Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage

Author: Zane Grey

Publisher: Xist Publishing

Published: 2015-03-20

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1623958717

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Read the novel that shaped the genre of Western novels in America. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey stalls the story of a woman's battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon church. This complex novel is an classic tale of romance, adventure and the wild west. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Riders of the Purple Sage Illustrated
Riders of the Purple Sage Illustrated

Author: Zane Grey

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-07-17

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time

Riders of the Purple Sage: Western Classic
Riders of the Purple Sage: Western Classic

Author: Zane Grey

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2019-12-18

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13:

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Riders of the Purple Sage tells the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church. A leader of the church, Elder Tull, wants to marry her. Withersteen gets help from a number of friends, including Bern Venters and Lassiter, a notorious gunman and killer of Mormons. She struggles with her "blindness" to the evil nature of her church and its leaders, and tries to keep Venters and Lassiter from killing the adversaries who are slowly ruining her.

Classic Westerns
Classic Westerns

Author: Owen Wister

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-01

Total Pages: 1634

ISBN-13: 1684121051

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Discover six classic novels as you follow the footsteps of the trailblazers who settled the American West. As the American West opened up to settlers after the Civil War, people were eager for tales of great adventures, endless possibilities, and the pioneering spirit. Classic Westerns is a collection of six novels that captured this sense of exploration and brought the rugged landscape into the homes of readers everywhere. These novels—The Virginian by Owen Wister, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, The Lone Star Ranger and The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey, and Gunman’s Reckoning and The Untamed by Max Brand—tell of life on the open plains, in dusty outposts, and alongside majestic mountain ranges that rose to greet travelers who ventured forth into the unexplored country to find their destinies.

Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage

Author: Zane Grey

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 2021-05-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1513285580

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In 1870s Utah, a beautiful young rancher becomes the object of desire for a local polygamist eager to make her one of his many wives. She successfully rejects his advances with the support of two notorious outcasts. Jane Withersteen is a part of a strict Mormon community in Utah. Despite the conservative nature of her peers, she is an independent rancher who lives alone on her family’s land. When she catches the eye of Elder Tull, a prominent church leader, he plans to make her his next wife. He twists the law and manipulates members of the community to isolate Jane, hoping to wear her down. But the cowboy Bern Venters and infamous gunslinger, Jim Lassiter help to stop Tull in his tracks. Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic western written in Grey’s signature prose. Once described as "the most popular western novel of all time" the story has been adapted across multiple mediums, including five feature films. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Riders of the Purple Sage is both modern and readable.

The Rainbow Trail Illustrated
The Rainbow Trail Illustrated

Author: Zane Grey

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-18

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13:

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"The Rainbow Trail, also known as The Desert Crucible, is Western author Zane Grey's sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage. Originally published under the title The Rainbow Trail in 1915, it was re-edited and re-released in recent years as The Desert Crucible with the original manuscript that Grey submitted to publishers.The novel takes place ten years after events of Riders of the Purple Sage. The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon."

The Rainbow Trail
The Rainbow Trail

Author: Zane Grey

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2017-07-19

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1473345928

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This is Zane Grey's 1915 Western novel, "The Rainbow Trail". A sequel to his best-selling "Riders of the Purple Sage", the story is set ten years in the future when Jane Withersteen must choose between the life of Lassiter and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon. A chief theme of the story is the victimization of women in the Mormon culture. Pearl Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) was an American writer most famous for his adventure novels of the Western genre. Other notable works by this author include: "Riders of the Purple Sage" (1912), "The Last Trail" (1906), and "The Lone Star Ranger" (1915). Grey continues to be widely read, and his novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen more than a hundred times. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of Western fiction.

The Young Forester
The Young Forester

Author: Zane Grey

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1775453030

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Think the Old West was nothing but outlaws and cowboys? Think again. In The Young Forester, acclaimed Western writer Zane Grey follows the death-defying adventures of a forest fireman, one of the many brave souls who laid his own safety on the line to make the wild terrain of the region safe and inhabitable.

The Heritage of the Desert
The Heritage of the Desert

Author: Zane Grey

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1775412083

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Zane Grey, renowned as an author for his portrayals of the rugged Wild West, completed his first Western, The Heritage of the Desert, in just four months in 1910. This compelling work which deals powerfully with Mormon culture in Utah in 1890 rapidly became a bestseller.