The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War
By Gustave Aimard
Length9h 48m
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Excerpt: The immense virgin forests which once covered the soil of North America are more and more disappearing before the busy axes of the squatters and pioneers, whose insatiable activity removes the desert frontier further and further to the west. Flourishing towns, well tilled and carefully-sown fields, now occupy regions where, scarce ten years ago, rose impenetrable forests, whose dense foliage hardly allowed the sunbeams to penetrate, and whose unexplored depths sheltered animals of every description, and served as a retreat for hordes of nomadic Indians, who, in their martial ardour, frequently caused these majestic domes of verdure to re-echo with their war-yell. Now that the forests have fallen, their gloomy denizens, gradually repulsed by the civilisation that incessantly pursues them, have fled step by step before it, and have sought far away other and safer retreats, to which they have borne the bones of their fathers with them, lest they might be dug up and desecrated by the inexorable ploughshare of the white men, as it traces its long and productive furrow over their old hunting-grounds. Is this constant disafforesting and clearing of the American continent a misfortune?
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length9 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 24, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
17CHAPTER XV.
2CONTENTS.
18CHAPTER XVI.
3CHAPTER I.
19CHAPTER XVII.
4CHAPTER II.
20CHAPTER XVIII
5CHAPTER III.
21CHAPTER XIX.
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6CHAPTER IV.
22CHAPTER XX.
7CHAPTER V.
23CHAPTER XXI.
8CHAPTER VI.
24CHAPTER XXII.
9CHAPTER VII.
25CHAPTER XXIII.
10CHAPTER VIII.
26CHAPTER XXIV.
11CHAPTER IX.
27CHAPTER XXV.
12CHAPTER X.
28CHAPTER XXVI.
13CHAPTER XI.
29CHAPTER XXVII.
14CHAPTER XII.
30CHAPTER XXVIII.
15CHAPTER XIII.
31CHAPTER XXIX.
16CHAPTER XIV.
32CHAPTER XXX.
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