Thank you to the readers I felt like I took the journey The Pioneer women were so strong and should have been given more credit So glad I listened

The reader is so perfect for this story. Thank you!

Sue, I'm sure Sarah would be proud of your narration of her precious, riveting depiction of her experience of a very important time in our country's history. It was a blessing to hear it.

Thanks, great job! If anybody doesn’t like the way it’s read, go buy the book and read it yourself! Ungrateful, spoiled people out there!

What a very interesting account of this difficult journey, undertaken by so many. I feel as though i was there with them amidst all their joys and trials! Fabulous. Thank you.

9 minutes in I was in tears. And, Sue, you are so fun to listen to. I bet you are a great mom. Aloha from Honolulu

Thank you for volunteering your time. Enjoyed the audiobook. To those complaining of the reading I am positive you contribute little to society. Was saddened to learn Neally died. If only her father had better sense.

This was a very enjoyable memoir. I looked up the author on Google and found a few photographs of her. I enjoyed her lively happy spirit and observations. Her journey came to life for me and I now have a clearer picture of these times.

Thank you for this audio book.I enjoyed all the details that were read. 5 hours is a long time and I am grateful for the volunteer who read it for us to enjoy.

This makes me realise how incredibly brave all emigrants were. Enjoying this so much. Excellent narrator.

Beautiful story. Beautifully read. Many tears.8 min. in and I knew my morning was taken.. Thank you.

Great remembrance. And thanks to excellence of the reader.

Thanks for sharing this enjoyable & educational book. Much respect for the writer for providing future generations with this great first hahalfnd account of her epic journey.

Thanks for your narrative. Beautiful book, I have listened to it twice now.

I so wish I knew how their lives survived living in Montana. Such a well read story, so grateful to have biographies such as these.

A fascinating memoir...brilliantly read. Like others Im sure I followed the journey by google maps! What an enormous and beautiful country. Thank you.

One thing I love about learning history is the little side-trails it takes you down. I enjoyed looking up the history of the Icarian Community of Corning, Iowa. The 1800s were certainly a time for experimental communities, with all the land seemingly available for settlement. Most of them failed, as the participants were more fervent about philosophy than experienced in pioneer farming. I could tell when she was passing Fort Collins, Colorado, where I used to live.

Thank you for narrating this. So interesting.

I love this dry clean narrative. Great book!

I enjoyed this very interesting account of the immense journey so many settlers made across vast distances at that time. Its so sad to hear the disdain and contempt shown towards the natives of the land though, the attitude not even questioned.

Born and raised Montanan here! :) loved this entire story. ❤️

Again Thank you so much.................

A very nice journal account,from the diary of a brave Young women,very well told! Thank-you again!

A BEAUTIFUL read!! Thank you for placing me there along those long hard dusty roads in a covered wagon. I miss Dick the sweet pony. Thank you again!

Ahh, how it would be too nod off during a nice summers evening spring-wagon ride! a delight it would be indeed! Never more...

It’s crazy to listen to people back then reference God so frequently. I really wish our country still had those sentiments. Lord knows we need him again.

History would be nothing without primary sources, and Herndon's detailed account of her wagon trip is a good one. If you have ever wondered what it was like to travel across the western U.S. in a covered wagon, you may very well find something to like in this audiobook.

I would have loved to lived during these simpler times, even though they had their hardships........a great audiobook.

Very interesting thank you to the narrator

This is so enjoyable! I love to watch wagon train on TV, and think i was born in the wrong era! The story is very similar to Laura Ingals Wilders books that I've been listening to on the Libby app. Thank you so much for narrating! I am seriously thinking of looking into volunteering, as i like to read aloud. Sadly it strains my eyes these days if i read too much, so i am very thankful for this quality of audiobooks, and i can listen to my hearts content.

Thank you for the upload! I enjoyed it immensely 👍🥰

this is excellent, the reading makes you think hard

Thank you, most sincerely, for such an interesting look into a world I will never know. I found travelling back in time very enjoyable. *God* bless!

I sure appreciate the narrators seeing how I'm illiterate.

Thanks. Very well read. Enjoyed much

Those people were so smart so tough and so unwilling to give up. I would love to gather a group with all the same equipment and follow they're route no doctors or medicines exactly like they would have had. Oh and the same clothes.

