Gold


Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)

(4.7 stars; 123 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)

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

Bewertungen


(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