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Now, for the first time in a hundred years, Zane Grey's best-known novel is presented in its original form just as he composed it. When in the early 1900s Zane Grey got his manuscript to two posting companies, they declined it because of the theme of Mormon polygamy, fearing it could offend their visitors and clients. Then Grey made a special plea to Frederick Duneka, who was vice-president of Harper & Bros. and who was simply Make Twain's editor at that company. Duneka and his wife read the novel and liked it but feared it could offend some visitors. Harper & Bros. decided to publish a modified version of the novel and purchased both publication and magazine-serial protection under the law. Given the duty of executing the necessary editorial changes, a mature editor of the company made changes in firmness, diction, and style as well as content. The novel first appeared in nineteen installments in the every month publication Field & Stream from January 1912 to July 1913. Blackstone Audio tracks here presents the initial, uncensored, unabridged novel Riders of the Crimson Sage, obtained through the Golden Western Literary Organization with the cooperation of Zane Grey's boy, Loren Grey, and the Ohio Condition Historical Society. In Cottonwoods, Utah, in 1871, a woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious gunman who's come to avenge his sister's death. It generally does not take Lassiter long to see that this once peaceful Mormon community is managed by the corrupt Deacon Tull, a powerful elder who's aiming to take the woman's land by forcing her to marry him, branding her foreman as an unhealthy 'outsider'. Lassiter vows to help them. But when the ranch is attacked by equine thieves, cattle rustlers, and a mystical masked rider, he realizes that they're up against something bigger, plus more brutal, than the land itself.
