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09 - The Man of No Account

In Selected Stories of Bret Harte

Read by Heidi Onestone


Bret Harte


Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in Californi…

Selections from Ballads of a Cheechako

Read by Heidi Preuss


Robert W. Service


These twelve poems are taken from Ballads of a Cheechako which was Robert W. Service's third book of Yukon poems, published in 1909. The wor…

The Telephone, Motograph, And Microphone

In Edison, His Life and Inventions

Read by Heidi Preuss


Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer


A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…