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differences in the West that it had feared, pruriently enjoyed, and forever changed.
    In addition to the novel’s continuing popularity, explained in part by the dramatic energy of Grey’s prose, what survives this important transitional Western in others of the genre is the contours of the gunslinging hero, not the historical threat that defined him in 1912. In this sense, the Western does seem to have “escaped” a key moment in its literary history: the widespread American fascination with Mormon polygamy.
    WILLIAM R. HANDLEY is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of
Marriage, Violence,
and the Nation in the American Literary West.
    FURTHER READING
    Bloodworth, William. “Zane Grey’s Western Eroticism.”
South Dakota Review
23 (Autumn 1985): 1–14.
    Bunker, Gary L., and Davis Bitton. The Mormon Graphic Image: Cartoons,
Caricatures, and Illustrations.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983.
    Cawelti, John G.
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and
Popular Culture.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
    Givens, Terryl L. The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construc
tion of Heresy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
    Grey, Zane.
The Heritage of the Desert.
New York: Forge, 1997; orig. pub. 1910.
    â€”——. The Rainbow Trail. Roslyn, N.Y., 1943; orig. pub. 1915.
    Gruber, Frank. Zane Grey: A Biography. Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, Inc., 1969.
    Handley, William R.
Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Liter
ary West. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
    Hendrick, Burton J. “The Mormon Revival of Polygamy.”
McClure’s Magazine
36 (February 1911): 458–64.
    Jackson, Carlton.
Zane Grey: A Biography.
Boston: Twayne, 1989; orig. pub. 1973.
    Lewis, Alfred Henry. “The Trail of the Viper.”
Cosmopolitan
50 (April 1911): 693–703.
    â€”——. “The Viper on the Hearth.”
Cosmopolitan
50 (March 1911): 439–50.
    â€”——. “The Viper’s Trail of Gold.”
Cosmopolitan
50 (May 1911): 823–33. May, Stephen J.
Maverick Heart: The Further Adventures of Zane Grey.
Athens,
    Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2000. ———.
Zane Grey: Romancing the West.
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1997.
    Mitchell, Lee Clark.
Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
    Nesbitt, John D. “Uncertain Sex in the Sagebrush.”
South Dakota Review
23 (Autumn 1985): 15–27.
    Robinson, Forrest G.
Having It Both Ways: Self-Subversion in Western Popular
Classics.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
    Ronald, Ann.
Zane Grey.
Boise: Boise State University, 1975.
    Stott, Graham St. John. “Zane Grey and James Simpson Emmett.”
Brigham
Young University Studies
18 (Summer 1978): 491–503.
    Tompkins, Jane.
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
    Topping, Gary. “Zane Grey in Zion: An Examination of His Supposed Anti-Mormonism.”
Brigham Young University Studies
18 (Summer 1978): 483–90.
    â€”——. “Zane Grey’s West.”
Journal of Popular Culture
7 (Winter 1973): 681–89.

A NOTE ON THE TEXT
    This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition of
Riders of the Purple
Sage is set from the first U.S. edition published by Harper and Brothers in 1912. The following minor corrections have been made:
    P. 165, L. 20: the hyphen has been deleted between “snap” and “shot.”
    P. 186, L. 27: “pass” has been capitalized.
    P. 207, L. 38: “pass” has been capitalized.
    P. 219, L. 1: “little” has been lowercased.
    P. 226, L. 31: “central” has been lowercased.
    P. 239, LL. 26–27: “cottonwoods” has been lowercased.



INTRODUCTION
    William R. Handley
    No American writer in the first half of the