I love this. I drove across country alone at 30, and plan on buying a motorhome soon to do it again. I’ll definitely be taking this book with me. 🧡

Thank you for providing the reading of this book. I enjoyed listening to the story of their journey. Kearney, Nebr is pronounced Car Knee ..I'm from Nebraska.

Fascinating account. I thought tje reader's voice suited the story well, after finding the author's photo online. Thank yoi.

Great story

Thank you for reading the story! What it would be like to ride on a pony in the early morning and head to the ‘frontier’

Man yall lecturing from the comfort of modern times in a land made habitable by those who came before you. If you dont like hearing how the people of that time thought and felt, go watch netflix instead. There you can be browbeaten to your hearts content about colonial oppression and how terrible America is to even exist.

Perfect voice for this pioneer story. Thanks!

56 mins.. sounds like the boys' gun had a misfire where the round is struck but does not immediately go off. When they tossed it in the wagon assuming they were just out of ammo, it cooked off a minute later to strike the man nearby. A lesson novice shooters should still be aware of today!

Very enjoyable. Thank you!

I'm enjoying your reading. Thank you! 🌻

Loved the wonderful history in this journal. Of course I hoped she would have married the Dr. 😉.

It’s gold

I wish somebody made a map of this trip

Very good book... Thank you so much..................

That was fabulous!!! Thank You so much!!

My favorite narrator.

Dick was such a good horse 🐎 I know she had to sell him to finance the last of her journey but what a sad choice to have to make.

Thank you

You all can shut up....she volunteered You did not!

Thank you great reading

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Is there anywhere left where you can take a drink from a spring and not be concerned with some nasty side effect?

On the road again. 🎶

I loved this and I thought the person reading did a great job. Thank you.

Awesome trip… makes me wanna go fishing 🎣

4:36:50 August 18-- I am on the summit of Bear River Mountain. In the border of a beautiful grove of pine and quaking asp near a spring of the most delicious ice cold water. I must be some miles ahead of the wagons that I left toiling up the steep mountain side. Yet I do not feel I am alone. Oh no, I feel that God is here in His Might, Majesty, Power, and Glory. I feel His nearness now. And as I gaze from these dizzying heights upon the country spread out beneath my feet, I am lost in admiration. The scene is so grand, so magnificent, that I forget my own vanity and nothingness. I feel that I am standing upon an altar, raised by Nature’s grateful hand up to Nature’s God, and that I could offer myself, a willing sacrifice. This is empathically one of the high and sacred spots of earth: how manifold, how wonderful are the works of Nature! Everywhere, something worthy of our highest admiration is presented to view; everywhere do we see the manifestation of an invisible and omnipotent Creator. The terrific storm, the broad prairies, the majestic forrest excite within our bosoms emotions of awe and admiration, yet there are no places on earth that I have seen which have a tendency to inspire me with such tender feelings, such elevated, pure, holy thoughts as mountains. Oh, it seems that one could never sin or have an evil thought in such a place as this. Behold the mountains, as they stand upon their broad bases! Contemplate them as they rear their snowy tops in awful, majestic grandeur above the clouds! View them as you will, and they ever present the same, untiring pleasure to the mind. Men and women will travel thousands of miles and make the greatest exertion to climb the rugged steeps of mountains to enjoy for one short hour the charming prospect. I have wondered at this sometimes as I have read of their hazardous exploits in trying to obtain a point where they could have the finest view. But, I never shall again. A country destitute of mountains may be fertile and productive of all that conduces to human happiness, yet it will lack the essential of attractive moral grandeur. It may enchant the imagination for a moment to look over prairies and plains as far as the eye can reach. Still, such a view is tedious and monotonous; it can in nowise produce that rapturing delight, that pleasing variety of the sublime and beautiful of landscape scenery which mountains afford. Let those whose tastes are on a level with the ground they tread feel proud of and admire their prairie fields, but give to me a mountain home.

Is it so hard to.find people who can actually read normally. Every book seems to be read with such a strange cadence

1883 Paramount TV series has ignited my curiosity of Pioneer diaries.

Fascinating.

Excellent recital of an admirable work of literature. Assign the proper disregard to the pooling of ignorance in some of the preceding comments demonstrating the new American ungodliness and societal decline.

5:09:00 A tribute to mother, on Mother's day 2024.

