1001 Stories From The Gilded Age

Allan is practically ordered by Retief to accompany him on a mission to get a grant of land from the evil Zulu king but doesn't want to leave Marie behind.   APPLE USERS 1001 Stories From Roy's Diner at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/1001-stories-from-roys-diner/id1594740377 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-l...

A young Allen Quartermaine does his best to free his caravan of Boers from the clutches of an evil Zulu King named Dungaan.   1001 Stories From Roy's Diner at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/1001-stories-from-roys-diner/id1594740377 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id9561548...

Hernan Periera leaves the Boer camp but continues to bring trouble upon them. He also attempts to ambush Allan and nearly succeeds.  APPLE USERS  Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2   Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

Marie is a 1912 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue. Marie is the...

Allen and his Hottentot servant Hans have a rough sail towards their destination, finally disembarking within 50 miles of their destination. They spend one week preparing for the inland journey, purchasing two good wagons and securing help for the trip. After 11 days they see what looks like an abandoned camp seven miles distant ..... .   APPLE USERS   Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (F...

Marie's father Henri makes it clear that he forbids their marriage and both Allan and Marie profess their love for each other. Marie and her father join the Boer trek northward along with Hernan, Marie's suitor. More than a year later, Allan receives a letter from Marie explaining how the trip has been a deadly disaster and asking him to come.    APPLE USERS 1001 Stories From Roy's Diner at Apple...

The day of the shooting match arrives and Allan and Hernan go at it. Hernan asks to go first, an advantage which gives him the lower flying targets before the geese begin to get spooked. As Hernan's geese go down, Allan notices something strange about the way they are falling....    YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES and Player.fm ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! (You need your Apple ID) Catch ALL our author...

Still recovering from wounds suffered during the defense of Maraisfontaine, young Allen has to cope with a wealthy suitor coming between himself and Marie. Marie's father, having lost all his livestock, and therefore most of his wealth, in the raid, sees his only future coming from a marriage between his daughter and the young man, who is arrogant and condescending to Allen. Allen challenges him t...

Le Blanc rides out alone to check his copper diggings and falls asleep drunk, waking up to find his horse, which had grazed beyond his view, being led by area tribesmen, who are actually returning it to him. He believes they are stealing it, and shoots and kills one of them, who is the chief's son. Early the next morning, young Allen Quartermaine , sleeping at his farm 15 miles away, is wakened by...

  Marie is a 1912 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue. Marie is th...

MEA young man returns from the west to catch up with his Aunt and Uncle,who raised him, and hopefully to start a business with the money he saved, only to find that they have lost their home and are now living in a poorhouse. R  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this classic story by Guy de Maupassant a young man with a troubling past marries a young French girl, and during their wedding party a note is delivered to him that requires him to leave the party immediately. He tells his new wife that an old friend is in dire trouble and he must go and help. As the hours pass the young bride awaits an unsure future.   APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at...

"On the Divide" is a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. It was first published in Overland Monthly in January 1896.  Plot summary On the Nebraska prairie, Canute takes to drinking to forget his boredom after spending the first forty years of his life in Sweden. Lena takes to teasing him and going to church with him. One day, he asks her father if he can marry her and the father say...

DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT More about Sarah's story 'Decoration Day' Three years after the Civil War ended, in 1868, General John A. Logan—the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans—established that May 30 should be set aside as Decoration Day, so-called from the tradition of decorating graves with flowers. More than five thousand participants gathered f...

A group of women form a society to determine what it is that men bring to this life-so they start asking questions but find themselves getting limited answers.  As a late "Gilded Age"piece of work it challenges the status quo in 1921 at the beginning of an era when women no longer were required to being 10 or 15 children into the world- that education was important- and that men really didn't seem...

The sad fact of rural life in "the gilded era" was that most folks, especially after the children were grown up and gone, werepoor and lonely, and often caring for the elders. Mary E.Wilkins (thats how she signed her books) was a good  storyteller in this genre- and the people were often siomple and honest and hardworking.    Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com

A man makes a vow to take care of his three sisters and life is changed

When a rag-tag little girl named Joan, the down-and-out minister's daughter, knocks on Sarah's door to sell her some very familiar-looking handiwork just before Christmas, Sarah finds more compassion and generosity than she knew she had. SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one ti...

A young actress, convalescing at the beach in the company of her doctor and his wife, is hounded by a young girl who idolizes her. An unusual series of events occur which reveal that they have more in common than they knew.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tight knit community finds they have something to learn about forgiveness and kindness when a 20 year old widow brings her baby to town to visit with the one friend she has there.

This story gives you a seat on a Halifax to Boston train circa 1915 where you will catch a very interesting conversation between a salesman of women's wear, an electrician, and a young lady, who,tired of traveling for the past 3 days, and desirous of some conversation, asks if she can join in. The subject eventually turns to the fact she has written "an indiscreet letter", which , by the terms of...

A young man from a prairie town comes to the Big City and finds a job in a discount shoe store where works a young woman who has been working for starving wages.  They become working friends to the point where , when he screws up enough courage, he advises her against wearing a deep V dress, saying that his mother back home would never allow it.  Edna Ferber's excellent characterization of both ma...

A man running for governor shocks his peers by giving an unsual speech at a boy's reformitory by baring his soul and admitting that he, too, as a boy and a young man, was a bad actor. He explained what he had done, and told the boys that they could turn themselves around by taking control of their actions and finding the good within their souls- that all of us have to make that struggle- some have...

A young bride-to-be gets a visit from her aunt along with tsome good advice about marriage.

The story of Antony and Cleopatra is one of the great love stories of history, and it is well told here by Lyndon Orr as a part of his series of great love stories, some of which we'll be doing here as we go forward. Their story provided Shakespeare with some of the inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE:  https://podcasts.google.com/sea...