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By: Chauncey Canfield
Narrated by: Larry G. Jones
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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.

Public Domain (P)2018 Audio Sommelier Adventurers, Explorers & Survival United States Biographies & Memoirs Americas State & Local

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