Length455h 20m

About this audiobook

50 WESTERNS (Vol. 2) surveys the western as a capacious literary terrain where frontier adventure, romance, detective intrigue, humor, historical reconstruction, and speculative invention converge. Its selections range from terse tales of pursuit and violence to expansive narratives of settlement, cattle-country labor, outlawry, and contested belonging. By placing canonical frontier mythmaking beside popular fiction and less frequently foregrounded perspectives, the volume reveals the West not as a single legend but as a changing imaginative geography. The contributing writers collectively represent a broad transatlantic and American tradition of western writing, from nineteenth-century local-color storytelling and the formative romance of the frontier to twentieth-century pulp energy and genre experimentation. Novelists associated with cowboy fiction, railroad and mining narratives, adventure literature, regional realism, and early science fiction bring distinct vocabularies to shared concerns: mobility, law, land, modernization, and cultural encounter. Their juxtaposition illuminates how the western developed through dialogue between literary prestige, mass readership, visual culture, and serialized popular entertainment. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare voices, conventions, and historical assumptions within one volume. It invites readers to trace recurring archetypes while attending to the tensions and revisions that complicate them. As both an educational resource and an engrossing gathering of stories, it fosters a productive conversation about the enduring, contested meanings of the American West.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 4.3 (12)
Includes Amazon
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length455 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Hopalong Cassidy & His Wild West Adventures – 7 Westerns in One Edition (Annotated)
250 Westerns – The Best Cowboy Adventures, Rider Trails, Stories of Outlaws & Battles with Indians
3Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey)
4CHAPTER I. LASSITER
5CHAPTER II. COTTONWOODS
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6CHAPTER III. AMBER SPRING
7CHAPTER IV. DECEPTION PASS
8CHAPTER V. THE MASKED RIDER
9CHAPTER VI. THE MILL-WHEEL OF STEERS
10CHAPTER VII. THE DAUGHTER OF WITHERSTEEN
11CHAPTER VIII. SURPRISE VALLEY
12CHAPTER IX. SILVER SPRUCE AND ASPENS
13CHAPTER X. LOVE
14CHAPTER XI. FAITH AND UNFAITH
15CHAPTER XII. THE INVISIBLE HAND
16CHAPTER XIII. SOLITUDE AND STORM
17CHAPTER XIV. WEST WIND
18CHAPTER XV. SHADOWS ON THE SAGE-SLOPE
19CHAPTER XVI. GOLD
20CHAPTER XVII. WRANGLE'S RACE RUN
21CHAPTER XVIII. OLDRING'S KNELL
22CHAPTER XIX. FAY
23CHAPTER XX. LASSITER'S WAY
24CHAPTER XXI. BLACK STAR AND NIGHT
25CHAPTER XXII. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE
26CHAPTER XXIII. THE FALL OF BALANCING ROCK
27The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 1)
28The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 2)
29The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 3)
30The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 4)
31The Rainbow Trail (Zane Grey) (pt. 5)
32The Spirit of the Border (Zane Grey)
33CHAPTER I
34CHAPTER II
35CHAPTER III
36CHAPTER IV
37CHAPTER V
38CHAPTER VI
39CHAPTER VII
40CHAPTER VIII
41CHAPTER IX
42CHAPTER X
43CHAPTER XI
44CHAPTER XII
45CHAPTER XIII
46CHAPTER XIV
47CHAPTER XV
48CHAPTER XVI
49CHAPTER XVII
50CHAPTER XVIII
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