Ragged Dick Fame and Fortune Mark the Match Boy
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------------------------------------------------------------------- Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was the author of over 100 adventure books, many focusing on a poor boy's struggle to overcome poverty and adversity. Alger's books are fast-paced page-turners that have enjoyed immense popularity while advocating generosity, honesty, industry, thrift, temperance, education and bravery. Alger was born near Boston, attended Harvard and moved to New York City in 1866. Alger is one of America's all-time, best-selling fiction authors.
Ragged Dick is the story of the adventures of Richard Hunter, a homeless boy who earns a living shining shoes on the streets of Manhattan in the mid 1800s. Inspired by a customer he meets, Dick resolves to improve his situation, finds a roommate who can act as his tutor and overcomes adversity with wit and good cheer. Published in book form in 1866, Ragged Dick was Alger's first great publishing success.
Fame and Fortune continues the story of Richard Hunter including a plot by his enemies to get him fired from his job for theft.
Mark the Match Boy recounts the adventures of a boy ill suited to life on the streets of New York and his fortunate association with Richard Hunter.
Strive and Succeed is the story of Walter Conrad who is sent to Portville to see if his father's estate is being defrauded. Though only fifteen Walter obtains the job of school teacher in Portville and finds it challenging to maintain order in the school.
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Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) is a
world-renowned novelist and short story writer noted primarily for
his stories of the Western frontier. L'Amour was born in
Jamestown, North Dakota and led an
active, world-roaming life as, among other things, a seaman,
longshoreman, rancher, miner, lumberjack and boxer before focusing
on writing after WWII. L'Amour was awarded both the
Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Freedom and is one of
America's best-selling fiction authors. AUDIOBOOK Collection One by Louis L'Amour Narrated by Christopher Crennen Length: 4 hrs 8 mins
Seven short stories including:
(1) The Nester and the Piute Audio sample Length: 19 mins Bin Morley, the nester, trails a bad and dangerous man to a violent confrontation. Short but good. (2) Case Closed - No Prisoners Audio sample Length: 51 mins Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie is sent to Kimble, Texas to investigate a bank robbery in which the banker was tortured and killed. (3) Big Medicine Audio sample Length: 28 mins Old Billy Dunbar is discovered and attacked by a band of Apaches while prospecting for gold with his two burros. (4) His Brother's Debt Audio sample Length: 43 mins Rock Casady, haunted by demons from his past, runs from a gun fight. (5) West Is Where the Heart Is Audio sample Length: 32 mins Jim London, heading home to New Mexico after the Civil War, is attacked by Comanches. Without a horse or weapon, he comes upon a girl, the lone survivor of a Comanche massacre, and continues home. (6) Lit a Shuck for Texas Audio sample Length: 39 mins The Sandy Kid, a ranch cowhand, discovers gold ore and a murdered man while rounding up a steer. (7) Desert Death-Song Audio sample Length: 36 mins Jim Morton joins a posse that is hunting his friend Nat Bodine who is accused of robbing a stage and shooting the sheriff.
AUDIOBOOK Collection Two by Louis L'Amour Narrated by Christopher Crennen Length: 4 hrs 9 mins
Seven short stories including:
(1) Mistakes Can Kill You Audio sample Length: 22 mins Johnny O'Day shows up half dead at the Redlin's ranch, is nursed back to health and given a job. The Redlin's son, Sam, falls in with bad company who plan to rob him. (2) The Killer from Pecos Audio sample Length: 48 mins Ranger Chick Bowdrie trails a killer and bank robber to a lawless New Mexico town where Bowdrie takes the job of sheriff to aid his investigation. (3) Law of the Desert Born Audio sample Length: 29 mins Shad Marone is hunted across the desert by a posse and a sheriff who have falsely accused him of murder and intend to kill him without a trial. (4) Dutchman's Flat Audio sample Length: 43 mins Chat Lock is trailed to his home by a posse who suspect him of shooting a man in the back. (5) Grub Line Rider Audio sample Length: 33 mins Kim Sartain decides to set up a ranching operation on an unused pasture despite the threats of a neighboring rancher. (6) Regan of the Slash B Audio sample Length: 38 mins Dan Regan, lion hunter of the Slash B, is suspected of cowardice for ignoring taunts by two rustlers. (7) The Road to Casa Piedras Audio sample Length: 36 mins While Ranger Chick Bowdrie is at a town dance, $12,000 is stolen from the stage station and the owner of the money killed. Bowdrie and the sheriff track the killer.
