The Arkansas River
Rivers West: Book #10
- By: Jory Sherman
- Narrated by: Michael Taylor
- Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Description
Eastward, as far as the eye could see, stretched the Great Plains. Westward rose the Rockies, snow-capped peaks of grandeur. In the middle flowed a mighty river - silent, glistening, and turbulent - the bloodline of a wide and wild land. Three hard, tough men staked their claims on its potent shores; Jake Stonecipher, pioneer merchant, seeking his fortune, yet finding a war. Will Burke, a mountain man as savage as the wilderness itself. And Francisco Serrano, determined to carve a fertile ranch out of the stubborn soil. Three bold men blazing trails and forging a future. Three men blaze a trail and forge their future in this wide and wild land between Great Plains and snow-capped Rockies.
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Rivers West Series

The Smoky Hill
By: Don Coldsmith
Narrated by: Maynard Villers
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Through the rolling grasslands of Kansas runs the Smoky Hill River, a rich source of opportunity for those bold enough to risk the dream-killing territory. For Gabe, mountain-man and scout, the river means freedom and a chance to map unexplored territory with the Great Pathfinder, John Charles Fremont. For Lem, an Illinois farm boy in pursuit of... Read more »
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The Colorado
By: Gary McCarthy
Narrated by: Maynard Villers
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
When the rest of the West was already won...the mountains remained unspoiled and deadly. The men and women who tamed this savage land were tough, lawless and, when necessary, as mean as the traps they carried. They lived by a private code of proud honor and swift justice. Burly, Isaac Beard was the living embodiment of that mountain code. To... Read more »
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The Russian
By: Gary McCarthy
Narrated by: Maynard Villers
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Along the harsh north California coast the otters swam, enough to fill the Russian's trading ships with valuable pelts. So there they raised an outpost. But inland lay another land, a river wilderness where game and grizzly thrived. Into this wild land, stripped of his rank for marrying an Indian girl, Lieutenant Anton Rostov is cast. He is a... Read more »
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The Columbia
By: Jory Sherman
Narrated by: Maynard Villers
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Haunting, majestic, powerful, the Columbia River flowed down from the rugged Rockies, through the deep, forbidden forests, and across the open plain. Along its banks, bold, strong men of ambition and enterprise sought their fortune. It was a time and a place where the fur trade could make you wealthy...or get you killed. The race to riches along... Read more »
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The Gila River
By: Gary McCarthy
Narrated by: Gene Engene
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The Gila River flows gently through the parched Sonoran Desert and along its banks fierce Apaches, Pima farmers, Spaniards and brash Americans all vie for control in a harsh and unforgiving land: Miguel Santana a young Spaniard abandoned by his comrades; his Pima son Vitorio; Jacova, a woman whose indomitable spirit tamed a mighty Apache... Read more »
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The Humboldt River
By: Gary McCarthy
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
For many bold pioneers headed west, the sweetest sight of all was the Humboldt River, a crooked ribbon of silver snaking through Nevada into California. But to Libby Pike and her family, the Humboldt brought sudden disaster. Stranded with her young daughter, Libby found herself surrounded by hostile renegades and an unforgiving wilderness. Then... Read more »
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The Pecos River
By: Frederic Bean
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Buck Wallace, a lone white man in the land of the Kwahadie Comanche, was determined to make his home by the Pecos River. He vowed to live alongside the Kwahadies and carve his own private paradise out of the wilderness. But the trail to peace was long, hard and stained with the blood of the few who went before him. He would have to brave the... Read more »
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The Arkansas River
By: Jory Sherman
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Eastward, as far as the eye could see, stretched the Great Plains. Westward rose the Rockies, snow-capped peaks of grandeur. In the middle flowed a mighty river - silent, glistening, and turbulent - the bloodline of a wide and wild land. Three hard, tough men staked their claims on its potent shores; Jake Stonecipher, pioneer merchant, seeking... Read more »
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The Rio Grande
By: Jory Sherman
Narrated by: Maynard Villers
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the distant mountains, through the vast deserts to the Gulf of Mexico flows the Rio Grande River, giving life, promising adventure, shaping empires. And across its banks fought the Americans, the Mexican Army, the Shoshone, the Utes and the Arapaho Indians. Matthew Caine, an American agent working against the Mexican Army, also known as "El... Read more »
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The Purgatory River
By: Frank Roderus
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Amid the magnificent desolation of the American Southwest ran a river of hope, bringing life to the desert, and pioneers to a forbidding land. They gathered on the banks of the Purgatory...wandering souls on the run from the past...or in search of the future: Hernan Eduardo and his sister Elena, posing as husband and wife to hide her shame;... Read more »
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The Two Medicine River
By: Richard S Wheeler
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Down the eastern slopes of the Rockies, out upon the Great Plains, and into the heart of Blackfeet country flows the Two Medicine River. To this wild and beautiful land come a pair of young wanderers, half-breeds born of two worlds... but belonging to neither. Marie Therese de Paris - driven by the ancestral fires in her spirit - sets out on a... Read more »
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The Brazos
By: Jory Sherman
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Through a harsh land of mesquite and prickly pear, scattered oaks and carpets of stubborn grass, the Brazos River wound its way south to the Gulf of Mexico. To its banks came settlers from across America, daring men and women who dreamed of owning ranches and farms, building homes for their families, and one day establishing a United States... Read more »
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The South Platte
By: Jory Sherman
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
At the far western edge of the Great Plains, where the prairie meets the mountains, flows the South Platte, drawing farmers, traders and trappers to land long held sacred by two proud tribes. As the pioneers stake claims beside the pure waters of the rive Read more »
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The American River
By: Gary McCarthy
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
John Augustus Sutter came to the wide and wild California country to build an empire. At his side was Morgan Beck, out to stake his own claim at the confluence of two powerful rivers, the Sacramento and the American. Read more »
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Charlie Deegan
By: Gary McCarthy
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
John Augustus Sutter came to the wide and wild California country to build an empire. At his side was Morgan Beck, out to stake his own claim at the confluence of two powerful rivers, the Sacramento and the American. Read more »
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The Red River
By: Frederic Bean
Narrated by: Michael Taylor
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Flatboat pilot Eli McBee and his partner Seth Booker leave their former life on the great Mississippi River to seek their fortunes out west. Drawn by the promise of an unspoiled paradise rich in furs, they set their sights on the banks of the uncharted Re Read more »
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