100 Westerns
A Classic Anthology of Frontier Adventures, Cattle Drives, Range Wars, Outlaws, and Wilderness SurvivalBy Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jack London, R. M. Ballantyne, Frank H. Spearman, Randall Parrish, Jackson Gregory, James Oliver Curwood, Dane Coolidge, Edward S. Ellis, James Fenimore Cooper, Ann S. Stephens, Bertha Muzzy Sinclair-Cowan, B. M. Bower, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, Willa Cather, Andy Adams, Charles Alden Seltzer, Emerson Hough, Charles Siringo, Robert W. Chambers, Marah Ellis Ryan, Frederic Homer Balch, Forrestine C. Hooker, O. Henry, Grace Livingston Hill, Charles King
Length922h 6m
About this audiobook
100 Westerns surveys the American West as both a geographical frontier and a durable imaginative terrain. Ranging from adventure tale, frontier romance, outlaw narrative, mining and ranching chronicle, detective-inflected yarn, and historical fiction to psychologically nuanced regional writing, the volume reveals the Western's remarkable formal elasticity. Its selections move among cattle trails, borderlands, forests, boomtowns, military posts, and contested homesteads, while memorable episodes of pursuit, survival, settlement, and cultural encounter expose the genre's recurrent tensions between freedom, violence, community, and myth. The contributors represent an unusually broad cross-section of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular and literary culture. Canonical regionalists and naturalists appear beside prolific pulp, adventure, juvenile, and romance writers, including voices associated with dime-novel traditions, magazine fiction, the ranch narrative, and the revisionary literary Western. Together, writers such as Zane Grey, Jack London, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, B. M. Bower, and Charles Siringo place heroic legend alongside labor, gender, migration, Indigenous presence, imperial expansion, and the pressures of modernization. Their varied positions enrich the West beyond any single national fantasy. This anthology is especially recommended for readers seeking both pleasure and critical perspective. In one capacious volume, it offers a valuable education in the Western's evolving conventions, contradictions, and cultural afterlives. Its juxtaposed styles invite sustained comparison and foster a lively dialogue between romance and realism, popular entertainment and literary experiment, inherited mythology and historical complexity.
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length922 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Winnetou (Annotated)
2The Virginian
3TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT
4TO THE READER
5I. ENTER THE MAN
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6II. "WHEN YOU CALL ME THAT, SMILE!"
7III. STEVE TREATS
8IV. DEEP INTO CATTLE LAND
9V. ENTER THE WOMAN
10VI. EM'LY
11VII. THROUGH TWO SNOWS
12VIII. THE SINCERE SPINSTER
13IX. THE SPINSTER MEETS THE UNKNOWN
14X. WHERE FANCY WAS BRED
15XI. "YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE ME BEFORE WE GET THROUGH"
16XII. QUALITY AND EQUALITY
17XIII. THE GAME AND THE NATION—ACT FIRST
18XIV. BETWEEN THE ACTS
19XV. THE GAME AND THE NATION—ACT SECOND
20XVI. THE GAME AND THE NATION—LAST ACT
21XVII. SCIPIO MORALIZES
22XVIII. "WOULD YOU BE A PARSON?"
23XIX. DR. MACBRIDE BEGS PARDON
24XX. THE JUDGE IGNORES PARTICULARS
25XXI. IN A STATE OF SIN
26XXII. "WHAT IS A RUSTLER?"
27XXIII. VARIOUS POINTS
28XXIV. A LETTER WITH A MORAL
29XXV. PROGRESS OF THE LOST DOG
30XXVI. BALAAM AND PEDRO
31XXVII. GRANDMOTHER STARK
32XXVIII. NO DREAM TO WAKE FROM
33XXIX. WORD TO BENNINGTON
34XXX. A STABLE ON THE FLAT
35XXXI. THE COTTONWOODS
36XXXII. SUPERSTITION TRAIL
37XXXIII. THE SPINSTER LOSES SOME SLEEP
38XXXIV. TO FIT HER FINGER
39XXXV. WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT
40XXXVI. AT DUNBARTON
41Riders of the Purple Sage
42CHAPTER I. LASSITER
43CHAPTER II. COTTONWOODS
44CHAPTER III. AMBER SPRING
45CHAPTER IV. DECEPTION PASS
46CHAPTER V. THE MASKED RIDER
47CHAPTER VI. THE MILL-WHEEL OF STEERS
48CHAPTER VII. THE DAUGHTER OF WITHERSTEEN
49CHAPTER VIII. SURPRISE VALLEY
50CHAPTER IX. SILVER SPRUCE AND ASPENS
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