
Trail's End (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Western NovelBy George W. OgdenLength9h 35m
About this audiobook
Trail's End is a compact yet resonant Western concerned with honor, suspicion, violence, and the fragile codes by which frontier communities attempt to govern themselves. Set against the cattle-country landscape of the American West, the novel combines romance, conflict, and moral testing with a prose style that is direct, pictorial, and deliberately unornamental. Ogden writes within the early twentieth-century tradition of popular frontier fiction, yet his attention to social pressure, reputation, and personal restraint gives the book more than simple adventure value. George W. Ogden was an American journalist and novelist whose fiction reflects the observational habits of the newspaper trade: a sharp eye for gesture, setting, and public character. His Westerns often return to the transitional frontier, where older habits of individual justice meet emerging expectations of law, domestic stability, and civic order. Trail's End can be read as the work of an author fascinated by how men and women define integrity when institutions remain uncertain. Readers drawn to classic Western fiction will find Trail's End both accessible and rewarding. It is especially recommended for those interested in the genre's evolution from action-driven romance toward a more reflective literature of character, community, and moral consequence.
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Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.6 (31)
Includes Goodreads
GenreAction and Adventure
Length9 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 5, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Blood of the Arena (Annotated)
2Chapter I. The Unconquered Land
3Chapter II. The Meat Hunter
4Chapter III. First Blood
5Chapter IV. The Optimist Explains
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6Chapter V. Ascalon Awake
7Chapter VI. Riders of the Chisholm Trail
8Chapter VII. A Gentle Cowboy Joke
9Chapter VIII. The Avatism of a Man
10Chapter IX. News from Ascalon
11Chapter X. The Hour of Vengeance
12Chapter XI. The Penalty
13Chapter XII. In Place of a Regiment
14Chapter XIII. The Hand of the Law
15Chapter XIV. Some Fool with a Gun
16Chapter XV. Will His Luck Hold?
17Chapter XVI. The Meat Hunter Comes
18Chapter XVII. With Clean Hands
19Chapter XVIII. A Bondsman Breathes Easier
20Chapter XIX. The Curse of Blood
21Chapter XX. Unclean
22Chapter XXI. As One That is Dead
23Chapter XXII. Whiners at the Funeral
24Chapter XXIII. Ascalon Curls Its Lip
25Chapter XXIV. Madness of the Winds
26Chapter XXV. A Summons at Sunrise
27Chapter XXVI. In the Square at Ascalon
28Chapter XXVII. Absolution
29Chapter XXVIII. Sunset
30Memorable Quotes