Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 (FULL Audiobook)

[@lucillebogner4787]

Thank you to the readers I felt like I took the journey The Pioneer women were so strong and should have been given more credit So glad I listened

[@jerrymarbury9365]

Ha ha I was about to thank the narrators too. Synchronicity.

[@Freefolkcreate]

The reader is so perfect for this story. Thank you!

[@kayhathaway6956]

I agree!!!!

[@juliecramer8459]

Agreed!

[@maryrichardson8790]

What a very interesting account of this difficult journey, undertaken by so many. I feel as though i was there with them amidst all their joys and trials! Fabulous. Thank you.

[@johnh4143]

9 minutes in I was in tears. And, Sue, you are so fun to listen to. I bet you are a great mom. Aloha from Honolulu

[@Strongfortress7]

Aloha from Kauai 🌺

[@TransKidRevolution]

You're very emotional.

[@denisetaylor-crommett4781]

Thank you for volunteering your time. Enjoyed the audiobook. To those complaining of the reading I am positive you contribute little to society. Was saddened to learn Neally died. If only her father had better sense.

[@JeanneBaney]

This was a very enjoyable memoir. I looked up the author on Google and found a few photographs of her. I enjoyed her lively happy spirit and observations. Her journey came to life for me and I now have a clearer picture of these times.

[@porkypig2971]

I am picturing a heavy set, hefty Brunehilda. Was I right?? 😁😁😁😁

[@abraxaseyes87]

Well said and inspiring.

[@juliecramer8459]

Thank you, I’ll look!

[@mimiashford5544]

Sue, I'm sure Sarah would be proud of your narration of her precious, riveting depiction of her experience of a very important time in our country's history. It was a blessing to hear it.

[@JoeJoe-lo4bk]

Thanks, great job! If anybody doesn’t like the way it’s read, go buy the book and read it yourself! Ungrateful, spoiled people out there!

[@porkypig2971]

The accent and pronunciation is not authentic 19th century Midwest. 😤 😤 😤 😤

[@bryan7938]

@@porkypig2971 why would you expect a free, non dramatised audio version, recorded by a volunteer to pay that sort of attention. Like someone said. Go buy it or volunteer yourself. These are lifelines for some people. I pay monthly for audible and the quality and attention to detail is, in the main, the same. Some not great, some brilliant.

[@porkypig2971]

@@bryan7938 If you're going to do it. You need to do it right. 🧐🧐🧐

[@bryan7938]

@@porkypig2971 I think it’s spot on myself. But then again I’m from the UK. Accents aren’t an issue. Passion and delivery are. Have a great day.

[@ruthcisneros9471]

I appreciate the volunteers, Thank you

[@EzraLightfoot]

Beautiful story. Beautifully read. Many tears.8 min. in and I knew my morning was taken.. Thank you.

[@jenroche8994]

Born and raised Montanan here! :) loved this entire story. ❤️

[@suedearing-ex7ve]

This makes me realise how incredibly brave all emigrants were. Enjoying this so much. Excellent narrator.

[@broknows9138]

Thanks for sharing this enjoyable & educational book. Much respect for the writer for providing future generations with this great first hahalfnd account of her epic journey.

[@broknows9138]

Oops! I meant first-hand account..It was/is a gift.

[@ImCarolB]

One thing I love about learning history is the little side-trails it takes you down. I enjoyed looking up the history of the Icarian Community of Corning, Iowa. The 1800s were certainly a time for experimental communities, with all the land seemingly available for settlement. Most of them failed, as the participants were more fervent about philosophy than experienced in pioneer farming. I could tell when she was passing Fort Collins, Colorado, where I used to live.

[@oksills]

I too looked up the Icarian Community and enjoy the “side trails”.

[@tomiamonico8855]

Yeah she mentioned seeing Longs Peak and following the Cache La Poudre River. So amazing! I love history & want to go explore the areas they rode through.

[@victoriamorris3090]

Thank you for this audio book.I enjoyed all the details that were read. 5 hours is a long time and I am grateful for the volunteer who read it for us to enjoy.

[@howitzer8946]

Great remembrance. And thanks to excellence of the reader.

