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Claude Lightfoot, or How the Problem Was Solved

Read by Carol Pelster


Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.


Most of the boys in the Catholic school called Milwaukee College are engrossed with baseball and keeping up with their studies. When twelv…

De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842

Read by Carol Pelster


Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet


In 1841 and 1842, Fr. Pierre-Jean DeSmet traversed the wide and wild American West to bring the gospel to the Flatheads, who had sent multip…

Bee and Butterfly, A Tale of Two Cousins

Read by Carol Sutton


Lucy Foster Madison


The wonderful evolution of a caterpillar, or grub, into a beautifully winged creature must inspire admiration in everyone. More marvelous st…

Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon, During the Past Forty Yea…

Read by Carol Pelster


Francis Norbert Blanchet and François Norbert Blanchet


This book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Fr. Norbert Blanchet and his fellow missionaries to Oregon in the 1830’s and 1840’s.…

The U.P. Trail

Read by Bob R


Zane Grey


Grey's story of the struggles to build the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1860's. Typical western characters, but placed in a factual se…

Whispering Smith

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


Whispering Smith, like most of Frank Spearman's western novels (and some non-fiction as well) are set in the world of railroads, in the late…

Demon Draw

Read by R. Moses


R. Moses


A city old in prestige and hate... A woman torn between duty and love... And a plague of demons with no end to the horror in sight... Valena…

The Crossing

Read by Bob R


Winston Churchill


This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the p…

Laramie Holds The Range

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


As with most of Frank Spearman's novels (and non-fiction), "Laramie Holds the Range" is set in the West during our early railroad …

The Country House

Read by Bob R


John Galsworthy


In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth…

The Painted Veil

Read by Bob R


W. Somerset Maugham


This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epide…

The Winning of Barbara Worth

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


This is a fairly substantial western, written in 1911 by Harold Bell Wright, then a major bestselling author. (His best-known novel is “The …

The Conquest of Canaan

Read by Bob R


Booth Tarkington


Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law s…

Robert Kimberly

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …

The Daughter of a Magnate

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


This is an American Western without any bad guys. The main characters are trains, and the elements---snow, terrain, weather and water. Fra…

Poor White: a Novel

Read by Bob R


Sherwood Anderson


This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…

The Rising of the Tide

Read by Bob R


Ida M. Tarbell


The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…

Helen of the Old House

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …

An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah

Read by Carol Fullerton-Samsel


Beth Ellis


An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah, by Beth Ellis, is a well-edited, turn-of-the-century journal documenting a young woman’s visi…

The Oregon Trail

Read by R. S. Steinberg


Francis Parkman, Jr.


The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkm…

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