The Story of Old Fort Loudon
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The Story of Old Fort Loudon

By Mary Noailles Murfree
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Length10h 5m

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Excerpt: "Along the buffalo paths, from one salt-lick to another, a group of pioneers took a vagrant way through the dense cane-brakes. Never a wheel had then entered the deep forests of this western wilderness; the frontiersman and the packhorse were comrades. Dark, gloomy, with long, level summit-lines, a grim outlier of the mountain range, since known as the Cumberland, stretched from northeast to southwest, seeming as they approached to interpose an insurmountable barrier to further progress, until suddenly, as in the miracle of a dream, the craggy wooded heights showed a gap, cloven to the heart of the steeps, opening out their path as through some splendid gateway, and promising deliverance, a new life, and a new and beautiful land. For beyond the darkling cliffs on either hand an illuminated vista stretched in every lengthening perspective, with softly nestling[2] sheltered valleys, and parallel lines of distant azure mountains, and many a mile of level woodland high on an elevated plateau, all bedight in the lingering flare of the yellow, and deep red, and sere brown of late autumn, and all suffused with an opaline haze and the rich, sweet languors of sunset-tide on an Indian-summer day."

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folklore
Length10 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Illustrations
8CHAPTER VII
2CHAPTER I
9CHAPTER VIII
3CHAPTER II
10CHAPTER IX
4CHAPTER III
11CHAPTER X
5CHAPTER IV
12CHAPTER XI
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6CHAPTER V
13CHAPTER XII
7CHAPTER VI
14CHAPTER XIII

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