AUDIOBOOK Collection Three by Louis L'Amour Narrated by Christopher Crennen Length: 4 hrs 10 mins
Seven short stories including:
(1) Trap of Gold Audio sample Length: 22 mins Wetherton discovers a rich vein of gold ore but every rock he removes increases the chance that the unstable tower of rock will collapse on him. (2) Four Card Draw Audio sample Length: 48 mins Allen Ring wins a ranch in a poker game but a tally book that may be hidden on the ranch threatens to ignite a range war. (3) Riding On Audio sample Length: 29 mins Reb Farrell is accused of rustling by his boss and fired after Reb appears to have shot his father by mistake. (4) More Brains Than Bullets Audio sample Length: 41 mins Ranger Chick Bowdrie investigates the robbery of the Maravillas Bank and two related murders. (5) Trail to Pie Town Audio sample Length: 35 mins Dusty Barron discovers a teenage girl and a boy traveling in the desert with a covered wagon whose father has died. (6) Pogonip Trail Audio sample Length: 38 mins Jeff Kurland risks his life to save an outlaw freezing to death in a mountain cave. (7) Chick Bowdrie Passes Through Audio sample Length: 37 mins The Texas Ranger acts as attorney for a man accused of poisoning his neighbor's horse.
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AUDIOBOOK Liberty Collection by Frederic Bastiat and others Narrated by Christopher Crennen Length: 4 hrs 7 mins
Six audio selections including:
(1) The Law by Frederic Bastiat Length: 1 hr 20 mins Audio sample Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist, a member of the French assembly and an influential libertarian speaker and writer. The Law, Bastiat's most famous work, argues that the purpose of the law is the protection of individual rights and that when governments adopt policies favoring particular industries or groups the law becomes an instrument of injustice and oppression.
(2) Things Seen and Things Not Seen by Frederic Bastiat Length: 1 hr 9 mins Audio sample Bastiat considers the value of a broken window in promoting industry, the value of armies, public works and government credit guarantees in increasing employment, the danger that better machinery poses to employment, the use of tariffs to protect industry and other economic fallacies.
(3) Cyrus McCormick, Inventor of the Reaper
by Christopher Crennen McCormick (1809-1884) demonstrated a workable reaper in 1831 and spent the rest of his life expanding the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. McCormick's reapers had profound effects on the alleviation of U.S. and world hunger.
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The Way to Wealth
by Benjamin Franklin Franklin (1706-1790) grew rich publishing Poor Richard's Almanack under the pseudonym Richard Saunders from 1732 to 1758. Besides calendar and weather information, Franklin's almanacs had many sayings, proverbs and aphorisms. A selection of these sayings was added to the 1757 almanac as "The Way to Wealth", a speech by an old man to buyers at an auction.
(5)
The Declaration of Independence
by Thomas Jefferson Jefferson (1743-1826) was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence which asserts that all men are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that the only proper purpose of government is to secure these rights.
(6) The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights
by James Madison Madison (1751-1836) is the principal author of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution. The Constitution established the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the federal government and limited federal legislative powers to those enumerated in Article I, Section 8.
------------------------------------------------------------------- John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) founded the Standard Oil Company, revolutionized the oil business and, after adjusting for inflation, may have been the richest person in world history. Rockefeller's business practices were fiercely condemned, but he and Standard Oil had a policy of not responding to the attacks of critics. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1909) is in part a personal memoir, in part a response to his critics and in part a book of advice on making money and philanthropy.
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