Jane Witherspoon has a vast inheritance left to her by her Mormon father. Knowing she is romantically involved with a Gentile, Elder Tull has published his claim to make her his wife and obtain her inheritance. Just as Elder Tull and a group of Mormons are about to whip the Gentile and banish him from Mormon Utah, the notorious gunman--and enemy of the Mormons--known as Lassiter rides in and intervenes. The Mormons initiate their punishment on Jane...
The Rainbow Trail is Zane Grey's sequel to his 1912 classic, Riders of the Purple Sage. The definitive western ended with the rolling down of a huge rock by Lassiter to seal up himself, Jane Withersteen, and the little Fay Larkin in the "Surprise Valley", away from the pursuing Mormons.
Years later, John Shefford, a disillusioned minister who was kicked out of his church, got a new job delivering goods to a village of almost 50 women--a "sealed-wife"...
The collapse of one of the stone walls of Surprise Valley where the gunman, Lassiter, Jane Withersteen and young Fay Larkin have been imprisoned for the last ten years, results in their capture by a hooded Mormon. The price extracted for Lassiter's and Jane's life is the immediate marriage of 15-year-old Fay Larkin to the mysterious, cruel, hooded Mormon leader. John Shefford, a defrocked minister from Illinois, embarks on a quixotic quest to find...
Three fantastic novels from the king of Old West fiction, Zane Grey. Includes Riders of the Purple Sage, The Border Legion and The Lone Star Ranger. Over a hundred different films, and a TV series, have been based on Grey's novels.