HIDDEN WATER (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. An Exciting Cowboy Adventure Tale Set in ArizonaBy Dane Coolidge
Length11h 47m
About this audiobook
Dane Coolidge's Hidden Water is a vigorous early twentieth-century Western concerned with land, survival, and moral testing in the arid borderlands of the American Southwest. Centered on the struggle for water, grazing rights, and human allegiance, the novel transforms the desert from a mere backdrop into an active force shaping character and conflict. Coolidge writes in a direct, pictorial style, blending frontier romance with close observation of animals, terrain, ranch labor, and the codes of honor that govern isolated communities. In literary context, the book belongs to the realist-leaning Western tradition that complicated dime-novel adventure with ecological and social detail. Coolidge was unusually well equipped to write such a novel. Born in Massachusetts in 1873, he became known not only as a fiction writer but also as a naturalist, photographer, and student of Western life. His travels through Arizona, California, and the wider desert Southwest gave him firsthand knowledge of mining camps, ranches, Native landscapes, and contested resources. That intimacy with place informs Hidden Water at every level. Readers interested in Western fiction that is both dramatic and observant will find Hidden Water rewarding. It offers romance and danger, but also a serious meditation on scarcity, possession, and endurance in a harsh environment.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure
Length11 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 11, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
14CHAPTER XIII A SNOW-SCENE
2CHAPTER I THE MOUSE
15CHAPTER XIV FOREBODINGS
3CHAPTER II THE MAN FROM CHERRYCOW
16CHAPTER XV THE CATASTROPHE
4CHAPTER III THE TRAIL OF THE SHEEP
17CHAPTER XVI THE DEPARTURE
5CHAPTER IV DON PABLO MORENO
18CHAPTER XVII CHICO AND GRANDE
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6CHAPTER V HIDDEN WATER
19CHAPTER XVIII BAD BLOOD
7CHAPTER VI THE CROSSING
20CHAPTER XIX THE BIG DRUNK
8CHAPTER VII HELL’S HIP POCKET
21CHAPTER XX THE DROUGHT
9CHAPTER VIII A YEAR’S MAIL
22CHAPTER XXI THE FLOOD
10CHAPTER IX MORONI
23CHAPTER XXII PORTENTS OF WAR
11CHAPTER X “FEED MY SHEEP”
24CHAPTER XXIII THE LAST CROSSING
12CHAPTER XI JUMPED
25CHAPTER XXIV THE END OF IT ALL
13CHAPTER XII THE GARDEN IN THE DESERT
26Memorable Quotes
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