[@stevenbrown6277]

Thank you for narrating this. So interesting.

[@1HorseOpenSlay]

I love this dry clean narrative. Great book!

[@louiseskip3488]

Thanks for your narrative. Beautiful book, I have listened to it twice now.

[@philipdee1415]

A fascinating memoir...brilliantly read. Like others Im sure I followed the journey by google maps! What an enormous and beautiful country. Thank you.

[@chrisgreen2299]

I so wish I knew how their lives survived living in Montana. Such a well read story, so grateful to have biographies such as these.

[@chrismitchell7753]

I enjoyed this very interesting account of the immense journey so many settlers made across vast distances at that time. Its so sad to hear the disdain and contempt shown towards the natives of the land though, the attitude not even questioned.

[@justinspringstun5836]

Ahh, how it would be too nod off during a nice summers evening spring-wagon ride! a delight it would be indeed! Never more...

[@tmcgee1614]

Wagons didn't have shocks. They were very hard to ride in, really bumpy and jerky. It was a really rough ride that's why so many pioneers walked.

[@SB-548]

This is so enjoyable! I love to watch wagon train on TV, and think i was born in the wrong era! The story is very similar to Laura Ingals Wilders books that I've been listening to on the Libby app. Thank you so much for narrating! I am seriously thinking of looking into volunteering, as i like to read aloud. Sadly it strains my eyes these days if i read too much, so i am very thankful for this quality of audiobooks, and i can listen to my hearts content.

[@rickyshaw5560]

A very nice journal account,from the diary of a brave Young women,very well told! Thank-you again!

[@clarajones7646]

Again Thank you so much.................

[@tysonzepo]

I would have loved to lived during these simpler times, even though they had their hardships........a great audiobook.

[@shonc8338]

Same here

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Yes,Cholera,smallpox,great times.

[@tonyalanmarchant9099]

I feel the same until i read other comments? But i totally get it

[@1HorseOpenSlay]

Well,if you were at my house this morning and you're horses escaped,like mine did,you would realize that this heart thumping worry,is much more complicated, than our modern problems...and it is wonderful. There will always be a danger of illness (just like modern times)but c'mon(other comments)it is no better or worse than these times.still turmoil, still racism, and still fortitude,and still those who long to be free🌾

[@richardbowers3647]

@BUSTER SIXTEENNINETY - - High minded & well educated people minding their own business traveling west!!! The thousands of immigrants were driven by the offer of free land, I'm guessing??? Very nice the American government had installed water wells at the appropriate place.

[@Jeff-hy1eb]

History would be nothing without primary sources, and Herndon's detailed account of her wagon trip is a good one. If you have ever wondered what it was like to travel across the western U.S. in a covered wagon, you may very well find something to like in this audiobook.

[@monicafiore20]

Thank you for the upload! I enjoyed it immensely 👍🥰

[@gw2276]

It’s crazy to listen to people back then reference God so frequently. I really wish our country still had those sentiments. Lord knows we need him again.

[@masada2828]

People were practising Christians in the 19th Century now, it’s ‘as in the time of Noah’.

[@nunyabuziness8421]

They didnt know better 😆

[@waterlec8718]

AMEN

[@chriswhite2151]

They weren't spoiled as we are now. They lost loved ones often and needed comfort and solace.

[@codyantrim8700]

I was also thinking how comforting it was to hear how they had a relationship with the Lord ❤. I too long for a healed society like that.

[@johnh7658]

Thanks. Very well read. Enjoyed much

[@jadedoe9966]

I love this. I drove across country alone at 30, and plan on buying a motorhome soon to do it again. I’ll definitely be taking this book with me. 🧡

[@louiseskip3488]

Lucky girl, that would be a great dream to do. Too bad I'm in Australia.

[@jadedoe9966]

@@louiseskip3488 come on over ! There’s nothing quite like a long road trip

[@guyinacoffeeshop2239]

@@jadedoe9966 I'd love to be able to di.more than just drive by these historical sites

[@guyinacoffeeshop2239]

5:25:00 I wonder if Nelee would've survived if her father Frank had not been so scared to stay camped like the doctors said, instead of traveling more out of his fear of indians

[@kayhathaway6956]

@@guyinacoffeeshop2239I wonder the same thing. I’m probably listening for the 15th time. I think of that girl and her father not listening to the doctor. So sad.

