TY - BOOK ID - 30696907 TI - Riders of the purple sage AU - Grey, Zane AU - Clark Mitchell, Lee PY - 1998 SN - 0191564893 0585353700 9780191564895 9780585353708 0192833251 9780192833259 0199553874 0191989967 PB - Oxford Oxford university press DB - UniCat KW - Women ranchers KW - Mormon women KW - Polygamy KW - Utah KW - #KVHA:American Studies KW - Women, Mormon KW - Christian women KW - Latter Day Saint women UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30696907 AB - `With 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 ER -