Gold: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Gold, credited to Stewart Edward White, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Gold by Stewart Edward White. Read in English by Richard Kilmer 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 )

Recording facts

• Recording title: Gold
• Author credits: Stewart Edward White
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 12:09:11

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• western

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 01 - Oh, Susannah! — 6:50
2. 02 - The Hammerlock — 19:38
3. 03 - The Voyage — 16:35
4. 04 - The Village by the Lagoon — 15:24
5. 05 - A Tropical River — 10:06
6. 06 - The Village in the Jungle — 21:59
7. 07 - The Trail — 9:22
8. 08 - Panama — 26:15
9. 09 - Northward Ho! — 13:33
10. 10 - The Golden City — 23:37
11. 11 - I Make Twenty-Five Dollars — 24:13
12. 12 - Talbot Deserts — 23:24
13. 13 - Up-River — 16:12
14. 14 - Sutter's Fort — 12:06
15. 15 - The Gold Trail — 28:14
16. 16 - The First Gold — 10:08
17. 17 - The Diggings — 10:36
18. 18 - Beginnings of Government — 15:54
19. 19 - Sunday at Hangman's Gulch — 11:23
20. 20 - The Gold Washers — 19:46
21. 21 - We Leave the Diggings — 13:09
22. 22 - The Strike — 10:16
23. 23 - The Camp on the Porcupine — 9:22
24. 24 - The Indians — 24:01

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