Gold
Stewart Edward White
Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
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)
Chapitres
| Oh, Susannah! | 6:50 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Hammerlock | 19:38 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Voyage | 16:35 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Village by the Lagoon | 15:24 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| A Tropical River | 10:06 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Village in the Jungle | 21:59 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Trail | 9:22 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Panama | 26:15 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Northward Ho! | 13:33 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Golden City | 23:37 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| I Make Twenty-Five Dollars | 24:13 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Talbot Deserts | 23:24 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Up-River | 16:12 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Sutter's Fort | 12:06 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Gold Trail | 28:14 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The First Gold | 10:08 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Diggings | 10:36 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Beginnings of Government | 15:54 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Sunday at Hangman's Gulch | 11:23 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Gold Washers | 19:46 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| We Leave the Diggings | 13:09 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Strike | 10:16 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Camp on the Porcupine | 9:22 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Indians | 24:01 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Battle | 14:52 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| We Send Out Our Treasure | 7:58 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Robbery | 11:07 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Bully | 29:34 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Challenge | 19:48 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Fight | 10:54 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Express Messenger | 11:27 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Italian Bar | 25:27 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Overland Immigrants | 13:00 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Prisoners | 10:20 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Trial | 10:36 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Rule of the Lawless | 15:20 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Last Straw | 14:33 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Vigilantes | 13:06 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Vigilantes (continued) | 15:42 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Rains | 15:09 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| We Go Out | 18:47 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| San Francisco Again | 20:36 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Golden Web | 16:22 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| Plutocrats | 20:40 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Catastrophe | 13:17 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
| The Vision | 8:33 | Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) |
Critiques
JUDITH GIBSON
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
SPARKY
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!
Anewelding
what a great adventure! I could almost see myself there through the author's eyes And the readers voice.
Gold fever
Chalood
A complete journey from east to west. An account of friendship, partners, hardship and disasters. Good book, well read.
Enjoyable Historical Fiction!
A LibriVox Listener
This is such a fascinating combination of stories! I highly recommend it! Excellent reader too!
An account of the gold rush
Avid listener
The ups and downs of the Gold rush from beginning to end with all its high and lows, very well read by the narrator