The Scalp Hunters
Thomas Mayne Reid
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
"Unroll the world’s map, and look upon the great northern continent of America. Away to the wild west, away toward the setting sun, away beyond many a far meridian, let your eyes wander. Rest them where golden rivers rise among peaks that carry the eternal snow. Rest them there.
You are looking upon a land whose features are un-furrowed by human hands, still bearing the marks of the Almighty mould, as upon the morning of creation; a region whose every object wears the impress of God’s image. His ambient spirit lives in the silent grandeur of its mountains, and speaks in the roar of its mighty rivers: a region redolent of romance, rich in the reality of adventure.
Follow me, with the eye of your mind, through scenes of wild beauty, of savage sublimity."
So begins this early book by Mayne Reid, a book of romance, of adventure, and of the wide open spaces of the Wild West. (Adapted from the first chapter) (0 hr 9 min)
Chapters
The Wild West | 13:49 | Read by Dale Latham |
The Prairie Merchant | 9:42 | Read by Deon Gines |
The Prairie Fever | 9:06 | Read by Dale Latham |
A Ride on a Buffalo Bull | 15:54 | Read by Deon Gines |
In a Bad Fix | 16:49 | Read by Dale Latham |
Santa Fe | 12:56 | Read by Deon Gines |
The Fandango | 20:17 | Read by Deon Gines |
Seguin the Scalp-Hunter | 9:41 | Read by Deon Gines |
Left Behind | 10:54 | Read by Deon Gines |
The Del Norte | 8:18 | Read by Deon Gines |
The 'Journey of Death' | 11:10 | Read by Deon Gines |
Zoe | 11:12 | Read by Deon Gines |
Seguin | 6:22 | Read by Deon Gines |
Love | 6:25 | Read by Deon Gines |
Light and Shade | 8:28 | Read by Deon Gines |
An Autobiography | 17:56 | Read by Deon Gines |
Up the Del Norte | 11:04 | Read by Deon Gines |
Geography and Geology | 13:55 | Read by Deon Gines |
The Scalp-Hunters | 19:55 | Read by Deon Gines |
Sharp-Shooting | 18:06 | Read by Bill Boerst |
A Feat a la Tell | 10:33 | Read by Bill Boerst |
A Feat a la Tail | 11:52 | Read by Deon Gines |
The Programme | 10:45 | Read by Deon Gines |
El Sol and La Luna | 10:28 | Read by Bill Boerst |
The War-Trail | 18:35 | Read by Bill Boerst |
Three Days in the Trap | 18:02 | Read by Deon Gines |
The Diggers | 7:22 | Read by Deon Gines |
Dacoma | 13:21 | Read by Bill Boerst |
A Dinner with Two Dishes | 20:29 | Read by Bill Boerst |
Blinding the Pursuer | 17:29 | Read by Deon Gines |
A Buffalo 'Surround' | 17:32 | Read by Deon Gines |
Another 'Coup' | 11:07 | Read by Bill Boerst |
A Bitter Trap | 10:26 | Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan |
The Phantom City | 19:18 | Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan |
The Mountain of Gold | 9:28 | Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan |
Navajoa | 9:05 | Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan |
The Night Ambuscade | 9:23 | Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan |
Adele | 16:26 | Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan |
The White Scalp | 16:08 | Read by Kit Noussis |
The Fight in the Pass | 20:09 | Read by Deon Gines |
The Barranca | 14:09 | Read by Deon Gines |
The Foe | 7:35 | Read by Bill Boerst |
New Misery | 12:08 | Read by Bill Boerst |
The Flag of Truce | 12:50 | Read by Daniel Nunan |
A Vexed Treaty | 15:27 | Read by Deon Gines |
A Conflict with Closed Doors | 12:31 | Read by Deon Gines |
A Queer Encounter in a Cave | 13:50 | Read by Bill Boerst |
Smoked Out | 7:36 | Read by Bill Boerst |
A Novel Mode of Equitation | 6:09 | Read by Bill Boerst |
A Fast Dye | 10:37 | Read by Deon Gines |
Astonishing the Natives | 10:06 | Read by Deon Gines |
Running Amuck | 11:19 | Read by Bill Boerst |
A Conflict Upon a Cliff | 16:27 | Read by Deon Gines |
An Unexpected Encontre | 13:07 | Read by Deon Gines |
The Rescue | 11:01 | Read by TriciaG |
El Paso Del Norte | 8:19 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Touching the Chords of Memory | 15:59 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Reviews
Chris
The first half of the book is a bit slow, but when it starts to get a good in the second half, it is completely RUINED by some terrible readers! I know they are volunteers, but some had annoying voices and Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan either had a speech impediment, or was drunk and unintelligible at points! Relying on volunteers as one thing, but this was shocking! Surely these books must be vetted, and if you can’t read clearly with a decent sounding voice, they should say thanks but no thanks!! If you persevere through these things, the second half of the book is really good.
Vern
first half is boring. last half pretty good. a few very annoying readers but most are good
Rogers
It took my breath away, not once, but chapter after chapter.