True Bear Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

True Bear Stories, credited to Joaquin Miller, 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 True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller. Read in English by Greg Giordano; Ares Krstic; DJRickyV; Geza Hrazdina; Chris A. Hawkins; Leara Morris-Clark; Joseph Tabler; RLC; Brookpundt; Larry Wilson Joaquin Miller dedicated this book to "my dear little daughter...for whose pleasure and instruction I have many times dug up the most of these stories from out the days of my boyhood." In his preface he claims to prefer true stories to made-up ones. And he always defends bears, which he thinks have gotten an undeserved bad reputation from the general populous. Miller strives here to pass on a respect for the variety and wisdom in the lives of real bears. But perhaps we should offer one caution: throughout his life Joaquin Miller gained a reputation for being a supreme liar! (summary by Bill Boerst)

Recording facts

• Recording title: True Bear Stories
• Author credits: Joaquin Miller
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 4:24:35

Catalogue topics

• nature
• animals
• anecdotes
• bears

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface and Introductory Notes — 14:33
2. 01 - A Bear on Fire — 16:54
3. 02 - Music-Loving Bears; My First Grizzly — 19:50
4. 03 - Twin Babies — 12:09
5. 04 - In Swimming With a Bear — 15:49
6. 05 - A Fat Little Editor and Three Little Browns; Treeing a Bear — 21:16
7. 06 - Bill Cross and His Pet Bear; The Great Grizzly Bear — 23:25
8. 07 - As a Humorist; A Grizzly's Sly Little Joke; The Grizzly as Fremont Found Him — 8:25
9. 08 - The Bear With Spectacles — 12:55
10. 09 - The Bear Slayer of San Diego — 17:20
11. 10 - The Alaskan and Polar Bear — 12:39
12. 11 - Monnehan, the Great Bear Hunter of Oregon — 9:41
13. 12 - The Bear 'Monarch.' Part A — 18:44
14. 13 - The Bear 'Monarch.' Part B — 19:52
15. 14 - The Bear 'Monarch.' Part C — 13:48
16. 15 - Scientific Classification of Bears — 27:15

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