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Empire of the Summer Moon
- Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 15,320
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13,013
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12,989
Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son, Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to endure narrator
- By fowler on 12-21-19
- Empire of the Summer Moon
- Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: David Drummond
Wow
Reviewed: 01-16-21
Really great book. Very little dull spots. Learned a lot. About the Comanche. I highly recommend
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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
- By: John F. Ross
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 210
Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates Rogers's life and his spectacular battles with breathtaking immediacy and meticulous accuracy...
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW!!!
- By Olaf the Black on 11-23-18
Really good historical book
Reviewed: 12-04-20
I really enjoyed this book. Being from Michigan, I’m very proud to be one and now more proud after finishing this. I knew of Robert Rogers, but not this much about him. Yes he decided to be for the British but his spirit was definitely American. The narrator did very well reading the book and was very good with his French. Highly recommend.
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Coyote America
- A Natural and Supernatural History
- By: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,941
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,466
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,467
Coyote America is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the "wolf" in our backyards and its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Enjoyable Book, Subject Matter, and Reader
- By John Townsend on 03-17-17
- Coyote America
- A Natural and Supernatural History
- By: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
Let the authors read THEIR material
Reviewed: 11-11-20
This books was good but I know for sure that it’ll be better if author, Dan Flores narrated instead. Book publishers and audio companies or whomever should get that through their heads. Not you Audible. You cool.
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American Buffalo
- In Search of a Lost Icon
- By: Steven Rinella
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10,258
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,090
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9,046
Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal
- By Hunter Cole on 08-01-19
- American Buffalo
- In Search of a Lost Icon
- By: Steven Rinella
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella
Amazing
Reviewed: 11-11-20
Just an amazing book about the bison history. A good read and great hunting story.
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12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- By: Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge MD - foreword
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92,407
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80,856
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80,250
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Your Average 'Self Help' Book
- By The Bookie on 06-04-18
- 12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- By: Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge MD - foreword
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
Getting back on track
Reviewed: 11-11-20
In 2013 I got really ill (physically and mentally). So much that the following year it was best for me to change my life around. Lost a ton of weight, moved, changed careers and became a better man. I somehow lost the urge to stay mentally and physically healthy and gain a good amount of the bad vibes back into my life. After listening to Jordan Peterson, I’m k I will be re-reading this book and follow the steps to get back into my good vibes. Thank-you, Jordan!
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Facing East from Indian Country
- A Native History of Early America
- By: Daniel K Richter
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not quite what it purports to be
- By Buretto on 12-29-18
- Facing East from Indian Country
- A Native History of Early America
- By: Daniel K Richter
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
BBBBOOOOORRRRRIIINNNNGGGG!!!
Reviewed: 10-08-20
This is a bad audible book to listen to. I’m a driver so I listen to a lot of books and podcasts. This book right here almost had me falling asleep halfway through!
So bad that I had to stop at a disgusting truck stop in Chicago, grab the darkest coffee, put 10 packets of sugar in it, then debated whether or not to give the ugly lot lizard $20 dollars just to wake me up.
You can tell the narrator was getting tired as well. He’s a bad reader and the book is bad. It could be better if you’re really Christian and love reading books about Europeans forcing Christianity on indigenous people. Do not read.
P.S
I didn’t get the lot lizard. I know my boundaries
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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- By: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 339
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier - the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground - when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too PC
- By Eric on 07-24-13
- The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- By: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Wait..What? Hold up, back up
Reviewed: 09-30-20
I’ve been interested in Indigenous people and the relationship of Europeans during this time so I got this book and listened to it. The book itself was good overall. Very detailed. Narrator Paul Boehmer wasn’t good at all which made the book hard to listen to at times. There are a lot of names of men and tribes that sound so familiar with each other that when he says it (too fast and too much) that you get lost and have to go back and re-listen to it to be more confused at times.
Overall the book is very good and very detailed. I was hoping for more talking about the Old West Territory (Michigan for me) more but didn’t until the very end but that’s my fault for not picking the correct book.
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American Sniper
- The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- By: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,073
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28,066
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28,059
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan ("the devil") and placed a bounty on his head.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tremendously Enlightening, could not put it down
- By T. Edwards on 01-09-12
- American Sniper
- The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- By: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: John Pruden
It’s good but expected better
Reviewed: 07-09-20
I made a New Years Resolution to read/listen books about Iraq/Afghanistan Wars to better understand what the Soldiers/SEALS went through. This was my 5th book and it was good. Even though it was good, it wasn’t as intense as I thought it was going to be. Chris is an American Hero and I thank him and his family for their sacrifice.
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