Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love
Thirty-Three Tales of Cowboys, Homesteads, Adventure, and Frontier LifeBy Ridgwell Cullum, Kathryn Pocklington, Alice M. Winlow, Alice MacGowan, B. M. Bower, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clarence Edward Mulford, John Wood Clay, Mary Ellen Chase, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Frances Parker, Dane Coolidge, Izola L. Forrester, Kate Boyles Bingham, Virgil D. Boyles, Les Savage, Vingie E. Roe, Onoto Watanna, F. S. Brereton, Peter B. Kyne, Clarice E. Richards, Josephine Chase, Harold Bindloss, Lily Munsell Ritchie, George Bird Grinnell, Albert Payson Terhune, Lillian Elizabeth Roy, Amy Bell Marlowe, Grace May North, Evelyn Raymond, Edith Lavell, John Luther Langworthy, L. Frank Baum, Clair Blank, Margaret Vandercook, Howard Roger Garis, James Captain Carson, Frank V. Webster, Joan Clark, Mayne Reid, Hermann Hagedorn, Edward G. Cheyney, Laura Lee Hope, Thomas Carson
Length313h 55m
About this audiobook
Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love gathers ranching tales in which labor, landscape, animal companionship, and frontier adventure become vehicles for moral and imaginative discovery. Its range extends from brisk juvenile adventures and episodic series fiction to regional realism, romance, humor, and wilderness narrative. Cattle drives, homesteads, riding schools, ranch families, and encounters with the open range furnish memorable set pieces while revealing how popular literature fashioned the West as both working country and ethical ideal. The contributors represent a broad early twentieth-century field of writers associated with Western popular fiction, children's literature, adventure writing, animal stories, and historical romance. Their varied professional and literary backgrounds bring different emphases to the ranch: self-reliance, community, gendered expectations, ecological attention, youthful independence, and the tensions between settlement and freedom. Read together, these voices place the collection within the enduring tradition of frontier mythology while also displaying the diversity of forms through which that mythology circulated among young and general readers. This volume is especially recommended for readers interested in the cultural history of the American West, the development of popular storytelling, and the pleasures of classic adventure. It offers an unusually capacious opportunity to compare narrative styles and ideals within one volume. Students, researchers, and devoted readers alike will find in its dialogues between romance, realism, and youthful aspiration a rich introduction to ranching fiction's imaginative terrain.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length313 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Buck Peters, Ranchman
26XII
2CHAPTER I
27XVIII (pt. 1)
3CHAPTER II
28XVIII (pt. 2)
4CHAPTER IV
29XVIII (pt. 3)
5CHAPTER VII
30The One-Way Trail
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6CHAPTER X
31The One-Way Trail
7CHAPTER XIII
32CHAPTER I
8CHAPTER XVI
33CHAPTER III
9CHAPTER XVIII
34CHAPTER V
10CHAPTER XX
35CHAPTER VIII
11CHAPTER XXIII
36CHAPTER X
12CHAPTER XXVI
37CHAPTER XII
13CHAPTER XXVII
38CHAPTER XV
14Frances of the Ranges; Or, The Old Ranchman’s Treasure
39CHAPTER XVII
15FRANCES OF THE RANGES
40CHAPTER XX
16CHAPTER VI A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
41CHAPTER XXII
17CHAPTER X THE MAN FROM BYLITTLE
42CHAPTER XXIV
18CHAPTER XV IN THE FACE OF DANGER
43CHAPTER XXVII
19CHAPTER XX THE BOSTON GIRL AGAIN
44CHAPTER XXX
20CHAPTER XXV A PLOT THAT FAILED
45CHAPTER XXXII
21CHAPTER XXIX “THE PANHANDLE–PAST AND PRESENT”
46CHAPTER XXXV
22The Pride of Palomar
47Connie Carl at Rainbow Ranch
23I
48CHAPTER I A Homecoming for Connie
24IV
49CHAPTER II The Coming Rodeo
25VIII
50CHAPTER III Bad News
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