The Great American Adventure – Complete Series: 19 Western Classics & Historical Novels (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Western epics of cowboys, pioneers, Alaska trails, and frontier romanceBy Emerson Hough
Length167h 41m
About this audiobook
The Great American Adventure gathers nineteen of Emerson Hough's Western classics and historical novels into a sweeping literary chronicle of the American frontier. Across tales of exploration, migration, cattle drives, lawless borderlands, and national expansion, Hough blends romance, adventure, and documentary realism. His prose belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition that mythologized the West while also preserving its material textures: rivers, trails, camps, markets, and the moral ambiguities of conquest. Emerson Hough (1857–1923) was a lawyer, journalist, outdoorsman, and tireless observer of frontier life, experiences that deeply shaped his fiction. Born in Iowa and educated in the post-Civil War Midwest, he witnessed the closing of the frontier and wrote at a moment when living memory was becoming legend. His work reflects both fascination with American expansion and anxiety over what modernity was erasing. This collection is recommended for readers interested in classic Western literature, historical adventure, and the cultural imagination of the United States. It offers not merely escapist action, but a substantial archive of frontier mythology, national ambition, and the literary construction of America's past.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- 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, Historical Fiction
Length167 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 1, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26XIX. Hope Deferred
2Introduction
27XX. The Silver-gray Fox
3Historical Context
28XXI. An Aleut Goose-hunt
4Synopsis (Selection)
29XXII. Sport with the Salmon
5The Great American Adventure – Complete Series: 19 Western Classics & Historical Novels (Illustrated)
30XXIII. Among the Eagles
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6The Young Alaskans Series
31XXIV. An Adventure on the Gull Rocks
7The Young Alaskans
32XXV. Cripples’ Castle
8I. At Home in Alaska
33XXVI. The Journey and the Storm
9II. Afloat on the Pacific
34XXVII. The Man-hunt
10III. The Journey To the North
35XXVIII. A Hunt for Sea-otter
11IV. Lost in the Fog
36XXIX. Uncertainty
12V. The Missing Dory
37XXX. “Blown Out To Sea!”
13VI. Adrift on the Ocean
38XXXI. The Search-party
14VII. The Hut on the Beach
39XXXII. The Deserted Camp
15VIII. The Salmon Run
40XXXIII. Saved!
16IX. The Big Bear of Kadiak
41The Young Alaskans in the Rockies
17X. The Savage Refugee
42ILLUSTRATIONS
18XI. A Troublesome Prisoner
43I. Rob, John, and Jesse in Camp
19XII. Ways of the Wilderness
44II. At the Fireside
20XIII. Making a Living
45III. Hitting the Trail
21XIV. The Surprise
46IV. Westward Ho
22XV. The Whale-hunt
47V. Higher than the Rockies
23XVI. The Missing Prisoner
48VI. The Athabasca at Last
24XVII. The Aleut Boy
49VII. Crossing the Athabasca
25XVIII. Unwelcome Visitors
50VIII. In High Altitudes
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