The Silver Horde: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Silver Horde, credited to Rex Beach, 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 Silver Horde by Rex Beach. Read in English by Lynne Thompson; Mike Pelton; Richard Kilmer; Michele Fry; Phil Schempf; rookieblue The Silver Horde , is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and decides to open a cannery. To accomplish this he must overcome the relentless opposition of the "salmon trust," a fictionalized Alaska Packers' Association, which undercuts his financing, sabotages his equipment, incites a longshoremen's riot and bribes his fishermen to quit. The story line includes a love interest as the protagonist is forced to choose between his fiance, a spoiled banker's daughter, and an earnest roadhouse operator, a woman of "questionable virtue." (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Silver Horde
• Author credits: Rex Beach
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 10:59:33

Catalogue topics

• Alaska
• gold mining
• salmon
• canneries
• business
• frontier

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - Wherein A Spiritless Man And A Rogue Appear — 21:23
2. 02 - In Which They Break Bread With A Lonely Woman — 28:39
3. 03 - In Which Cherry Malotte Displays A Temper — 18:38
4. 04 - In Which She Gives Heart To A Hopeless Man — 23:28
5. 05 - In Which A Compact Is Formed — 22:53
6. 06 - Wherein Boreas Takes A Hand — 24:51
7. 07 - And Neptune Takes Another — 26:40
8. 08 - Wherein Boyd Admits His Failure — 22:07
9. 09 - And Is Granted A Year Of Grace — 23:39
10. 10 - In Which Big George Meets His Enemy — 22:56
11. 11 - Wherein Boyd Emerson Is Twice Amazed — 24:49
12. 12 - In Which Miss Wayland Is Of Two Minds — 25:54
13. 13 - In Which Cherry Malotte Becomes Suspicious — 23:02
14. 14 - In Which They Recognize The Enemy — 22:25
15. 15 - The Doors Of The Vault Swing Shut — 15:33
16. 16 - Willis Marsh Comes Out From Cover — 24:43
17. 17 - A New Enemy Appears — 28:49
18. 18 - Willis Marsh Springs A Trap — 26:44
19. 19 - In Which A Mutiny Is Threatened — 21:52
20. 20 - Wherein Fingerless Fraser Returns — 24:54
21. 21 - A Hand In The Dark — 25:10
22. 22 - The Silver Horde — 27:29
23. 23 - In Which More Plans Are Laid — 20:06
24. 24 - Wherein The Grande Dame Arrives, Laden With Disappointments — 35:21

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