![]() ![]() Remake of Riders of the Purple Sage, filmed near Moab, Utah, andĪired in January 1997. It was with some curiosity that one heard of Turner Network Television's His titles and derived little else of substance from their namesakes. TheĬoup de grace to his reputation was the scores of cheaply made Westernįilms cranked out by Hollywood in the 1920s, '30s and '40s which traded on (except the Soviet) sort, had of course never cared for Zane Grey. "Serious" critics,Įver mistrustful of the popular taste and loathing "idealism" of any Underdeveloped characters - taciturn gunslingers, stock villains,įainting females, noble or bloodthirsty savages - all rolling dutifullyĪlong in the dusty ruts of interchangeable plot lines. Synonymous with the B Western genre and its cast of overplayed, ![]() His once-hailed name had by the 1960s become a laughable cliche ![]() His death in 1939 and that Harper & Brothers issued posthumously well into Read are the several dozen arguably greater books that Grey published up to Yet it is rarely read today by the general public, and still less ![]() Out of print, is a solid entry in the canon of American literature and isĬonsidered one of the best Westerns ever written, if not the best of themĪll. Riders of the Purple Sage, published in 1912, was Zane Grey's firstīest-selling novel of the many he was eventually to pen. ![]()
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