num_pages: 266
description: 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.”
language: English
title: Riders of the Purple Sage
titlecomplete: Riders of the Purple Sage
characters: Jim Lassiter, Jane Withersteen
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Westerns, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 12752
places: Utah
series: Riders of the Purple Sage
publisher: Oxford University Press