
Ogden Westerns - Boxed Set (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Trail's End, The Rustler of Wind River, The Flockmaster of Poison Creek, The Bondboy...By George W. OgdenLength57h 19m
About this audiobook
Ogden Westerns - Boxed Set gathers George W. Ogden's frontier fiction into a compact panorama of ranch disputes, solitary riders, contested homesteads, and moral reckonings on the American range. Written in a clear, vigorous prose style, these tales belong to the early twentieth-century Western tradition, where action is inseparable from questions of honor, law, work, and social order. Ogden's narratives favor atmosphere and ethical tension over mere spectacle, offering a literary bridge between dime-novel adventure and the more psychologically grounded Western. George W. Ogden was a journalist and popular novelist whose knowledge of American regional life deeply shaped his fiction. His background in newspaper writing is evident in the economy of his scenes, his alertness to social detail, and his interest in ordinary people tested by extraordinary circumstances. Writing during a period when the frontier was already passing into memory, Ogden helped transform lived history into national myth. This boxed set is recommended for readers who value classic Westerns with substance as well as movement. It will especially appeal to those interested in frontier ethics, American popular literature, and the evolution of the Western hero.
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
Length57 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Trail's End
3Chapter I. The Unconquered Land
4Chapter II. The Meat Hunter
5Chapter III. First Blood
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6Chapter IV. The Optimist Explains
7Chapter V. Ascalon Awake
8Chapter VI. Riders of the Chisholm Trail
9Chapter VII. A Gentle Cowboy Joke
10Chapter VIII. The Avatism of a Man
11Chapter IX. News from Ascalon
12Chapter X. The Hour of Vengeance
13Chapter XI. The Penalty
14Chapter XII. In Place of a Regiment
15Chapter XIII. The Hand of the Law
16Chapter XIV. Some Fool with a Gun
17Chapter XV. Will His Luck Hold?
18Chapter XVI. The Meat Hunter Comes
19Chapter XVII. With Clean Hands
20Chapter XVIII. A Bondsman Breathes Easier
21Chapter XIX. The Curse of Blood
22Chapter XX. Unclean
23Chapter XXI. As One That is Dead
24Chapter XXII. Whiners at the Funeral
25Chapter XXIII. Ascalon Curls Its Lip
26Chapter XXIV. Madness of the Winds
27Chapter XXV. A Summons at Sunrise
28Chapter XXVI. In the Square at Ascalon
29Chapter XXVII. Absolution
30Chapter XXVIII. Sunset
31The Rustler of Wind River
32Chapter I. Strange Bargainings
33Chapter II. Beef Day
34Chapter III. The Ranchhouse by the River
35Chapter IV. The Man in the Plaid
36Chapter V. If He was a Gentleman
37Chapter VI. A Bold Civilian
38Chapter VII. Throwing the Scare
39Chapter VIII. Afoot and Alone
40Chapter IX. Business, Not Company
41Chapter X. “Hell’s A-goin’ to Pop”
42Chapter XI. The Señor Boss Comes Riding
43Chapter XII. “The Rustlers!”
44Chapter XIII. The Trail at Dawn
45Chapter XIV. When Friends Part
46Chapter XV. One Road
47Chapter XVI. Danger and Dignity
48Chapter XVII. Boots and Saddles
49Chapter XVIII. The Trail of the Coffee
50Chapter XIX. “I Beat Him to It”