The Ultimate Western Collection
Frontier Tales of Adventure, Myth, Settlement, and the American WestBy Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Max Brand, James Oliver Curwood, B. M. Bower, Zane Grey, Jackson Gregory, Jack London, William MacLeod Raine, William Patterson White, Rex Beach, 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, James B. Hendryx, Frank H. Spearman, J. Allan Dunn, Ann S. Stephens, Robert E. Howard, Clarence E. Mulford, R.M. Ballantyne, Charles Siringo, Isabel E. Ostrander, Frederic Logan Paxson
Length1012h 44m
About this audiobook
The Ultimate Western Collection surveys the imaginative territories of the American West and its borderlands through adventure tale, historical romance, frontier realism, detective fiction, humor, and the hard-edged Western yarn. Its capacious selection moves from mythic landscapes and encounters at the edge of settlement to cattle drives, mining camps, military outposts, and contested communities. Canonical frontier narratives sit beside popular serial fiction and lesser-known regional visions, allowing recurrent figures—the cowboy, scout, prospector, outlaw, and settler—to emerge in strikingly different registers. Gathering writers associated with nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, the volume traces the Western's formation across realism, romantic nationalism, dime-novel culture, naturalism, and pulp adventure. These contributors include major literary observers of social change alongside prolific shapers of mass-market Western conventions. Their varied geographical imaginations and ideological assumptions reveal that the West was never a single place: it was a literary arena in which questions of mobility, violence, race, gender, labor, nationhood, and modernization were repeatedly negotiated. This collection is especially recommended for readers seeking both pleasure and critical perspective. In one volume, it offers a broad comparative archive for studying how frontier myths were created, revised, and circulated. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find valuable opportunities to place contrasting styles and historical visions in productive dialogue.
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length1012 hrs 44 mins
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Publish dateDec 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Works of H. Beam Piper - 35 Titles in One Edition (Annotated)
2THE CALL OF THE WILD WEST - Ultimate Western Collection: 175+ Novels & Short Stories in One Volume
3INTRODUCTION
4THE LAST AMERICAN FRONTIER – HISTORY OF THE ‘FAR WEST’, OF THE PIONEERS & TRAILBLAZERS
5PREFACE
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6CHAPTER I. THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
7CHAPTER II. THE INDIAN FRONTIER
8CHAPTER III. IOWA AND THE NEW NORTHWEST
9CHAPTER IV. THE SANTA FÉ TRAIL
10CHAPTER V. THE OREGON TRAIL
11CHAPTER VI. OVERLAND WITH THE MORMONS
12CHAPTER VII. CALIFORNIA AND THE FORTY-NINERS
13CHAPTER VIII. KANSAS AND THE INDIAN FRONTIER
14CHAPTER IX. "PIKE'S PEAK OR BUST"2
15CHAPTER X. FROM ARIZONA TO MONTANA
16CHAPTER XI. THE OVERLAND MAIL
17CHAPTER XII. THE ENGINEERS' FRONTIER
18CHAPTER XIII. THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
19CHAPTER XIV. THE PLAINS IN THE CIVIL WAR
20CHAPTER XV. THE CHEYENNE WAR
21CHAPTER XVI. THE SIOUX WAR
22CHAPTER XVII. THE PEACE COMMISSION AND THE OPEN WAY
23CHAPTER XVIII. BLACK KETTLE'S LAST RAID
24CHAPTER XIX. THE FIRST OF THE RAILWAYS
25CHAPTER XX. THE NEW INDIAN POLICY
26CHAPTER XXI. THE LAST STAND OF CHIEF JOSEPH AND SITTING BULL
27CHAPTER XXII. LETTING IN THE POPULATION3
28THE STORY OF THE COWBOY
29INTRODUCTION
30CHAPTER I. THE LONG TRAIL
31CHAPTER II. THE RANCH IN THE SOUTH
32CHAPTER III. THE RANCH IN THE NORTH
33CHAPTER IV. THE COWBOY'S OUTFIT
34CHAPTER V. THE COWBOY'S HORSE
35CHAPTER VI. MARKS AND BRANDS
36CHAPTER VII. FREE GRASS AND WATER FRONTS
37CHAPTER VIII. THE DRIVE
38CHAPTER IX. THE ROUND-UP
39CHAPTER X. DRIFTS AND STAMPEDES
40CHAPTER XI. A DAY AT THE RANCH
41CHAPTER XII. THE COWBOY'S AMUSEMENTS
42CHAPTER XIII. SOCIETY IN THE COW COUNTRY
43CHAPTER XIV. THE NESTER
44CHAPTER XV. THE RUSTLER
45CHAPTER XVI. WARS OF THE RANGE
46CHAPTER XVII. BEEF AND FREEDOM
47CHAPTER XVIII. THE IRON TRAILS
48CHAPTER XIX. SUNSET ON THE RANGE
49ADDENDA
50THE STORY OF THE OUTLAW: A STUDY OF THE WESTERN DESPERADO
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