Gold


Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

(4.7 stars; 120 reviews)

This is a well written story of the California gold rush of 1849. Four friends decide they are going to go to California and get rich in the gold fields. Follow their adventures as they travel to California across the isthmus of Panama to San Francisco. In their search for gold they encounter hostile Indians, various desperadoes, and natural disasters. Did they strike it rich? Listen and find out. (Summary by Richard Kilmer) (0 hr 9 min)

Chapters

Oh, Susannah! 6:50 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Hammerlock 19:38 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Voyage 16:35 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Village by the Lagoon 15:24 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A Tropical River 10:06 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Village in the Jungle 21:59 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Trail 9:22 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Panama 26:15 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Northward Ho! 13:33 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Golden City 23:37 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
I Make Twenty-Five Dollars 24:13 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Talbot Deserts 23:24 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Up-River 16:12 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Sutter's Fort 12:06 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Gold Trail 28:14 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The First Gold 10:08 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Diggings 10:36 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Beginnings of Government 15:54 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Sunday at Hangman's Gulch 11:23 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Gold Washers 19:46 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
We Leave the Diggings 13:09 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Strike 10:16 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Camp on the Porcupine 9:22 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Indians 24:01 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Battle 14:52 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
We Send Out Our Treasure 7:58 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Robbery 11:07 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Bully 29:34 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Challenge 19:48 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Fight 10:54 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Express Messenger 11:27 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Italian Bar 25:27 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Overland Immigrants 13:00 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Prisoners 10:20 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Trial 10:36 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Rule of the Lawless 15:20 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Last Straw 14:33 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Vigilantes 13:06 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Vigilantes (continued) 15:42 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Rains 15:09 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
We Go Out 18:47 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
San Francisco Again 20:36 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Golden Web 16:22 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Plutocrats 20:40 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Catastrophe 13:17 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
The Vision 8:33 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

Reviews


(5 stars)

he sounds exactly like he's been there, growing up in California I did pan gold it is hard work backbreaking sunburn but once you find gold in your pan you don't realize you're even sunburned walk through Sutter's fort reading in the book was like going back in time to when I was a young woman walking through the port and looking at all amazing book walk through the San Francisco area truly a well-written book

Sparky


(4.5 stars)

Chapters from a history book...NYC to California by ship via Panama...1849...the gold rush... the journey through one man’s eyes... friendships and experiences..evolution of the culture during and beyond the gold rush years...recommend

one of the best Ever!


(5 stars)

what a great adventure! I could almost see myself there through the author's eyes And the readers voice.

Gold fever


(4.5 stars)

A complete journey from east to west. An account of friendship, partners, hardship and disasters. Good book, well read.

Enjoyable Historical Fiction!


(5 stars)

This is such a fascinating combination of stories! I highly recommend it! Excellent reader too!

An account of the gold rush


(5 stars)

The ups and downs of the Gold rush from beginning to end with all its high and lows, very well read by the narrator