A Journey in Search of Christmas: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Journey in Search of Christmas, credited to Owen Wister, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Journey in Search of Christmas, by Owen Wister (1860-1938). Read by David Wales. Cowboy Lin McLean rides into frontier Cheyenne, Wyoming, at Christmastime and learns a powerful meaning of Christmas. Author Owen Wister is well known for his western writings, famously the novel The Virginian. Illustrations are by the western artist Frederic Remington. (Summary by David Wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Journey in Search of Christmas
• Author credits: Owen Wister
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:21:35

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• western
• holidays
• Christmas
• cowboy
• Wister
• McLean
• Cheyenne

Track guide

1. 01 Chapter 01 Lin's Money Talks Joy — 10:34
2. 02 Chapter 02 Lin's Money is Dumb — 21:37
3. 03 Chapter 03 A Transaction In Bootblacking — 11:12
4. 04 Chapter 04 Turkey and Responsibility — 22:15
5. 05 Chapter 05 Santa Claus Lin — 15:59

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