The Rider of the Mohave: A Western Story

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The Rider of the Mohave: A Western Story

by James Fellom

EN·~7 hours·26 chapters

Chapters

26 total
1

THE RIDER OF THE MOHAVE

0:34
2

THE RIDER OF THE MOHAVE PROLOGUE—HE RIDES BY NIGHT

3:53
3

CHAPTER I—MANIA AND DREAMS

13:20
4

CHAPTER II—THE MAN HUNTER

10:52
5

CHAPTER III—IN WHICH WILLS COLLIDE

13:33
6

CHAPTER IV—LEMUEL YIELDS

10:32
7

CHAPTER V—THE WHEREWITHAL

12:42
8

CHAPTER VI—AFTERMATH

14:31
9

CHAPTER VII—STARTLING PREDICAMENTS

18:42
10

CHAPTER VIII—LAVENDER AND OLD LACE

18:41

Description

In the restless mining camp of Geerusalem, the night is alive with the clamor of gamblers, dancers, and the occasional howl of a lone coyote. When a desperate outlaw slips through the shadows, he leaves a daring proclamation nailed to the town’s bulletin board—a $5,000 bounty for the missing Sheriff Warburton, signed with the flamboyant “Your loving bandit, Billy Gee.” The bold declaration sparks a mix of curiosity, fear, and whispered speculation among the townsfolk, setting the stage for a chase that will pull the desert’s most unlikely characters into the hunt.

Among them is Lemuel Huntington, a middle‑aged dreamer whose obsession with giving his daughter a proper education drives him toward desperate measures. As the desert heat blazes and the Mojave’s endless horizon looms, the pursuit of the elusive lawman becomes a test of loyalty, courage, and the thin line between outlaw and hero. Listeners will be drawn into a world where every dusty trail hides a secret, and every decision could tip the balance between redemption and ruin.

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Language

en

Duration

~7 hours (411K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: A. L. Burt Company, 1924.

Credits

Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

2022-01-17

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

JF

James Fellom

Best known for a desert-set Western, this early 20th-century California newspaperman brought a reporter’s eye for place and action to his fiction. His surviving work, The Rider of the Mohave, mixes adventure, romance, and crime against a vivid Mojave backdrop.

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