Zane Grey
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Pearl Zane Grey was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.
Grey in 1925
Grey at the University of Pennsylvania, 1895
The Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania
Picture taken by Grey of Tse-ne-gat, one of the fighters during the Bluff War
Riders of the Purple Sage
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Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time".
Grosset & Dunlap first edition cover