Length468h 46m

About this audiobook

50 WESTERNS (Vol. 1) surveys the western as a capacious popular form, bringing together frontier adventure, ranching tales, outlaw narratives, wilderness fiction, romance, humor, and historical romance. Its varied prose moves from compressed twist endings and regional sketches to expansive quests, gunfights, cattle drives, and encounters shaped by the contested borderlands of the American West. The volume's strongest distinction lies in its range: familiar myths of individual courage and open country are repeatedly complicated by questions of law, violence, mobility, settlement, and survival. The contributors represent several generations of writers who helped establish, revise, and circulate western conventions across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Alongside American specialists in cowboy and frontier fiction, the collection includes writers associated with adventure literature, regional realism, pulp publishing, and the international afterlife of the West. Their collective work reflects the genre's movement between romance and realism, nostalgia and modernization, while revealing how western settings became a shared literary language for imagining national identity and social change. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually broad entry into western literature's formal diversity and cultural influence. Reading these selections together illuminates the dialogue between heroic legend, local detail, popular entertainment, and historical memory, inviting readers to trace how many distinct voices fashioned the enduring idea of the West.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 4.3 (11)
Includes Amazon
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length468 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Texas Hawks (Annotated)
250 Westerns - The Best Adventures, Gunfight Duels, Battles, Rider Trails & Legendary Outlaws
3Man in the Saddle (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 1)
4Man in the Saddle (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 2)
5Man in the Saddle (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 3)
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6Man in the Saddle (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 4)
7Canyon Passage (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 1)
8Canyon Passage (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 2)
9Canyon Passage (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 3)
10Canyon Passage (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 4)
11Trail Smoke (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 1)
12Trail Smoke (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 2)
13Trail Smoke (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 3)
14Trail Smoke (Ernest Haycox) (pt. 4)
15The Bandit of Hell's Bend (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 1)
16The Bandit of Hell's Bend (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 2)
17The Bandit of Hell's Bend (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 3)
18The Bandit of Hell's Bend (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 4)
19The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 1)
20The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 2)
21The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 3)
22The War Chief (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 1)
23The War Chief (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 2)
24The War Chief (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 3)
25The War Chief (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 4)
26Apache Devil (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 1)
27Apache Devil (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 2)
28Apache Devil (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 3)
29Apache Devil (Edgar Rice Burroughs) (pt. 4)
30Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey)
31CHAPTER I. LASSITER
32CHAPTER II. COTTONWOODS
33CHAPTER III. AMBER SPRING
34CHAPTER IV. DECEPTION PASS
35CHAPTER V. THE MASKED RIDER
36CHAPTER VI. THE MILL-WHEEL OF STEERS
37CHAPTER VII. THE DAUGHTER OF WITHERSTEEN
38CHAPTER VIII. SURPRISE VALLEY
39CHAPTER IX. SILVER SPRUCE AND ASPENS
40CHAPTER X. LOVE
41CHAPTER XI. FAITH AND UNFAITH
42CHAPTER XII. THE INVISIBLE HAND
43CHAPTER XIII. SOLITUDE AND STORM
44CHAPTER XIV. WEST WIND
45CHAPTER XV. SHADOWS ON THE SAGE-SLOPE
46CHAPTER XVI. GOLD
47CHAPTER XVII. WRANGLE'S RACE RUN
48CHAPTER XVIII. OLDRING'S KNELL
49CHAPTER XIX. FAY
50CHAPTER XX. LASSITER'S WAY
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