Length10h 18m
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A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
The Last American Frontier by Frederic Logan Paxson. The MacMillan Company, 1910.
From the Author’s Preface: I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United States, trying at once to preserve the picturesque atmosphere that has given to the “Far West” a definite and well-understood meaning and to indicate those forces which have shaped the history of the country beyond the Mississippi. In doing it I have had to rely largely upon my own investigations among sources little used and relatively inaccessible. The exact citations of authority, with which I might have crowded my pages, would have been out of place in a book not primarily intended for the use of scholars. But I hope, before many years, to exploit in a larger and more elaborate form the mass of detailed information upon which this sketch is based.
Chapter I. The Westward MovementChapter II. The Indian FrontierChapter III. Iowa and the New NorthwestChapter IV. The Santa Fe TrailChapter V. The Oregon TrailChapter VI. Overland with the MormonsChapter VII. California and the Forty-ninersChapter VIII. Kansas and the Indian FrontierChapter IX. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!"Chapter X. From Arizona to MontanaChapter XI. The Overland MailChapter XII. The Engineers’ FrontierChapter XIII. The Union Pacific RailroadChapter XIV. The Plains in the Civil WarChapter XV. The Cheyenne WarChapter XVI. The Sioux WarChapter XVII. The Peace Commission and the Open WayChapter XVIII. Black Kettle’s Last RaidChapter XIX. The First of the RailwaysChapter XX. The New Indian PolicyChapter XXI. The Last Stand: Chief Joseph and Sitting BullChapter XXII. Letting in the PopulationChapter XXIII. Bibliographical Note
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length10 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byJoseph Tabler
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 26, 2024
LanguageEnglish
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