
THE WILD WILD WEST – William MacLeod Raine Collection (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. 20 Westerns: A Texas Ranger, Brand Blotters, The Sheriff's Son, Wyoming, Mavericks, Yukon Trail, Tangled Trails, Gunsight Pass, Man Size…By William MacLeod RaineLength159h 16m
About this audiobook
The Wild Wild West – William MacLeod Raine Collection gathers vigorous tales of frontier conflict, outlawry, ranch life, and moral testing in the American West. Raine's prose is brisk, pictorial, and dialogue-driven, combining the pace of popular adventure with a keen sense of landscape, code, and social transition. Situated within the early twentieth-century Western tradition, these stories refine the mythology of cowboys, sheriffs, rustlers, and border communities while revealing the genre's fascination with justice, honor, and self-making. William MacLeod Raine (1871–1954), British-born and raised in the United States, became one of the most prolific architects of the classic Western. His years in the American West, especially Colorado, and his experience as a journalist informed his alertness to local color, public legend, and the rhetoric of frontier masculinity. Raine wrote at a moment when the historical West was becoming literary memory, and his fiction helped shape that memory for generations. This collection is recommended for readers interested in foundational Western fiction, popular literary history, and the transformation of frontier experience into national myth. It offers both entertainment and a revealing study of the values, fantasies, and tensions that made the Western an enduring American form.
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
Length159 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 1, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5Wyoming
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6Chapter 1. A Desert Meeting
7Chapter 2. The King of the Big Horn Country
8Chapter 3. An Invitation Given and Accepted
9Chapter 4. At the Lazy D Ranch
10Chapter 5. The Dance at Fraser's
11Chapter 6. A Party Call
12Chapter 7. The Man from the Shoshone Fastnesses
13Chapter 8. In the Lazy D Hospital
14Chapter 9. Miss Darling Arrives
15Chapter 10. A Shepherd of the Desert
16Chapter 12. Mistress and Maid
17Chapter 13. The Two Cousins
18Chapter 14. For the World's Championship
19Chapter 15. Judd Morgan Passes
20Chapter 16. Hunting Big Game
21Chapter 17. Run to Earth
22Chapter 18. Playing for Time
23Chapter 19. West Point to the Rescue
24Chapter 20. Two Cases of Discipline
25Chapter 21. The Signal Lights
26Chapter 22. Exit the “King”
27Chapter 23. Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting
28Ridgway of Montana
29Chapter 1. Two Men and a Woman
30Chapter 2. The Freebooter
31Chapter 3. One to One
32Chapter 4. Fort Salvation
33Chapter 5. Enter Simon Harley
34Chapter 6. On the Snow-Trail
35Chapter 7. Back From Arcadia
36Chapter 8. The Honorable Thomas B. Pelton
37Chapter 9. An Evening Call
38Chapter 10. Harley Makes a Proposition
39Chapter 11. Virginia Intervenes
40Chapter 12. Aline Makes a Discovery
41Chapter 13. First Blood
42Chapter 14. A Conspiracy
43Chapter 15. Laska Opens a Door
44Chapter 16. An Explosion in the Taurus
45Chapter 17. The Election
46Chapter 18. Further Developments
47Chapter 19. One Million Dollars
48Chapter 20. A Little Lunch at Aphonse's
49Chapter 21. Harley Scores
50Chapter 22. "Not Guilty"—"Guilty"