
TALES OF DRY BOTTOM – Complete Trilogy: The Two-Gun Man, The Coming of the Law & Firebrand Trevison) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Thrilling Adventure Novels set in the Town of Dry Bottom, New MexicoBy Charles Alden SeltzerLength23h 53m
About this audiobook
TALES OF DRY BOTTOM gathers The Two-Gun Man, The Coming of the Law, and Firebrand Trevison into a compact panorama of the classic frontier West. Across these novels Seltzer stages gunfighters, ranchers, corrupt interests, and nascent legal authority in a landscape where personal honor often precedes civic order. His prose is direct, swift, and visually dramatic, belonging to the early twentieth-century Western tradition that transformed dime-novel adventure into a durable mythology of justice, masculinity, romance, and social formation. Charles Alden Seltzer was an American writer closely associated with the golden age of popular Western fiction. Trained by newspaper work and shaped by the era's fascination with frontier memory, he developed a narrative method marked by clean plotting, terse dialogue, and practical knowledge of ranch-country codes. His fiction reflects a generation looking back at the closing frontier and asking how violence, law, and character forged community. This trilogy is highly recommended for readers interested in foundational Westerns, especially those who value lean storytelling joined to moral conflict. It offers suspense, atmosphere, and historical literary significance, while revealing how the genre's central myths were refined for modern popular fiction.
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
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (11)
Includes Amazon
GenreAction and Adventure
Length23 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 20, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1TALES OF DRY BOTTOM – Complete Trilogy: The Two-Gun Man, The Coming of the Law & Firebrand Trevison) (Annotated)
2TALES OF DRY BOTTOM – Complete Trilogy: The Two-Gun Man, The Coming of the Law & Firebrand Trevison)
3The Two-Gun Man
4Chapter I. The Stranger at Dry Bottom
5Chapter II. The Stranger Shoots
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6Chapter III. The Cabin in the Flat
7Chapter IV. A "Different Girl"
8Chapter V. The Man of Dry Bottom
9Chapter VI. At the Two Diamond
10Chapter VII. The Measure of a Man
11Chapter VIII. The Finding of the Orphan
12Chapter IX. Would You be a "Character"?
13Chapter X. Disappearance of the Orphan
14Chapter XI. A Touch of Local Color
15Chapter XII. The Story Begins
16Chapter XIII. "Do You Smoke?"
17Chapter XIV. On the Edge of the Plateau
18Chapter XV. A Free Hand
19Chapter XVI. Leviatt Takes a Step
20Chapter XVII. A Break in the Story
21Chapter XVIII. The Dim Trail
22Chapter XIX. The Shot in the Dark
23Chapter XX. Love and a Rifle
24Chapter XXI. The Promise
25Chapter XXII. Keeping a Promise
26Chapter XXIII. At the Edge of the Cottonwood
27Chapter XXIV. The End of the Story
28The Coming of the Law
29Chapter I. The Arrival of the Man
30Chapter II. The Rule of Cattle
31Chapter III. Norton Makes a Discovery
32Chapter IV. At the Circle Bar
33Chapter V. The Girl of Dry Bottom
34Chapter VI. Hollis Renews an Acquaintance
35Chapter VII. The “Kicker” Becomes an Institution
36Chapter VIII. Concerning the “Six O’Clock”
37Chapter IX. How a Bad Man Left the “Kicker” Office
38Chapter X. The Lost Trail
39Chapter XI. Picking Up the Trail
40Chapter XII. After the Storm
41Chapter XIII. “Woman–She Don’t Need No Tooter”
42Chapter XIV. The Coalition
43Chapter XV. To Support the Law
44Chapter XVI. The Bearer of Good News
45Chapter XVII. The Rustler
46Chapter XVIII. The Tenth Day
47Chapter XIX. How a Rustler Escaped
48Chapter XX. The “Kicker’s” Candidate
49Chapter XXI. Dunlavey Plays a Card
50Chapter XXII. Proof of Gratitude