[@cricketsmith368]

Thank you, most sincerely, for such an interesting look into a world I will never know. I found travelling back in time very enjoyable. *God* bless!

[@bluetoad2001]

this is excellent, the reading makes you think hard

[@joykeating7342]

Very interesting thank you to the narrator

[@lronbutters5688]

Thank you for reading the story! What it would be like to ride on a pony in the early morning and head to the ‘frontier’

[@ohdehhan]

Fascinating account. I thought tje reader's voice suited the story well, after finding the author's photo online. Thank yoi.

[@jerrymarbury9365]

Agree too bad all the millennials want some ghastly rap singer to read it.

[@mlackey9812]

Very enjoyable. Thank you!

[@Candanciee]

Thank you for providing the reading of this book. I enjoyed listening to the story of their journey. Kearney, Nebr is pronounced Car Knee ..I'm from Nebraska.

[@porkypig2971]

Only in your century. Back than it was more Anglified. 🧐🧐🧐🧐

[@Candanciee]

@@porkypig2971 LOL...There where probably a few settlers that came though that butchered it also. Little factoid..the spelling for the Fort is Kearny and the town Kearney, Nebraska had a e added due to a postal error. They never bothered to change it and it stuck.

[@jeffevans3193]

Those people were so smart so tough and so unwilling to give up. I would love to gather a group with all the same equipment and follow they're route no doctors or medicines exactly like they would have had. Oh and the same clothes.

[@porkypig2971]

And no shower at the end of the day and wearing the same clothes over and over again. 😖😖😖😖

[@redinabloogs8477]

I'll come with u

[@jeffevans3193]

@@redinabloogs8477 all we need now are say twenty covered wagons, eighty people, forty oxen , twenty horses, ten milk cows, one jailers wagon with sherriff if anyone's caught with any device except wind up watch and compass.

[@redinabloogs8477]

Hmm guess we better get started then 🤔

[@redinabloogs8477]

Hey Google where can I find oxen ?

[@jerrymarbury9365]

I sure appreciate the narrators seeing how I'm illiterate.

[@MortiiTei]

I wish somebody made a map of this trip

[@masada2828]

Agree

[@masada2828]

Look on line.

[@lronbutters5688]

Library of Congress online Free access to a lot of information!

[@janej6253]

Loved the wonderful history in this journal. Of course I hoped she would have married the Dr. 😉.

[@jeepnj2502]

56 mins.. sounds like the boys' gun had a misfire where the round is struck but does not immediately go off. When they tossed it in the wagon assuming they were just out of ammo, it cooked off a minute later to strike the man nearby. A lesson novice shooters should still be aware of today!

[@jeepnj2502]

Man yall lecturing from the comfort of modern times in a land made habitable by those who came before you. If you dont like hearing how the people of that time thought and felt, go watch netflix instead. There you can be browbeaten to your hearts content about colonial oppression and how terrible America is to even exist.

[@danieljoseph4625]

Amen!

[@intoreality1189]

Give ‘em hell Jeep NJ

[@Dj-ws9rj]

Exactly!!

[@FerndaleMichiganUSA]

Douche

[@robgnisir4672]

Bravo jeep, send the bloodsucking communists outa here.

[@everythingjesus2063]

Thank you great reading

[@v8infinity8]

That was fabulous!!! Thank You so much!!

[@ednaking956]

I'm enjoying your reading. Thank you! 🌻

[@jaxn13]

My favorite narrator.

[@guyinacoffeeshop2239]

Thank you

[@serf6355]

Great story

[@irrigationjoehenggeler2863]

Perfect voice for this pioneer story. Thanks!

[@clarajones7646]

Very good book... Thank you so much..................

[@jasminrobinson7830]

Awesome trip… makes me wanna go fishing 🎣

[@charmainezaki697]

I loved this and I thought the person reading did a great job. Thank you.

