The Biography of a Prairie Girl
Eleanor Gates
Read by Teresa Bauman
This book is a wonderful way to learn about how the prairies were years ago, but you will hardly feel you are learning because you will be caught up with the 'little girl', living with her as she grows up far away from any large city. Very well written, in this book you live, worry, and rejoice, along with the little girl. Whether it is through a prairie fire, raising some interesting and queer pet, having fun at some big prairie-time event, or worming her way out of trouble, the little girl continues to grow, until at the end, you leave, not a little girl, but a young lady stepping into womanhood. - Summary by Trotsa (5 hr 46 min)
Chapters
The Coming of the Stork | 8:50 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
A Frontier Christening | 21:25 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
'Little Boy Blue' | 19:51 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
A Pariah of the Prairies | 16:58 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
The Misfit Scholar | 25:30 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
The Story of a Planting | 16:54 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
Twice in Jeopardy | 16:23 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
A Harvest Wedding | 17:06 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
The Price of Convalescence | 20:39 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
'Badgy' | 19:23 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
A Trade and a Trick | 18:00 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
The Professor's 'Find' | 20:10 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
A Race and a Rescue | 19:11 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
Hard Times | 18:41 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
The Fate of a Crowing Hen | 17:00 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
The Reservation Trip | 20:46 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
Another Mound on the Bluff | 18:11 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
The Little Teacher | 20:15 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
Toward the Rising Sun | 11:04 | Read by Teresa Bauman |
Reviews
A coming of age tale...with prarie dogs.
A LibriVox Listener
A novel of growing up in the settling USA Midwest. The plot line zigs and zags and lurches through odd stories which leave you wondering why that was important to the plot line then totally sets the plot adrift on the readers own imagination.
What a good listen!
Woddercolorz
Lovely, well written, and very nicely narrated. The passages are filled with lively intonation and colorful descriptions, providing just the right amount of detail to drive along the mental movie at an entertaining pace, while not sounding too wordy. I will listen to it again!
A LibriVox Listener
The plot is somewhat charming, simple and illustrative of early prairie life. The reader has challenging enunciation and the slurring of her words sometimes makes it difficult to understand the audio.
Not the best narrator
Avid listener
I couldnt take to the narrators voice, it drawled on and on and sounded somewhat muffled. Unfortunately I didn't listen to the whole story.
wow. The reader does not pronounce words correctly & is hard to
Kelly Girl