The Splendid Wayfaring by John NEIHARDT (1881 - 1973) Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Modern (19th C)
Read by: Phil Schempf in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Preface
00:04:39 - 01 - I - Down the Ohio
00:37:23 - 02 - II - At St. Louis
00:53:29 - 03 - III - Northbound with the Robins
01:10:54 - 04 - IV - The Battle
01:29:02 - 05 - V - The Express to Henry
01:47:58 - 06 - VI - The Two Parties Unite
02:01:15 - 07 - VII - The Leavenworth Campaign
02:19:57 - 08 - VIII - Westward by the Grand
02:45:01 - 09 - IX - Jed Wrestles with Death
02:59:27 - 10 - X - The Ghost
03:16:41 - 11 - XI - The First White Men Through South Pass
03:27:11 - 12 - XII - Treasure and Trouble Therewith
03:44:01 - 13 - XIII - The Return
03:59:20 - 14 - XIV - Ashley's Long Winter Trail
04:21:06 - 15 - XV - Down Green River
04:34:30 - 16 - XVI - The Rendezvous
04:52:51 - 17 - XVII - Back to the States
05:07:51 - 18 - XVIII - General Ashley Retires
05:26:11 - 19 - XIX - The First Americans Overland to California
06:00:29 - 20 - XX - Smith's Second Journey
06:25:43 - 21 - XXI - The End of the Trail
Quote:'In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansion of our nation beyond the Missouri. I have made Jedediah Smith the central figure of my story, for of all explorers of the Great West he was in many ways the most remarkable, though, heretofore, our school children have not even heard his name. In order to give the student a sense of the continuity of history, I have begun my narrative with a brief account of the movement across the Alleghenies and down the Ohio River after the Revolutionary War; and I have suggested the relation of westward expansion in America to the whole race movement from the beginning.' (from the preface)
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