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The Scalp Hunters

Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers

(4 Sterne; 20 Bewertungen)

"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

Bewertungen

(1 Sterne)

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.

(4 Sterne)

first half is boring. last half pretty good. a few very annoying readers but most are good

(5 Sterne)

It took my breath away, not once, but chapter after chapter.