Burned Bridges
A Canadian Frontier Romance of Wilderness Adventure, Moral Reinvention, Ranching Life, and the Price of IndependenceBy Bertrand William Sinclair
Length8h 46m
About this audiobook
Burned Bridges is a work of popular Western fiction in which romance, moral choice, and the unforgiving demands of frontier life are closely intertwined. Sinclair places his characters within a social world shaped by distance, precarious livelihoods, competing loyalties, and the pressure to begin again after betrayal or loss. The title's image suggests both the irrevocability of past decisions and the possibility of remaking one's future, a tension that gives the narrative its emotional structure. Written in a direct, vigorous style, the novel combines brisk action and dialogue with descriptive attention to the northern landscape. It belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of regional and frontier romance, offering entertainment while also examining the costs of independence, ambition, and social belonging. Bertrand William Sinclair was a prolific Canadian-born writer whose fiction drew substantially on the landscapes, occupations, and cultural tensions of the North American West. His familiarity with ranching communities and frontier experience helped him present hardship not as picturesque background but as a force that shapes character and ethical judgment. Writing during the period when Western fiction was becoming a major form of mass literature, Sinclair balanced accessible storytelling with an interest in practical social realities. Burned Bridges reflects his recurring concern with people attempting to construct stable lives in environments where economic uncertainty and personal history continually threaten renewal. Readers interested in classic Westerns, historical romance, and literature of regional identity will find Burned Bridges especially rewarding. It is well suited to those who value narrative momentum alongside questions of responsibility, resilience, and the consequences of severed relationships. Sinclair's clear prose and strong sense of place make the novel approachable, while its moral tensions invite more sustained reflection than its popular-fiction classification might imply.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Romance
Length8 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 8, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prisoners of Chance (Annotated)
2Chapter I. The First Problem
3Chapter II. The Man and His Mission
4Chapter III. The Deserted Cabin
5Chapter IV. In Which Mr. Thompson Begins to Wonder Painfully
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6Chapter V. Further Acquaintance
7Chapter VI. Certain Perplexities
8Chapter VII. A Slip of the Axe
9Chapter VIII. —And the Fruits Thereof
10Chapter IX. Universal Attributes
11Chapter X. The Way of a Maid With a Man
12Chapter XI. A Man's Job for a Minister
13Chapter XII. A Fortune and a Flitting
14Chapter XIII. Partners
15Chapter XIV. The Restless Foot
16Chapter XV. The World Is Small
17Chapter XVI. A Meeting by the Way
18Chapter XVII. The Reproof Courteous (?)
19Chapter XVIII. Mr. Henderson's Proposition
20Chapter XIX. A Widening Horizon
21Chapter XX. The Shadow
22Chapter XXI. The Renewed Triangle
23Chapter XXII. Sundry Reflections
24Chapter XXIII. The Fuse—
25Chapter XXIV. —And the Match That Lit the Fuse—
26Chapter XXV. —And the Bomb the Fuse Fired
27Chapter XXVI. The Last Bridge
28Chapter XXVII. Thompson's Return
29Chapter XXVIII. Fair Winds
30Chapter XXIX. Two Men and a Woman
31Chapter XXX. A Mark to Shoot At
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