[@jmwSeattle]

Excellent recital of an admirable work of literature. Assign the proper disregard to the pooling of ignorance in some of the preceding comments demonstrating the new American ungodliness and societal decline.

[@doug8525]

Is there anywhere left where you can take a drink from a spring and not be concerned with some nasty side effect?

[@eunicestone838]

Cades cove, Tennessee. I drank that water and lived.

[@ImCarolB]

There wasn't any then! Even clear, tasteless water then could be carrying germs of cholera, typhoid fever, and giardia (beaver fever). People back then had very little idea about germs and thought that if the water didn't taste bad, it was good to drink. I do know of many springs with good, tested water today.

[@Kimchiboy08]

1883 Paramount TV series has ignited my curiosity of Pioneer diaries.

[@gerthie]

It’s gold

[@dal8963]

Dick was such a good horse 🐎 I know she had to sell him to finance the last of her journey but what a sad choice to have to make.

[@JoanneDunham]

I can't believe her horse was named Dick. Talk about innuendo.

[@aisforamerica2185]

4:36:50 August 18-- I am on the summit of Bear River Mountain. In the border of a beautiful grove of pine and quaking asp near a spring of the most delicious ice cold water. I must be some miles ahead of the wagons that I left toiling up the steep mountain side. Yet I do not feel I am alone. Oh no, I feel that God is here in His Might, Majesty, Power, and Glory. I feel His nearness now. And as I gaze from these dizzying heights upon the country spread out beneath my feet, I am lost in admiration. The scene is so grand, so magnificent, that I forget my own vanity and nothingness. I feel that I am standing upon an altar, raised by Nature’s grateful hand up to Nature’s God, and that I could offer myself, a willing sacrifice. This is empathically one of the high and sacred spots of earth: how manifold, how wonderful are the works of Nature! Everywhere, something worthy of our highest admiration is presented to view; everywhere do we see the manifestation of an invisible and omnipotent Creator. The terrific storm, the broad prairies, the majestic forrest excite within our bosoms emotions of awe and admiration, yet there are no places on earth that I have seen which have a tendency to inspire me with such tender feelings, such elevated, pure, holy thoughts as mountains. Oh, it seems that one could never sin or have an evil thought in such a place as this. Behold the mountains, as they stand upon their broad bases! Contemplate them as they rear their snowy tops in awful, majestic grandeur above the clouds! View them as you will, and they ever present the same, untiring pleasure to the mind. Men and women will travel thousands of miles and make the greatest exertion to climb the rugged steeps of mountains to enjoy for one short hour the charming prospect. I have wondered at this sometimes as I have read of their hazardous exploits in trying to obtain a point where they could have the finest view. But, I never shall again. A country destitute of mountains may be fertile and productive of all that conduces to human happiness, yet it will lack the essential of attractive moral grandeur. It may enchant the imagination for a moment to look over prairies and plains as far as the eye can reach. Still, such a view is tedious and monotonous; it can in nowise produce that rapturing delight, that pleasing variety of the sublime and beautiful of landscape scenery which mountains afford. Let those whose tastes are on a level with the ground they tread feel proud of and admire their prairie fields, but give to me a mountain home.

[@jobethk588]

Fascinating.

[@stevenvolski6977]

Is it so hard to.find people who can actually read normally. Every book seems to be read with such a strange cadence

[@melindalemmon2149]

It is very stiffly read indeed.

[@jquest43]

It's a computer

[@brendareed8412]

Well, Librovox readers are amateur volunteers. I am grateful this woman gave her time to give us an audio recording.

[@hoomalumalu]

it sounds like she is reading to 5-yr olds. I've heard worse.

[@richshetler]

I found playback speed at 1.75 worked good.

[@AncientRylanor69]

-FULL Audiobook-

[@joerivera9106]

On the road again. 🎶

[@guyinacoffeeshop2239]

5:25:00 I wonder if Nelee would've survived if her father Frank had not been so scared to stay camped like the doctors said, instead of traveling more out of his fear of indians

[@kayhathaway6956]

I wonder the same. If the father had listened to the doctor, she might have lived. Sad.

