About this title: Late in the 19th century, Jane Witherspoon, a Mormon, stands to inherit an enormous ranch along the Utah border with Arizona. Her problem is that fellow Mormon Elder Tull has plans to make her one of his wives, in which case she she would lose all rights to her land. Luckily, the lone cowboy known as Lassiter rolls into town, and faces Tull head ...
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Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Forge
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780812590371ISBN:0812590376
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Slight spine creasing and some cover wear. Still a nice copy. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Forge Western, New York, NY
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765357311ISBN:0765357313
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. November 2006 2nd Forge paperback reprint. Good Cond. No spine creases. Front and back edges lightly frayed. No store stamps. No ink marks. Small white sticker dot on inside front cover. Handling and shelf wear. Setting: No book has a better claim to have invented the myth of the American West. It is 1871 in Cottonwoods, Utah. This is the story of the gunman Lassiter and the Mormon rancher Jane Withersteen. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780671834227ISBN:0671834223
Description: Good. No Jacket. Sticker Back Cover, Corners/Edges Worn, Spine Creased, Sm. Tears On Spine Corners, Book Slightly Curled, Text is Unmarked, Good Reading Copy. read more
Description: Good. Paperback good condition. There are a few creases and scuffs on the covers and the pages are foxing. Pages are clean, tight and very readable. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140184402ISBN:0140184406
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Has some marker initials on bottom page edges. Clean otherwise. Trade paperback (US). 280 p. Penguin Twentieth Century Classics. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140184402ISBN:0140184406
Description: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dustcover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "from the library of" labels. read more
Description: Grade: B. Catalog: Fiction Western Synopsis: 237 pages. 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... read more
"My special topics lit class this semester is "representation of mormons in literature and film." This was the first book we read and is was definately anti-mormon. Having said that, it was really entertaining if not a little frustrating."
""Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey This story is about Lassiter, a gunslinger who is looking for revenge. He shows up in the remote Utah town of Cottonwood. Jane Withersteen is a young and beautiful rancher of the Mormon faith. She is being pressured to marry a church elder, Tulle. The church elders have already run her hired hand, a gentile, off her ranch. Venters is running into trouble with the cattle rustlers that have taken Jane's red herd. He shoots one of their riders, the masked rider, then finds out the rider is a young woman. Vinters finds a hidden valley in the cannon and hides out there and nurses the young woman back to good health. Lassiter and Vinters now must save Jane from the church elders. They have taken everything she cherishes. Lassiter and Jane are on the run from the rustlers and church elders. They go to Vinters hidden valley to hide. I don't want to tell you anymore as this will ruin the whole story if you haven't read this book. Great classic western, if you haven't read this I recommend you give it a try. A really great book!"
Utah sets the stage for rustlers, Mormons, and romance in this classic western novel. Young Jane Withersteen is a Mormon with a mind of her own. She doesn't want to marry Elder Tull, and she sympathizes with the Gentiles. She uses the inheritance from her father to live on her own terms and not be controlled by the church.
Of course, the Mormons do not like this one bit. When they realize that she will not comply with the church, they decide to take her down. She stands alone until a man named Lassiter comes to town. . .
This was not my kind of story, but it's a classic in the realm of westerns, so I just had to read it."
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