Exploration & Journeys
Western United States
Harold W. Fairbanks
2026
6h 51m$1.99
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A geographer explains the West from the ground upward. Fairbanks takes the mountains, the deserts, the great valleys and the coast, and shows how the rock and the rainfall decided everything built on top of them: where the mining went, where farms were possible, why the cities sit exactly where they sit. Written for schools, and clearer about the West than most books written for adults.
Inside this audiobook
32 chapters
- 1Preface and The Work of the Colorado River15m
- 2A Trip into the Grand Canyon of the Colorado12m
- 3How the Columbia Plateau was Made15m
- 4The Canyons of the Sierra Nevada Mountains12m
- 5An Oregon Glacier13m
- 6Something About Earthquakes and Mountain Building13m
- 7The Last Volcanic Eruptions in the United States13m
- 8The Mud Volcanoes of the Colorado Desert7m
- 9The Story of the Coastline14m
- 10The Discovery of the Columbia River14m
- 11The Great Basin and Its Peculiar Lakes13m
- 12Fremont's Adventures in the Great Basin11m
- 13The Story of Great Salt Lake13m
- 14The Skagit River13m
- 15The Story of Lake Chelan11m
- 16The Native Inhabitants of the Pacific Slope12m
- 17The Story of Lewis and Clark15m
- 18The Russians in California9m
- 19Death Valley13m
- 20The Cliff Dwellers and Their Descendants11m
- 21The Life of the Desert14m
- 22The Pony Express11m
- 23How Climate and Physical Features Influenced the Settlement of the West15m
- 24The Life of the Prospector13m
- 25Gold and Gold-Mining13m
- 26Copper-Mining12m
- 27Coal and Petroleum13m
- 28The Climate of the Pacific Coast15m
- 29Something About Irrigation13m
- 30The Location of the Cities of the Pacific Slope15m
- 31The Forest Belt of the Sierra Nevada Mountains14m
- 32The National Parks and Forest Reserves17m
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