The Pathfinder: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Pathfinder, credited to James Fenimore Cooper, 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 Pathfinder, by James Fenimore Cooper. Read by Mark F. Smith. Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution upstate New York. An old friend, Sergeant Dunham of the 55th Regiment of Foot, asks him to guide his daughter through the wilderness to the fort at Oswego where Dunham serves. With the French engaging native Indian allies against the British and the Yankee colonists, such a journey is far from safe. Dunham has a plan in mind - to see his daughter Mable married off to the most redoubtable frontiersman and marksman in the territory, who is Pathfinder himself. But as an attractive and marriageable young lady, she draws other suitors. Then a military expedition contrives to put Sgt. Dunham, Mable, Pathfinder, and two other wooers into an isolated and dangerous garrison. Here treachery raises the stakes, and with the soldiers of the detachment shot down or captured, all of them must show mettle for any of them to escape with their scalps.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Pathfinder
• Author credits: James Fenimore Cooper
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 18:42:07

Catalogue topics

• cowboy
• frontiersman
• marksman
• western

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Preface and Chapter 01 — 35:06
2. 02 - Chapter 02 — 34:07
3. 03 - Chapter 03 — 29:51
4. 04 - Chapter 04 — 32:51
5. 05 - Chapter 05 — 37:32
6. 06 - Chapter 06 — 29:36
7. 07 - Chapter 07 — 38:08
8. 08 - Chapter 08 — 42:04
9. 09 - Chapter 09 — 32:31
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 36:47
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 47:25
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 28:28
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 48:23
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 35:12
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 38:24
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 30:45
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 31:38
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 49:49
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 1:14:35
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 50:46
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 26:02
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 44:50
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 54:09
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 45:01

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