Riders of the Purple Sage

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by Zane Grey

Arguably Zane Grey’s most popular novel and a forerunner of the western genre, Riders of the Purple Sage tells the story of a Mormon woman caught between the persecution of religious zealots and several “Gentile” gunmen seeking to lend her a helping hand. Set in Utah during the nineteenth century, this novel offers an early critique on the practice of polygamy and plural marriage in the Old West.

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Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

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Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

— Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage