the novel are trying to drive the gentiles out of southern Utah territory. The local minister and bishop are trying to coerce the heroine,...more

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Jul 04, 2012 Barb Terpstra rated it 4 of 5 stars

I learned about Zane Grey from various articles I've read in magazines, and have always wanted to read one of his books. Zane was a well liked author in his day, and "Riders" was the most popular of his novels.

If you like adventure stories, and westerns, then you will enjoy this book.

In many ways it reminded me of "Lorna Doone" by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. There are robbers/bandits who have a hideaway, they terrorize their neighbors, a young man discovers the hideout, etc.

It was interestin...more

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Apr 22, 2012 Melissa Railey rated it 3 of 5 stars

Jane Withersteen lives in Utah in the late 1890s and has the distinction of being one of the richest people in her town. When her father died, he left everything he owned to her. Although Jane is a devout Mormon, she doesn't agree with the leaders of her Mormon group and definitely does not want to marry them. Jane is "pure" of heart and wants to help everyone, Mormon and Gentile alike, which is what leads her to have trouble with the villains in the story. One afternoon, a rugged, handsome guns...more

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Mar 19, 2012 Joella www.cinjoella.com rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: western, books-for-grownups, historical

I read this for a book club. I didn't like how my religion was misrepresented. A lot of what they said my religious group believes or did in history was not true. I can see how it was a good “Get ‘em, cowboy” type of story and why this is one of the classic pieces of literature that framed the Western genre. However, I couldn't get over the grossly misrepresented stereotypes. I know this was written in 1912, but it still doesn't mean that I like how slanderous this is to me and my culture. I kno...more

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Feb 21, 2012 Thom Swennes rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

First published in 1912, Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey became a classic in American literary history. It is really no wonder why this story of the untamed west inspired and struck the imaginations of millions. The Wild West has been depicted in copious numbers of books, movies and television series. This was because it was a unique time. As inimitable as it was, few stop to think that it lasted just twenty years. After the Civil War, America and Americans had the time and desire to expa...more

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Feb 16, 2012 Dale rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A Classic

Set in 1871 and written in 1912, Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic, perhaps THE classic of the Western genre.

The plot is a little more complicated than most Westerns - it features two concurrent stories. Jane Withersteen is a wealthy Mormon with no husband. Her local church leader (an Elder) wants to marry her, in fact has all but ordered her to do so even though she has no interest in him. Tull orchestrates a plot to have the local Mormons shun her as much as possible...more

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Jan 22, 2012 kent rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Classic western, originally published in 1912 a mere 40 years after the story took place. It's squeaky clean by todays standards, a few mentions of her "heaving breast" and a kiss or two.
The story uses a third person narrator to tell the story from the point of view of two main characters Bern Venter and Jane Withersteen and a few minor characters.
Withersteen is the heir of her fathers huge estate and is courted by the Mormon preacher who wants to add her to his family and the her fortune to h...more

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Jan 01, 2012 Zack Miller rated it 3 of 5 stars

Thanks to the Kindle, it is amazing how much you can download for free or a minimal sum at most. As such, I have downloaded several works by Zane Grey. (The Call of the Canyon, The Mysterious Rider, The Last Trail, and The Rustlers of Pecos County). Of the five I have downloaded, this was the best and average at that. His plots are redundant. Only the settings change.

I suppose it is a prototypical western. He spends a lot of time describing the beautiful country that the American West is, but a...more

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Nov 30, 2011 Sandy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Sandy by: read about it when searching for info about Mormons in Western films

Shelves: fiction-historical

This was an interesting Western with a decidedly anti-Mormon sentiment to it. Although there may have been isolated incidents in the history of Mormonism that are like what is described in this novel, I feel that they are just that--isolated incidents and not representative of the religion as a whole. This book is certainly not representative of the teachings of the religion, although that's not to say that there may be some who abused and ignored the religious teachings for their own self-inter...more

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Nov 12, 2011 Patrick Hayes rated it 5 of 5 stars

Zane Grey is to Westerns what Dickens is to Drama. Make no doubt, there's plenty of cliches, but every single one of them works. Action, drama, romance, and huge dollops of thoughfulness: this book is a classic! The plot is simple: one man finds himself helping a mysterious gunslinger heal while one woman finds herself embroiled in a conflict between her religion and what her heart. I know the book has been labeled anti-Mormon, but after reading it a second time, and finding the line where Lassi...more

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Jul 05, 2011 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No One

Recommended to Lisa (Harmonybites) by: The Idiot's Guide to the Ultimare Reading List

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, novels, romance, ultimate-reading-list, westerns

Set in the Utah of 1871, it deals with a Mormon woman, heir to a ranch, resisting pressures to become a junior wife of a Mormon elder. I tried this because it's recommended on The Ultimate Reading List in the Western section. This is Zane Grey's most famous novel, supposedly one that set the mold for the Western genre and published way back in 1912--which doesn't make this a classic. Indeed, I'm afraid the "purple" in the title is sadly apt. Here's a snippet of the the puerile writing:

"If you d...more

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Jun 17, 2011 Alexander Williams rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: action, historical, western

Some reviewers find that genre literature is beneath their notice. The Western, science fiction, horror – because they are creatures of pulp they are somehow less worthy of admiration or of the observation of their inherent quality. "Riders of the Purple Sage" is a genre novel. It's a Western. There are definite tones of romance and the indefinable resonance of overwrought drama without a question.

