Riders of the Purple SagePurchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled eyes. A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmen who were coming to resent and attack her right to befriend a Gentile. She wondered if the unrest and strife that had lately come to the little village of Cottonwoods was to in-volve her. And then she sighed, remembering that her father had founded this remotest border settlement of southern Utah and that he had left it to her. She owned all the ground and many of the cottages. Withersteen House was hers, and the great ranch, with its thousands of cattle, and the swiftest horses of the sage. To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste. She could not escape being involved by whatever befell Cottonwoods. |
Contents
LASSITER | 5 |
COTTONWOODS | 21 |
AMBER SPRING | 36 |
DECEPTION PASS | 52 |
THE MASKED RIDER | 68 |
THE MILLWHEEL OF STEERS | 84 |
THE DAUGHTER OF WITHERSTEEN | 105 |
SURPRISE VALLEY | 118 |
SOLITUDE AND STORM | 217 |
WEST WIND | 235 |
SHADOWS ON THE SAGESLOPE | 248 |
GOLD | 273 |
WRANGLES RACE RUN | 288 |
OLDRINGS KNELL | 308 |
FAY | 329 |
LASSITERS WAY | 346 |
SILVER SPRUCE AND ASPENS | 136 |
LOVE | 155 |
FAITH AND UNFAITH | 175 |
THE INVISIBLE HAND | 197 |
BLACK STAR AND NIGHT | 363 |
RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE | 387 |
THE FALL OF BALANCING ROCK | 397 |
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