Old Rail Fence Corners: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Old Rail Fence Corners, credited to Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Old Rail Fence Corners by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris. Read in English by Jill Engle; Phil Schempf; Denise Nordell; Lynne Thompson; Lucretia B.; ReadAllDay; Andrea Kotzer; Greg Giordano; Natalya; Kimberly Krause; Careyanne04; Paul Simonin; Doug Sheppard; Marty; TriciaG; SteveToner Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now state of Minnesota (United States of America). This book has direct accounts of mid-19th century lives and experiences on the frontier, recounted by the frontiersmen and women when many of them were in their mid-90s. A group of volunteer women -- the Book Committee -- sought to record these recollections before they were lost with the passing of these remarkable adventurers. Experience a wild, dangerous Minnesota full of mosquitoes, threatening wildlife, difficult roads, dirt floors, food scarcity, and Native American neighbors. Interactions with Native Americans are a major theme throughout the book; settlers relate their experiences in the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War, their outsider accounts of interactions between Minnesota's Native American tribes, and the settlers' impressions of the Native American inhabitants with whom they share the land, which range from outright fear to acceptance to friendship and respect. Listen to the amazing stories of the Minnesota settlers as they come back to life through the voices of our talented readers! These are the stories of Minnesota's adventurous, resourceful, and brave pioneers that you won't soon forget. - Summary by Jill Engle

Recording facts

• Recording title: Old Rail Fence Corners
• Author credits: Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 70
• Listed recording duration: 11:40:01

Opening tracks: first 24 of 70

1. 00 - Explanatory; The Book Committee; The Reason — 7:24
2. 01 - Mr. Eli Pettijohn — 14:38
3. 02 - Mrs. Missouri Rose Pratt — 11:37
4. 03 - Mrs. Gideon Pond; Captain Stephen Hanks — 11:20
5. 04 - Mr. Caleb Dorr; Mrs. Mahlon Black — 7:42
6. 05 - Mr. James McMullen — 11:51
7. 06 - Mrs. James McMullen; Dr. Lysander P. Foster; Mrs. Silas Farnham — 8:46
8. 07 - General William G. Le Duc — 13:54
9. 08 - Mr. Reuben Robinson; Mrs. Samuel B. Dresser; Mrs. Rufus Farnham; Captain John Van der Horck — 10:54
10. 09 - Mrs. James Pratt — 9:42
11. 10 - Mrs. Mary Harrison — 6:25
12. 11 - Mr. William W. Ellison — 8:13
13. 12 - Mr. D. E. Dow; Mrs. Elizabeth Clifford; Mrs. Richard Chute — 10:41
14. 13 - Mr. Charles Bohanon; Mr. Austin W. Farnsworth — 9:38
15. 14 - Mr. Elijah Nutting; Mr. Charles Rye; Mr. James M. Gillespie; Miss Nancy Gillespie; Mr. Isaac Layman — 9:29
16. 15 - Mrs. Mary Weeks; Mrs. E. A. Merrill; Mrs. Martha Thorne — 10:04
17. 16 - Mrs. Nancy Lowell; Mrs. William Dow — 8:02
18. 17 - Mrs. William J. White — 9:02
19. 18 - Mrs. Paulina Starkloff; Mrs. Anna E. Balser; Mrs. Mary E. Dowling; Mrs. Robert Anderson — 11:51
20. 19 - Mrs. Wilder; Mr. Warren Wakefield — 9:26
21. 20 - Mrs. Leroy Sampson; Mrs. Anna Simmons Apgar; Mrs. Newman Woods; Mr. Chester L. Hopkins — 8:49
22. 21 - Miss Florinda Hopkins; Mrs. J. W. Ladd; Mrs. C. H. Pettit; Mrs. Anna Hennes Huston; Mr. Henry Favel; Mrs. Rebecca Plummer; Mrs. C. A. Burdick; Mr. Peter Cooper — 10:46
23. 22 - Mr. Stephen Rochette; Mrs. Stephen Rochette; Mrs. James A. Winter; Mrs. George E. Fisher; Lieut. Governor Gilman; Mrs. Austin W. Farnsworth — 10:25
24. 23 - Mr. Theodore Curtis; Mrs. Charles M. Godley; Mr. Frank Slocum — 11:32

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