American West Biographies

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    • Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West
    • By: Matthew P. Mayo
    • Narrated by: James Romick
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears takes the top 50 wildest episodes in the West's history and presents them to the listener in one convenient, narrative-driven package....

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
    • By: David Gessner
    • Narrated by: Brian O'Neil
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • A homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it....

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    • A Tenderfoot's Escape to Alaska
    • By: Guy Grieve
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,480 ratings
    • Trapped in a job he hated and up to his neck in debt, Guy Grieve’s life was going nowhere. But with a stroke of luck, his dream of escaping it all to live in remote Alaska suddenly came true....

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    • Trailblazer of the American West
    • By: Jerry Enzler
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 381 ratings
    • Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of....

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    • True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
    • By: Jonathan Hunt
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Step back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era. ...

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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • By: Philippe Girard
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791....

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    • A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
    • By: Nate Blakeslee
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Nate Blakeslee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,716 ratings
    • The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her....

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    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

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    • True, Sensational, and Little-Known Stories from History
    • By: Tricia Martineau Wagner
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A long-overdue testament to the courage and skill of Black cowboys, Black Cowboys of the Old West finally gives these courageous men their rightful place in history....

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    • An Epic of the American West
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,115 ratings
    • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....

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    • The Life of an American Border Man (The Oklahoma Western Biographies, Book 27)
    • By: David Remley
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man strikes a balance between prevailing notions about this Western figure. Whereas the dime novelists exploited Carson's popular reputation, Remley reveals that the real man was dependable, ethical, and - for his day - open-minded....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Johnny Dwyer
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • A gripping work of reportage that, for the first time, tells the story of "Chucky" Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia....

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    • Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
    • By: Carrot Quinn
    • Narrated by: Erin Spencer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • After a childhood marked by neglect, poverty, and periods of homelessness, with a mother who believed herself to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own....

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    • Andrew Jackson's Trail of Tears to the Civil War
    • By: A. J. Langguth
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • This major work of narrative history portrays four of the most turbulent decades in the growth of the American nation....

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    • A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
    • By: Hannah Nordhaus
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • The dark-eyed woman in the long, black gown was first seen in the 1970s, standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once....

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    • Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest
    • By: Mark Thompson
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Charles Fletcher Lummis began his spectacular career in 1884 by walking from Ohio to start a new job at the three-year old Los Angeles Times....

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