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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,451
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,463
Millions of people have thrilled to best-selling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, works of nonfiction that have changed the way we view history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly 2,000 years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Jesus story in context
- By Kimberly on 10-01-13
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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Geronimo's Story of His Life
- By: Geronimo, S. M. Barrett - editor
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 25
The editor, Oklahoma school superintendent Stephen Melvil Barrett, first met Geronimo in the summer of 1904, and felt that the 76 year old Bedonkohe Apache leader and medicine man from New Mexico and Arizona, a prisoner of war for 20 years far from his home, who had never told his side of history before, should finally do so. President Theodore Roosevelt granted Barrett's request to interview Geronimo, and this is the result, without Barrett's clarifications or intrusions - "write what I have spoken," as Geronimo said.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great History
- By Customer on 01-29-20
By: Geronimo, and others
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Crazy Horse and Custer
- The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,090
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 961
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 959
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the US 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Fascinating, Fair Depiction of Two Heroes
- By Stewart Fletcher on 04-29-19
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Sitting Bull
- By: Bill Yenne
- Narrated by: Bill Fike
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Sitting Bull’s name is still the best known of any American Indian leader, but his life and legacy remain shrouded with misinformation and half-truths. Sitting Bull’s life spanned the entire clash of cultures and ultimate destruction of the Plains Indian way of life. The reality of his life, as Bill Yenne reveals in his absorbing new portrait, Sitting Bull, is far more intricate and compelling. In Sitting Bull we find a man who, in the face of an uncertain future, helped ensure the survival of his people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sitting Bull and his life
- By Debi on 02-24-21
By: Bill Yenne
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Empire of Shadows
- The Epic Story of Yellowstone
- By: George Black
- Narrated by: Jack de Golia
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible, and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the 19th century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Paints a big picture
- By Gail Thomalla on 07-13-21
By: George Black
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Empire of the Summer Moon
- Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14,779
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,553
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12,528
Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son, Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to endure narrator
- By fowler on 12-21-19
By: S. C. Gwynne
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Blood and Thunder
- An Epic of the American West
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,045
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,467
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,455
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Publisher's summary does not do it justice
- By Eric on 02-07-11
By: Hampton Sides
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38 Nooses
- Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
- By: Scott W. Berg
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution, but anger won the day. Forced to either lead his warriors in a war he knew they could not win or leave them to their fates, he declared, "[Little Crow] is not a coward: he will die with you."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful condemnation of Manifest Destiny
- By Buretto on 09-26-19
By: Scott W. Berg
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Dreams of El Dorado
- A History of the American West
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 403
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 346
In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame - and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful narration
- By Fredmo on 12-09-19
By: H. W. Brands
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On the Border with Crook
- By: John Gregory Bourke
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
John Gregory Bourke served General George Crook for 15 years and was his right-hand man. This work is an account of his time with the legendary US Army officer in the post-Civil War West. On the Border with Crook is a written recollection of Crook’s campaigns during the American Indian Wars. Bourke makes the American frontier come alive with his description. He also included descriptions not only of Crook and his fellow cavalrymen, but also of legendary Native American leaders. Bourke argues that Crook etched his name into the annals of American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Review of the Late Indian Wars
- By Ian K O'Malley on 08-07-20
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The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn
- A Lakota History
- By: Joseph M. Marshall III
- Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 587
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 518
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 518
The Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876 has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota Sioux and whites. The men who led the battle, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Colonel George A. Custer, have become the stuff of legends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greasy Grass Battle
- By K. Wiens on 09-18-09
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
- By: Thomas Powers
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 20 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
He was the most feared and loathed Indian of his time, earning his reputation in surprise victories against the troops of Generals Crook and Custer at the Rosebud and Little Bighorn. Despite his enduring reputation, he has remained an enigma (even the whereabouts of his burial place are unknown, and no portrait or photograph of him exists). Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Powers brings Crazy Horse to life in this vivid work of American history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- By Abraca on 11-30-10
By: Thomas Powers
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Daniel Boone
- The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
- By: John Mack Faragher
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 928
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 924
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
- By James P Carter on 11-11-13
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The Journey of Crazy Horse
- A Lakota History
- By: Joseph M. Marshall III
- Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,596
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,093
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,089
Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who, with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership, fought for his people's land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating biography, Joseph Marshall, himself a Lakota Indian, creates a vibrant portrait of the man, his times, and his legacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent
- By William on 05-31-05
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Geronimo, His Own Story
- An Autobiography
- By: Geronimo
- Narrated by: Stephen F. Clark
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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
- By Anonymous User on 04-02-24
By: Geronimo