The Rainbow Trail

The Rainbow Trail (1915)
by Zane Grey

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First serialized as The Desert Crucible; the novel is the sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage. Originally published in book form under this name in 1915, it was re-edited and rereleased in recent years as The Desert Crucible, restoring the original manuscript that Grey submitted to publishers. The novel was adapted into a film in 1932. [1]

[An audiobook is available at librivox]

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THE
RAINBOW TRAIL

A ROMANCE

BY
ZANE GREY

FOREWORD

The spell of the desert comes back to me, as it always will come. I see the veils, like purple smoke, in the canyon, and I feel the silence. And it seems that again I must try to pierce both and to get at the strange wild life of the last American wilderness—wild still, almost, as it ever was.

While this romance is an independent story, yet readers of "Riders of the Purple Sage" will find in it an answer to a question often asked.

I wish to say also this story has appeared serially in a different form in one of the monthly magazines under the title of "The Desert Crucible."

Zane Grey

June, 1915

The Rainbow Trail

CONTENTS