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The story follows Jane Withersteen, a ranch owner on a purple-sage Utah plateau, as she navigates growing tensions between her Mormon community and Gentile outsiders while protecting an orphaned girl and a valued rider. Community elders press for the expulsion of the rider Venters, testing loyalties and exposing jealousy and authority within the settlement. Against a backdrop of vivid western landscapes, masked figures, rustlers, and violent encounters complicate relationships and law, while questions of faith, compassion, and personal freedom drive choices and alliances. Action, moral conflict, and frontier romance unfold through a sequence of confrontations and revelations.

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Title: Riders of the Purple Sage

Author: Zane Grey

Release date: May 1, 1998 [eBook #1300]
Most recently updated: October 29, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Bill Brewer, Rick Fane and David Widger

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RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE

By Zane Grey


CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. LASSITER
CHAPTER II. COTTONWOODS
CHAPTER III. AMBER SPRING
CHAPTER IV. DECEPTION PASS
CHAPTER V. THE MASKED RIDER
CHAPTER VI. THE MILL-WHEEL OF STEERS
CHAPTER VII. THE DAUGHTER OF WITHERSTEEN
CHAPTER VIII. SURPRISE VALLEY
CHAPTER IX. SILVER SPRUCE AND ASPENS
CHAPTER X. LOVE
CHAPTER XI. FAITH AND UNFAITH
CHAPTER XII. THE INVISIBLE HAND
CHAPTER XIII. SOLITUDE AND STORM
CHAPTER XIV. WEST WIND
CHAPTER XV. SHADOWS ON THE SAGE-SLOPE
CHAPTER XVI. GOLD
CHAPTER XVII. WRANGLE’S RACE RUN
CHAPTER XVIII. OLDRING’S KNELL
CHAPTER XIX. FAY
CHAPTER XX. LASSITER’S WAY
CHAPTER XXI. BLACK STAR AND NIGHT
CHAPTER XXII. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FALL OF BALANCING ROCK