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    The Diary of a Forty-Niner

    Written by Chauncey Canfield

    Narrated by Larry G. Jones

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    About this audiobook

    Not all that glitters is gold, and gold mining was not the simple get-rich-quick scheme many thought it was. The Diary of a Forty-Niner draws readers into the day-to-day life of a prospector during the California Gold Rush. The narrator Alfred. T. Jackson leaves home to move out West, dreaming: “I would like to have enough capital so that I would not have to slave from sunrise till dark as I did on dad’s farm.” This fortune doesn’t come easy, though, as his diary documents the rough nights and wild gunfights that were mere occupational hazards of a forty-niner.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudio Sommelier
    Release dateJan 22, 2018
    ISBN9781509480876
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