Gold


Leído por 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)

Capítulos

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

Reseñas


(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