
The Outlaws of the Wild West: 150+ Westerns in One Edition
More Than 150 Classic Frontier Tales of Outlaws, Cattle Drives, Survival, and Borderland AdventureBy Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Max Brand, James Oliver Curwood, B. M. Bower, Zane Grey, Jackson Gregory, Jack London, Emerson Hough, Will Lillibridge, Andy Adams, Bret Harte, Owen Wister, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, O. Henry, Grace Livingston Hill, Charles King, Charles Alden Seltzer, Stephen Crane, Dane Coolidge, Marah Ellis Ryan, Francis William Sullivan, Frederic Homer Balch, Frederic Remington, Robert W. Chambers, Forrestine C. Hooker, Frank H. Spearman, J. Allan Dunn, Ann S. Stephens, Robert E. Howard, R.M. Ballantyne, Charles Siringo, Isabel E. OstranderLength846h 53m
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The Outlaws of the Wild West: 150+ Westerns in One Edition surveys the Western as a capacious literary form, gathering frontier romances, outlaw tales, adventure narratives, cattle-country sagas, mining-camp sketches, and psychologically charged dramas. Across its immense range, the volume tests the shifting boundary between law and violence, civilization and wilderness, individual freedom and communal order. Canonical frontier myths stand beside brisk popular fiction and darker examinations of conquest, hardship, and moral ambiguity, making the collection a substantial record of the genre's varied idioms. Its contributors represent several generations of writers who helped create, revise, and disseminate the mythology of the American West. They include major architects of local-color fiction, historical romance, adventure writing, dime-novel and magazine culture, and early twentieth-century popular literature, alongside voices attentive to women's experiences, borderlands, Indigenous-settler conflict, and the social costs of expansion. Together, these writers illuminate the Western's development from nineteenth-century frontier imagination to a modern mass-cultural genre. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers, this edition offers an unusually broad opportunity to compare styles, settings, and ideological assumptions within one volume. Its abundance encourages attentive reading across competing visions of heroism, justice, landscape, and national identity, fostering a productive dialogue between celebrated classics and neglected popular works.
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length846 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE OLD BRITISH TALES OF THE BUSH – 5 Intriguing Books of Australia (Illustrated) (Annotated)
2The Outlaws of the Wild West: 150+ Westerns in One Edition
3RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE SAGA (Zane Grey)
4RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE
5CHAPTER I. LASSITER
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6CHAPTER II. COTTONWOODS
7CHAPTER III. AMBER SPRING
8CHAPTER IV. DECEPTION PASS
9CHAPTER V. THE MASKED RIDER
10CHAPTER VI. THE MILL-WHEEL OF STEERS
11CHAPTER VII. THE DAUGHTER OF WITHERSTEEN
12CHAPTER VIII. SURPRISE VALLEY
13CHAPTER IX. SILVER SPRUCE AND ASPENS
14CHAPTER X. LOVE
15CHAPTER XI. FAITH AND UNFAITH
16CHAPTER XII. THE INVISIBLE HAND
17CHAPTER XIII. SOLITUDE AND STORM
18CHAPTER XIV. WEST WIND
19CHAPTER XV. SHADOWS ON THE SAGE-SLOPE
20CHAPTER XVI. GOLD
21CHAPTER XVII. WRANGLE'S RACE RUN
22CHAPTER XVIII. OLDRING'S KNELL
23CHAPTER XIX. FAY
24CHAPTER XX. LASSITER'S WAY
25CHAPTER XXI. BLACK STAR AND NIGHT
26CHAPTER XXII. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE
27CHAPTER XXIII. THE FALL OF BALANCING ROCK
28THE RAINBOW TRAIL
29FOREWORD
30I. RED LAKE
31II. THE SAGI
32III. KAYENTA
33IV. NEW FRIENDS
34V. ON THE TRAIL
35VI. IN THE HIDDEN VALLEY
36VII. SAGO-LILIES
37VIII. THE HOGAN OF NAS TA BEGA
38IX. IN THE DESERT CRUCIBLE
39X. STONEBRIDGE
40XI. AFTER THE TRIAL
41XII. THE REVELATION
42XIII. THE STORY OF SURPRISE VALLEY
43XIV. THE NAVAJO
44XV. WILD JUSTICE
45XVI. SURPRISE VALLEY
46XVII. THE TRAIL TO NONNEZOSHE
47XVIII. AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW
48XIX. THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO
49XX. WILLOW SPRINGS
50EPILOGUE