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Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his own experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and guns and fishing and hunting. He also interviewed people who had been involved in the fur trade, the California gold rush and other pioneers which provided him ...

One of the most famous pioneers in United States history, Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820) spent most of his life exploring and settling the American frontier. He was instrumental in finding and improving the first wilderness trails between the Carolinas and the west, allowing for the settlement of Kentucky. Later in his life, Boone moved his family west again, leading hundreds of settlers to new homes in Missouri.

Listen to Arizona Nights with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. A series of stories loosely connected by the narrative device of different speakers swapping yarns around the campfire at the end of each trail-riding day. A series of spirited tales emphasizing some phase of the life of the ranch, plains, and desert, and all, taken together, forming a single sharply-cut picture of life in the far Southwest.

In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor named Galen Albret took his position seriously. Free traders, or those who dared try to do their trading outside of the Company, found themselves having to face Galen Albret and his methods of dealing with them. One or two offenses he might tolerate, but for those who repeatedly refuse to acknowledge his warning out, he would send them on “La Longue Traverse” through the wilderness without supplies, and from which they seldom returned.

As compatriots gather in the Arizona flatlands one shares a story of how he successfully defended a mining claim, although it was entirely by accident. Glenn Hascall affects an old timey storyteller voice to bring this classic story to life.

Arizona Nights is a collection of tales from the American West as told by those who took part in them.