[@Miss_Judy]

3:13:00 - I am really loving this book - I just wish there had been more explanation of the author's family situation - who belonged in her family unit, etc., and what brought them to want to cross the Plains... I also wish there were much more explanation and detail about the wagon train they started with - it just seemed to jump into the story with little/no description of what got her there. But still, dang loving this book! Kinda wishing I could be right there with them! LOL You know - one thing that bothers me - her description of the NOT "noble" Indians - yet, not once does she acknowledge that the possible reason for the state of the Indians was mostly due to white people.... I cringe inside every time she describes them. 5:26:30 - dang - spoiler - I cried when all the stuff was said about Neally... kinda makes me sad that her father was the cause of it... I really liked this book - I just wish there was much more explanations and descriptions of the people and their families, etc.

[@marymcsherry1965]

Was waiting for this comment about the Indians.. I was upset too. There wasn't one mention by the author of what had happened to their land and way of life

[@Miss_Judy]

@@marymcsherry1965 true

[@michaelahern6821]

Crossing the plains in 1865 must have been grim...

[@brewonit4831]

You all can shut up....she volunteered You did not!

[@alanjohnson2528]

a lot less Indians and a lot more toll bridges than i expected,as for the horse $125 in clean dust would have been 7+ ounces about $140 i bet she could have gotten a lot more from the buyer who obviously had a load of gold

[@1962pjh]

Kind of unfortunate that her pony was named, Dick. 1:05:00

[@BryinWillis-e8g]

The set up ?

[@Placard1203]

No gun safety instruction for the kid who in a tantrum threw his rifle in the wagon and cost a man his life

[@ronjohnson5248]

Pause EVERY 3-4 words, regardless of punctuation.

[@jerrymarbury9365]

Try the brail version u ungrateful fecal smear.

[@redshift1976]

5:09:00 A tribute to mother, on Mother's day 2024.

[@dreed7312]

I just started and it sounds as though she wrote this from memory, with hindsight, at the request of those who read her previous accounts.

[@dreed7312]

too much superfluous retrospection. Its almost 3rd person, as though shes talking of other people. "our small family of four." :)

[@kissedbysun2517]

She probably did add things in retrospect, as surely she edited her journal and removed things of a personal nature or that would be detrimental to her fellow traveler's reputations.

[@jayshantee3]

The reader sounds horrible, she sounds depressed and I’m wondering is she singing, by the way she stretches out just about every word. “All we had to eat was cooooorrn”. It’s hard to continue listening, but I’m like 3hrs Inn so I’m vested now LOL

[@cb7538]

Reminds me of the Yellowstone spinoff 1883.

[@kayhathaway6956]

I think the last name of Buford is pronounced Bu-(as in “you”) Ford or Ferd. I’m sure that Beatrice is not pronounced Bee-at-rice but rather, Bea-trice or Be-uh-trice. Nice job of reading, otherwise.

[@jturtle5318]

They're regional variations.

[@kayhathaway6956]

No, they’re not. Linguistics vowels do not change. The inflection on syllables will.

[@drew8570]

When she sees an adverb coming up, she breaks into a sweat. She saves up all her energy reading the other words, just to go crazy for words like "so", "ever", "very", "always", and her favorite: "never". SO STRANGE. She just cannot read adverbs in a normal tone. What a weirdo.

[@youareon2something]

💕

[@MyRealName148]

She is as dry as the territory. But oddly I enjoyed the account

[@4clockfarms]

😂😂

[@ChoctawNawtic4]

They should have someone else read this.

[@sharoncrouse5808]

I believe that concern for the environment, for other ethnic groups, for corruption is a spiritual problem. Not religion but spirituality. That inner depth and you just internally know what is best for this planet and its' people. This is an all about me world. How terribly sad. Thanks for sharing your thoughts vajoiner_ and kenyan bunnie.

[@shaneowen4177]

Is their another version of this book available, the narration isn't great despite comments saying it is

[@jturtle5318]

The author denigrates hungry Natives after shooting game across the country and breaking off the branches of the currant bushes.

