Riders of the purple sage / Zane Grey ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lee Clark Mitchell.

By:

Grey, Zane, 1872-1939

Contributor(s):

Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 265 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191564895
0191564893
0585353700
9780585353708
0191605352
9780191605352

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Riders of the purple sage.DDC classification:

813/.52 21

LOC classification:

PS3513.R6545 R5 1998eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage -- Explanatory notes.

Summary: Ẁith searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.'The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts his own history of an endless.

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Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvi).

Print version record.

Ẁith searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.'The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts his own history of an endless.

Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage -- Explanatory notes.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650