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Gold

Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

(4,654 Sterne; 120 Bewertungen)

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)

Bewertungen

(5 Sterne)

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 Sterne)

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 Sterne)

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

Gold fever

(4,5 Sterne)

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

Enjoyable Historical Fiction!

(5 Sterne)

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

An account of the gold rush

(5 Sterne)

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