Grey tackles complex religious, social, and cultural issues in his best-selling novel that epitomises the life and times of pioneering men and women and the Code of the West. When she refuses her father's wish that she marry into the polygamist family of a church elder, her struggles are reflected in Grey's epic descriptions of the American West. Heroine Jane Withersteen is the owner of a successful ranch and a member of the Mormon church. She loved it all-the grove of cottonwoods, the old stone house, the amber-tinted water, and the droves of shaggy, dusty horses and mustangs, the sleek, clean-limbed, blooded racers, and the browsing herds of cattle and the lean, sun-browned riders of the sage.-Ch. And she thought of what that great ranch meant to her. She wished only to go on doing good and being happy. She was Mormon-born, and she was a friend to poor and unfortunate Gentiles. Trouble between the Mormons and the Gentiles of the community would make her unhappy. She wanted the sleepy quiet pastoral days to last always. She meant to do so much more for her people than she had done. Zane Grey (1872-1939), American author wrote Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) Jane prayed that the tranquility and sweetness of her life would not be permanently disrupted.
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