THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY by STEPHEN CRANE

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 8 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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A Texas Sheriff is traveling back to his town with his new bride when he is accosted by the town drunk. In this story Crane is able to portray the changes taking place in the west as the train, a symbol of new ways vs. old ways) carries a more aloof, sophisticated and condescending culture into the simple, unpretentious West. At the time Crane was writing, the West was slowly disappearing, and the little towns were the last to go. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- Coming Soon Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: [email protected] SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Oh, you're not. You're going to. Welcome back everyone to 1001, Classic Short Stories and Tales. This is your host John Hagenorn. Today the bride comes to
0:55.7	Yellow Sky. A Western theme short story by American author Stephen Crane. It was
1:01.6	originally published in the February 1898 issue of McClure's magazine.
1:05.7	The story's protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter who is returning to the town of Yellow
1:11.4	Sky with his eastern bride.
1:14.0	Potter's nemesis, the gunslinger Scratchy Wilson,
1:17.0	drunkenly plans to accost the sheriff after he disemarks on the train.
1:21.0	A sort of a high noon situation, And if you want to picture Gary Cooper's
1:25.4	Texas Sheriff Jack Potter, and if you want to picture Princess Grace Kelly as his new wife,
1:30.8	be my guest. That's how I'm seeing him anyway. High noon be one of my favorite old time movies.
1:36.8	While Sheriff Potter is facing his high noon as the train rolls on. Hope you enjoy the story. The Great Pullman was wearing onward with such dignity of motion that a glance from the window seemed simply to prove that the Plains of Texas were pouring eastward.
2:00.0	Vast flats of green grass, dull huge spaces of mesquite and cactus, little groups of frame houses,
2:07.0	woods of light and tender trees, all were sweeping into the east, sweeping over the horizon, a precipice.
2:15.0	A newly married parrot boarded this train at San Antonio.
2:18.0	The man's face was reddened from many days in the wind inside,
2:22.0	and a direct result of his new black clothes
2:24.4	was that his brick-colored hands were constantly performing in a most conscious
2:28.5	fashion. From time to time he looked down respectfully at his attire.
2:34.0	He sat with a hand on each knee like a man waiting in a barber shop.
2:38.0	The glances he devoted to other passengers were furtive and shy.
2:42.0	The bride was not pretty, nor was she very young. She wore a dress of blue
2:48.1	cashmere with small reservations of velvet here and there, with steel buttons abounding.
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