The Collected Works of Dane Coolidge (Annotated)

The Collected Works of Dane Coolidge (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Classic Western Adventures of Desert Trails, Mining Camps, Ranch Life, and Frontier OutlawsBy Dane Coolidge
Michael Caine
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Length68h 46m

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The Collected Works of Dane Coolidge gathers the vigorous frontier fiction of a writer whose imagination was shaped by deserts, mining camps, cattle ranges, and contested borderlands. Coolidge's narratives combine adventure, romance, and social observation, often staging conflicts between prospectors, ranchers, outlaws, Native peoples, and the encroaching forces of capital. His prose is direct, pictorial, and ethnographically attentive, placing him within the early twentieth-century Western tradition while distinguishing him by a naturalist's eye for landscape and habit. Dane Coolidge (1873–1940) was not merely an armchair chronicler of the West. Trained as a naturalist and active as a photographer, he travelled widely through Arizona, California, Nevada, and Mexico, observing the environments and communities that would populate his fiction. His scientific background and field experience help explain the specificity of his settings and the credibility of his frontier types, even when his plots adopt the heightened drama of popular romance. This collection is recommended for readers interested in the development of the American Western before its later cinematic codification. It will reward scholars of regional literature, admirers of adventure fiction, and anyone seeking a textured literary record of the mythic and material West. 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
Length68 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 3, 2021
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Collected Works of Dane Coolidge (Annotated)
2Hidden Water
3CHAPTER I THE MOUSE
4CHAPTER II THE MAN FROM CHERRYCOW
5CHAPTER III THE TRAIL OF THE SHEEP
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6CHAPTER IV DON PABLO MORENO
7CHAPTER V HIDDEN WATER
8CHAPTER VI THE CROSSING
9CHAPTER VII HELL’S HIP POCKET
10CHAPTER VIII A YEAR’S MAIL
11CHAPTER IX MORONI
12CHAPTER X “FEED MY SHEEP”
13CHAPTER XI JUMPED
14CHAPTER XII THE GARDEN IN THE DESERT
15CHAPTER XIII A SNOW-SCENE
16CHAPTER XIV FOREBODINGS
17CHAPTER XV THE CATASTROPHE
18CHAPTER XVI THE DEPARTURE
19CHAPTER XVII CHICO AND GRANDE
20CHAPTER XVIII BAD BLOOD
21CHAPTER XIX THE BIG DRUNK
22CHAPTER XX THE DROUGHT
23CHAPTER XXI THE FLOOD
24CHAPTER XXII PORTENTS OF WAR
25CHAPTER XXIII THE LAST CROSSING
26CHAPTER XXIV THE END OF IT ALL
27The Texican
28CHAPTER I VERDE CROSSING
29CHAPTER II GOOD EYE, THE MAVERICK KING
30CHAPTER III THE DOUBLE CROSS
31CHAPTER IV THE SHOW-DOWN
32CHAPTER V LOST DOG CAÑON
33CHAPTER VI "THE VOICE OF REASON"
34CHAPTER VII THE REVOLUTION
35CHAPTER VIII THE DAY AFTER
36CHAPTER IX DEATH AND TAXES
37CHAPTER X STAMPEDED
38CHAPTER XI THE CATTLE WAR
39CHAPTER XII MOUNTAIN LAW
40CHAPTER XIII WELCOME HOME
41CHAPTER XIV THE KANGAROO COURT
42CHAPTER XV THE REVOLUTION IN FACT
43CHAPTER XVI BACK TO NATURE
44CHAPTER XVII THE POWER OF THE PRESS
45CHAPTER XVIII THE LAW'S DELAY
46CHAPTER XIX THE LAST CHANCE
47CHAPTER XX THE LAW AND THE EVIDENCE
48CHAPTER XXI NEVER AGAIN
49Bat Wing Bowles
50CHAPTER I MR. BOWLES

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