![]() ![]() Zane Grey wrote more than 80 books which later inspired many Western writers who followed in Zane Grey’s footsteps. The book turned to the author’s all-time-best seller and also one of the most successful Western novels. The novel "Riders of the Purple Sage", published in 1912, earned Grey wide popularity. He is best known with his adventure novels which idealize the American frontier and which largely created a new genre called western. ![]() Pearl Zane Grey was an American author born in 1872. "Riders of the Purple Sage" is Zane Grey’s most popular Western novel which is considered to have played a significant role in the shaping of the genre Western. Will Lassiter succeed to save Jane from the unwanted marriage or the Mormon polygamy will prevail? Elder Tull, a local leader of the Mormon community and a polygamist, wants to have Jane as a third wife. Considered by scholars 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. There is a lurking danger in Jane’s life. Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. The gunfighter Jim Lassiter arrives in the town just in time. ![]() She however sympathizes both Mormons and Gentiles which gets her often into trouble. Riders of the Purple Sage, published in 1912, was Zane Greys first best-selling novel of the many he was eventually to pen. Jane Withersteen is a born-and-raised Mormon. "Riders of the Purple Sage" presents the conflict between a Mormon community and non-Mormon people, Gentiles. ![]()
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