3:13:00 - I am really loving this book - I just wish there had been more explanation of the author's family situation - who belonged in her family unit, etc., and what brought them to want to cross the Plains... I also wish there were much more explanation and detail about the wagon train they started with - it just seemed to jump into the story with little/no description of what got her there. But still, dang loving this book! Kinda wishing I could be right there with them! LOL You know - one thing that bothers me - her description of the NOT "noble" Indians - yet, not once does she acknowledge that the possible reason for the state of the Indians was mostly due to white people.... I cringe inside every time she describes them. 5:26:30 - dang - spoiler - I cried when all the stuff was said about Neally... kinda makes me sad that her father was the cause of it... I really liked this book - I just wish there was much more explanations and descriptions of the people and their families, etc.

5:25:00 I wonder if Nelee would've survived if her father Frank had not been so scared to stay camped like the doctors said, instead of traveling more out of his fear of indians

Crossing the plains in 1865 must have been grim...

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Pause EVERY 3-4 words, regardless of punctuation.

Kind of unfortunate that her pony was named, Dick. 1:05:00

I just started and it sounds as though she wrote this from memory, with hindsight, at the request of those who read her previous accounts.

The set up ?

a lot less Indians and a lot more toll bridges than i expected,as for the horse $125 in clean dust would have been 7+ ounces about $140 i bet she could have gotten a lot more from the buyer who obviously had a load of gold

They should have someone else read this.

No gun safety instruction for the kid who in a tantrum threw his rifle in the wagon and cost a man his life

I think the last name of Buford is pronounced Bu-(as in “you”) Ford or Ferd. I’m sure that Beatrice is not pronounced Bee-at-rice but rather, Bea-trice or Be-uh-trice. Nice job of reading, otherwise.

Reminds me of the Yellowstone spinoff 1883.

When she sees an adverb coming up, she breaks into a sweat. She saves up all her energy reading the other words, just to go crazy for words like "so", "ever", "very", "always", and her favorite: "never". SO STRANGE. She just cannot read adverbs in a normal tone. What a weirdo.

I believe that concern for the environment, for other ethnic groups, for corruption is a spiritual problem. Not religion but spirituality. That inner depth and you just internally know what is best for this planet and its' people. This is an all about me world. How terribly sad. Thanks for sharing your thoughts vajoiner_ and kenyan bunnie.

She is as dry as the territory. But oddly I enjoyed the account

Showing u.s.g.s. topography maps indicating the progress and approximate location would be appreciated. It would be a big improvement over your single drawing. Several map scales should be offered. Bring it into the 21 century!

READER MIGHTY DRY

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Is their another version of this book available, the narration isn't great despite comments saying it is

I can see why native peoples saw the pioneers in such low regards. Cutting down the only tree they saw, oh and tearing out the berry bushes so no others can have any later.Being so thoughtless of others and no regard for the land itself. Not much has changed either. You can't drink tap water but have no problems leaving it on the beach or in the forest. Wanting rules for everyone but you. Yeah I really can see why the natives are sucking you dry one dollar at a time enjoy your trips to the casino folks, pretty soon they will be able to buy it all back and kick your bums to the curb!

It was inevitable that this land we call America would see immigrants from somewhere. Such crowding in Europe and most in poverty. They had a right to live and thrive somewhere. It is unfortunate that the stone age cultures in North America and the Europeans were incapable of understanding each other

Sounds like Neely needed a good wakeup call of some sort.

The irony of her asking why people couldn't just be kind, and yet she hated Indians, and men who married them. 🙄 I'm afraid I took it personally...

The Sabbath day is Saturday, Jesus Christ was a Jew from birth and if you use your smart phone and ask "what day the Jews worship" it will open your eyes. Also check out John 19 :31,41,42 and 20:1 Jesus rested in the grave on the Sabbath according to the commandment, if you need anymore proof that you have been deceived in your keeping of Sun-day the pagan day of sun worship.

I wish I could see the tintypes

I guess you get what you dont pay for😱!!...

The reader sounds horrible, she sounds depressed and I’m wondering is she singing, by the way she stretches out just about every word. “All we had to eat was cooooorrn”. It’s hard to continue listening, but I’m like 3hrs Inn so I’m vested now LOL

I really want to listen to this, but the narrator is just not doing it for me. Very robotic with all the pauses in between and after each sentence an it makes her sound like she’s not a very good reader.

Libravox draws in all the weirdos to read.

1:23:42

The author denigrates hungry Natives after shooting game across the country and breaking off the branches of the currant bushes.

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