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West of Dodge Louis L'Amour · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate WHERE THE REAL FRONTIER BEGINSA young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt. . . . A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge. . . . From purple sage to gambler’s gold, from a señorita’s tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a distinctive L’Amour twist. A quiet farmer defends his honor… Shares: West, Manners and customs, Westerns, Social life and customs

The hanging tree Dorothy M. Johnson · 1957 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Dorothy M. Johnson wrote dozens of highly acclaimed western stories and books in her long career. The stories in this book are her very best. They were ranked as four of the top five stories of the 20th century by the Western Writers of America, with "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" as number one. That story plus "A Man Called Horse" and "The Hanging Tree" became major Hollywood films. This is… Shares: West, Westerns, Social life and customs

The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte · 1889 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The sun was going down on the Dedlow Marshes. The tide was following it fast as if to meet the reddening lines of sky and water in the west, leaving the foreground to grow blacker and blacker every moment, and to bring out in startling contrast the few half-filled and half-lit pools left behind and forgotten. The strong breath of the Pacific fanning their surfaces at times kindled them into a… Shares: Manners and customs, Westerns, Short Stories

The outlaws of Mesquite Louis L'Amour · 1990 · ★ 4.4 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward… Shares: West, Westerns, Social life and customs

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.8 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte · 1902 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging It was high hot noon on the Casket Ridge. Its very scant shade was restricted to a few dwarf Scotch firs, and was so perpendicularly cast that Leonidas Boone, seeking shelter from the heat, was obliged to draw himself up under one of them, as if it were an umbrella. Occasionally, with a boy's perversity, he permitted one bared foot to protrude beyond the sharply marked shadow until the burning… Shares: Manners and customs, Westerns, Social life and customs

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The ruling passion Henry van Dyke · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true… Shares: Manners and customs, Short Stories

The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner · 1943 · 563p · ≈ 18h · Challenging Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune—in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason… Shares: West, Westerns

Life with Father O. Henry · 1904 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Challenging | writer = Howard LindsayRussel CrouseBased on the novel by Clarence Day Shares: West, Westerns, Social life and customs, Short Stories

Condensed novels Bret Harte · 1867 · ★ 3.6 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs. Dodd's maid, whose trim figure always looked well in her mistress's gowns, was inconsolable.  On the death of his parents, Faraday Little was… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

On the Frontier Bret Harte · 1884 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Challenging It was noon of the 10th of August, 1838. The monotonous coast line between Monterey and San Diego had set its hard outlines against the steady glare of the Californian sky and the metallic glitter of the Pacific Ocean. The weary succession of rounded, dome-like hills obliterated all sense of distance; the rare whaling vessel or still rarer trader, drifting past, saw no change in these rusty… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte · 1946 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured parents; young Bret Harte assimilated Greek with amazing facility; devoured voraciously the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Irving, Froissart, Cervantes, Fielding; and, with creditable… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

The story of California Stewart Edward White · 1927 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Contents The Sign at Six (1912) The Gray Dawn (1915) The Mountains (1904) Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life (1899) The Adventures of Bobby Orde (1908) The Westerners (1901) The Call of the North The Rules of the Game (1910) The Claim Jumpers: A Romance (1901) The Riverman (1908) The Land of Footprints (1913) The Forty-Niners (1918) The Leopard Woman (1916) Conjuror's House… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales Bret Harte · 1961 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Westerns, Short Stories Shares: Westerns, Short Stories

Frontier Stories Bret Harte · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of the heat-laden road the eye rested upon it wistfully; all along the flank of the mountain, which seemed to pant and quiver in the oven-like… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

The unforgiven Alan Le May · 1957 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this epic American novel, which served as the basis for the classic film directed by John Huston, a family is torn apart when an old enemy starts a vicious rumor that sets the range aflame. Shares: West, Westerns

Donnegan Frederick Faust · 1923 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This carefully crafted ebook: "MAX BRAND Premium Collection: 29 Western Classics & Adventure Tales - Including The Dan Barry Series & The Ronicky Doone Trilogy" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand.… Shares: West, Westerns

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