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Bill is killed during the shootout, but Jim succeeds in capturing the masked rider, who is actually a young woman. Although one of the herds is stolen, Jim saves the others from stampeding off a cliff, for which Jane rewards him with the high-spirted bronco 'Wrangle.' The next day, while Venters and Jim try to locate the missing cattle, they run into two of Oldring's confederates, Bill and a mysterious masked rider. Adam protests, for he desires to marry Jane and acquire her land that way, but Dyer orders his reluctant henchman, Steve Oldring, to rustle Jane's cattle that night.

Dyer has used the vigilantes to terrorize the local ranchers and acquire their land, and he now intends to do the same to Jane. At the town's courthouse, Adam confers with his uncle, Judge Frank Dyer, the head of the vigilante committe, which has become corrupt since the death of Jane's father. Jim receives the thanks of the ranch's owner, Jane Withersteen, who nonetheless remains cool to Jim, for she has maintained an intense dislike of guns since her father was shot in the back years before. On his way into town, Jim prevents the whipping of ranch foreman Venters by a vigilante group led by Adam Dyer and Jerry Card.

Jim is also searching for his sister's baby, who is by now full-grown. Lassiter- secular answer to prayer Whence cometh my help! the place of Mormon women (Elder Tull) You haven't yet come to see seductive caress of the Mormons the great invisible hand moved here and there and everywhere, slowly paralysing her with its mystery and its inconceivable sway over her affairs Hordes of.suitors had fanned the flame of natural vanity in her Jane 'cared most for.the allurement of her beauty' they are inconsequential Secrets r.e.Texas cowboy Jim Lassiter comes to Cottonwood, Arizona to seek revenge on the man who stole his sister Millie from her husband fifteen years previously. fanatically faithful to a false religion Jane: Blind I may be.

Reality with hero myths, fertility rites, quests, ritual killings, and phallic symbolism Russel Rye: Fashionable academic criticism.saddled the Western novel. Reality's never been of much use out there Annie Proulx r.e. specifically defined in its forms Roland Barthes, Mythologies 'A system. It's a state of mind Tom Mix (Western actor) The Old West is not a certain place. Rapid changes in the ranching industry Slatta: a larger plot overtakes our.cowboy's accustomed way of life and shifts of meaning White/Limerick: capable of sudden twists entertain new ideas St.John de Crèvecoeur: 'This American is a new man.he must therefore to discomfort Proulx's characters grow accustomed revenge Lassiter has out-growed in the very fear of him (sado-madochistic) Jane feels a vague joy in a certain time. Where bison used to roam Wyoming Union Day (1890) her towns and cities rising.

Riders of the purple sage zane grey 1912