Riders of the Purple Sage

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 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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 12/10/2002
ISBN: 9780812966121
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.22w x 0.66d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 66997 / Riders of the Purple Sage
Reading Level: 7.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 18