How Long to Read Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle

How Long Does it Take to Read Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 50 minutes to read Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle by Frances Fuller Victor

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When the author of this book has been absorbed in the elegant narratives of Washington Irving, reading and musing over Astoria and Bonneville, in the cozy quiet of a New York study, no prescient motion of the mind ever gave prophetic indication of that personal acquaintance which has since been formed with the scenes, and even with some of the characters which figure in the works just referred to. Yet so have events shaped themselves that to me Astoria is familiar ground; Forts Vancouver and Walla-Walla pictured forever in my memory; while such journeys as I have been enabled to make into the country east of the last named fort, have given me a fair insight into the characteristic features of its mountains and its plains. To-day, a railroad traverses the level stretch between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, along which, thirty years ago, the fur-traders had worn a trail by their annual excursions with men, pack-horses, and sometimes wagons, destined to the Rocky Mountains. Then, they had to guard against the attacks of the Savages; and in this respect civilization is behind the railroad, for now, as then, it is not safe to travel without a sufficient escort. To-day, also, we have new Territories called by several names cut out of the identical hunting-grounds of the fur-traders of thirty years ago; and steamboats plying the rivers where the mountain-men came to set their traps for beaver; or cities growing up like mushrooms from a soil made quick by gold, where the hardy mountain-hunter pursued the buffalo herds in search of his winter's supply of food. The wonderful romance which once gave enchantment to stories of hardship and of daring deeds, suffered and done in these then distant wilds, is fast being dissipated by the rapid settlement of the new Territories, and by the familiarity of the public mind with tales of stirring adventure encountered in the search for glittering ores. It was, then, not without an emotion of pleased surprise that I first encountered in the fertile plains of Western Oregon the subject of this biography, a man fifty-eight years of age, of fine appearance and buoyant temper, full of anecdote, and with a memory well stored with personal recollections of all the men of note who have formerly visited the old Oregon Territory, when it comprised the whole country west of the Rocky Mountains lying north of California and south of the forty-ninth parallel. This man is Joseph L. Meek, to whose stories of mountain-life I have listened for days together; and who, after having figured conspicuously, and not without considerable fame, in the early history of Oregon, still prides himself most of all on having been a "mountain-man."

How long is Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle?

Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle by Frances Fuller Victor is 688 pages long, and a total of 177,504 words.

This makes it 232% the length of the average book. It also has 217% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 9 minutes to read Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle aloud.

What Reading Level is Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle?

Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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