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The Donner Party
- The Tragic Story of the Wild West's Most Notorious Journey
- Narrado por: Neil Holmes
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Of course, it's easy for people with modern transportation to comfortably reminisce about the West, because many pioneers discovered that the traveling was fraught with various kinds of obstacles and danger, including bitter weather, potentially deadly illnesses, and hostile Native Americans, not to mention an unforgiving landscape that famous American explorer Stephen Long deemed "unfit for human habitation." 19th century Americans were all too happy and eager for the transcontinental railroad to help speed their passage west and render overland paths obsolete.
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- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,052
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,785
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,785
In April of 1846, 21-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and 14 others set out for California on snowshoes and over the next 32 days endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely enthralling
- De Sasha Anscum en 06-07-19
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
- Women in the West, Book 1
- De: Margot Mifflin
- Narrado por: Kaipo Schwab
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 694
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 617
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 618
In 1851, Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mispronunciations
- De R. Brown en 06-07-18
De: Margot Mifflin
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21 Months a Captive
- Rachel Plummer and the Fort Parker Massacre
- De: Rachel Plummer, James W. Parker
- Narrado por: Brian V. Hunt, Claire Dayton
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker in Texas was overwhelmed by a band of Comanche Indians. Some residents were brutally murdered, others taken prisoner. Among those captured was 11-year-old Cynthia Parker, who would remain with the Comanche for 24 years and give birth to famed Chief Quanah.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly dull
- De Erik Johnsrud en 04-06-22
De: Rachel Plummer, y otros
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Daniel Boone
- The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
- De: John Mack Faragher
- Narrado por: Tom Parker
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,037
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 918
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 914
In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than 50 years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero while illuminating the American hero-making process itself. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure trove of reminiscences gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book for history readers
- De James P Carter en 11-11-13
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Jedediah Smith
- No Ordinary Mountain Man
- De: Barton H. Barbour
- Narrado por: Douglas R Pratt
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 446
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 379
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 378
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic figure.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator could use a pronunciation guide
- De Ralph M. Vaga en 03-16-20
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The River of Doubt
- Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,647
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,888
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This audiobook deserves 6 stars
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De: Candice Millard
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The Captured
- A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
- De: Scott Zesch
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,523
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,273
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,273
On New Year's Day in 1870, 10-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comanches, he thrived in the rough nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years living in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled upon his great-great-great-uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch traveled across the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A taste of real life on the prairies of the west.
- De Philell72 en 10-04-12
De: Scott Zesch
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The Pioneers
- The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,980
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,300
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,272
The number one New York Times best seller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal) - the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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i would prefer david reading it
- De hooterwah en 05-07-19
De: David McCullough
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Undaunted Courage
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 21 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,806
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,600
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,586
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies, and - by way of the Snake and the Columbia rivers - down to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, endured incredible hardships and witnessed astounding sights. With great perseverance, they worked their way into an unexplored West. When they returned two years later, they had long since been given up for dead.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narration kills a great book
- De Kindle Customer en 02-10-08
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Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce
- The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
- De: Kent Nerburn
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 168
Learning about the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and 800 Nez Perce men, women, and children from their homelands in what is now eastern Oregon to Montana is essential to understand who we are as a nation. There, only 40 miles from the Canadian border and freedom, Chief Joseph, convinced that the wounded and elders could go no farther, walked across the snowy battlefield, handed his rifle to the US military commander who had been pursuing them, and spoke his now-famous words, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long but totally worth it
- De Mt.. Jumper en 07-24-19
De: Kent Nerburn
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Thunder in the Mountains
- Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
- De: Daniel Sharfstein
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but lenghty.
- De Tristan en 05-10-18
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Lewis and Clark
- De: William R. Lighton
- Narrado por: Kevin Stilwell
- Duración: 70 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to civilization a new empire. Their names were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This book relates that adventure from it’s inception through its completion as well as the effect the expedition had upon the history of the United States.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I've never heard the word etcetera so many times
- De D. Johnson en 06-01-12
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David Crockett: The Lion of the West
- De: Michael Wallis
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
His name was David Crockett. He never signed his name any other way, but popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett", and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. Best-selling historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these legendary stories.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Author is very bias.
- De Michael en 05-31-12
De: Michael Wallis
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Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands
- A Young Politician's Quest for Recovery in the American West
- De: Roger L. Di Silvestro
- Narrado por: Tristan Morris
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands chronicles the turbulent years Roosevelt spent as a rancher in the Badlands of Dakota Territory, following the sudden deaths on February 14, 1884, of his wife, two days after giving birth, and of his mother. Grief-stricken - and driven by doubts about his career after failed attempts as a reformer fighting political corruption -the young, Harvard-educated New York politician left his infant daughter in his sister's care and went to live on a Badlands ranch he had bought a year earlier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Buyce Consulting en 04-26-15
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Geronimo, His Own Story
- An Autobiography
- De: Geronimo
- Narrado por: Stephen F. Clark
- Duración: 2 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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The autobiography of the famous Apache war chief, Geronimo. A shout of "Geronimo!!!" is still evoked to show courage. Hear, in his own words, the war story of Geronimo and his Chiricahua band of Apache Indians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short, easy, interesting
- De Anonymous User en 04-02-24
De: Geronimo
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