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Grey keeps nation longing for frontier: New version of `Riders' hits cable range Sunday.(Culture, Et Cetera)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960118
Author:Duin, Julia

"Riders of the Purple Sage," which premieres Sunday evening on Turner Network Television, will continue the mystique of the West that beckons millions of Americans to move there.

Probably the greatest Western written by Zane Grey, the world's most significant Western author, "Riders" is a shoot'em-up and love story set in mid-19th-century Utah. Husband-wife team Ed Harris and Amy Madigan star as Lassiter and Jane Withersteen.

The book has sold 5 million copies since it was published in 1912.

Also airing this weekend on TNT is "Writers of the Purple Sage," a ...

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