I've watched this movie at least 3 times

I grew up on "B" westerns on LA's channel 11.
The plots became formulaic after a while?
As when the Italian westerns with Clint Eastwood came out,
I had thought they just couldn't do anything new in a western.
This one put a cork in that.
The book was first published in 1918.
There have been several cowboy bands named after this novel.
Loren Zane Grey has resurrected Lassiter in a continuation
of his father's work ( and was successful doing it because this is a classic).[[ASIN:0671607804 Lassiter Gold]]
It stands as characteristic " American Literature" as a culture:
like Jazz. The honorable warrior and his noble love are strains of literature
going back in time to the Greeks. The ability to capture
that feeling in a movie is very rare. This one does it!
I'm sure I'll watch it again:
that seems to be the test of quality.
It is worth watching again.

Book was terrific, movie a disappointment

Perhaps I should not have read the book first. The book was terrific: colorful characters, beautiful descriptive passages of the Utah country (as only Zane Grey can write), great story lines.
The movie, while hitting on all the main points of the story, left out a lot of detail that made the book so wonderful, and helped to tie things together. I was really disappointed. The characters of Lassiter and Venters, although heroic in the movie, were much more colorful in the book, especially Venters. I won't go into any more details here (there are too many), but anyone who has seen this movie should read the book and judge for themselves. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is for the actors, Ed Harris and his wife Amy Madigan - I've always been fans of theirs (and they're the producers of this movie) - but they really should've taken the time and made this a little longer movie (it's only 90 minutes) in order to make it more true to the book.

One of the Best Western series

The actors are superb and are working with what I consider one of the most romantic and exciting western stories ever published (one of my favorites).
I hope that this will come out on DVD.