The Flockmaster of Poison Creek (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Western NovelBy George W. Ogden
Length9h 14m
About this audiobook
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek is a vigorous Western romance centered on the precarious world of sheep ranching, where land, water, labor, and reputation determine survival. Ogden frames the flockmaster's struggle against hostility, isolation, and frontier violence with the clean moral architecture characteristic of early twentieth-century popular Western fiction. His prose is direct yet atmospheric, attentive to range work, weather, and the social codes of a contested pastoral frontier, placing the novel within the tradition that transformed regional adventure into a national myth of endurance. George W. Ogden was an American journalist, editor, and prolific author whose fiction often drew upon the idioms and conflicts of rural and frontier life. His newspaper training is evident in his economical pacing, practical detail, and interest in ordinary men tested by public pressure. Writing during a period when the open range was already passing into memory, Ogden helped preserve its tensions—between cattlemen and sheepmen, settlers and drifters, law and custom—in accessible narrative form. Readers interested in classic Westerns will find this novel rewarding for its firm plotting, authentic range atmosphere, and ethical seriousness. It is especially recommended to those who value frontier fiction not merely as adventure, but as a study of character under social and environmental strain.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure
Length9 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 5, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter I. The Sheep Country
3Chapter II. Swan Carlson
4Chapter III. The Fight
5Chapter IV. Keeper of the Flock
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6Chapter V. Tim Sullivan
7Chapter VI. Eyes in the Firelight
8Chapter VII. The Easiest Lesson
9Chapter VIII. The Sheep-killer
10Chapter IX. A Two-gun Man
11Chapter X. Wild Riders of the Range
12Chapter XI. Hector Hall Sets a Beacon
13Chapter XII. One Comes to Serve
14Chapter XIII. A Fight Almost Lost
15Chapter XIV. The Lonesomeness
16Chapter XV. Only One Jacob
17Chapter XVI. Reid Begins His Play
18Chapter XVII. Hertha Carlson
19Chapter XVIII. Swan Carlson’s Day
20Chapter XIX. Not Cut Out for a Sheepman
21Chapter XX. A Million Gallops Off
22Chapter XXI. Tim Sullivan Breaks a Contract
23Chapter XXII. Phantoms of Fever
24Chapter XXIII. Concerning Mary
25Chapter XXIV. More About Mary
26Chapter XXV. One Man’s Joke
27Chapter XXVI. Payment on Account
28Chapter XXVII. A Summons in the Night
29Chapter XXVIII. Swan Carlson Laughs
30Chapter XXIX. Sheepman––And More
31Memorable Quotes
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