Heroes and Villains in Lawless Lands: 23 Books of Wild Justice
Frontier Tales of Outlaws, Revenge, Survival, and Rough JusticeBy Will C. Barnes, Willis George Emerson, Ned Buntline, Paul S. Powers, James Jackson, James Fellom, Lawrence Mott, William Oliver Turner, J. A. Dacus, James W. Buel, R. D. Blackmore, Emerson Hough, Cole Younger, Otto A. Rothert, Paul Hutchens, Josephine Chase, John Henry Goldfrap, M. M. Oblinger, Joseph Cundall, Richmal Crompton, Thornton W. Burgess
Length153h 11m
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Heroes and Villains in Lawless Lands: 23 Books of Wild Justice gathers twenty-three narratives shaped by the volatile moral geography of frontier, outlaw, and adventure fiction. Its capacious selection moves among melodrama, historical romance, juvenile adventure, crime-inflected pursuit, and rural storytelling, tracing how "wild justice" tests the unstable boundary between lawful authority and personal vengeance. Episodes of capture, escape, retribution, and unlikely heroism emerge as competing imaginative answers to social disorder. The contributors—among them popular adventure writers, chroniclers of regional history, creators of children's fiction, and voices associated with nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mass print culture—bring distinct social settings and narrative methods to this shared terrain. Their collective work reflects enduring literary fascinations with the American West, borderlands, criminal notoriety, imperial adventure, and the civilizing claims of law. Across these varied perspectives, the anthology reveals how heroism and villainy are culturally constructed, contested, and frequently reversed. This volume is especially recommended for readers interested in popular literature, frontier mythology, and the historical evolution of adventure narrative. By placing diverse styles and moral visions in dialogue, it offers an instructive opportunity to compare changing ideals of justice, courage, authority, and community within a single richly varied collection.
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length153 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Robin Hood and His Merry Foresters
2Robin Hood and His Merry Foresters
3ROBIN HOOD.
4EARLY SCHOOL-DAYS.
5OUR SECOND MEETING.
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6THE THIRD EVENING.
7OUR HALF-HOLIDAY.
8OUR FIFTH MEETING.
9OUR LAST EVENING.
10The Hunted Outlaw, or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
11The Hunted Outlaw, or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
12CHAPTER I.
13CHAPTER XIII. A LETTER FROM DONALD.
14CHAPTER XXIX. DONALD IN THE WOODS OF MEGANTIC.
15Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the noted western outlaws
16CHAPTER I. THE JAMES FAMILY.
17CHAPTER II. FRANK AND JESSE.
18CHAPTER VII. ADVENTURES IN SEPARATE FIELDS.
19CHAPTER XIV. WERE THEY DRIVEN TO OUTLAWRY?
20CHAPTER XX. THE CASH BOX OF THE FAIR.
21CHAPTER XXV. AFTER GADSHILL.
22CHAPTER XXX. FARMER ASKEW'S FATE.
23CHAPTER XXXVII. IN MINNESOTA.
24CHAPTER XLI. THE ROBBERS AND THEIR FRIENDS.
25CHAPTER XLV. A VISIT TO FRANK JAMES' HOME.
26CHAPTER XLIX. GEORGE W. SHEPHERD.
27The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself
28Why This Book Is Here
298. A Foul Crime
3016. A Clash with Apaches
3123. Belle Starr
3232. Lost—Twenty-five Years
33An Afterward
34Kid Wolf of Texas
35CHAPTER I
36CHAPTER V
37CHAPTER IX
38CHAPTER XIII
39CHAPTER XVII
40CHAPTER XXII
41THE END.
42Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp: The Blue-Roan "Outlaw" and Other Stories
43Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp: The Blue-Roan "Outlaw" and Other Stories
44Illustrations
45CAMPIN' OUT A Bit of Family Correspondence
46THE STAMPEDE ON THE TURKEY TRACK RANGE
47AN ARIZONA ETUDE
48THE TENDERFOOT FROM YALE
49JUMPING AT CONCLUSIONS
50CAMEL HUNTIN'
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