With Carson and Fremont: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

With Carson and Fremont, credited to Edwin L. Sabin, 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 With Carson and Fremont by Edwin L. Sabin. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers This is another book in the Trail Blazer Series. Being the adventures, in the years 1842–’43–’44, on trail over mountains and through deserts from the east of the Rockies to the west of the Sierras, of scout Christopher Carson and Lieutenant John Charles Fremont, leading their brave company including the boy Oliver. Chrisopher “Kit” Carson was a mountain man who joined explorer John Fremont as scout and partner on several of his expeditions that helped open up the west and secure California. In this hostile territory their explorations were filled with adventure and danger. Sabin writes in an entertaining story telling style for boys and all who love the excitement of the early west and look up to brave men as heroes. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: With Carson and Fremont
• Author credits: Edwin L. Sabin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 6:54:18

Catalogue topics

• exploration
• California
• American West
• Sierras
• Kit Carson
• mountain man
• laramie
• john fremont

Track guide

1. 00 - Dedication, Preface & Chronological Table — 11:38
2. 01 - Kit Carson to the Rescue — 22:12
3. 02 - Under the Wagon — 22:42
4. 03 - Oliver Wins His Spurs — 16:29
5. 04 - Word from Old Fort Laramie — 14:02
6. 05 - Fremont Says “Onward!” — 23:10
7. 06 - Into the Wilder West — 13:27
8. 07 - Over the Famed South Pass — 19:43
9. 08 - Planting the Highest Flag — 17:24
10. 09 - The Voyaging of the Platte — 13:51
11. 10 - Fremont Calls Again — 14:39
12. 11 - In Hostile Territory — 10:36
13. 12 - The Emigrant Trail — 15:48
14. 13 - To the Great Salty Lake — 12:54
15. 14 - Sailing the Inland Sea — 25:14
16. 15 - On to the Columbia — 15:26
17. 16 - Southward for the Unknown — 20:39
18. 17 - Scant Christmas Comfort — 13:53
19. 18 - Forcing the Snowy Sierras — 15:06
20. 19 - At the Last Gasp — 19:42
21. 20 - Down Through California — 15:19
22. 21 - The Vengeance of Kit Carson — 23:27
23. 22 - Poor Tabeau Pays the Price — 17:45
24. 23 - The Home Stretch — 19:12

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