Audio only
The Winning of the West, Vol. 1
From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769–1776By Theodore RooseveltNarrated by Joseph TablerLength8h 15m
About this audiobook
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in four volumes. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889.Volume One—From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769–1776
Narrated by Joseph TablerNote—This book is “read as written.” It was published in 1889. It is in the public domain.
We all know of Theodore Roosevelt being the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, and naturalist. But few know of him being an acclaimed historian. Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West quickly became a bestseller. The first edition of his book sold out in little more than a month and helped establish Roosevelt as a literary man and scholar, placing him on a path toward future greatness.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME:
PrefaceCHAPTER I. THE SPREAD OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES.CHAPTER II. THE FRENCH OF THE OHIO VALLEY, 1763–1775.CHAPTER III. THE APPALACHIAN CONFEDERACIES, 1765–1775.CHAPTER IV. THE ALGONQUINS OF THE NORTHWEST, 1769–1774.CHAPTER V. THE BACKWOODSMEN OF THE ALLEGHANIES, 1769–1774.CHAPTER VI. BOON AND THE LONG HUNTERS; AND THEIR HUNTING IN NO-MAN’S-LAND, 1769–1774.CHAPTER VII. SEVIER, ROBERTSON, AND THE WATAUGA COMMONWEALTH, 1769–1774.CHAPTER VIII. LORD DUNMORE’S WAR, 1774.CHAPTER IX. THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT KANAWHA; AND LOGAN’S SPEECH, 1774.CHAPTER X. BOON AND THE SETTLEMENT OF KENTUCKY, 1775.CHAPTER XI. IN THE CURRENT OF THE REVOLUTION—THE SOUTHERN BACKWOODSMEN OVERWHELM THE CHEROKEES, 1776.CHAPTER XII. GROWTH AND CIVIL ORGANIZATION OF KENTUCKY, 1776.
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (491)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreHistory
Length8 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byJoseph Tabler
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Series
More from Theodore Roosevelt
Hero TalesTheodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge5h 41m3.9 (766)$17
Books for Holidays in the OpenTheodore Roosevelt21m3.7 (13)$3
The Winning of the West, Vol. 2Theodore Roosevelt9h 48m4.0 (65)$20
The Winning of the West, Vol. 3Theodore Roosevelt8h 49m4.0 (47)$20
The Winning of the West, Vol. 4Theodore Roosevelt9h 12m4.2 (156)$23
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
Ghosts of HiroshimaCharles Pellegrino8h 59m4.5 (877)$23
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal11h 23m4.6 (2.6K)$29 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h4.6 (5.2K)$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m4.6 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
Fall and RiseMitchell Zuckoff17h 23m4.6 (9.8K)$40 · $0.00
The SurvivorJosef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin9h 22m4.6 (2.5K)$29 · $0.00
Always FaithfulThomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki12h 12m4.6 (977)$29 · $0.00
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 (Annotated)Alexis de Tocqueville17h 25m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
All the Gallant MenDonald Stratton, Ken Gire5h 55m4.6 (11.8K)$24 · $0.00
You may also like
FreedomSebastian Junger3h 7m4.0 (7.9K)$24 · $0.00
The Old Santa Fe TrailHenry Inman14h 49m4.2 (303)$1 · $0.00
The Men Who United the StatesSimon Winchester13h 34m4.0 (5.6K)$33 · $0.00
The Gallic War & The Civil War (Annotated)Julius Caesar16h 26m4.2 (2.3K)$2.99 · $0.00
Lost on Planet ChinaJ. Maarten Troost10h 49m3.9 (14.2K)$21 · $0.00
Almost HumanLee Berger, John Hawks6h 34m4.3 (3.1K)$20
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far WestWashington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville13h 57m4.1 (357)$1 · $0.00
The Last American FrontierFrederic Logan Paxson10h 19m3.4 (51)$25
All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and WaterwaysWilliam Charles Henry Wood4h 28m$2 · $0.00
Los GringosH. A. Wise13h 32m4.3 (10)$1 · $0.00
A Gringo in Mañana-LandHarry L. Foster9h 4m$2.30
The Lands of the Tamed Turk; or, the Balkan States of to-dayBlair Jaekel4h 41m$2 · $0.00
Tales of the Angler’s Eldorado, New ZealandZane Grey7h 6m4.0 (55)$20
The Bible in Spain (Annotated)George Borrow24h 24m4.2 (135)$1.99 · $0.00
Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South AfricaAndrew A. Anderson14h 13m$2 · $0.00
Spanish America (Vol. 1&2)C. Reginald Enock15h 55m$1 · $0.00
The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike: 1805-1807Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues46h 40m4.0 (58)$1 · $0.00
South America: Observations and ImpressionsJames Bryce Viscount Bryce13h 39m3.8 (81)$1 · $0.00
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 175+ Western Novels & Short Stories in One EditionMark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Max Brand, James Oliver Curwood, B. M. Bower, Zane Grey, Jackson Gregory, Jack London, William MacLeod Raine, William Patterson White, Rex Beach, Emerson Hough, Will Lillibridge, Andy Adams, Bret Harte, Owen Wister, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, O. Henry, Grace Livingston Hill, Charles King, Charles Alden Seltzer, Stephen Crane, Dane Coolidge, Marah Ellis Ryan, Francis William Sullivan, Frederic Homer Balch, Frederic Remington, Robert W. Chambers, Forrestine C. Hooker, James B. Hendryx, Frank H. Spearman, J. Allan Dunn, Ann S. Stephens, Robert E. Howard, Clarence E. Mulford, R.M. Ballantyne, Charles Siringo, Isabel E. Ostrander, Frederic Logan Paxson1012h 24m4.3 (13)$1 · $0.00
The Clipper Ship EraArthur H. Clark10h 47m$2.30