[@marthacantrell6953]

Sounds like Neely needed a good wakeup call of some sort.

[@bestwishes5060]

Showing u.s.g.s. topography maps indicating the progress and approximate location would be appreciated. It would be a big improvement over your single drawing. Several map scales should be offered. Bring it into the 21 century!

[@jquest43]

I'll. Get on it right away!!- Sarah Herndens corpse

[@brendareed8412]

Do it yourself and benefit other readers

[@jturtle5318]

A quick search gets you a map of Montana Territory, 1865. Which explains why they're going to Montana through Idaho.

[@kanamichelle7404]

I actually followed their journey by looking up locations mentioned on Google Earth. You could do the same.

[@vajoiner_2312]

I can see why native peoples saw the pioneers in such low regards. Cutting down the only tree they saw, oh and tearing out the berry bushes so no others can have any later.Being so thoughtless of others and no regard for the land itself. Not much has changed either. You can't drink tap water but have no problems leaving it on the beach or in the forest. Wanting rules for everyone but you. Yeah I really can see why the natives are sucking you dry one dollar at a time enjoy your trips to the casino folks, pretty soon they will be able to buy it all back and kick your bums to the curb!

[@KenyanBunnie]

Please. I wish Natives were the ones profiting off those damn casinos. I wish. But they are not.

[@justinthyme7275]

Have you been examined by a doctor?

[@talltexan6432]

@@justinthyme7275 No kidding. vajoiner_ must be an F'ing foreigner trying to start trouble. White men brought civilization to the savages. No Whites = No civilization as people have known it for the last thousand years. Prove me wrong.

[@nickhanley5407]

You watch too much Yellowstone...

[@jquest43]

@@KenyanBunnie they are!

[@carlT1986]

It was inevitable that this land we call America would see immigrants from somewhere. Such crowding in Europe and most in poverty. They had a right to live and thrive somewhere. It is unfortunate that the stone age cultures in North America and the Europeans were incapable of understanding each other

[@karenembury6467]

Sad that the Stone Age culture of Americans couldn’t see the wisdom of those who came before. The land wasn’t empty or free . But the newcomers behaved as if it were .

[@carlT1986]

@@karenembury6467 Europeans did nothing to the Indians that they were not doing to each other. Humans have been conquering territory as long as there has been people. It doesn’t look like people will transform themselves into some utopian ideal any time soon.

[@NoLefTurnUnStoned.]

@@karenembury6467 Amen Karen 🙏🏽

[@Elmegas1963]

And so history repeats itself. People from crowded places in poverty are still looking to settle in the land of plenty.

[@jamesdean1989]

I guess you get what you dont pay for😱!!...

[@crazyhorseaz5224]

READER MIGHTY DRY

[@jerrymarbury9365]

Ungrateful sow

[@charliestewart4744]

I got about an hour in. Im not super impressed. Its pretty dry. I know life on the prairie would be but for a book I thought there sould be some more suffering and action.

[@aprildedert9510]

I really want to listen to this, but the narrator is just not doing it for me. Very robotic with all the pauses in between and after each sentence an it makes her sound like she’s not a very good reader.

[@GrammyRose]

The irony of her asking why people couldn't just be kind, and yet she hated Indians, and men who married them. 🙄 I'm afraid I took it personally...

[@tmcgee1614]

I would say you have to consider the times. Just like you have to consider the times nowadays

[@juliecramer8459]

I wish I could see the tintypes

[@gpl422sda]

The Sabbath day is Saturday, Jesus Christ was a Jew from birth and if you use your smart phone and ask "what day the Jews worship" it will open your eyes. Also check out John 19 :31,41,42 and 20:1 Jesus rested in the grave on the Sabbath according to the commandment, if you need anymore proof that you have been deceived in your keeping of Sun-day the pagan day of sun worship.

[@headonz]

1:23:42

[@headonz]

5:00:18

[@MaryLee-r2v]

Young Christopher Williams Linda Brown Charles

[@michaelbedford8017]

Recorded through an Indian blanket. Accent on realism.

[@BenRoderick-h3h]

Miller Anna Hall Barbara Lopez Richard