Don Coltrane has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 12 ratings. The most-rated is Crow Killer.
Crow Killer
Summary
The true story (on which the film Jeremiah Johnson was partially based) of John Johnson, who in 1847 found his wife and her unborn child had been killed by Crow braves. Out of this tragedy came one of the most gripping feuds - one man against a whole tribe - in American history.
©1958, 1969 Indiana University Press (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks
Love, Hummingbirds and Hope Trees
Summary
What do love, hummingbirds and hope trees have in common? This short treatise guides the thoughtful listener through a brief consideration of some of the larger questions of life. Through a series of five concise articles, as well as a number of quips and quotes written by the author, the listener is encouraged to begin to think about some of the more puzzling aspects of life. Listen to it and relax. Granted, what really matters to us may be much more than love, hummingbirds and hope trees...whatever hope trees may be. Yet, focusing on just these three broad topics might well inspire the listener to think much more critically about his own life. Sounds too serious? Too sobering, perhaps? Is listening to it really hard work? Hardly. The author encourages the listener to approach the big questions of life strictly on his own terms, and he does so in a skillful, lighthearted thoroughly enjoyable, little audiobook. Listen to it in about an hour or so. Think about what it says for a very long time.
©2011 Vernon Crumrine (P)2013 Vernon Crumrine
Polygamy on the Pedernales
Summary
In the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.’s murder in 1844, his following splintered, and some allied themselves with a maverick Mormon apostle, Lyman Wight. Sometimes called the "Wild Ram of Texas," Wight took his splinter group to frontier Texas, a destination to which Smith, before his murder, had considered moving his followers, who were increasingly unwelcome in the Midwest. He had instructed Wight to take a small band of church members from Wisconsin to establish a Texas colony that would prepare the ground for a mass migration of the membership. Having received these orders directly from Smith, Wight did not believe the former’s death changed their significance. If anything, he felt all the more responsible for fulfilling what he believed was a prophet’s intention. Antagonism with Brigham Young and the other LDS apostles grew, and Wight refused to join with them or move to their new gathering place in Utah. He and his small congregation pursued their own destiny, becoming an interesting component of the Texas frontier, where they had a significant economic role as early millers and cowboys and a political one as a buffer with the Comanches. Their social and religious practices shared many of the idiosyncracies of the larger Mormon sect, including polygamous marriages, temple rites, and economic cooperatives. Wight was a charismatic but authoritarian and increasingly odd figure, in part because of chemical addictions. His death in 1858 while leading his shrinking number of followers on yet one more migration brought an effective end to his independent church.
©2006 Utah State University Press (P)2013 Redwood Audiobooks
The Chattanooga Campaign
Summary
When the Confederates emerged as victors in the Chickamauga Campaign, the Union Army of the Cumberland lay under siege in Chattanooga, with Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee on nearby high ground at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. A win at Chattanooga was essential for the Confederates, both to capitalize on the victory at Chickamauga and to keep control of the gateway to the lower South. Should the Federal troops wrest control of that linchpin, they would cement their control of eastern Tennessee and gain access to the Deep South. In the fall 1863 Chattanooga Campaign, the new head of the western Union armies, Ulysses S. Grant, sought to break the Confederate siege. His success created the opportunity for the Union to start a campaign to capture Atlanta the following spring. Woodworth's introduction sets the stage for 10 insightful essays that provide new analysis of this crucial campaign. From the Battle of Wauhatchie to the Battle of Chattanooga, the contributors' well-researched and vividly written assessments of both Union and Confederate actions offer a balanced discussion of the complex nature of the campaign and its aftermath. Other essays give fascinating examinations of the reactions to the campaign in northern newspapers and by Confederate soldiers from west of the Mississippi River. Authors include Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear, Stewart L. Bennett, Sam Davis Elliott, Alexander Mendoza, Brooks D. Simpson, Timothy B. Smith, Ethan S. Rafuse, John R. Lundberg, and Justin S. Skolnick.
©2012 Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks