Men to Match My Mountains:The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900 - Irving Stone Audiobook

Written by Irving Stone
Read by Traber Burns
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: June 26, 2018
Duration: 22:47:02

Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece, an unforgettable pageant of giants-men like John Sutter, whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons, who tamed the desert with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the miners, who developed Nevada’s Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies.

“America called for greatness-and got it. There is nothing in history to match the stories of these men who braved wilderness to bring new nation to the shores of the Pacific.
Stone uses the prose and style that worked so well in his previous novels, and combines them with factual resources and research in a way that captures the reader’s attention and keeps them interested in each territory or party that subsequently will be discussed. The book is full of both tragic and bewildering experiences, from John C. Frémont and Kit Carson’s epic trailblazing that ranged from St. Louis to the Sierras and Pacific Coast, to the Mountain Meadows Massacre that would prove unsettling for the Mormon religion as a whole and still be regarded as controversial to this day. There are incredible concise biographies littered throughout Stone’s text that provide the reader with enough heavy detail and scope in order to segue on to the next book or history that fancies their curiosity— “

Stone also gives space to little known or forgotten personages. To point out one..
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