A Distant Land

Matt Braun

Feb 2008 · Recorded Books · Narrated by George Guidall

About this audiobook

Winner of the Spur Award and the Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement in Western Literature Matt Braun delivers a stirring depiction of the struggles of the Anglos, Indians, and Mexicanos in the New Mexico Territory of the late 19th century. Clint Brannock has been commissioned to track down the infamous vigilante Miguel Ortega and put an end his violent revolution. But Elizabeth's relationship with Ortega places the family in grave danger. "Matt Braun is a master storyteller of frontier history."-Elmer Kelton, best-selling author

About the author

Matt Braun was born in Oklahoma in 1932. He is a fouth-generation rancher Recipient of the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award and the Cowboy Spirit Award. appointment by the Governor of Oklahoma as a Territorial Marshal. inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1999. His 1973 Black Fox, was made into a CBS miniseries. His works include Windward West, Wyatt Earp, You Know My Name, and Matt Braun's Western Cooking. George Guidall is one of the most prolific narrators of audiobooks in the world. He has recorded nearly 650 unabridged novels, everything from "Crime and Punishment" and "The Iliad" to "Snow Falling on Cedars." He began his career as an actor, appearing on Broadway and touring Europe with Helen Hayes in the "Glass Menagerie," " Miracle Worker" and "The Skin of Our Teeth." He received an Obie Award for Best Performance Off-Broadway, and has continued his performances in theater for over 40 years. Guidall has also appeared on television, with roles on the soap "One Life to Live" and "Law and Order," and in movies such as "Malcolm X" and "Tales from the Darkside." His first job reading audiobooks was for the Library of Congress' American Foundation for the Blinds' Talking Books. Since then he has won the most prestigious Audiobook Award, the Audie Award, for Best Unabridged Narration of a novel for his recording of John Irving's "A Widow for One Year." He won the Audie again in 2000 for Wally Lamb's "I Know This Much is True."