The Range Boss, The Trail To Yesterday & West! (3 Westerns in One Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Adventure Tales of New York Women in the Wild WestBy Charles Alden Seltzer
Length21h 45m
About this audiobook
Bringing together The Range Boss, The Trail to Yesterday, and West!, this omnibus surveys Seltzer's characteristic frontier world: cattle outfits, disputed range law, dangerous trails, inherited grudges, and romances tested by violence and loyalty. His prose is lean, kinetic, and visual, built from hard-edged dialogue, rapid reversals, and moral confrontations rather than psychological ornament. Within the early twentieth-century Western, these novels bridge Owen Wister's codified cowboy myth and the later pulp-and-film frontier formula. Charles Alden Seltzer (1875–1942) was one of the prolific popularizers of the Western as the genre became a national mythology. A newspaperman and magazine writer before his success as a novelist, he knew serialized suspense and the appeal of plainspoken heroes confronting corrupt power. Writing for a mass readership, he nevertheless gave frontier codes—property, courage, restraint, and extralegal justice—a remarkably durable narrative force. Readers drawn to classic Westerns will find this three-in-one edition especially rewarding: it offers the genre's pleasures—speed, danger, honor, landscape, and romance—while also revealing how popular fiction shaped American ideas of law and character. It is an excellent introduction to Seltzer and to the energetic Western tradition he helped define.
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, Romance
Length21 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Range Boss, The Trail To Yesterday & West! (3 Westerns in One Edition) (Annotated)
26Chapter IV. A Memory of the Rider
2The Trail to Yesterday
27Chapter V. Love vs. Business
3Chapter I. A Woman on the Trail
28Chapter VI. A Man and His Job
4Chapter II. The Dim Trail
29Chapter VII. How an Insult Was Avenged
5Chapter III. Converging Trails
30Chapter VIII. What Uncle Jepson Heard
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6Chapter IV. This Picture and That
31Chapter IX. “Somethin’s Gone Out of Them”
7Chapter V. Dakota Evens a Score
32Chapter X. The Law of the Primitive
8Chapter VI. Kindred Spirits
33Chapter XI. Hagar’s Eyes
9Chapter VII. Bogged Down
34Chapter XII. The Rustlers
10Chapter VIII. Sheila Fans a Flame
35Chapter XIII. The Fight
11Chapter IX. Strictly Business
36Chapter XIV. The Rock and the Moonlight
12Chapter X. Duncan Adds Two and Two
37Chapter XV. The Runaway Comes Home
13Chapter XI. A Parting and a Visit
38Chapter XVI. Two Are Taught Lessons
14Chapter XII. A Meeting on the River Trail
39Chapter XVII. The Target
15Chapter XIII. The Shot in the Back
40Chapter XVIII. The Gunfighter
16Chapter XIV. Langford Lays Off the Mask
41Chapter XIX. Ready Gun and Clean Heart
17Chapter XV. The Parting on the River Trail
42Chapter XX. The Bubble—Dreams
18Chapter XVI. Sheriff Allen Takes a Hand
43Chapter XXI. One Too Many
19Chapter XVII. Doubler Talks
44Chapter XXII. Into Which a Girl’s Trouble Comes
20Chapter XVIII. For Dakota
45Chapter XXIII. Banishing a Shadow
21Chapter XIX. Some Memories
46Chapter XXIV. Realizing a Passion
22Chapter XX. Into the Unknown
47Chapter XXV. A Man is Born Again
23Chapter I. At Calamity Crossing
48Chapter XXVI. A Dream Comes True
24Chapter II. The Sympathetic Rescuer
49West!
25Chapter III. At the Flying W
50Chapter I
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