TY - BOOK AU - Grey,Zane AU - Mitchell,Lee Clark TI - Riders of the purple sage T2 - Oxford world's classics SN - 9780191564895 AV - PS3513.R6545 R5 1998eb U1 - 813/.52 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Women ranchers KW - Fiction KW - Mormon women KW - Polygamy KW - Femmes ranchers KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - Mormones KW - Polygamie KW - FICTION KW - Westerns KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Utah KW - Electronic books KW - Western stories KW - Western fiction KW - gsafd KW - Romans (teksten) KW - gtt N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvi); Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage -- Explanatory notes N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55694 ER -