My Life on the Plains: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

My Life on the Plains, credited to Gen. George A. Custer, 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 My Life on the Plains, by Gen. George A. Custer. Read by Ken Campbell. George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. He eventually met his fate in the battle of Little Big Horn in one of the most notable defeats of American armed forces. My Life on the Plains is an autobiographical first-hand account of the Indian Wars of 1867-1869, detailing the winter campaign of 1868 in which Custer led the 7th US cavalry against the Cheyenne indians. The book is a historical document of the perspectives and attitudes of it's age and author as well as an account of army life during the expeditions of the Indian Wars. Expect a fair amount of masculine bravado, historical fact-bending and quite a few stomach-turning descriptions of violence from both the indians and the cavalry. (Summary by Illiterati)

Recording facts

• Recording title: My Life on the Plains
• Author credits: Gen. George A. Custer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 17:44:39

Catalogue topics

• history
• memoirs
• adventure
• george custer

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Chapter I — 34:27
2. 02 - Chapter II — 27:41
3. 03 - Chapter III — 46:11
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 40:38
5. 05 - Chapter - V — 30:14
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 29:03
7. 07 - Chapter VII, Part One — 28:29
8. 08 - Chapter VII, Part Two — 28:28
9. 09 - Chapter VIII — 38:11
10. 10 - Chapter IX — 30:07
11. 11 - Chapter X, Part One — 25:05
12. 12 - Chapter X, Part Two — 26:53
13. 13 - Chapter XI, Part One — 30:56
14. 14 - Chapter XI, Part Two — 27:37
15. 15 - Chapter XII — 50:23
16. 16 - Chapter XIII, Part One — 33:50
17. 17 - Chapter XIII, Part Two — 32:07
18. 18 - Chapter XIV, Part One — 36:28
19. 19 - Chapter XIV, Part Two — 28:58
20. 20 - Chapter IV, Part One — 35:55
21. 21 - Chapter XV, Part Two — 32:36
22. 22 - Chapter XVI, Part One — 30:58
23. 23 - Chapter XVI, Part Two — 30:57
24. 24 - Chapter XVII — 38:16

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