The Rainbow Trail is written by Zane Grey and is a sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage. It was published in 1915 and re-edited in recent years. The story takes you ten years in the future from Riders of the Purple Sage. In this book, the wall of Surprise Valley wall is broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but the theme is treated more explicitly in The Rainbow Trail. The story revolves around the victimization of women in the Mormon culture.The story of Riders of the Purple Sage revolves around the struggle of a Mormon woman who sacrifices her wealth and social status to keep her away from becoming the junior wife of the head of the church. Whereas, The Rainbow Trail compares older Mormons with a growing generation of Mormon women who will not tolerate polygamy and Mormon men who do not want it.A movie is also made in 1931 by the same name.
Zane Grey was born on January 31, 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. He was a dentist and a writer, and he was famous for his western adventure novels and stories. As he was trained as a dentist, he practised in New York City from 1898 to 1904, while he published confidentially a novel of pioneer life, Betty Zane. Choosing to leave dentistry for full-time writing, he published 1905's The Spirit of the Border, which was based on Zane's notes and unexpectedly turned into a best seller. The author also wrote more than 80 books. Various books were published after his death, and more than 50 were printed in the last quarter of the 20th century. The most famous novel was Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), followed by The Lone Star Ranger (1915), The U.P. Trail in 1918, Call of the Canyon in 1924, and Code of the West in 1934.His remarkable non-fiction novel was Tales of Fishing (1925).
