The Border Bandits: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Border Bandits, credited to J.W. Buel, 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 The Border Bandits by J.W. Buel. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Pmiddy; Shashank Jakhmola; John; Anita Sloma-Martinez; Adrian Stephens ''An authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws Jesse and Frank James and their bands of highwaymen.compiled from reliable sources and containing the latest facts in regard to these desperate freebooters.'' (from the author's sub-title) The James brothers emerged from the Confederate guerrillas to become notorious outlaws of the American west rising to legendary status. J.W. Buel chronicles their path of robbery and murder across the West in short vignettes. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Border Bandits
• Author credits: J.W. Buel
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 4:13:00

Catalogue topics

• Americana
• Crime
• civil war
• ford
• West
• robbery
• outlaws
• union pacific

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 - Preface — 2:42
2. 01 - Jesse and Frank James - Their Youth — 3:44
3. 02 - Career as Guerrillas — 4:07
4. 03 - First Skirmishes — 5:10
5. 04 - Desolation of Lawrence — 9:06
6. 05 - Desperate Fighting by Squads — 9:40
7. 06 - Direful Massacre at Centralia — 5:23
8. 07 - Fortune Turning Against the Guerrillas — 2:11
9. 08 - The Whirlwind of Destruction Changes — 3:54
10. 09 - Jesse James' Career in Texas — 4:14
11. 10 - Robbery and Murder — 6:28
12. 11 - Plundering a Kentucky Bank — 4:06
13. 12 - Bank Robbery and Murder — 3:08
14. 13 - Mysterious Hiding Place in Jackson Co. — 5:31
15. 14 - Terrible Fight in Mexico — 5:27
16. 15 - Plundering an Iowa Bank — 2:48
17. 16 - Another Bank Robbery in Kentucky — 3:33
18. 17 - Robbing the Cash Box at the Kansas City Fair — 3:23
19. 18 - Plundering the Ste. Genevieve Bank — 4:37
20. 19 - Wrecking and Plundering a Train — 5:11
21. 20 - The Stage Robbery near Hot Springs — 5:00
22. 21 - Train Robbery at Gad's Hill — 5:28
23. 22 - Wicher's Unfortunate Hunt for the James Boys — 6:21
24. 23 - Murdering Cow Boys and Driving off Cattle — 3:05

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