Jane Withersteen owns the spring, the ranch and most of the village of Cottonwoods that her father founded in the Utah borderland, and the elders of her church want all of it, along with her hand for one of their own. When she befriends a Gentile rider, her cattle start to vanish — until the gunman Lassiter rides in from the sage, hunting the man who wronged his sister.
The most famous Western of its era; its hostile portrait of the Mormon leaders reflects the prejudices of 1912. Download the free EPUB.