Early Days Of Old Oregon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Early Days Of Old Oregon, credited to Katharine Berry Judson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Early Days Of Old Oregon by Katharine Berry Judson. Read in English by David Wales Twenty-three stories of the history of early Oregon plus an appendix: A Brief Summary Of The History Of The Old Oregon Country From Original Sources. OLD OREGON was a mighty sweep of country, and a most romantic one. From the northern border of Mexican California to near Sitka in Russian America it stretched, nearly eight hundred miles. Eastward it stretched over a country of mighty mountain … until the limits of the Oregon country, at the crest of the main range of the Rockies…. The romance ever lingers…. I have given four years of devoted study to Oregon history, three of them among the special collections of the Northwest, and over a year in London. In England I had full access to the documents of the Public Record Office, including unpublished accounts of the various explorations, and also, what was a far rarer privilege, access to the journals, diaries, and letters of the Hudson's Bay Company. Simple as this book is, every statement is based on original authority. Comment on the British and American claims to the country is founded entirely upon sources. These sources include journals written by fur-traders In the mountains and on the march, private letters between themselves, official reports of chief factors to their Company in London, diplomatic correspondence of American and English diplomats, and published works, in original editions, of exploration and discovery. It has been my aim to make this volume a clear, straightforward account of the romantic discovery and settlement of Old Oregon… ( Author's Preface and david wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Early Days Of Old Oregon
• Author credits: Katharine Berry Judson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 6:49:02

Catalogue topics

• history
• Indians
• pioneers
• Native Americans
• Oregon
• settlement
• american indians

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Preface — 4:40
2. 01 - Chapter 1 The First White Man's Ship — 5:32
3. 02 - Chapter 2 Captain Cook's Adventures — 11:55
4. 03 - Chapter 3 Captain Meares At Nootka Sound. Launching Of The Northwest America — 13:35
5. 04 - Chapter 4 The Battle In The Straits Of San Juan de Fuca — 4:53
6. 05 - Chapter 5 When Captain Gray Crossed The Terrible Bar — 9:56
7. 06 - Chapter 6 The Adventures Of Lewis And Clark — 23:50
8. 07 - Chapter 7 How They Built Astoria — 17:25
9. 08 - Chapter 8 That "Indian" Thief — 12:17
10. 09 - Chapter 9 An Exciting Horse Race — 9:09
11. 10 - Chapter 10 Adventures In The Yakima Valley — 17:27
12. 11 - Chapter 11 Danger At Fort Walla Walla — 20:13
13. 12 - Chapter 12 Fort Vancouver And Dr. John McLoughlin — 21:04
14. 13 - Chapter 13 The First Apple In The Oregon Country — 3:44
15. 14 - Chapter 14 The Adventures Of The Whitmans — 22:05
16. 15 - Chapter 15 The Oregon Trail — 24:32
17. 16 - Chapter 16 Who Owned The "Oregon Country"? — 37:08
18. 17 - Chapter 17 Through The Nachess Pass — 18:02
19. 18 - Chapter 18 The Beginnings Of Cities — 15:15
20. 19 - Chapter 19 Early Adventures In Seattle — 13:48
21. 20 - Chapter 20 The Life Of The Children — 11:59
22. 21 - Chapter 21 The Great Council At Walla Walla — 17:06
23. 22 - Chapter 22 The Battle Of Seattle — 12:34
24. 23 - Chapter 23 How The Indians Lived — 18:36

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