Western Colors : Riders of the Purple Sage, The Rainbow Trail, Desert Gold

Though Zane Grey's Western novels are always packed with plenty of pulse-pounding action and adventure, they are also philosophical and sophisticated, which often comes as an unexpected surprise to first-time readers of his work. Desert Gold contains the best of what made Zane Grey one of the most renowned writers of Westerns—sweet romance, action-packed thrills, heartrending descriptions of the Western landscape, and plenty of thought-provoking talk about the virtues and travails of frontier life. "Three classics from Zane Grey, the grand master of Western fiction: Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey's most enduring classic, the book that invented the myth of the American West. In the little village of Cottonwoods, Utah, Mormon rancher Jane Withersteen endures persecution, religious zealots, and cattle rustlers trying to prey on her land. Aided by Lassiter, the famous gunman, Jane and her friends must escape the clutches of her most dangerous enemies. The Rainbow Trail John Shefford rode into Utah's valley in search of a new life, and when he met Fay Larkin, a beautiful woman charged with murder, he knew he had found it. But breaking her out of jail was the easy part. After that he has posses and violent bands of Indians to outrun, a murderous trek through a trackless waste, and a brutal passage through white water hell. Desert Gold When former college football star Dick Gale meets an old friend at a border town in Arizona on his way to make his fortune, he finds more than he bargained for. His friend's sweetheart has been kidnapped by Rojas, a ruthless Mexican bandit, a man with a fearsome reputation. To get her back, Dick will have to risk everything in a dangerous battle on the desert cliffs. "-- Provided by publisher Traveling to Mexico to prove himself to his father, Dick Gale becomes involved in his friend's plan to save a beautiful Spanish girl from a ruthless bandit and escape with her across the desert.