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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,” <i>Riders of the Purple Sage</i> 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 beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane’s grounds. “[Zane Grey’s] popularity was neither accidental nor undeserved,” wrote Nye. “Few popular novelists have possessed such a grasp of what the public wanted and few have developed Grey’s skill at supplying it.”

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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...]]> 5 0 false 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...]]> 3 0 false 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...]]> 4 0 false 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...]]> 5 0 false 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...]]> 3 0 false 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...]]> 2 0 false 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...]]> 2 0 false 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 4 0 false false Mon Aug 25 10:40:47 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 10:48:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Feb 13 19:47:55 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 19:51:48 -0800 2009 3 0 false 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.]]> 4 0 false 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 2 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:55:45 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 06:49:01 -0700 2009
Utah sets the stage for rustlers, Mormons, and romance in this classic western novel. Young Jane Withersteen is a Mormon with a mind of her own. She doesn’t want to marry Elder Tull, and she sympathizes with the Gentiles. She uses the inheritance from h...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 24 06:39:07 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 06:40:16 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1972 Tue Aug 12 12:06:46 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 13:16:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 14:37:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 14:39:33 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=90160