Riders of the purple sage /
Grey, Zane, 1872-1939.
Riders of the purple sage / Zane Grey ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lee Clark Mitchell. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - 1 online resource (xxxviii, 265 pages) - Oxford world's classics . - Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) .
Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvi).
Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage -- Explanatory notes.
αΊ€ith 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.
English.
9780191564895 (electronic bk.) 0191564893 (electronic bk.) 0585353700 (electronic bk.) 9780585353708 (electronic bk.)
Women ranchers--Fiction.
Mormon women--Fiction.
Polygamy--Fiction.
Femmes ranchers--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mormones--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Polygamie--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--Westerns.
Mormon women.
Polygamy.
Women ranchers.
Utah--Fiction.
Utah--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Utah.
Electronic books.
Western stories.
Electronic books.
Western fiction.
Fiction.
Western stories.
Romans (teksten)
PS3513.R6545 / R5 1998eb
813/.52
Riders of the purple sage / Zane Grey ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lee Clark Mitchell. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. - 1 online resource (xxxviii, 265 pages) - Oxford world's classics . - Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) .
Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvi).
Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage -- Explanatory notes.
αΊ€ith 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.
English.
9780191564895 (electronic bk.) 0191564893 (electronic bk.) 0585353700 (electronic bk.) 9780585353708 (electronic bk.)
Women ranchers--Fiction.
Mormon women--Fiction.
Polygamy--Fiction.
Femmes ranchers--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mormones--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Polygamie--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--Westerns.
Mormon women.
Polygamy.
Women ranchers.
Utah--Fiction.
Utah--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Utah.
Electronic books.
Western stories.
Electronic books.
Western fiction.
Fiction.
Western stories.
Romans (teksten)
PS3513.R6545 / R5 1998eb
813/.52