Red Men And White


Lu par David Wales

(4.2 stars; 41 reviews)

These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and manners, and a little through the nearer tie of having here and there a character in common. Thus they resemble faintly the separate parts of a whole, and gain, perhaps, something of the invaluable weight of length; and they have been received by my closest friends with suspicion. ...When our national life, our own soil, is so rich in adventures to record, what need is there for one to call upon his invention save to draw, if he can, characters who shall fit these strange and dramatic scenes? One cannot improve upon such realities. If this fiction is at all faithful to the truth from which it springs, let the thanks be given to the patience and boundless hospitality of the Army friends and other friends across the Missouri who have housed my body and instructed my mind. And if the stories entertain the ignorant without grieving the judicious I am content. (Summary from Author's Preface) (9 hr 37 min)

Chapitres

00 Author's Preface 9:12 Lu par David Wales
01 Little Big Horn Medicine, part 1 37:06 Lu par David Wales
02 Little Big Horn Medicine, part 2 32:24 Lu par David Wales
03 Specimen Jones 55:59 Lu par David Wales
04 The Serenade At Siskiyou 35:31 Lu par David Wales
05 The General's Bluff, part 1 32:07 Lu par David Wales
06 The General's Bluff, part 2 33:08 Lu par David Wales
07 Salvation Gap 32:29 Lu par David Wales
08 The Second Missouri Compromise, part 1 26:15 Lu par David Wales
09 The Second Missouri Compromise, part 2 30:55 Lu par David Wales
10 La Tinaja Bonita, part 1 46:46 Lu par David Wales
11 La Tinaja Bonita, part 2 1:01:39 Lu par David Wales
12 A Pilgrim On The Gila, part 1 47:23 Lu par David Wales
13 A Pilgrim On The Gila, part 2 57:39 Lu par David Wales
14 A Pilgrim On The Gila, part 3 39:23 Lu par David Wales

Critiques

Red and White


(4.5 stars)

More about white than red. Still a very good book. Mostly biographical.