It's also a fantastic book. Fantastic in the literal sense, in that it creates a fantasy and depict...more

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Jun 06, 2011 John rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a very well-written and arguably a genre-classic. Its a Western with all the elements, adventure, mystery, romance and characters: the big-hearted gunman, the rustlers, the independent woman, the cowboys, the corrupt landowners and more. HOWEVER, it is also (arguably) virulent anti-Mormon invective (!) This combination imparts a sort of unease to the proceedings. The Mormon characters come off as a kind of old-West Star Trek Borg Collective, brain-washed and hell-bent on evil in support...more

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Jun 03, 2011 Regan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, classics-book-group

Riders of the Purple sage is a classic of Western genre fiction, and I was looking forward to a good cowboy adventure story. It turns out that this is far less an adventure story and much more a morality tale about the abuse of power by religious leadership. The story is set during the era of Utah's pre-statehood 'theocratic democracy' and chronicles the conflicts that arise from attempts to force women into unwanted polygamous marriages and the church's violent efforts of the era to exclude non...more

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Jan 28, 2011 Sue Cauhape added it

The edition of Riders of the Purple Sage that I read was a printing of the original manuscript that was published in 2006 by Leisure Historical Fiction. Jon Tuska worked with Grey's grandson to bring this original manuscript to the light of day.

It is beautiful in its descriptions of the country and the pathos of the characters. This is the version that Grey wanted to be published but was not; instead his manuscript was heavily cut and edited to the tastes of the editor. When Grey received his p...more

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Dec 04, 2010 Colin rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history

Zane Grey is interesting, both in the modern day meaning of curious and also in the way of the Chinese curse. On the one side it has a very simple moral structure –black and white, rather than shades of grey. This is partly due to the conventions of the western as a genre, partly because it was written a bare dozen years after the death of Queen Victoria, with the whole period’s attendant moral absolutism.

The really frustrating thing about the novel is that it has a curiously extensive use of d...more

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Jun 12, 2010 Justin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: english-420

This Western Classic was published in 1912. It is a fictitious story of a girl named Jane Withersteen and her struggle with getting away from a Mormon polygamous community that is persecuting her. Jane's father wanted her to marry a certain local Mormon leader (Elder Tull), but she refused because she did not love him. The group highly persecuted Withersteen for not marrying Tull. Withersteen meets and falls in love with a bandit Mormon killer named Lassiter who convinces her to leave the commun...more

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Sep 07, 2009 Sherrie rated it 5 of 5 stars

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"Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey
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, Tulle. The church elders have already run her hired hand, a gentile, off her ranch. Venters is running into trouble with the cattle rustlers that have taken Jane's red herd. He shoots one of their riders, the masked rid...more

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May 22, 2009 Seth rated it 3 of 5 stars

The first page and the first few chapters are particularly well written. The beautiful landscape descriptions of the rugged frontier in Utah, the "wild purple upland waste," made me think of Stephen King's desert setting in his The Wasteland series, where The Gunslinger is out in the desert with purple mountains sketched across the horizon. This book has a good, classic, original Western story. It has one slow section about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way through the book. I got so bored, I put it aside f...more

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Apr 03, 2013 Christine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: dws-genre-classics-challenge, classics-club

A sharp clip-crop of the iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwoods out over the sage.

So begins Zane Grey's best known Western, Riders of the Purple Sage. Originally published in 1912, Riders of the Purple Sage has been called the most popular western novel of all time.

Let me confess that I can count on one finger the number of traditional Westerns that I have read - as the number is limited to this one. When I was putting together my l...more

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Jan 12, 2011 Caleb rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Zane Grey is given credit for starting the cowboy/western genre. 'Riders of the Purple Sage' is the book that put him on the map. Starring an array of classic western archetypes, it is not difficult to see how this book sets the standard for future generations to come.

I liked this book- the rugged heroes, triumphantly surviving deadly situations. Simple love stories. Vivid descriptions of horseback chases across the barren, unforgiving landscape. Honor, justice, retribution...

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Sep 17, 2011 Jill rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: american-lit

Unbelievably, painfully sappy and over-the-top melodramatic, some of which I hope was deliberate. I've never known a male to write such slushy romance. The characters are exaggerated to perfection, as if there were a checklist to include every stereotype suitable for the Western genre. His men are all "men's men" and his women are perfectly docile, beautiful, emotional idiots. Though Grey is thorough in his scathingly hate-filled portrayal of the LDS, he apparently didn't have sufficient time or...more

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“So that's troublin' you? I reckon it needn't. You see it was this way. I come round the house an' seen that fat party an' heard him talkin' loud. Then he seen me, an' very impolite goes straight for his gun. He oughtn't have tried to throw a gun on me - whatever his reason was. For that's meetin' me on my own grounds. I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker'n him. Now I didn't know who he was, visitor or friend or relation of yours, though I seen he was a Mormon all over, an' I couldn't get serious about shootin'. So I winged him - put a bullet through his arm as he was pullin' at his gun. An' he droppped the gun there, an' a little blood. I told him he'd introduced himself sufficient, an' to please move out of my vicinity. An' went" - Lassiter” — 2 people liked it

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