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The Frontiersmen

A Narrative


Unabridged

30 hours 30 min

2011

EN

The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast ...

Price$29.99 USD

2019

EN

Winter ended in late March. April was a transitional month, with freezing rains and raw winds. In May, spring truly arrives. As day after day the sun continues to shine, to warm the cold waters of Oak Lake near the Illinois-Wisconsin border, the lives of the animal who live in and around the lake begin to change, for May is the Wild Season. The feeding, the fighting, the mating, the bearing of young and the dying of nature's wild creatures take on intensity and excitement. There is a renew...

Price$3.99 USD

2025

EN

The Last Great Auk is Allan W. Eckert's haunting and deeply researched novel about the extinction of one of the North Atlantic's most remarkable birds. Blending meticulous historical detail with vivid storytelling, Eckert reconstructs the final decades of the great auk, a flightless seabird once abundant on the rocky coasts and islands of the North Atlantic but driven to extinction in the mid-19th century by hunting, egg collecting, and human exploitation.Told through a mix of historical f...

A Sorrow in Our Heart

The Life of Tecumseh


Unabridged

32 hours 42 min

2019

EN

A biography of the famous Shawnee describes Tecumseh's plan to amalgamate all North American tribes into one people, his role as statesman and military strategist, and his death in the Battle of Thames.

Price$34.99 USD

That Dark and Bloody River

Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley

Unabridged

35 hours 48 min

2019

EN

An epic novel by an award–winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable.They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives fro...

Price$39.99 USD

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2026

EN

The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast ...