Riders of the Purple Sage Cottonwoods, Utah, 1871. A woman stands accused. A man, sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man the town elders fear - Lassiter, a notorious gunman who"s come to avenge his sister"s death. It doesn"t take him long to see that this once-peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull. Full description