The Song of Hugh Glass: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Song of Hugh Glass, credited to Neihardt, John, 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 Song of Hugh Glass, by John Neihardt. Read by Nathan This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the Trans-Missouri region. The poem describes the friendship that springs up between two trappers - an older man named Hugh Glass, and a younger named Jamie - who fight, scout and hunt together in the wilds. The story is set when Jamie and a companion betray Hugh: Hugh is abandoned - alive, and badly wounded - to die by the Missouri; to allow Jamie and his companion to safely flee the enmity of hostile Indians in the vicinity. Jamie and his fellow cover their cowardice with a specious lie: that they left only after Hugh died of natural causes, whereupon they first buried him before riding north to rejoin the trapping-party. But against all odds - Hugh survives. Regaining consciousness and finding himself alone, Hugh shrewdly deduces the identity of those who betrayed him. Then - fired by a relentless hate to punish those who left him to die - Hugh claws his painful way back to the land of the living: but only to set out to track down his betrayers and deal out some requisite summary justice. (Introduction by Nathan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Song of Hugh Glass
• Author credits: Neihardt, John
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 2:21:25

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• Neihardt

Track guide

1. 01 Graybeard and Goldhair — 29:42
2. 02 The Awakening — 12:00
3. 03 The Crawl — 1:04:01
4. 04 The Return of the Ghost — 16:27
5. 05 Jamie — 19:40

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