![]() ![]() What a confluence of landscape and longing, what sublime beauty and reverent desolation. ![]() With its spring fed water supply in the middle of an arid stretch of land, and access to some of the best grazing land on the Strip, it is easy to see how Grey could craft this lonely outpost into the focal point of the struggle for wealth and power that drives “Riders of the Purple Sage.” When we dropped into the valley a rush of wonder engulfed us like a stampede. ![]() Zane Grey visited Pipe Spring in 1908 and discovered the Mormon tithing ranch that would become the bedrock of the plot for his most popular novel. We visited Pipe Spring National Monument on the Arizona Strip - a remote sliver of Arizona nestled between the Grand Canyon and the Utah line. We followed to places Zane Grey visited in Arizona over a century ago that were the novelist's real life inspirations for two key locations in “Riders of the Purple Sage”. Last fall, the artistic team of the new opera "Riders of the Purple Sage", set off for fabled landscapes steeped in history. ![]()
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