Gold Hunters (Borthwick)

Gold Hunters (Borthwick)

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This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist J. D. Borthwick. The first edition, published in 1857 was called Three Years in California. Reprints have used the more descriptive title The Gold Hunters. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

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Episodes

01 - Ch. 1, Part 1, On to the Goldfields

Episode 1 · 25:48
01 - Ch. 1, Part 2, On to the Goldfields

Episode 2 · 21:57
03 - Ch. 2, Across the Isthmus

Episode 3 · 31:58
04 - Ch. 3, Part 1, A City in the Making

Episode 4 · 20:44
05 - Ch. 3, Part 2, A City in the Making

Episode 5 · 20:34
06 - Ch. 4, Part 1, Life at High Speed

Episode 6 · 27:48
07 - Ch. 4. Part 2, Life at High Speed

Episode 7 · 26:35
08 - Ch. 5, Off for the Mines

Episode 8 · 33:20
09 - Ch. 6, Looking for Gold

Episode 9 · 28:03
10 - Ch. 7, Indians and Chinamen

Episode 10 · 31:57
11 - Ch. 8, Miners' Law

Episode 11 · 27:01
12 - Ch. 9, Gold Is Where You Find It

Episode 12 · 25:28
13 - Ch. 10, Ursus Horribilis

Episode 13 · 23:34
14 - Ch. 11, On The Trail

Episode 14 · 19:21
15 - Ch. 12, Sitters For Portraits

Episode 15 · 25:29
16 - Ch. 13, On the Way to Downieville

Episode 16 · 15:09
17 - Ch. 14, The Reason for Lynch Law

Episode 17 · 23:18
18 - Ch. 15, Growing Overnight

Episode 18 · 26:43
19 - Ch. 16, A Band of Wanderers

Episode 19 · 20:59
20 - Ch. 17, Chinese in the Early Days

Episode 20 · 18:46
21 - Ch. 18, Down With the Flood

Episode 21 · 18:26
22 - Ch. 19, A Bull and Bear Fight

Episode 22 · 30:13
23 - Ch. 20, A Mountain of Gold

Episode 23 · 21:45
24 - Ch. 21, In Lighter Mood

Episode 24 · 17:09
25 - Ch. 22, Sonora and the Mexicans

Episode 25 · 19:39
26 - Ch. 23, Bull Fighting

Episode 26 · 17:48
27 - Ch. 24, A City Burned

Episode 27 · 15:31
28 - Ch. 25, The Way We Celebrate

Episode 28 · 16:50
29 - Ch. 26, Frenchmen in the Mines

Episode 29 · 22:33
30 - Ch. 27, The Resourceful Americans

Episode 30 · 16:53