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    The Rainbow Trail

    Written by Zane Grey

    Narrated by Michael Lackey

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    Ten years after the events of Riders of the Purple Sage, John Shefford, a disillusioned preacher from Illinois travels to Arizona and takes refuge in a village controlled by polygamist Mormons hiding from the federal government. It’s there Shefford learns the story of Fay Larkin: years ago, the infant Fay, along with Jane Withersteen and a gunslinger known as Lassiter, were trapped in Surprise Valley. Intrigued, Shefford decides to track Fay down.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateSep 23, 2014
    ISBN9781633791640
    Author

    Zane Grey

    American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.

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    • 3/5
      Not nearly as good as Riders of the Purple Sage, but in the end it was worth it to get the continuation of the story of Jane and Lassiter. The main problem was the "hero" Shefford. He doesn't play well in this day and age ... more than once, I was growling at him to grow a pair. He was just a big ole coward by today's standards. But yet again, the descriptive passages were simply breathtaking. Between the harrowing climb, up and down treacherous cliffs and the ride down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, the descriptions were riveting. Who knew that I would start getting into westerners at this point in my life? Gotta love those public domain books!
    • 4/5
      My dad used to read Zane Grey's westerns but the only one I had read was Riders of the Purple Sage. This is the sequel to that book. My library's electronic media site offered the audiobook as a download and I decided it would be worth listening to. The story follows John Shefford, a failed preacher, who learned about 3 people who walled themselves up in a canyon 10 years ago from the Venters. The Venters intended to go back to rescue them but then they had a child. Shefford, taken by the story and especially by the fate of the young girl, Faye Larkin, decides to go out and find them. He rescues an Indian girl from the clutches of a white missionary and in doing so earns the respect of her brother, Nas Ta Bega. They become fast friends and work together to find Faye and the others. Shefford is told that the women in a village of sealed wives (i.e. second wives of Mormon elders) may know of Faye Larkin . So he goes there and becomes friendly with the women, especially one who is called the Sago Lily because of her great beauty. She tells him that Faye Larkin is dead which devastates Shefford but then he becomes enamoured of the Sago Lily. He can't stand the idea that this lovely young girl is the second wife of an old man who visits seldom. Matters come to a head when this man is killed and the Sago Lily is held for his murder. Taking into account when this was written I was impressed by how Grey described the women and the native Americans. Even the Mormons aren't all bad as one takes Faye's place in prison and another helps the fugitives flee down the Colorado River to safety. I would reccommend reading Riders of the Purple Sage before this one though.
    • 2/5
      Illustrative of Grey's style but somewhat stilted relative to previous work.