The Last of the Plainsmen: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Last of the Plainsmen, credited to Zane Grey, 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:

Travel along as Mike Vendetti aka miketheauctioneer narrates an outstanding true account of a trip made in 1909 by Zane Grey and a plainsman, Buffalo Jones, through the Grand Canyon to lasso a cougar. That’s right lasso. Throw a rope around. That’s equivalent to catching one by the tail. Librivox recording of The Last of the Plainsmen by Zane Grey (1872-1939)Read by Mike Vendetti. As I narrated this book, I found fact to be as exciting as fiction. This part of the west was relatively wild and untamed at this time. Wolves, wild horses, buffalo and other wildlife were quite prevalent, and the Indians were not that friendly. This adventure would never make it to “Animal Planet”, or as a National Geographic special, because there is quite a lot of what we would consider cruelty to animals, but this is a true story, and life as it was at the turn of the last century. Parts of this story will offend the sensibilities of some, but it is a glimpse into a world that no longer exists. I was definitely drawn into this story, as I hope the listener will be. (Summary by Mike Vendetti)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Last of the Plainsmen
• Author credits: Zane Grey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 7:11:10

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• Western
• Children
• History

Track guide

1. 00 - Prefatory Note — 3:40
2. 01 - The Arizona Desert — 36:10
3. 02 - The Range — 34:01
4. 03 - The Last Herd — 27:48
5. 04 - The Trail — 32:45
6. 05 - Oak Spring — 13:11
7. 06 - The White Mustang — 18:19
8. 07 - Snake Gulch — 24:17
9. 08 - Naza! Naza! Naza! — 15:29
10. 09 - The Land of the Musk-Ox — 20:39
11. 10 - Success and Failure — 30:55
12. 11 - On the Siwash — 31:09
13. 12 - Old Tom — 27:49
14. 13 - Singing Cliffs — 28:25
15. 14 - All Heroes but One — 28:33
16. 15 - Jones on Cougars — 15:42
17. 16 - Kitty — 37:07
18. 17 - Conclusion — 5:24

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