Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail: Two Complete Zane Grey Novels

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Macmillan, Nov 3, 2015 - Fiction - 688 pages

Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey's most enduring classic--the book that invented the myth of the American West. In the little village of Cottonwoods, Utah, Mormon rancher Jane Withersteen endures persecution, religious zealots, and cattle rustlers trying to prey on her land. Aided by Lassiter, the famous gunman, Jane and her friends must escape the clutches of her most dangerous enemies.

The Rainbow Trail

John Shefford rode into Utah in search of a new life, and when he met Fay Larkin, a beautiful woman charged with murder, he knew he had found it. Breaking her out of jail was the easy part. Now he has a posse and violent bands of Indians to outrun; a murderous trek through a trackless waste; and a brutal passage through white-water hell.

This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.

 

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About the author (2015)

Zane Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray in 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. He studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, married Lina Elise Roth in 1905, then moved his family west where he began to write novels. The author of 86 books, he is today considered the father of the Western genre, with its heady romances and mysterious outlaws. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) brought Grey his greatest popular acclaim. Other notable titles include The Light of Western Stars (1914) and The Vanishing American (1925). An extremely prolific writer, he often completed three novels a year, while his publisher would issue only one at a time. Twenty-five of his novels were published posthumously. His last, The Reef Girl, was published in 1977. Zane Grey died of heart failure on October 23 in Altadena, California, in 1939.

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TitleRiders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail: Two Complete Zane Grey Novels
Volumes 1-2 of Riders of the purple sage
AuthorZane Grey
PublisherMacmillan, 2015
ISBN0765382393, 9780765382399
Length688 pages
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