A Texas Matchmaker: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Texas Matchmaker, credited to Andy Adams, 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 Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams. Read in English by Richard Kilmer As a boy Andy Adams helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. During the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trails. A Texas Matchmaker is a narrative that describes the work of a cowboy on a large southTexas ranch during the late 1800’s. Adams is considered to be one of foremost writers of the life of the real American cowboy. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Texas Matchmaker
• Author credits: Andy Adams
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 9:50:18

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• adventure
• romance
• western

Track guide

1. 01 - Lance Lovelace — 19:38
2. 02 - Shepherd's Ferry — 26:59
3. 03 - Las Palomas — 30:35
4. 04 - Christmas — 20:42
5. 05 - A Pigeon Hunt — 33:31
6. 06 - Spring of '76 — 32:02
7. 07 - San Jacinto Day — 29:46
8. 08 - A Cat Hunt on the Frio — 18:13
9. 09 - The Rose and its Thorn — 20:33
10. 10 - Aftermath — 31:06
11. 11 - A Turkey Bake — 21:40
12. 12 - Summer of '77 — 37:09
13. 13 - Hide Hunting — 28:33
14. 14 - A Two Year's Drouth — 34:32
15. 15 - In Commemoration — 26:50
16. 16 - Matchmaking — 26:32
17. 17 - Winter at Las Palomas — 25:29
18. 18 - An Indian Scare — 26:14
19. 19 - Horse Brands — 24:04
20. 20 - Shadows — 28:08
21. 21 - Interlocutory Proceedings — 29:54
22. 22 - Sunset — 18:08

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