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What can a man believe in when his faith falls silent and the desert opens before him?
John Shefford leaves the East with his certainty shaken. A young minister who no longer trusts what he has preached, he heads into the canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona. Heat, thirst and vast walls of rock test him. Then he learns of Fay Larkin, a young woman hidden in the wild country, and his wandering becomes a search.
In The Rainbow Trail, Zane Grey returns to the world of Riders of the Purple Sage. Nas Ta Bega, a Navajo guide, becomes Shefford’s companion and friend. The pasts of Jane Withersteen and Lassiter still shape this frontier, where faith and power are tangled together. Love and loyalty give Shefford more to face than the demands of the land.
What you’ll discover
- A desert that tests Feel the heat, thirst and distance of a country that challenges every step.
- A friendship taking root Follow Shefford and Nas Ta Bega as guidance grows into companionship and trust.
- A search with purpose Discover how Fay Larkin gives a restless man a reason to keep going.
- Belief beyond the pulpit Explore a minister’s doubt through a frontier story of love, faith and loyalty.
- Canyons alive with color Enter long stretches of landscape filled with red, gold and purple stone.
Who will love it
For readers who love Westerns, big landscapes and stories where a person is changed by wild country. It will also please anyone who has read Riders of the Purple Sage.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A doubting minister heads for the desert
- The land tests the man who enters it
- A Navajo guide becomes a true friend
- A search gives the wandering a goal
- Faith, love and loyalty are the real subjects
- A rainbow of stone gives the book its name
Who’s who
- John SheffordA young Eastern minister who has lost his certainty and goes west, where the desert and a difficult search begin to change him.
- Nas Ta BegaA Navajo guide who knows the canyon country deeply, and who becomes Shefford's steady companion and friend.
- Fay LarkinA young woman kept hidden in the wild country, whose fate becomes the goal of Shefford's search.
- Jane WithersteenA woman from the earlier novel whose past in the Utah country still shapes the people and places around her.
- LassiterA hardened rider from Riders of the Purple Sage whose history is tied to the troubles of this frontier.
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El sendero del arco iris
by Zane Grey · 1915
John Shefford enters the red canyons with his faith shaken and takes up a search for a hidden young woman.
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The Rainbow Trail is a Western novel by Zane Grey, published in 1915. It is the sequel to his earlier book Riders of the Purple Sage, and it returns to the same hard country of southern Utah and northern Arizona.
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A doubting minister heads for the desert
The story begins with John Shefford, a young Eastern minister who is troubled in spirit. He has preached what he was taught, but he no longer feels sure of it. His body and mind are tired, and he feels that the pulpit has become a place where he must pretend.
So he leaves the comfortable world he knows and travels west. The Utah and Arizona country he enters is nothing like the towns and churches of his past. It is dry, wide and often dangerous, and the people who live in it have little patience for a stranger who has never worked with his hands.
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What is The Rainbow Trail about?
It follows John Shefford, a doubting Eastern minister who goes to the desert of Utah and Arizona. He faces the harsh land, finds a Navajo friend and takes up a search that gives him purpose.
Is The Rainbow Trail a sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage?
Yes. Zane Grey wrote it as a follow-up in 1915, and it brings back people and places from the earlier novel. It can still be read on its own, though the first book adds depth.
Who is Nas Ta Bega in The Rainbow Trail?
Nas Ta Bega is a Navajo guide who knows the canyon country well. He becomes John Shefford's companion and friend, and he shows him the land as holy ground.
The author
Zane Grey
1872–1939 · American Western novelist
Zane Grey (1872–1939) was an American novelist born in Zanesville, Ohio. He worked as a dentist before becoming a writer. He wrote Western novels, including Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) and The Rainbow Trail (1915). He later lived in Altadena, California, where he died in 1939.
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