{"product_id":"2026200015075-secondhand-riders-of-the-purple-sage","title":"Riders Of The Purple Sage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sun-scorched canyon lands of 1871 Utah, a lone gunman rides out of the shimmering heat to alter the fate of a woman — and a land — forever. Riders of the Purple Sage chronicles the gripping story of Jane Withersteen, a wealthy Mormon rancher whose defiance of her church's elders brings her world crashing down around her, and Lassiter, the mysterious, black-clad rider whose deadly past is as vast as the desert itself. Zane Grey weaves a relentless tale of pursuit, faith, and survival against the brutal, breathtaking backdrop of the American Southwest, where loyalty is tested and freedom must be seized at gunpoint.\n\nFirst published in 1912, Riders of the Purple Sage stands as the defining masterwork of the Western genre, casting a long shadow over American popular literature and cementing Grey's reputation as the undisputed architect of the frontier novel. Grey's prose moves with the force of a desert wind — sweeping, visceral, and richly atmospheric — painting a portrait of a landscape as savage and magnificent as the moral conflicts that rage within it. The novel argues powerfully for individual liberty against the tyranny of zealotry, a theme that resonates far beyond the canyons of Utah. For any reader who has ever felt the pull of wide-open horizons, this is the book that started it all — and its final, thundering pages will not soon be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203199246555,"sku":"2026200015075-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/cd0ae2be-bfef-4b3a-a5ef-aa132918729a.png?v=1788145476","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015075-secondhand-riders-of-the-purple-sage","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}