
The Men Who Shot Liberty: 60 Rip-Roaring Westerns in One Edition
Outlaws, Cattle Drives, Gunfights, and Wilderness Tales from the American FrontierBy Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Max Brand, James Oliver Curwood, B. M. Bower, Zane Grey, Jackson Gregory, Jack London, Emerson Hough, Will Lillibridge, Andy Adams, Bret Harte, Owen Wister, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, O. Henry, Grace Livingston Hill, Charles Alden Seltzer, Stephen Crane, Dane Coolidge, Marah Ellis Ryan, Frederic Homer Balch, Frederic Remington, Robert W. Chambers, Forrestine C. Hooker, Frank H. Spearman, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, R.M. Ballantyne, Charles SiringoLength518h 39m
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The Men Who Shot Liberty gathers sixty Western tales into a capacious archive of frontier imagination, ranging from comic tall tale, romance, and adventure yarn to psychological drama, detective intrigue, and stark narratives of violence and survival. Its pages traverse cattle ranges, mining camps, borderlands, railroads, and contested settlements, displaying the Western's shifting idioms from nineteenth-century local color to pulp-era speed and sensation. Alongside rip-roaring action, the collection preserves meditations on law, mobility, landscape, community, and the unstable boundary between legend and history. Its contributors represent several formative strands of American popular and literary culture: regionalism, realism, frontier romance, juvenile adventure, magazine fiction, and the pulps. Canonical figures appear beside prolific specialists in ranching, outlaw, and border narratives, while women writers and varied regional voices complicate any singular image of the West. Collectively, these authors participate in—and occasionally expose—the mythology of westward expansion, registering its aspirations, social hierarchies, racialized encounters, and costs. The anthology thus illuminates how the Western became a major vehicle for narrating American identity. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to compare styles, assumptions, and narrative pleasures across generations. It rewards sustained reading as both an entertaining compendium and a valuable record of the conversations through which the literary West was invented, revised, and contested.
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Rating★★★★ 4.2 (12)
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length518 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Andy Adams Cowboy Collection – 19 Western Classics in One Volume (Annotated)
2The Men Who Shot Liberty: 60 Rip-Roaring Westerns in One Edition
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)
28FOREWORD
29I. RED LAKE
30II. THE SAGI
31III. KAYENTA
32IV. NEW FRIENDS
33V. ON THE TRAIL
34VI. IN THE HIDDEN VALLEY
35VII. SAGO-LILIES
36VIII. THE HOGAN OF NAS TA BEGA
37IX. IN THE DESERT CRUCIBLE
38X. STONEBRIDGE
39XI. AFTER THE TRIAL
40XII. THE REVELATION
41XIII. THE STORY OF SURPRISE VALLEY
42XIV. THE NAVAJO
43XV. WILD JUSTICE
44XVI. SURPRISE VALLEY
45XVII. THE TRAIL TO NONNEZOSHE
46XVIII. AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW
47XIX. THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO
48XX. WILLOW SPRINGS
49EPILOGUE
50THE SPIRIT OF THE BORDER (Zane Grey)