The Virginian: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Virginian, credited to Owen Wister, 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 Virginian, by Owen Wister. Read by Michelle Harris. Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The novel takes the side of the large ranchers, and depicts the lynchings as frontier justice, meted out by the protagonist, who is a member of a natural aristocracy among men. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Virginian
• Author credits: Owen Wister
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 14:30:04

Catalogue topics

• western
• adventure
• Johnson County
• Wyoming

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - To Theodore Roosevelt; To the Reader; Ch 01 - Enter the Man — 19:07
2. 02 - Ch 02 - — 37:18
3. 03 - Ch 03 - Steve Treats — 20:03
4. 04 - Ch 04 - Deep into Cattle Land; Ch 05 - Enter the Woman — 37:25
5. 05 - Ch 06 - Em'ly — 33:55
6. 06 - Ch 07 - Through Two Snows; Ch 08 - The Sincere Spinster; Ch 09 - The Spinster Meets the Unknown — 35:46
7. 07 - Ch 10 - Where Fancy Was Bred — 25:43
8. 08 - Ch 11 - — 22:10
9. 09 - Ch 12 - Quality and Equality; Ch 13 - The Game and the Nation - Act First — 34:13
10. 10 - Ch 14 - Between the Acts; Ch 15 - The Game and the Nation - Act Second — 27:36
11. 11 - Ch 16 - The Game and the Nation - Last Act — 49:11
12. 12 - Ch 17 - Scipio Moralizes; Ch 18 - — 32:34
13. 13 - Ch 19 - Dr. MacBride Begs Pardon; Ch 20 - The Judge Ignores Particulars — 21:38
14. 14 - Ch 21 - In a State of Sin — 29:58
15. 15 - Ch 22 - — 19:28
16. 16 - Ch 23 - Various Points; Ch 24 - A Letter With a Moral — 29:36
17. 17 - Ch 25 - Progress of the Lost Dog — 28:35
18. 18 - Ch 26 - Balaam and Pedro — 37:28
19. 19 - Ch 27 - Grandmother Stark (Part 1) — 34:50
20. 20 - Ch 27 - Grandmother Stark (Part 2) — 32:34
21. 21 - Ch 28 - No Dream to Wake From; Ch 29 - Word to Bennington — 34:37
22. 22 - Ch 30 - A Stable on the Flat; Ch 31 - The Cottonwoods — 47:10
23. 23 - Ch 32 - Superstition Trail — 37:17
24. 24 - Ch 33 - The Spinster Loses Some Sleep; Ch 34 - — 37:40

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