The Heart of Canyon Pass (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Classic Western Romance of Prospectors, Mining Camps, Canyon Trails, and Frontier JusticeBy Thomas K. Holmes
Length7h 57m
About this audiobook
The Heart of Canyon Pass is a frontier romance shaped by the classic tensions of the Western: isolation and community, violence and conscience, rugged landscape and inward moral trial. Holmes uses the canyon not merely as scenery but as a symbolic threshold, a place where character is exposed under pressure. Its direct, dramatic prose belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of popular Western fiction, in which action, sentiment, and ethical clarity converge. Thomas K. Holmes wrote within a literary moment when the American West was being transformed from lived geography into cultural memory. The closing of the frontier and the rise of mass-market adventure fiction encouraged writers to revisit remote passes, ranches, and frontier settlements as stages for testing courage, loyalty, and justice. Holmes's interest in character under duress reflects that broader imaginative climate. Readers drawn to traditional Western storytelling will find this novel rewarding for its atmosphere, moral seriousness, and clear narrative momentum. It is especially recommended to those interested in how popular fiction helped preserve—and shape—the mythology of the American frontier.
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
Length7 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 14, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter I. Discontent at Canyon Pass
3Chapter II. Discontent at Ditson Corners
4Chapter III. A Shadow Thrown Before
5Chapter IV. Philosophy Bound in Homespun
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6Chapter V. How the Passonians Took It
7Chapter VI. The Approach
8Chapter VII. The First Trick
9Chapter VIII. A Flower in the Mire
10Chapter IX. A Beginning
11Chapter X. Mutterings of a Storm
12Chapter XI. The Storm About to Burst
13Chapter XII. Tolley’s Tale
14Chapter XIII. Plans are Made
15Chapter XIV. The Great Day Arrives
16Chapter XV. Pep and a Little Pepper
17Chapter XVI. Love and Longing
18Chapter XVII. A Battle in a Girl’s Heart
19Chapter XVIII. The Shadow on Betty’s Path
20Chapter XIX. A Good Deal of a Man
21Chapter XX. Murder will Out
22Chapter XXI. The Drama of a Lie
23Chapter XXII. A Face in the Storm
24Chapter XXIII. A Great Light Dawns
25Chapter XXIV. The Barrier Down—For a Moment
26Chapter XXV. Understanding
27Chapter XXVI. Threatening Weather
28Chapter XXVII. Several Conclusions
29Chapter XXVIII. Catastrophe
30Chapter XXIX. His Last Card
31Chapter XXX. Clearing Skies
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