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Men to Match My Mountains

Auteur(s): Irving Stone
Narrateur(s): Traber Burns
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Acclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America's most colorful and exciting story - the opening of the Far West.

Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece, an unforgettable pageant of giants - men like John Sutter, whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons, who tamed the desert with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the miners, who developed Nevada's Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies.

America called for greatness - and got it. There is nothing in history to match the stories of these men who braved wilderness to bring new nation to the shores of the Pacific.

©2018 Irving Stone (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Amériques Fiction de genre Historique États-Unis
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Well read by Traber Burns, authored by Irving Stone, this long but always swash-buckling adventure tells the story of the opening up of Nevada, Utah, Colorado and California, with a cast of determined and talented men, but even more of a cadre of lawless corrupt, violent opportunists, willing to tread on anyone to get what they want.
Irving Stone writing is full of superlative statements about aspects of the opening of the West, with many repeats of "The Greatest The World Has Ever Known", which makes me wonder how much he knows of World History. I grant his other magnum opus is the biography of Michelangelo, The Agony and The Ecstasy, which I also enjoyed immensely.
He ends the Men to Match My Mountains with the another superlative, "This is the story of the opening of a land and the building of a civilization. 
Another Valley of the Nile cradle of a culture richer and freer than any the world had known".
I am not sure how much "civilization" or "Valley of the Nile culture" there is in this story but certainly the tale of corruption, crime, murder and extortion is a rollicking tale.

Confirms The West Was Wild.

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