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Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Subtitle: Book 1 of the Riders Series
Author: Zane Grey
Narrator: John Bolen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-17-06
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Fiction, Westerns
Publisher's Summary:
The mysterious loner hires on to Jane's ranch. Through battles with gun-slinging cattle-rustlers, cut-throats and the calculating Mormans, Lassiter unveils his tale of an endless search for a woman abducted long ago. Grey unfolds his story of seduction, secrecy, captivity, and escape on the dust swept purple plains.
Judged by critics to be Zane Grey's best novel, Riders of the Purple Sage changed the western genre when it was first published in 1912. This novel shows the gritty as well the gallant in a more candid portrayal of the West than had come before.
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As stirring and majestic as the canyon land itself
A riveting tale of the old west but also of love and the human spirit. Every kind of love imaginable can be found in the pages of this book. Love of freedom, of horses, of the wild country they live in, love for a child, and the love of a man for a woman. This story is set in Utah at a time when the Mormons where beginning to exercise their influence over the land and people there. It is a story of the rough and tough people who tried to tame the land and eek a living out of it and who often turned on each other to achieve their goals. It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in a place like that and often they straddle the fence and lean one way or the other to suit their needs. At the center of it all is a strong, good woman and a dangerous, infamous man who falls in love with her. The book also chronicles the lives of several other interesting and ordinary people who find their courage and heart along the way.
I had read this book many years ago and will definitely read it again. It doesn't get stale. Just the imagery of the wild places will keep me coming back.
The novel that paved the way for the Western genre
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey was originally published in 1912, and is traditionally considered the first true western, a book that shaped the genre for generations to follow.
It is the story of Lassiter, an enigmatic gunslinger from Texas who is hated and feared by the Mormon settlers in northern Utah. Lassiterâs path crosses with Jane Witherspoon, a single Mormon woman, who has defied the edict of the church that she marry the elder in her town.
When Lassiter arrives, a hidden grave on Janeâs property leads him to a quest that heâs been on for a long timeâto determine the fate of his sister who had married a charismatic Mormon and fled her home in Texas.
Grey was a master wordsmith who could paint the most vivid pictures imaginable of the Old West and the people who populated it. While some of the narrative and dialogue shows the prejudices against Mormons that existed at the time Grey first wrote the story, it has a sense of veracity and credibility despite its lack of political correctness in modern times.
For fans of the genre, though, this is a book that is required reading, for it helps put all that followed it into the proper perspective.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my review.
Magnificent!!
Wow!! Definitely one of a kind. Incredibly visual, beautiful, exciting, breathtaking, heart racing, heart wrenching, moving, emotional, sensational in every aspect. If you haven't read this, or even if you have, you need to read and 're read. Will live in my memory forever.
