The Gold Hunters: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Gold Hunters, credited to J. D. Borthwick, 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 The Gold Hunters, by J. D. Borthwick. Read by Sue Anderson. This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist J. D. Borthwick. The first edition, published in 1857 was called Three Years in California. Reprints have used the more descriptive title The Gold Hunters. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Gold Hunters
• Author credits: J. D. Borthwick
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 11:31:19

Catalogue topics

• California - Gold Discoveries
• California - Social Life and Customs

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Ch. 1, Part 1, On to the Goldfields — 25:48
2. 02 - Ch. 1, Part 2, On to the Goldfields — 21:57
3. 03 - Ch. 2, Across the Isthmus — 31:58
4. 04 - Ch. 3, Part 1, A City in the Making — 20:44
5. 05 - Ch.3, Part 2, A City in the Making — 20:34
6. 06 - Ch. 4, Part 1, Life at High Speed — 27:48
7. 07 - Ch. 4, Part 2, Life at High Speed — 26:35
8. 08 - Ch. V, Off for the Mines — 33:21
9. 09 - Ch. 6, Looking for Gold — 28:03
10. 10 - Ch. 7, Indians and Chinamen — 31:57
11. 11 - Ch. 8, Miners' Law — 27:01
12. 12 - Ch. 9, Gold Is Where You Find It — 25:28
13. 13 - Ch. 10, Ursus Horribilis — 23:34
14. 14 - Ch. 11, On the Trail — 19:21
15. 15 - Ch. 12, Sitters for Portraits — 25:29
16. 16 - Ch. 13, On the Way to Downieville — 15:09
17. 17 - Ch. 14, The Reason for Lynch Law — 23:18
18. 18 - Ch. 15, Growing Over Night — 26:43
19. 19 - Ch. 16, A Band of Wanderers — 20:59
20. 20 - Ch. 17, Chinese in the Early Days — 18:46
21. 21 - Ch. 18, Down With the Flood — 18:26
22. 22 - Ch. 19, A Bull and Bear Fight — 30:13
23. 23 - Ch. 20, A Mountain of Gold — 21:45
24. 24 - Ch. 21, In Lighter Mood — 17:09

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