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Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) was a homesteader in Wyoming and a memoirist who, between 1909 and 1914, wrote a series of engaging letters describing her life. The letters, which are short stories, reveal an adventurous and resourceful personality. They were first published in the Atlantic Monthly.
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It is 1863 and Emily Blue Hatchett has been told by her father that, come spring, their family will leave their farm, family and friends in Quincy, Illinois, and travel the Overland Trail to a new home in Golden, Colorado. Emmy and her mom have mixed feelings about the trip and are saddened by all they must leave behind. The journey by wagon train is long and full of hardships, and Emmy's experiences along the way bring the period of westward expansion, as well as issues facing women, to life for young listeners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for all ages!
- De Paige en 10-31-18
De: Sandra Dallas
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Laddie
- A True Blue Story
- De: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrado por: Laurie Klein
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 175
This is a captivating, good-humored look at family life in a small farming community in Indiana in the early 1900s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An American Classic
- De Clint en 07-04-10
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
- De: Isabella L. Bird
- Narrado por: Flo Gibson
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
These are the valiant and lyrically descriptive letters, written in 1873, by Isabella Bird, a courageous and spirited Englishwoman, telling her sister of her adventures on horseback over 800 miles of American wilderness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Solution to the Indian Problem
- De Samar en 09-26-16
De: Isabella L. Bird
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The Moonflower Vine
- A Novel
- De: Jetta Carleton
- Narrado por: Natalie Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 98
On a farm in western Missouri, during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy’s fate will be the family’s greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive - and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want it to end!!!
- De Amanda H. en 01-20-21
De: Jetta Carleton
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The Virginian
- A Horseman of the Plains
- De: Owen Wister
- Narrado por: Robert G. Slade
- Duración: 14 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
In this romantic and raw adventure set in the untamed wilderness of Wyoming of 1886, an anonymous college graduate ventures out west where he encounters gun fights, lynching, cattle rustlers, high-stake poker games, Indian attacks, and a brave, honest and imposing cowboy known simply as the Virginian. Presented as the archetypal, ideal hero of the "western" genre (which was novelized for the very first time in this same book), the Virginian, a foreman at Shiloh Ranch, carries a strong sense of justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good Book of Perpetual Period Small Talk
- De wbiro en 02-06-21
De: Owen Wister
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One of Ours
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Kristen Underwood
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
Claude Wheeler resembles the youngest son of an American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cather's writing is impeccable
- De Kelly en 12-20-19
De: Willa Cather
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The Hearts of Horses
- A Novel
- De: Molly Gloss
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 197
The irresistible tale of 19-year-old Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man's world. It was thought that the only way to break a horse was to buck the wild out of it, and broken ribs and tough falls just went with the job. But over several long, hard winter months, many of the townsfolk in this remote county of eastern Oregon witness Martha's way of talking in low, sweet tones to horses believed beyond repair---and getting miraculous, almost immediate results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple, Honest, Wonderful
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-08-09
De: Molly Gloss
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Mrs. Mike
- De: Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 876
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 877
A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of Canada to life and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How could I have missed this all these years?
- De Dale C. Farran en 01-30-10
De: Benedict Freedman, y otros
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Mother Carey's Chickens
- De: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
The sudden death of the father of the family results in the drastic reduction of the Careys' income and they must leave their comfortable home in Boston. Nancy Carey, the eldest, recalls a vacation in Maine when they all picnicked in the garden of a big, vacant house that her father loved. She discovers that the house is available, the rent is cheap, and persuades her mother that life in The Yellow House in Beulah, Maine is the perfect place to begin their new life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very cozy book =)
- De Camilla en 03-01-17
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The Pastures of Heaven
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 287
Today, nearly 40 years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as Penguin Classics. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden, mythical America
- De Dan Harlow en 07-07-13
De: John Steinbeck
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The Sheep Queen
- De: Tom Savage
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Thomas Savage, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee, has long been a critically acclaimed author. The New Yorker calls him "a writer of the first order". This starkly elegant story details the lives of Emma Russell Sweringen and her family in the early 1900s. Emma’s daughter Beth secretly gave up a baby girl for adoption many years ago. Now, Beth’s secret life is being unraveled as her daughter comes looking for her long-lost family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent in all respects
- De Marlene J. Gustafson en 05-11-19
De: Tom Savage
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Hard Gold (I Witness)
- The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West
- De: Avi
- Narrado por: Alston Brown
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt - and in danger of foreclosure. Early's uncle, Jesse, thinks he has the solution: to head West and dig for gold. Fueled by reports of prospectors striking it rich in the Rocky Mountains, Jesse can't think about anything but gold. Early is wild to go with him, as much for the adventure as for the gold. But the journey costs money - more than the boys can afford....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
- De Uki Dominque Lucas en 04-09-19
De: Avi
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The Misadventures of Maude March
- De: Audrey Couloumbis
- Narrado por: Lee Adams
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister, Maude, are orphaned for the second time, they decide to escape their new self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier and an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about. This time, however, the wanted woman isn't a villain out of a dime novel: it's Sallie's very own sister!
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fun book to listen to.
- De Jean en 09-04-13
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The Harvester
- De: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrado por: Mary Starkey
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
This is the charming story of David Langston, a young man in search of the woman of his dreams. She came to him in a vision and he knows he must find her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Possibly My Most Unusual Listen Ever
- De Kathy in CA en 11-16-16
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Nothing Daunted
- The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
- De: Dorothy Wickenden
- Narrado por: Dorothy Wickenden, Margaret Nichols
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and graduates of Smith College, left home in Auburn, New York, for the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Bored by their soci-ety luncheons, charity work, and the effete young men who courted them, they learned that two teach-ing jobs were available in a remote mountaintop schoolhouse and applied—shocking their families and friends.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not as Described
- De Sara en 08-10-14
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My Life as an Indian
- De: James Willard Schultz
- Narrado por: Brian V. Hunt
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 204
Beautiful, tender, haunting, and full of excitement, this is the memoir of famed author, explorer, Glacier Park guide, trader, and historian of the Blackfoot Indians, James Willard Schultz. With the Blackfoot woman, whom he deeply loved, from 1880 to 1903, Schultz lived the life of a Blackfoot Indian with Nat-ah-ki and her people. During this time, he began writing for magazines, at times running a trading post, and working as a guide in the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compassionate Story
- De Ann Holmes en 09-13-18