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 58m
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.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length455 hrs 58 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) (pt. 1)
3Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey) (pt. 2)
4Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey) (pt. 3)
5Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey) (pt. 4)
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6Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey) (pt. 5)
7The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 1)
8The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 2)
9The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 3)
10The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 4)
11The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 5)
12The Spirit of the Border (Zane Grey) (pt. 1)
13The Spirit of the Border (Zane Grey) (pt. 2)
14The Spirit of the Border (Zane Grey) (pt. 3)
15The Spirit of the Border (Zane Grey) (pt. 4)
16The Spirit of the Border (Zane Grey) (pt. 5)
17The Untamed (Max Brand)
1810. THE STRENGTH OF WOMEN
1920. ONE TRAIL ENDS
2031. "LAUGH, DAMN IT!"
21The Night Horseman (Max Brand) (pt. 1)
22The Night Horseman (Max Brand) (pt. 2)
23The Night Horseman (Max Brand) (pt. 3)
24The Night Horseman (Max Brand) (pt. 4)
25The Seventh Man (Max Brand) (pt. 1)
26The Seventh Man (Max Brand) (pt. 2)
27The Seventh Man (Max Brand) (pt. 3)
28The Seventh Man (Max Brand) (pt. 4)
29Winnetou, the Apache Knight (Karl May) (pt. 1)
30Winnetou, the Apache Knight (Karl May) (pt. 2)
31Winnetou, the Apache Knight (Karl May) (pt. 3)
32A Texas Ranger (William MacLeod Raine)
33Part I. The Man from the Panhandle (pt. 1)
34Part I. The Man from the Panhandle (pt. 2)
35Part II. The Girl of Lost Valley (pt. 1)
36Part II. The Girl of Lost Valley (pt. 2)
37Gunsight Pass (William MacLeod Raine) (pt. 1)
38Gunsight Pass (William MacLeod Raine) (pt. 2)
39Gunsight Pass (William MacLeod Raine) (pt. 3)
40Gunsight Pass (William MacLeod Raine) (pt. 4)
41Rebel Spurs (Andre Norton) (pt. 1)
42Rebel Spurs (Andre Norton) (pt. 2)
43Rebel Spurs (Andre Norton) (pt. 3)
44Ride Proud, Rebel! (Andre Norton)
456 Horse Trade
4612 Guerrillas
4718 Texas Spurs
48The Bandit of Hell's Bend (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 1)
49The Bandit of Hell's Bend (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 2)
50The Bandit of Hell's Bend (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 3)
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