_ The spell of the desert comes back to me, as it always will come. I see the veils, like purple smoke, in the canyon, and I feel the silence. And it seems that again I must try to pierce both and to get at the strange wild life of the last American wilderness-- wild still, almost, as it ever was.
       While this romance is an independent story, yet readers of "Riders of the Purple Sage" will find in it an answer to a question often asked.
       I wish to say also this story has appeared serially in a different form in one of the monthly magazines under the title of "The Desert Crucible."
       ZANE GREY.
       June, 1915. _

Foreword
Chapter 1. Red Lake
Chapter 2. The Sagi
Chapter 3. Kayenta
Chapter 4. New Friends
Chapter 5. On The Trail
Chapter 6. In The Hidden Valley
Chapter 7. Sago-Lilies
Chapter 8. The Hogan Of Nas Ta Bega
Chapter 9. In The Desert Crucible
Chapter 10. Stonebridge
Chapter 11. After The Trial
Chapter 12. The Revelation
Chapter 13. The Story Of Surprise Valley
Chapter 14. The Navajo
Chapter 15. Wild Justice
Chapter 16. Surprise Valley
Chapter 17. The Trail To Nonnezoshe
Chapter 18. At The Foot Of The Rainbow
Chapter 19. The Grand Canyon Of The Colorado
Chapter 20. Willow Springs
Epilogue