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Riders of the Purple Sage

Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail form Grey's best-known connected story of the Utah-Arizona borderlands. The first novel follows Jane Withersteen and Lassiter amid religious pressure, range conflict and revenge; the sequel returns to the same canyon country fifteen years later and explores the consequences through a new central character.

Together the books combine western action with questions of belief, tolerance and freedom.

Reading order

Books in this series (2 books)

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1. Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey

First published 1912

3.8(15,397)

Jane Withersteen is a prosperous rancher in the Utah-Arizona borderlands whose independence brings increasing pressure from powerful men determined to control both her property and her future. Into this conflict rides Lassiter, a gunman searching for the truth behind an old wrong. His private quest for…

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2. The Rainbow Trail

Zane Grey

First published 1915

4.0(2,674)

In 1886, a young minister enters the canyon country of northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah, where people are still living with the consequences of earlier conflicts over religion, family and authority. His own convictions are tested as he encounters communities whose isolation has preserved beliefs and…