The Western United States: A Geographical Reader: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Western United States: A Geographical Reader, credited to Harold W. Fairbanks, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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Librivox recording of The Western United States: A Geographical Reader by Harold W. Fairbanks. Read by Laura Caldwell. "In preparation of this book the author has had in mind the needs of the upper grammar grades. The subject matter has not been selected with the object of covering the field of Western geography in a systematic manner, but instead the attempt has been made to picture as graphically as may be some of its more striking and interesting physical features, and the influence which these features have exerted upon its discovery and settlement." (from the Preface of The Western United States) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. M4B audio book (190mb)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Western United States: A Geographical Reader
• Author credits: Harold W. Fairbanks
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 6:51:21

Catalogue topics

• geography
• textbooks
• United States

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01- Preface and The Work of the Colorado River — 14:57
2. 02- A Trip into the Grand Canyon of the Colorado — 11:52
3. 03- How the Columbia Plateau was Made — 15:03
4. 04-The Canyons of the Sierra Nevada Mountains — 12:28
5. 05- An Oregon Glacier — 12:30
6. 06- Something About Earthquakes and Mountain Building — 12:46
7. 07- The Last Volcanic Eruptions in the United States — 13:06
8. 08- The Mud Volcanoes of the Colorado Desert — 6:39
9. 09- The Story of the Coastline — 13:51
10. 10- The Discovery of the Columbia River — 13:57
11. 11- The Great Basin and Its Peculiar Lakes — 12:42
12. 12- Fremont's Adventures in the Great Basin — 10:33
13. 13- The Story of Great Salt Lake — 13:02
14. 14- The Skagit River — 12:38
15. 15- The Story of Lake Chelan — 11:09
16. 16- The Native Inhabitants of the Pacific Slope — 12:01
17. 17- The Story of Lewis and Clark — 15:20
18. 18- The Russians in California — 8:59
19. 19- Death Valley — 12:48
20. 20- The Cliff Dwellers and Their Descendants — 11:17
21. 21- The Life of the Desert — 13:51
22. 22- The Pony Express — 10:34
23. 23- How Climate and Physical Features Influenced the Settlement of the West — 15:08
24. 24- The Life of the Prospector — 12:35

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