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Best of Westerns: The Virginian, Desert Death Song/Trap of Gold, Pistolero, Frontier Stories and the Old West
In this outstanding collection, the Literate Listener "TM" has assembled five of the best western audio books available. From true classics like The Virginian, by Owen Wister, and Frontier Stories, by Jack London, to modern best-sellers like Pistolero by Bill Brooks. The Western Collection is an unparalleled value for the western fan. In your car, while jogging, or on an airplane, these audio books offer a unique experience, and allow today's time-pressed reader the opportunity to hear literature in a convenient and entertaining way!Based on Theodore Roosevelt's adventurous interludes in the West. The Virginian is the story of a man from the South who moves to wide open Wyoming. In the midst of cattle country, he falls in love with a school teacher. The Virginian is one of the most popular Western stories of all time, and the first Hollywood version made a star of Gary Cooper.
Deseart Death Song -- Nat Bodine married the girl Pete Daly wanted. And now Pete is trying to hang Nat. But Bodine has lost himself in the rugged Powder Basin.
Trap of Gold -- Gold-duster Wetherton discovers a motherlode! The bad news is, the vein runs straight into cliff. Which will give way first, Wetherton's greet, or the cliff?
Famed gunfighter lawman, J.C. Bone, realizes that he is going blind. He can sit and wait for every gun artist, punk kid and killer that hears about his handicap and is looking to make a reputation for themselves by killing him, or he can find a place of refuge to live out his days. Deadly shootist Albert Westminster has his own plans for becoming the number one gunfighter in the West...kill off the competition.
Only the toughest survive in this pair of short stories from thegreat author of Call of the Wild. A prospector's dream comes true in All Gold Canyon, but can he make the dream last? A northern tracker in Love of Life, slowly becomes a part of the wilderness on his treacherous trek to rejoin civilization.
Join gold diggers, gunfighters and horse thieves in these classic tales of The Old West. Where outlaws and heroes from cow towns to gold camps rule. Sit back and hold on, as these classic short stories are filled with suspense, danger, and gold fever. Put yourself back in the early 1900's and experience The Old West first hand.
Deseart Death Song -- Nat Bodine married the girl Pete Daly wanted. And now Pete is trying to hang Nat. But Bodine has lost himself in the rugged Powder Basin.
Trap of Gold -- Gold-duster Wetherton discovers a motherlode! The bad news is, the vein runs straight into cliff. Which will give way first, Wetherton's greet, or the cliff?
Famed gunfighter lawman, J.C. Bone, realizes that he is going blind. He can sit and wait for every gun artist, punk kid and killer that hears about his handicap and is looking to make a reputation for themselves by killing him, or he can find a place of refuge to live out his days. Deadly shootist Albert Westminster has his own plans for becoming the number one gunfighter in the West...kill off the competition.
Only the toughest survive in this pair of short stories from thegreat author of Call of the Wild. A prospector's dream comes true in All Gold Canyon, but can he make the dream last? A northern tracker in Love of Life, slowly becomes a part of the wilderness on his treacherous trek to rejoin civilization.
Join gold diggers, gunfighters and horse thieves in these classic tales of The Old West. Where outlaws and heroes from cow towns to gold camps rule. Sit back and hold on, as these classic short stories are filled with suspense, danger, and gold fever. Put yourself back in the early 1900's and experience The Old West first hand.
1 pages, Audio Cassette
First published March 1, 2000
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About the author
Owen Wister
292 books63 followersOwen Wister was born on July 14, 1860, in Germantown, a neighborhood within the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Owen Jones Wister, was a wealthy physician, one of a long line of Wisters raised at the storied Belfield estate in Germantown. His mother, Sarah Butler Wister, was the daughter of actress Fanny Kemble.
Education
He briefly attended schools in Switzerland and Britain, and later studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, an editor of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon (Alpha chapter). Wister graduated from Harvard in 1882.
At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law, having graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1888. Following this, he practiced with a Philadelphia firm, but was never truly interested in that career. He was interested in politics, however, and was a staunch Theodore Roosevelt backer. In the 1930s, he opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
Writing career
Wister had spent several summers out in the American West, making his first trip to Wyoming in 1885. Like his friend Teddy Roosevelt, Wister was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of the region. On an 1893 visit to Yellowstone, Wister met the western artist Frederic Remington; who remained a lifelong friend. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian, the loosely constructed story of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. This is widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel and was reprinted fourteen times in eight months.[5] The book is dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt.
Personal life
In 1898, Wister married Mary Channing, his cousin.The couple had six children.
Wister's wife died during childbirth in 1913, as Theodore Roosevelt's first wife had died giving birth to Roosevelt's first daughter, Alice.
Wister died at his home in Saunderstown, Rhode Island. He is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Education
He briefly attended schools in Switzerland and Britain, and later studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, an editor of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon (Alpha chapter). Wister graduated from Harvard in 1882.
At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law, having graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1888. Following this, he practiced with a Philadelphia firm, but was never truly interested in that career. He was interested in politics, however, and was a staunch Theodore Roosevelt backer. In the 1930s, he opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
Writing career
Wister had spent several summers out in the American West, making his first trip to Wyoming in 1885. Like his friend Teddy Roosevelt, Wister was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of the region. On an 1893 visit to Yellowstone, Wister met the western artist Frederic Remington; who remained a lifelong friend. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian, the loosely constructed story of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. This is widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel and was reprinted fourteen times in eight months.[5] The book is dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt.
Personal life
In 1898, Wister married Mary Channing, his cousin.The couple had six children.
Wister's wife died during childbirth in 1913, as Theodore Roosevelt's first wife had died giving birth to Roosevelt's first daughter, Alice.
Wister died at his home in Saunderstown, Rhode Island. He is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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