I love a quote from this last novel something to the effect of "well, at least Mormons marry their concubines." Interesting give that Grey himself traveled with a veritable harem of your women. The Rainbow Trail shows Grey's own views of Mormonism changing through the years and his belief that it was evolving into a positive new religion without polygamy which is what ultimately happened. Riders is about the abuse of power in organized religion. In the first you see Grey treating Mormonism kindly showing his belief that religion can be a powerful tool for the good. To understand Riders, you need to read the entire Mormon Trilogy involving Heritage of the Desert, Riders of the Purple Sage and Rainbow Trail. In Riders, for example, the heroine Jane was the best kind of Mormon you can find. However, Grey wrote often about Mormons and for every bad Mormon, there was a good one. Mormons would call the villain's behavior unrighteous dominion and condemn the bad guys.
Read more about Zane Grey's life via Zane Grey's West Society, the Town of Payson, and the Zane Grey Collections.Riders of the Purple Sage was about the abuse of power in organized religion, something Zane Grey fervently believed. There were other Western writers who had fast and furious action, but Zane Grey was the one who could make the action not only convincing but inevitable, and somehow you got the impression that the bigness of the country generated a bigness of character." "He had the knack of tying his characters into the land, and the land into the story. "Zane Grey was a literary giant," wrote Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason. He was particularly adept at making the landscape seem a character in his stories. It's fitting that the Riders operatic world premiere will be produced by Arizona Opera. Grey's fondness for the Grand Canyon State – he frequently referred to it as "my beloved Arizona" – inspired the settings and characters of many of his novels. Riders of the Purple Sage, published in 1912, remains Grey's best-selling work, and earned a spot on the Library of Congress list "Books That Shaped America." According to the New York Times, Grey was a "self-made model of rugged rural virtue.billed at his death as 'the greatest selling author of all time' with his work exceeded in sales only by the 'Bible and the Boy Scout Handbook.'" His novels and short stories have been directly adapted into 112 films, and indirectly influenced many more genre films. Grey was famously prolific, publishing nearly ninety books in print – sixty of which are Westerns – in over twenty languages. His work shaped perceptions of the American West and cemented the archetypes and myths of the Western genre.
Zane Grey is the best-selling Western author of all time.
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