50 Westerns – The Best Cowboy Adventures, Rider Trails, Stories of Outlaws & Battles with Indians
Classic Cowboy Tales of Outlaws, Cattle Drives & Frontier PerilBy Andre Norton, Zane Grey, Karl May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Max Brand, Owen Wister, James Fenimore Cooper, B. M. Bower, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Emerson Hough, Willa Cather, Andy Adams, Charles Alden Seltzer, Jackson Gregory, Frank H. Spearman, Charles Siringo, Grace Livingston Hill, Robert W. Chambers, Frederic Remington, Frederic Homer Balch, Dane Coolidge
Length455h 19m
About this audiobook
This capacious anthology surveys the Western as a popular literary form: a terrain of cattle drives, outlaw pursuits, rider trails, frontier settlements, and violent encounters across contested landscapes. Its fifty selections range from brisk adventure yarns and romance-inflected narratives to regional sketches, historical fiction, detective-like pursuits, and tales bordering on the fantastic. Memorable episodes of pursuit, survival, and moral reckoning reveal both the genre's narrative energy and its enduring investment in mobility, law, community, and wilderness. At the same time, the volume invites attention to the conventional—and often fraught—representations of Indigenous peoples and frontier conflict inherited from its period. The contributors collectively span major shapers of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century popular fiction, including writers associated with the literary Western, dime-novel adventure, historical romance, pulp storytelling, and regional realism. Their varied careers bring distinct social geographies to the page: ranch country, mining camps, borderlands, rail corridors, and imagined frontiers. Read together, these voices illuminate the Western's emergence alongside national mythmaking, mass-market publishing, and changing ideas of American expansion, masculinity, and belonging. Ideal for students of genre fiction and general readers alike, this collection offers an unusually broad encounter with the Western's styles and assumptions in a single volume. It rewards comparative reading, enabling readers to trace recurring plots and archetypes while recognizing divergent tonal, cultural, and formal approaches. Its breadth makes it a valuable starting point for examining how frontier stories entertain, memorialize, and debate the American past.
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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (15)
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length455 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 9, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1150 Western Classics
2Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey)
3CHAPTER I. LASSITER
4CHAPTER II. COTTONWOODS
5CHAPTER III. AMBER SPRING
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6CHAPTER IV. DECEPTION PASS
7CHAPTER V. THE MASKED RIDER
8CHAPTER VI. THE MILL-WHEEL OF STEERS
9CHAPTER VII. THE DAUGHTER OF WITHERSTEEN
10CHAPTER VIII. SURPRISE VALLEY
11CHAPTER IX. SILVER SPRUCE AND ASPENS
12CHAPTER X. LOVE
13CHAPTER XI. FAITH AND UNFAITH
14CHAPTER XII. THE INVISIBLE HAND
15CHAPTER XIII. SOLITUDE AND STORM
16CHAPTER XIV. WEST WIND
17CHAPTER XV. SHADOWS ON THE SAGE-SLOPE
18CHAPTER XVI. GOLD
19CHAPTER XVII. WRANGLE'S RACE RUN
20CHAPTER XVIII. OLDRING'S KNELL
21CHAPTER XIX. FAY
22CHAPTER XX. LASSITER'S WAY
23CHAPTER XXI. BLACK STAR AND NIGHT
24CHAPTER XXII. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE
25CHAPTER XXIII. THE FALL OF BALANCING ROCK
26The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 1)
27The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 2)
28The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 3)
29The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 4)
30The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 5)
31The Spirit of the Border (Zane Grey)
32CHAPTER I
33CHAPTER II
34CHAPTER III
35CHAPTER IV
36CHAPTER V
37CHAPTER VI
38CHAPTER VII
39CHAPTER VIII
40CHAPTER IX
41CHAPTER X
42CHAPTER XI
43CHAPTER XII
44CHAPTER XIII
45CHAPTER XIV
46CHAPTER XV
47CHAPTER XVI
48CHAPTER XVII
49CHAPTER XVIII
50CHAPTER XIX
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