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      • Over a hundred years after its publication, Riders of the Purple Sage is a perfect showcase of Zane Grey’s engrossing Western melodramas and the picture of the American West that heavily influenced early Western films.
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  2. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey | Goodreads. Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Kindle $0.99. Rate this book. Riders of the Purple Sage #1. Zane Grey. 3.74. 13,282 ratings1,460 reviews. Lassiter is a gunslinger, an avenger in black.

  3. Jul 16, 2023 · Over a hundred years after its publication, Riders of the Purple Sage is a perfect showcase of Zane Grey’s engrossing Western melodramas and the picture of the American West that heavily influenced early Western films. Grey manages to weave melodramatic romance, complex religious and moral quandaries, and beautiful descriptions of the ...

  4. On many "Best of" Western novels lists, Zane Grey's "Riders of the Purple Sage", Louis L'Amour's "Flint" and Jack Schaefer’s “Shane” sit in the top 3 positions. Depending on the list, these three alternate in each spot. This is one of my favorite novels. I just finished reading it for the second time a few weeks ago.

  5. Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars [1] 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".

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  6. Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage remains one of the most popular and famous westerns ever written not because it is a towering literary achievement nor even because the central conflict is a definitive example of the western plot, but because it set the standard for so much of the underlying thematic context of what one expects from the genre.

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  7. Riders of the Purple Sage is a novel by western writer Zane Grey. Set in 1871, the novel follows the story of Jane Withersteen , a Mormon woman being persecuted by her church leaders for refusing to become the third wife of church leader, Elder Tull , as well as her fondness for non-Mormons, or gentile, settlers in the area.

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