
Rimrock Jones (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Western NovelBy Dane CoolidgeLength8h 14m
About this audiobook
Dane Coolidge's Rimrock Jones is a vigorous early twentieth-century Western centered on the mining frontier, where prospecting, speculation, masculine bravado, and sudden reversals of fortune define both character and plot. Its title figure, a flamboyant desert miner, moves through a world of claims, partners, lawyers, and boomtown ambitions. Written in brisk, colloquial prose and rich with regional detail, the novel belongs to the tradition of popular Western realism, tempering romance and adventure with a sharp interest in economic struggle. Coolidge was unusually well equipped to write such a story. A naturalist, photographer, and prolific chronicler of the American Southwest, he knew the landscapes, labor, and speechways of desert communities from direct observation. His fiction often reflects the transitional West: no longer merely wilderness, yet not fully absorbed into corporate modernity. Rimrock Jones emerges from that tension, dramatizing how individual daring collides with moneyed power. Readers interested in classic Western fiction will find this novel rewarding for more than its action. It offers a lively portrait of frontier capitalism, a memorable protagonist, and a historically revealing vision of the mining West at the edge of myth and modern business.
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Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure
Length8 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 3, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Silver and Gold (Annotated)
2CHAPTER I. THE MAN WITH A GUN
3CHAPTER II WHEN RICHES FLY
4CHAPTER III MISS FORTUNE
5CHAPTER IV AS A LOAN
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6CHAPTER V THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN
7CHAPTER VI RIMROCK PASSES
8CHAPTER VII BUT COMES BACK FOR MORE
9CHAPTER VIII A FLIER IN STOCKS
10CHAPTER IX YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
11CHAPTER X THE FIGHT FOR THE OLD JUAN
12CHAPTER XI A LITTLE TROUBLE
13CHAPTER XII RIMROCK'S BIG DAY
14CHAPTER XIII THE MORNING AFTER
15CHAPTER XIV RIMROCK EXPLAINS
16CHAPTER XV A GAME FOR BIG STAKES
17CHAPTER XVI THE TIGER LADY
18CHAPTER XVII AN AFTERTHOUGHT
19CHAPTER XVIII NEW YORK
20CHAPTER XIX WHERE ALL MEN MEET
21CHAPTER XX A LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY
22CHAPTER XXI THE SECOND ANNUAL MEETING
23CHAPTER XXII A FOOL
24CHAPTER XXIII SOLD OUT
25CHAPTER XXIV THE NEW YEAR
26CHAPTER XXV AN ACCOUNTING
27CHAPTER XXVI A CHAPTER OF HATE
28CHAPTER XVIII THE SHOW-DOWN
29CHAPTER XXVIII A GIFT
30CHAPTER XXIX RIMROCK DOES IT HIMSELF
31Memorable Quotes