Tumbleweeds

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Tumbleweeds

by Hal G. (Hal George) Evarts

EN·~6 hours·15 chapters

Chapters

15 total
1

TUMBLEWEEDS

0:36
2

I

31:54
3

II

30:33
4

III

30:45
5

IV

24:37
6

V

28:11
7

VI

16:22
8

VII

11:31
9

VIII

30:06
10

IX

23:42

Description

In the wide, wind‑swept plains of the American West, an aging pioneer named Joe Hinman watches the ever‑shifting tide of settlement. From his modest homestead he surveys a massive, untouched stretch of land—still barred by an old treaty and left as a silent buffer between competing cultures. As he and his eager younger companion, Donald Carver, discuss the promise of the “last frontier,” the story captures the restless optimism and lingering doubts of those who have watched the prairie transform from desert to thriving farms.

The narrative weaves together the hard‑won wisdom of a man who has seen railroads replace wagon trains and the restless ambition of a new generation hungry for a fresh start. Through vivid descriptions of the rolling grasslands and the lingering presence of the Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Comanche, the book paints a picture of a world on the brink of change. Listeners are invited to feel the tension between the lure of untamed territory and the weight of history that still holds it in place.

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Language

en

Duration

~6 hours (346K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1923.

Credits

Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2024-02-09

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Hal G. (Hal George) Evarts

Hal G. (Hal George) Evarts

1887–1934

A writer who knew the American West firsthand, he turned years of ranching, trapping, guiding, and roaming into vivid Western novels and short stories. His stories were popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and several were later adapted for film.

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