The Red River Half-Breed: A Tale of the Wild North-West
By Gustave Aimard
Length8h 21m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: We stand on the loftiest peak of the Big Wind River Mountains, that highest and longest chain of the Northern Rockies, a chaos of granite fifteen thousand feet towards the firmament from the sea. Around us the lesser pinnacles hold up heads as fantastic in shape as an Indian's plumed for battle, and, below a little, diamonds of ice deck the snowy ermine of the colossal giant's robe. Far beneath, the mosses are grown upon by sparse grasses, and they by scrub evergreens, gradually displaced in the descent to the warm alcoved valleys by taller and taller pines, spruce, larch, and cedar. But the ancient ocean wash here shows lines alone of the constant west and southwest winds, which never bring a seed or grain into this calm frigidity. In the placid afternoon, the beats are audible of the wings of the king of the air, that proud eagle which Milton chose as the finest emblem of the American people who, in their vigorous youth, had lit their eyes in the unclouded sunbeams; and the song of the Arctic bluebird, startled by the unwonted squeaking of the dry ice powder intermixed with ground fossils and granite, as horses in the uneven line of a new and breakneck trail crunch antediluvian shells to atoms as they follow a daring man up the heights along chasms of ten thousand feet, from the western acclivity to the actual summit divide, not two yards wide. It was November, a time when the almost impossible crossing was alone in the power of man, since in the thaws of summer the ravines are choke full of resistless water, and, later, the snowstorms are overwhelming.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length8 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 24, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I.
17CHAPTER XVII.
2CHAPTER II.
18CHAPTER XVIII.
3CHAPTER III.
19CHAPTER XIX.
4CHAPTER IV.
20CHAPTER XX.
5CHAPTER V.
21CHAPTER XXI.
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6CHAPTER VI.
22CHAPTER XXII.
7CHAPTER VII.
23CHAPTER XXIII.
8CHAPTER VIII.
24CHAPTER XXIV.
9CHAPTER IX.
25CHAPTER XXV.
10CHAPTER X.
26CHAPTER XXVI.
11CHAPTER XI.
27CHAPTER XXVII.
12CHAPTER XII.
28CHAPTER XXVIII.
13CHAPTER XIII.
29CHAPTER XXIX.
14CHAPTER XIV.
30CHAPTER XXX.
15CHAPTER XV.
31CHAPTER XXXI.
16CHAPTER XVI.
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