The Conquest: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Conquest, credited to Oscar Micheaux, 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 Conquest by Oscar Micheaux. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. "This is the true story of a negro who was discontented and the circumstances that were the outcome of that discontent." While considered a novel, this largely autobiographical story is based on the author's experience as an African-American pioneer in South Dakota. (Summary by MaryAnn)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Conquest
• Author credits: Oscar Micheaux
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 9:33:19

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 01 - Discontent--Spirit of the Pioneer — 15:48
2. 02 - Leaving Home--A Maiden — 12:47
3. 03 - Chicago, Chasing a Will-O-The-Wisp — 17:46
4. 04 - The P-----n Company — 29:10
5. 05 - ''Go West Young Man'' — 11:53
6. 06 - ''And Where is Oristown?'' — 12:26
7. 07 - Oristown, the ''Little Crow'' Reservation — 10:46
8. 08 - Far Down the Pacific--The Proposal — 10:40
9. 09 - The Return--Ernest Nicholson — 3:37
10. 10 - The Oklahoma Grafter — 9:19
11. 11 - Dealin' in Mules — 11:22
12. 12 - The Homesteaders — 9:16
13. 13 - Imaginations Run Amuck — 6:54
14. 14 - The Surveyors — 19:22
15. 15 - ''Which Town Will the R.R. Strike?'' — 8:44
16. 16 - Megory's Day — 18:30
17. 17 - Ernest Nicholson's Return — 11:03
18. 18 - Comes Stanley, the Chief Engineer — 5:16
19. 19 - In the Valley of the Keya Paha — 11:33
20. 20 - The Outlaw's Last Stand — 3:59
21. 21 - The Boom — 12:59
22. 22 - The President's Proclamation — 4:17
23. 23 - Where the Negro Fails — 11:46
24. 24 - And the Crowds Did Come--The Prairie Fire — 8:23

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