
Dane Coolidge - Boxed Set (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. 9 Adventure Novels, Gold Rush Tales & Stories of the Wild WestBy Dane CoolidgeLength68h 45m
About this audiobook
Dane Coolidge - Boxed Set gathers a representative range of Coolidge's Western fiction, in which mining camps, cattle ranges, desert trails, and contested frontier towns become arenas of moral testing. Written in a direct yet observant prose style, these narratives combine adventure plotting with documentary attentiveness to landscape, labor, and regional speech. Within the broader literary context of early twentieth-century Western writing, Coolidge stands between romance and realism, preserving the genre's excitement while grounding it in practical knowledge of the American Southwest. Dane Coolidge (1873–1940) was not merely an armchair chronicler of frontier life. A naturalist, photographer, and traveler, he spent extensive time in Arizona, California, Nevada, and neighboring regions, observing ranchers, prospectors, Indigenous communities, and desert ecology. This experience shaped his fiction's unusual credibility: his characters move through environments that feel measured by firsthand sight, and his conflicts often arise from water rights, mineral claims, livestock, and the pressures of modernization. This boxed set is recommended for readers who want classic Western adventure with historical texture and environmental specificity. It will especially appeal to students of frontier literature, admirers of Zane Grey and Stewart Edward White, and anyone interested in how popular fiction recorded the transformation of the American West.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Literary Classics
Length68 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Silver and Gold (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XXIV THE END OF IT ALL
2Hidden Water
27The Texican
3CHAPTER I THE MOUSE
28CHAPTER I VERDE CROSSING
4CHAPTER II THE MAN FROM CHERRYCOW
29CHAPTER II GOOD EYE, THE MAVERICK KING
5CHAPTER III THE TRAIL OF THE SHEEP
30CHAPTER III THE DOUBLE CROSS
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6CHAPTER IV DON PABLO MORENO
31CHAPTER IV THE SHOW-DOWN
7CHAPTER V HIDDEN WATER
32CHAPTER V LOST DOG CAÑON
8CHAPTER VI THE CROSSING
33CHAPTER VI "THE VOICE OF REASON"
9CHAPTER VII HELL’S HIP POCKET
34CHAPTER VII THE REVOLUTION
10CHAPTER VIII A YEAR’S MAIL
35CHAPTER VIII THE DAY AFTER
11CHAPTER IX MORONI
36CHAPTER IX DEATH AND TAXES
12CHAPTER X “FEED MY SHEEP”
37CHAPTER X STAMPEDED
13CHAPTER XI JUMPED
38CHAPTER XI THE CATTLE WAR
14CHAPTER XII THE GARDEN IN THE DESERT
39CHAPTER XII MOUNTAIN LAW
15CHAPTER XIII A SNOW-SCENE
40CHAPTER XIII WELCOME HOME
16CHAPTER XIV FOREBODINGS
41CHAPTER XIV THE KANGAROO COURT
17CHAPTER XV THE CATASTROPHE
42CHAPTER XV THE REVOLUTION IN FACT
18CHAPTER XVI THE DEPARTURE
43CHAPTER XVI BACK TO NATURE
19CHAPTER XVII CHICO AND GRANDE
44CHAPTER XVII THE POWER OF THE PRESS
20CHAPTER XVIII BAD BLOOD
45CHAPTER XVIII THE LAW'S DELAY
21CHAPTER XIX THE BIG DRUNK
46CHAPTER XIX THE LAST CHANCE
22CHAPTER XX THE DROUGHT
47CHAPTER XX THE LAW AND THE EVIDENCE
23CHAPTER XXI THE FLOOD
48CHAPTER XXI NEVER AGAIN
24CHAPTER XXII PORTENTS OF WAR
49Bat Wing Bowles
25CHAPTER XXIII THE LAST CROSSING
50CHAPTER I MR. BOWLES