The Splendid Wayfaring: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Splendid Wayfaring, credited to John Neihardt, 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 Splendid Wayfaring by John Neihardt. Read in English by Phil Schempf Quote: "In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansion of our nation beyond the Missouri. I have made Jedediah Smith the central figure of my story, for of all explorers of the Great West he was in many ways the most remarkable, though, heretofore, our school children have not even heard his name. In order to give the student a sense of the continuity of history, I have begun my narrative with a brief account of the movement across the Alleghenies and down the Ohio River after the Revolutionary War; and I have suggested the relation of westward expansion in America to the whole race movement from the beginning." (from the preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Splendid Wayfaring
• Author credits: John Neihardt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 6:45:27

Catalogue topics

• Rocky Mountains
• fur trade
• jedediah smith

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 4:40
2. 01 - I - Down the Ohio — 32:44
3. 02 - II - At St. Louis — 16:05
4. 03 - III - Northbound with the Robins — 17:25
5. 04 - IV - The Battle — 18:08
6. 05 - V - The Express to Henry — 18:57
7. 06 - VI - The Two Parties Unite — 13:17
8. 07 - VII - The Leavenworth Campaign — 18:42
9. 08 - VIII - Westward by the Grand — 25:03
10. 09 - IX - Jed Wrestles with Death — 14:26
11. 10 - X - The Ghost — 17:14
12. 11 - XI - The First White Men Through South Pass — 10:30
13. 12 - XII - Treasure and Trouble Therewith — 16:50
14. 13 - XIII - The Return — 15:19
15. 14 - XIV - Ashley's Long Winter Trail — 21:46
16. 15 - XV - Down Green River — 13:24
17. 16 - XVI - The Rendezvous — 18:21
18. 17 - XVII - Back to the States — 15:00
19. 18 - XVIII - General Ashley Retires — 18:20
20. 19 - XIX - The First Americans Overland to California — 34:18
21. 20 - XX - Smith's Second Journey — 25:15
22. 21 - XXI - The End of the Trail — 19:43

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