When Charles Fletcher Lummis, author of the book “A Tramp Across the Continent,” met the outlaw Jesse James’ brother, Frank James, in 1882, it was as if future America was walking by past America. Frank James had been a role model for his younger brother, Jesse. Starting as Bushwackers, guerilla fighters for the Confederate South […]
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Listen2Read audiobook listeners know that for every audiobook I publish, I create a pictorial preview or blog on the subject. Just as in printed books, pictures help audiobook listeners better understand the dimensions of the story. Since all of our audiobooks are about Americans in history, I do a lot of research to find just
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The captain and crew slowly lowered scientist and author William Beebe by ropes down along the bow of the fast moving passenger liner to just above the water line. Below him, the Caribbean waters glistened and began to change into a grassy carpet filled with crawling animal life. It was the Sargasso Sea – and
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He had risked his life in an unknown part of the world to accomplish the impossible. He had beaten the odds. And what was his reward for his dangerous adventure? Spending New Year’s Day 1909, freezing, struggling for life with two Innuit companions and a lot of angry bears who considered them food. On
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With all the news of Presidential assassination attempts, I was reminded of two assassination bullets that completely changed Theodore Roosevelt’s life. I’ve been studying Roosevelt since I produced and narrated the audiobook of his adventure “Through the Brazilian Wilderness.” The first bullets that changed Roosevelt’s life were fired on September 6, 1901. They were
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An African-American was the first person to step on the North Pole. Here is how this part of Black History happened: On April 6, 1909, Admiral Robert Peary moved toward what he thought was the exact geographic point of the North Pole, where no one had ever been before. Peary had left his exploratory
There was one less whale ship butchering whales in 1820. A rightfully angry whale turned on the wooden ship, rammed it below the water line and sank it. Some called it poetic justice. The ship was called the Essex and the story of how some of the crew got to safety from the middle
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The world’s most famous sailor struggled by himself in his 35-foot sloop against winds that shoved and buried the bow and him under water. Crawling on the bowsprit, trying to adjust his sails, the rolling sea shoved him under water 3 times. It was a dangerous situation especially being alone; there was no one on
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