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Over a half century, Malibu went from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars. Behind its transformation is the love story of Frederick and May Rindge. He was a Harvard-trained confidant of presidents; she grew up on a hardscrabble Midwestern farm; yet their unlikely bond would shape history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen!
- De Anonymous User en 09-25-23
De: David K. Randall
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West Like Lightning
- The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
- De: Jim DeFelice
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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The thrilling narrative history of one of the most enduring icons of the American West, the Pony Express, from the number-one New York Times bestselling co-author of American Sniper - an exciting tale of daring young men pushing limits to the extremes across the vast, rugged, and unsettled American West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Picture of Wild West Life and the Pony
- De Pierre C. en 08-07-18
De: Jim DeFelice
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Billy the Kid
- The Endless Ride
- De: Michael Wallis
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape, "the Kid", who was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the New Mexico Territory at the age of 21, became a new breed of celebrity outlaw.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De MJTCPA en 07-30-11
De: Michael Wallis
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The Last Outlaws
- The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- De: Thom Hatch
- Narrado por: James C. Lewis
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - as leaders of the Wild Bunch, they planned and executed the most daring bank and train robberies of the day, with a professionalism never before seen by authorities. For several years at the end of the 1890s, the two friends, along with a revolving cast who made up their band of thieves, eluded local law enforcement and bounty hunters, all while stealing from the rich bankers and eastern railroad corporations who exploited western land. The close calls were many, but Butch and Sundance always managed to escape to rob again another day - that is, until they rode headlong into the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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EXELLENT LISTENING<br />
- De Warren Taylor en 08-13-17
De: Thom Hatch
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Tombstone
- The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
- De: Tom Clavin
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times best-selling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in 30 seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great fun read, western history.
- De Dennis en 06-03-20
De: Tom Clavin
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Captive of the Labyrinth
- Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune
- De: Mary Jo Ignoffo
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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The first full-length biography of Sarah Winchester, the subject of the movie Winchester starring Helen Mirren, now available for the first time in audio. Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Sarah purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She began building additions to the house and continued construction on it for the next twenty years. A hostile press cast Sarah as the conscience of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company—a widow shouldering responsibility for the many deaths caused by the rifle that brought her riches. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San José house was done to appease the ghouls around her. But was she really as guilt-ridden and superstitious as history remembers her? When Winchester’s home was purchased after her death, it was transformed into a tourist attraction. The bizarre, sprawling mansion and the enigmatic nature of Winchester’s life were exaggerated by the new owners to generate publicity for their business. But as the mansion has become more widely known, the person of Winchester has receded from reality, and she is only remembered for squandering her riches to ward off disturbed spirits.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Facts to Silence the Myths
- De Carmen Gibson en 03-07-24
De: Mary Jo Ignoffo
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The Black Russian
- De: Vladimir Alexandrov
- Narrado por: Peter Marinker
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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The Black Russian is the incredible story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. After leaving the South and working as a waiter and valet in Chicago and Brooklyn, Frederick sought greater freedom in London, then crisscrossed Europe, and - in a highly unusual choice for a black American at the time - went to Russia in 1899. Because he found no color line there, Frederick made Moscow his home. He renamed himself Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas, married twice, acquired a mistress, and took Russian citizenship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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US Born African Descendant 2 Russian Citizenship
- De Sheila Gibson en 03-14-15
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Black Fortunes
- The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
- De: Shomari Wills
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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The astonishing untold history of America's first Black millionaires - former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring '20s - self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True His/Herstory
- De Brazy Brazy en 06-25-18
De: Shomari Wills
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Wicked Women
- Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West
- De: Chris Enss
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women offers a glimpse into the Western women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. During the late 1800s, while men were settling the new frontier and rushing off to the latest boomtowns, women of easy virtue found wicked lives west of the Mississippi when they followed fortune hunters seeking gold and land in an unsettled territory.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong Women Out West
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 09-15-15
De: Chris Enss
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Water to the Angels
- William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created - William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct - a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man whose vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Water challenges never end
- De John Matel en 04-10-15
De: Les Standiford
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Legends of the West: The Life and Legacy of Doc Holliday
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Michael Gilboe
- Duración: 1 h y 8 m
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Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the man who has earned an enduring legacy as the region's quirkiest is John Henry "Doc" Holliday (1851-1887), a dentist turned professional gambler who was widely recognized as one of the fastest draws in the West. In fact, the only thing that might have been faster than the deadly gunman's draw was his violent temper, which was easily set off when Holliday was drunk. By the early 1880s, Holliday had been arrested nearly 20 times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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VERY informative
- De michael en 04-10-16
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Hershey
- Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
- De: Michael D'Antonio
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Benchmark for Chartiable, Rich Men
- De Boyd Tschaggeny en 01-30-19
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Wicked Portland
- The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town
- De: Finn J.D. John
- Narrado por: Finn J.D. John
- Duración: 4 h y 21 m
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In its youth, Portland, Oregon, was a bit like a rough-and-ready logging camp with a gritty, hard-punching deep-water port. Lusty lads dallied with hard-eyed beauties in dark alleys, and captains forked over “blood money” to buy men for their crews from shanghai operators. From the seedy waterfront to the notorious North End, Portland's sin sector offered vices packaged in pint glasses and perfumed corsets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Polished & Pleasing
- De James en 07-19-15
De: Finn J.D. John
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Five Points
- The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
- De: Tyler Anbinder
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great historical piece
- De Jim Braunstein en 08-19-19
De: Tyler Anbinder
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Joan Didion
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Frontier Grit
- The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
- De: Marianne Monson
- Narrado por: Caroline Shaffer
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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Discover the stories of 12 women who heard the call to settle the West and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journeys. As a slave Clara watched helplessly as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter as a free woman six decades later. As a young girl, Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver who ever lived. As a Native American, Gertrude fought to give her people a voice and to educate leaders about the ways and importance of America's native people.
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2 out of 5 stars
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only ok
- De Jane Orr en 06-14-21
De: Marianne Monson
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Broadway
- A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
- De: Fran Leadon
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the 17th century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the 20th century's Great White Way. We learn why one side of the street was once considered more fashionable than the other; witness construction of the Ansonia Apartments, Trinity Church, and the Flatiron Building and the burning of P. T. Barnum's American Museum; and discover that Columbia University was built on the site of an insane asylum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Give My Regards To Broadway!
- De Steven en 08-20-18
De: Fran Leadon
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Cripple Creek District
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- Chris N
- 11-22-22
Lots of interesting information, pretty dry story
I love all of the history but it can start to get difficult to listen to after awhile. Overall good information!
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-02-19
lots of good data
a decent book laded with information and facts. only criticism is that the facts needed more story/context.
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- Mike A.
- 04-06-23
A low resolution copy of “Money Mountain”?
As an avid student of Colorado history in general and of gold mining in particular, I highly enjoyed Marshall Sprague’s “Money Mountain” (1953) history of Cripple Creek.
This book, however, published in 2003, must have been written with “Money Mountain” open nearby. Same vignettes and moments told in the same order, recalling many of the same turns of phrases Mr. Sprague used. Simple summarizations of stories Sprague told yet in less detail and with weaker prose.
“Money Mountain” beats “Cripple Creek District” in my opinion.
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