Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 – September 18, 1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist.
White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature,yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his own experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and guns and fishing and hunting. He also interviewed people who had been involved in the fur trade, the California Gold Rush and other pioneers which provided him with details that give his novels verisimilitude. He salted in humor and sympathy for colorful characters such as canny Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much gear. White also illustrated some of his books with his own photographs, while some of his other books were illustrated by artists, such as the American Western painter Fernand Lungren for "The Mountains" and "Camp and Trail". Theodore Roosevelt wrote that White was "the best man with both pistol and rifle who ever shot" at Roosevelt's rifle range at Sagamore Hill.
Arizona Nights
Read by A. E. Maroney
Running Time:5:39:49 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
Arizona Nights is a collection of tales from the American West as told by those who took part in them.
01 The Ole Virginia
02 The Emigrants
03 The Remittance Man
04 The Cattle Rustlers
05 The Drive
06 Cutting Out
07 A Corner In Horses
08 The Corral Branding
09 The Old Timer
10 The Texas Rangers
11 The Sailor with One Hand
12 The Murder On the Beach
13 Buried Treasure
14 The Chewed Sugar Cane
15 The Calabash Stew
16 The Honk-Honk Breed
17 The Cattle Rustlers
18 The Man with Nerve
19 The Agreement
20 The Accomplishment
21 The Passing of the Colt's Forty-
22 The Shapes of Illusion
23 The Paper A Year Old
24 Dreams
25 The Arrival
26 The Wagon Tire
27 Estrella
28 The Round-Up
29 The Long Trail
30 The Discovery
31 The Capture
32 In the Arroyo
33 The Rawhide
34 The Desert
The Blazed Trail
Read by Tom Weiss
Running Time:11:27:05 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness and many are based on his experiences in mining and lumber camps. The Blazed Trail is the story of early lumbermen in the northern woods of Michigan. The novel portrays the challenges faced by the workers focusing on one, Harry Thorpe, as he endeavors to be successful though completely unskilled when he enters the woods. The author mixes the splendor of nature with suspense, danger, and romance and provides glimpses into corrupt practices in the lumber industry at the time.
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of The Wild Life
Read by David Wales
Running Time:05:35:03 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his own experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and guns and fishing and hunting. He also interviewed people who had been involved in the fur trade, the California gold rush and other pioneers which provided him with details that give his novels verisimilitude. He salted in humor and sympathy for colorful characters such as canny Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much gear.
Part 1 Blazed Trail Stories 1 The Riverman
Part 1 Blazed Trail Stories 2 The Foreman
Part 1 Blazed Trail Stories 3 The Scaler
Part 1 Blazed Trail Stories 4 The River-Boss
Part 1 Blazed Trail Stories 5 The Fifth Way
Part 1 Blazed Trail Stories 6 The Life of The Winds of Heaven
Part 2 Stories of The Wildlife 1 The Girl Who Got Rattled
Part 2 Stories of The Wildlife 2 Billy's Tenderfoot
Part 2 Stories of The Wildlife 3 The Two Cartridges
Part 2 Stories of The Wildlife 4 The Race
Part 2 Stories of the Wildlife 5 The Saving Grace
Part 2 Stories of the Wildlife 6 The Prospector
Part 2 Stories of the Wildlife 7 The Girl In Red
Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest
Read by Roger Melin
Running Time:4:32:29 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor named Galen Albret took his position seriously. Free traders, or those who dared try to do their trading outside of the Company, found themselves having to face Galen Albret and his methods of dealing with them. One or two offenses he might tolerate, but for those who repeatedly refuse to acknowledge his warning out, he would send them on “La Longue Traverse” through the wilderness without supplies, and from which they seldom returned.
Ned Trent was one such free trader who defied both the Company and Galen Albret. The defining difference between Ned and the other free traders however, was his youth, energy, and good looks, which the Factor’s daughter did not fail to recognize. What follows the initial confrontations between Ned, Galen Albret, and his daughter Virginia makes for a thrilling tale of adventure, daring, survival, and romance.
Conjuror’s House was twice made into silent films titled “The Call of the North”, the first being Cecil B. DeMille’s first film in which he received solo directorial credit, and the second starring Noah Beery and Jack Holt (whose face was the basis for the face of Dick Tracy).
Gold
Read by Richard Kilmer
Running Time:12:09:11 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
This is a well written story of the California gold rush of 1849. Four friends decide they are going to go to California and get rich in the gold fields. Follow their adventures as they travel to California across the isthmus of Panama to San Francisco. In their search for gold they encounter hostile Indians, various desperadoes, and natural disasters. Did they strike it rich? Listen and find out.
The Sign at Six
Read by Tom Penn
Running Time:04:19:29in 1 MP3 Audio CD
It started out as a nuisance--odd electrical problems in the Atlas building that cleared themselves up. But then it got worse, the problems becoming more and more peculiar and inexplicable. Scientist Percy Darrow has given himself the task of figuring out the who and the how, and maybe the why, as life turns strange and a little dangerous.