The Iron Hunter: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Iron Hunter, credited to Chase Salmon Osborn, 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 The Iron Hunter by Chase Salmon Osborn. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. This is an autobiography by Michigan Governor Chase Osborn. Osborn was born in 1860 in a log house in Huntington County, Indiana and later attended Purdue University, without graduating. He briefly worked at the Chicago Tribune and a newspaper in Milwaukee before marrying in 1881. He and his bride moved to Florence, on the northern border of Wisconsin, to run a local newspaper and prospect for iron. In Florence he used his newspaper to organize opposition to the criminals who controlled the town, at great risk to his life. Later in the 1880s he moved to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and again ran a newspaper. Sault Ste. Marie would remain his home for most of his life. He was appointed Postmaster, then state Fish and Game Warden, then Commissioner of Railroads. He was increasingly involved in state and national politics, and served as a Progressive Michigan Governor from 1911-1913. Afterward he remained involved in politics, traveled the world, became wealthy through iron prospecting, contributed articles to magazines, authored several books, and continued to run a newspaper. Osborn was throughout his life a very active outdoorsman, and was a member of numerous organizations. (Summary by Ted Lienhart)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Iron Hunter
• Author credits: Chase Salmon Osborn
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 9:36:14

Catalogue topics

• michigan political history
• michigan upper peninsula
• michigan iron mining
• michigan governors

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 - Statement — 2:52
2. 01 - Wolves - Human and Otherwise — 25:53
3. 02 - What's in Your Name or Mine? — 13:05
4. 03 - Natural Born Rebels — 28:34
5. 04 - Poverty that Cramps and then Expands the Soul — 20:34
6. 05 - Wild Boyhood Dreams Fill My Mind and I Act Upon Them — 21:23
7. 06 - Swept Into the Human Maelstrom of Chicago — 14:17
8. 07 - I Drive a Coal Wagon - Pile Lumber - Capture a Murderer and Dock Wallop in Milwaukee — 24:09
9. 08 - Married on Credit I Give My Bride a Five Cent Bouquet and We Take a Wedding Trip on a Street Car — 14:38
10. 09 - I Undertake the Study of Iron Ore and Engage in Exploration and Prospecting — 8:57
11. 10 - My First Trip Into the Trackless Wilds of Unexplored Canada — 14:42
12. 11 - Charmed by the Beauty of Sault De Sainte Marie and Fascinated by its Environs I Choose it as a Home for Life — 19:19
13. 12 - I am Used as a Political Fulcrum by Jay Hubbell to Pry Out Sam Stephenson — 13:27
14. 13 - The Sacrifice of General Alger to Appease Political Blood Howlers — 10:27
15. 14 - My Association with Hazen S. Pingreee Plunges Me Into Politics Deeper than Ever — 18:54
16. 15 - I Become a Candidate for Governor to Succeed Hazen S. Pingree — 13:58
17. 16 - The Poetry, Charm, Romance and Usefulness of Iron Ore — 14:53
18. 17 - Iron Ore Bacteria — 10:44
19. 18 - Reading the Story of the Stones as Printed on the Pages of the Earth's Surface — 10:22
20. 19 - Great Lean Outcropping of Iron Ore Unseen Under the Very Eyes of the World — 17:15
21. 20 - Into the Heart of the Arctic Lapland Where the Mysteries are Attuned to the Muffled Footfalls of Silence — 18:58
22. 21 - Deposits of Iron Ore and Beds of Coal Under the Shadow of the Pole — 10:20
23. 22 - A Starvation Hike to Hunt for a Hidden Range of Iron Ore — 21:16
24. 23 - Fatherly Attitude of John W. Gates and John J. Mitchell — 13:26

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