As Jane and Lassiter grow closer, Lassiter explains that Tull took Milly away from her husband and brainwashed her into becoming a Mormon wife in their polygamous society. Lassiter learns Milly was Jane’s best friend. Jane learns that Milly Erne was Lassiter’s long-lost sister. Jane agrees to guide Lassiter to Milly’s burial plot situated on her ranch. Lassiter asks about the gravesite of a woman named Milly Erne.
Tull recognizes Lassiter as the notorious gunslinger and feared Mormon killer and rides away with his men in haste. Tull rejects the notion and tells Lassiter not to interfere in Mormon practices. Upon arriving at the ranch, Lassiter explains the implicit trust he has in women and their honor to keep their word. As soon as a mysterious man named Lassiter is mentioned by Tull, he is seen approaching the ranch on horseback. It becomes clear Tull really wants to marry Jane himself, and cannot do so until Bern is out of the picture. While no reason is given for the arrest, Jane is reprimanded for failing to visit the Mormon women ever since her father died. The leader, Elder Tull, arrests a cowboy and Jane’s best rider, a Gentile named Bern Venters. A group of seven Mormon Church members arrive at Jane’s ranch. As a result, Jane is worried that her Mormon Church members will reprimand her for befriending a “Gentile,” which is what non-Mormons are referred to as. Jane has just bid farewell to a rider who frequented her ranch. An unmarried young woman named Jane Withersteen lives alone on a ranch with the wealth of the entire town left behind by her late father. Narrated in the third-person perspective, the story begins in the small town of Cottonwoods, Utah in early spring of 1871. Riders of the Purple Sage is followed by a sequel entitled The Rainbow Trail published in 1915. It has been adapted five times as a motion picture, including versions in 1918, 1925, 1931, 1941, and 1996. Riders of the Purple Sage is one of the earliest examples of the western fiction novel. The Mormons follow in hot pursuit, leading Jane to a daring escape into the valley and a harrowing showdown with her enemies. As Jane fails to notice the evil nature of her church members, she tries to prevent Venters and Lassiter from killing her adversaries who are destroying her life. When the church leader, Elder Tull, wishes to marry Jane, she seeks the help of friends Bern Venters and the infamous gunman and Mormon murderer, Lassiter.
Set in mid-spring to late-summer in 1871 Utah, the story follows Jane Withersteen, a young woman struggling to triumph over persecution by the polygamous flock of her Mormon fundamentalist church. Riders of the Purple Sage is the 1912 western novel written by American author Zane Grey.
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