Riders of the Purple Sage: by Zane Grey

In a small Mormon community in southern Utah, Jane Withersteen, a young, unmarried Mormon woman faces growing pressure to marry a local elder of her church. Elder Tull, a polygamist, already has two wives and seeks to marry Jane not just for her beauty, but to take control of the ranch her late father passed on to her.Jane's resistance to marriage only serves to increase the mounting resentment against "Gentiles" (non-Mormons) in the area. Bern Venters, one of Jane Withersteen's ranch hands...