The Great K and A Train Robbery: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Great K and A Train Robbery, credited to Paul Leicester Ford, 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 Great K and A Train Robbery, by Paul Leicester Ford. Read by David Wales. In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robbed somewhere in the Arizona desert, and it is a very peculiar robbery. Various adventures involve this young superintendent. Romance is provided by a comely passenger. (Summary by David Wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Great K and A Train Robbery
• Author credits: Paul Leicester Ford
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 3:43:11

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• adventure
• westerns
• trains

Track guide

1. 01 Dedication and Chapter 1, The Party On Special No. 218 — 19:37
2. 02 Chapter 02, The Holding Up of Overland No. 3 — 14:16
3. 03 Chapter 03, A Night's Work On The Alkali Plains — 14:00
4. 04 Chapter 04, Some Rather Queer Road Agents — 12:57
5. 05 Chapter 05, A Trip To The Grand Canyon — 15:16
6. 06 Chapter 06, The Happenings Down Hance's Trail — 14:54
7. 07 Chapter 07, A Change Of Base — 12:48
8. 08 Chapter 08, How Did The Secret Leak Out? — 15:06
9. 09 Chapter 09, A Talk Before Breakfast — 11:46
10. 10 Chapter 10, Waiting For Help — 13:03
11. 11 Chapter 11, The Letters Change Hands Again — 11:54
12. 12 Chapter 12, An Evening In Jail — 13:52
13. 13 Chapter 13, A Lesson In Politeness — 12:34
14. 14 Chapter 14, Listeners Never Hear Anything Good — 11:10
15. 15 Chapter 15, The Surrender Of The Letters — 12:16
16. 16 Chapter 16, A Gloomy Good-by — 17:44

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