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)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Oh, Susannah!
06:50 - Chapter 2
The Hammerlock
19:38 - Chapter 3
The Voyage
16:35 - Chapter 4
The Village by the Lagoon
15:24 - Chapter 5
A Tropical River
10:06 - Chapter 6
The Village in the Jungle
21:59 - Chapter 7
The Trail
09:22 - Chapter 8
Panama
26:15 - Chapter 9
Northward Ho!
13:33 - Chapter 10
The Golden City
23:37 - Chapter 11
I Make Twenty-Five Dollars
24:13 - Chapter 12
Talbot Deserts
23:24 - Chapter 13
Up-River
16:12 - Chapter 14
Sutter's Fort
12:06 - Chapter 15
The Gold Trail
28:14 - Chapter 16
The First Gold
10:08 - Chapter 17
The Diggings
10:36 - Chapter 18
Beginnings of Government
15:54 - Chapter 19
Sunday at Hangman's Gulch
11:23 - Chapter 20
The Gold Washers
19:46 - Chapter 21
We Leave the Diggings
13:09 - Chapter 22
The Strike
10:16 - Chapter 23
The Camp on the Porcupine
09:22 - Chapter 24
The Indians
24:01 - Chapter 25
Battle
14:52 - Chapter 26
We Send Out Our Treasure
07:58 - Chapter 27
The Robbery
11:07 - Chapter 28
The Bully
29:34 - Chapter 29
The Challenge
19:48 - Chapter 30
The Fight
10:54 - Chapter 31
The Express Messenger
11:27 - Chapter 32
Italian Bar
25:27 - Chapter 33
The Overland Immigrants
13:00 - Chapter 34
The Prisoners
10:20 - Chapter 35
The Trial
10:36 - Chapter 36
The Rule of the Lawless
15:20 - Chapter 37
The Last Straw
14:33 - Chapter 38
The Vigilantes
13:06 - Chapter 39
The Vigilantes (continued)
15:42 - Chapter 40
The Rains
15:09 - Chapter 41
We Go Out
18:47 - Chapter 42
San Francisco Again
20:36 - Chapter 43
The Golden Web
16:22 - Chapter 44
Plutocrats
20:40 - Chapter 45
The Catastrophe
13:17 - Chapter 46
The Vision
08:33