Westward Hoboes: Ups and Downs of Frontier Motoring: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Westward Hoboes: Ups and Downs of Frontier Motoring, credited to Winifred Hawkridge Dixon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Westward Hoboes: Ups and Downs of Frontier Motoring by Winifred Hawkridge Dixon. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Dixon drove cross-country with two photographers on a great journey of discovery from Boston to the west coast and back. Rather than a dry travelog, her sense of fun and adventure are obvious in every page. - Summary by LynneT

Recording facts

• Recording title: Westward Hoboes: Ups and Downs of Frontier Motoring
• Author credits: Winifred Hawkridge Dixon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 11:50:00

Catalogue topics

• travel
• exploration
• America
• car
• West
• automobile

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Westward Ho! — 12:44
2. 02 - From New York to Antoine’s — 14:33
3. 03 - A Long Ways from Home — 13:57
4. 04 - Chivalry vs. Gumbo — 19:50
5. 05 - Nibbling at the Map of Texas — 23:33
6. 06 - “Down by the Rio Grande” — 23:03
7. 07 - Sandstorms, Bandits and Dead Soldiers — 23:38
8. 08 - Tucson — 13:29
9. 09 - Twenty Per Cent Grades, Forty Per Cent Vanilla — 28:47
10. 10 - The Apache Trail and Tonto Valley — 47:58
11. 11 - Friday the Thirteenth — 43:57
12. 12 - Why Isleta’s Church Has a Wooden Floor — 23:48
13. 13 - Sante Fé and the Valley of the Rio Grande — 1:09:35
14. 14 - Saying Good-by to Bill — 26:32
15. 15 - Laguna and Acoma — 30:33
16. 16 - The Grand Canyon and the Havasupai Canyon — 27:10
17. 17 - From Williams to Fort Apache — 18:50
18. 18 - The Land of the Hopis — 26:53
19. 19 - The Four Corners — 21:14
20. 20 - Rainbow Bridge — 54:02
21. 21 - The Canyon de Chelley — 20:21
22. 22 - North of Gallup — 31:00
23. 23 - On National Parks and Guides — 37:08
24. 24 - The Nail-file and the Chippewa — 22:06

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