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Joanna Traill, Spinster

Read by Ashley Sue Murphy


Annie E. Holdsworth


Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …

The Labyrinth

Read by Ashley Crossman


Francis Stevens


This story takes place in Marshall City, the fictional capital of an unnamed Midwestern state, where the cousin of millionaire Hildreth Wynd…

Geronimo’s Story of His Life

Read by Sue Anderson


Geronimo


Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Read by Sue Anderson


Leander Stillwell


Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …

By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

Read by Sue Anderson


Lavinia Honeyman Porter


Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…