Riders of the Purple Sage

A love story set in a time when Mormon women had no rights or freedoms, one mormon woman dared to befriend a non-mormon man. For this crime the man is about to be whipped to dead when a notorious gun man and killer of mormons arrives to save him. The most well known of Zane Grey's books, the Riders of the Purple Sage tells the story of a time when might and power was more important than humanity and law.