PIONEER AND FRONTIER STORIES



National Library Service 

for the Blind and Physically Handicapped



The Library of Congress



Washington 1995





ANTHOLOGIES



Cassettes



Westerns  RC 24931

by Richard Dankleff

read by Robert Donley

1 cassette

Buffalo hunters and skinners, sodbusters, scouts, trappers,

missionaries, and others are the protagonists of the author's

poems of pioneer life. Approximating the diction of the

nineteenth century, the poet offers humorous, harrowing, and

heart-tugging narratives portraying the adventures and

misadventures of early settlers. 1984.



The Longhorns  RC 18815

by J. Frank Dobie

read by Randy Atcher

3 cassettes

The longhorns of the American Southwest are descendants of the

cattle that the early Spanish explorers brought to this

continent. Their history, tall tales about them, folklore, and

verse are rounded up in this refreshing volume. 1941.



Best Loved Poems of the American West

RC 16519

edited by John J. and Barbara T. Gregg

read by George Guidall-Shapiro

2 cassettes

Robert Frost, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Carl Sandburg, and a host

of other famous and lesser known poets are represented in this

anthology with western themes. 1980. 



A Little House Sampler  RC 31817

by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

and Rose Wilder Lane

read by Laura Giannarelli

2 cassettes

A wide variety of writings--fiction, essays, articles, columns,

poems, drafts, unpublished manuscripts, notes, and musings--of

Laura Ingalls Wilder and her novelist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane.

They write of the difficulties, adventures, and simple pleasures

in their nineteenth-century frontier lives. 1988.





_Braille_



The Collected Works of Billy the Kid  

BR 2786

by Michael Ondaatje

1 volume

Fictional portrait of the man behind the legend who was both

lover and killer. Includes tall tales, facts, and poems. 1974.







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